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Elsie & Ernest

Elsie Lane & Ernest Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Junction-Wallace Emerson · Ward 9, Davenport

In Junction-Wallace Emerson, Elsie & Ernest is a quiet local crossing, with more people on foot than in cars and a well-used cycling route through it. It has Dundas West Station, a school within 250 m and parks at the corner. Nearby: Bloor GO 271 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
480
vehicles · 14-hour count, Feb 28, 2024
679 pedestrians · 213 cyclists · #2382 busiest
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
Dundas West Station
subway station within 250 m
4 streetcar routes · 9 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 19 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 30 vehicles an hour, 3% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.4 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 44.4% of vehicle volume, about 57× the typical share.

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Elsie & Ernest

Getting here

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk

Transit & cycling

Subway
Dundas West Station (Line 2)199 m; Lansdowne Station (Line 2)710 m; Keele Station (Line 2)716 m
GO Transit
Bloor GO — Kitchener271 m
UP Express
Bloor GO/UP 271 m — trains to Pearson
Streetcar
512504505506 nearest 209 m
TTC bus
401684024726804189189 nearest 168 m
Express
941989
Blue Night
304305306340300341
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Randolph Ave / Perth Ave 145 m · 19 docks · 20 stations, 331 docks within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools (23)
  • Tamarack West Outdoor SchoolPrivate · 183 m
  • Bishop Marrocco Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 378 m
  • St Luigi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 405 m
  • Perth Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 410 m
  • Westminster Classical Christian Academy Elementary SchoolPrivate · 780 m
  • Indian Road Crescent Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 796 m
  • and 17 more
Community centres
Parks (25)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch727 m
  • Toronto Public Library Annette Street branch1.3 km
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • Taras H. Shevchenko MuseumMuseum · 480 m
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 711 m

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

There are 13 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores, and 202 eating places within a kilometre — 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 161 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2026.

Restaurants & cafés13 within 300 m · 202 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 43 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Freshco · 2440 Dundas St Wgrocery142 mPassed, Feb 2025 · 2 infractions
Tim Hortons · 2388 Dundas St W161 mPassed, Mar 2026
Pizza Fiamma · 2382 Dundas St W174 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
The Merseyside · 2413 Dundas St W183 mPassed, Jun 2026
Phancy's Bodega · 2473 Dundas St W201 mPassed, Aug 2026
Blondies Pizza - Junction · 2486 Dundas St W206 mPassed, Mar 2025 · 3 infractions
Blondies Pizza - Junction · 2486 Dundas St W206 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 4 infractions
Jenny's · 2383 Dundas St W227 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 3 infractions

Every establishment Toronto Public Health inspects under DineSafe, screened by name to leave out kitchens inside schools, care homes and offices. A conditional pass means infractions had to be fixed by a follow-up visit, not that the premises is closed.

Washrooms & water

The nearest public washroom is Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 468 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 132 m away at Perth Avenue Parkette.

  • Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 225 Campbell Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    468 m
  • Perth Square Park Washroom · 350 Perth Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    543 m
  • Keele Community Centre Washroom · 181 Glenlake Ave
    View centre hours
    845 m
Drinking water
Perth Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 132 m; West Toronto Rail Path bottle filling station · 197 m

Park washrooms, washrooms in City buildings and automated street toilets, with hours and status as the City publishes them (park washrooms are seasonal). Malls, shops and TTC stations are not included.

Child care

12 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,440 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) (390 m, 75 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km12 centres · 1,440 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 12
  • Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) · 1411 Bloor St W
    75 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    390 m
  • Perth Avenue Early Learning Centre · 14 Ruskin Ave
    192 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    410 m
  • The Village Nursery School · 2241 Dundas St W
    18 spaces · preschool
    554 m
  • Ola Day Care Inc. · 2211 Dundas St W
    36 spaces · toddler, preschool
    622 m

Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 423 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 11 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.6 km away.

FireFire Station 423 · 1.2 km358 Keele St
Police11 Division · 1.5 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 32 · 1.6 km9 Clendenan Ave

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Apartment buildings nearby

RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score

31 registered apartment buildings with 4,115 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, nine of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 11 Randolph Ave (137 m, 95 units, 6 storeys, built 1994), which scored 88 out of 100 at its June 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 68 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 10 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings31 · 4,115 units · 9 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202668 across the 31
Open fire-code violations10
Tallest29 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
11 Randolph AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation956199488 · Jun 20250137 m
2376 Dundas St W · Dun West Properties Ltd3942720230212 m
2360 Dundas St W · Creccal Investments Ltd63829197694 · Aug 20252255 m
2350 Dundas St W · Creccal Investments Ltd45729197694 · Sep 20245262 m
77 Rankin CresToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1217199292 · Sep 20240 · 1 fire424 m
55 Rankin CresToronto Community Housing · TCH1769199294 · Jun 20252 · 1 fire436 m
1585 Bloor St W483193092 · Aug 20250490 m
1624 Bloor St Wsocial housing · Aykler Real Estate Inc.946199297 · Aug 20254532 m

The City's RentSafeTO register — rental apartment buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units — with the score from each building's latest City evaluation (out of 100; poor scores trigger a full audit). LTB orders are final Landlord and Tenant Board orders naming the address (Jan 2026 – Jun 2026); fire-code violations are open items in Toronto Fire Services' inspection data. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport. Condominiums and houses are not registered.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots647 lots · ≈25,020 spaces · 75.1 ha
Within 500 m35 lots · ≈1,800 spaces
Green P (public)13 car parks · about 638 spaces
EV charging (City)2285 Dundas St W · 453 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking57 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 70 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Keele Lot - 400 Indian Road · Surface606 m187 *
2201 Dundas St W · Surface650 m1070% (Q1 2026)
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface689 m16over 100% (Q1 2026)
9 Emerson Ave · Surface897 m4963% (Q1 2026)
351 Keele St · Surface1.2 km7270% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 32 m away, ≈58 spaces; 88 m away, ≈20 spaces; 100 m away, ≈12 spaces; 117 m away, ≈238 spaces; 142 m away, ≈47 spaces; 194 m away, ≈4 spaces. More EV charging: 2251 Dundas St W (524 m, 2 ports); 430 Roncesvalles Ave (800 m, 2 ports); 64 Annette St (1 km, 2 ports).

Lot count and area from the City's topographic mapping of parking-lot footprints (every visible surface lot, public or private); spaces are estimated at one per 30 m² of lot. Lots not run by Green P are private, commercial or institutional and may be for customers or residents only. Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; rates are not shown because that list is stale — check Green P). EV chargers are City-operated only; on-street and underground parking are not included.

Traffic volume

The City's latest turning-movement count — 14-hour, Feb 28, 2024

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The north leg carries the load — 213 southbound vehicles, or 44% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 61. Most cyclists arrived from the west (136 of 213). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 58 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 62 from 5:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north213southbound · 19 bikes · 2.8% heavy
From the west61eastbound · 136 bikes · 6.6% heavy
Total vehicles480679 pedestrians · 213 cyclists · 3.3% heavy
From the east206westbound · 54 bikes · 2.9% heavy
From the south0northbound · 4 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour58 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour62 vehicles from 5:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Feb 28, 2024

Approach figures are vehicles entering the intersection from that leg over the whole count. A count is one day's traffic, not an annual average; the City recounts on an ad-hoc schedule.

How fast traffic moves here

Midblock speed counts on the intersection's streets, the nearest school-zone speed sign, and traffic calming

The City's counter on Ernest Ave between Symington Ave and Lane E of Perth and S of Wallace (188 m away) recorded an average of 29 km/h in its 3-day count in April 2012; 85% of drivers were at or under 37 km/h. That segment carries about 1,000 vehicles a day. The reading is 14 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Ernest Ave · Symington Ave – Lane E of Perth and S of Wallace · 188 mApr 2012 · 3 days1,03929 km/h37 km/h40 km/h

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; the 85th-percentile speed is the figure engineers use — 85% of drivers were at or below it. Counts are ad hoc, so some are years old. A midblock reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data.

All police-reported collisions

Every collision reported to Toronto Police within 65 m, any severity, 2016–2025

Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.

Source: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data — every collision reported to police since 2014, within 65 m of this node. Records through Jun 30, 2026.

Killed or seriously injured

Collisions in which someone died or was seriously injured, within 65 m, 2016–2025 — the basis of the danger rankings

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

KSI = killed or seriously injured. A collision is counted if its recorded location is within 65 m of this intersection's centreline node, whether the police coded it as intersection-related or mid-block. Records can lag a year or more, so the current year is excluded from rankings.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Elsie & Ernest a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025 and police reported no collisions of any severity. High counts usually track high traffic volume rather than a design flaw; volume is shown alongside so the numbers can be read in context.

How busy is Elsie & Ernest?

A quiet local crossing. It ranks #2382 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 3% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Elsie & Ernest?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Ernest Ave between Symington Ave and Lane E of Perth and S of Wallace (April 2012), found an average of 29 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 37 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Elsie & Ernest?

The nearest Green P car park is Keele Lot - 400 Indian Road (606 m away, 187 spaces). The City's mapping shows 647 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 25,020 spaces — 35 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2285 Dundas St W (453 m).

How do I get to Elsie & Ernest by transit?

Dundas West Station (Line 2) is 199 m away; Bloor GO is 271 m away; streetcar routes 512, 504, 505, 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 209 m away; bus routes 40, 168, 402, 47, 26, 80, 41, 89 and 3 more within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Elsie & Ernest?

13 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 202 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Tim Hortons (161 m), Pizza Fiamma (174 m), The Merseyside (183 m), Phancy's Bodega (201 m) and Blondies Pizza - Junction (206 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Elsie & Ernest?

The nearest is Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 225 Campbell Ave, 468 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Perth Square Park Washroom (543 m); Keele Community Centre Washroom (845 m). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Elsie & Ernest?

12 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,440 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) (390 m, 75 spaces), Perth Avenue Early Learning Centre (410 m, 192 spaces) and The Village Nursery School (554 m, 18 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Elsie & Ernest?

31 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,115 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 11 Randolph Ave (137 m, 95 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 2376 Dundas St W (212 m, 394 units), 2360 Dundas St W (255 m, 638 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 2350 Dundas St W (262 m, 457 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 31 is 89 out of 100. Condos and houses are not on the City's register. Each building's full record — score history, LTB orders, fire-code inspections, permits — is on LandlordReport.

What neighbourhood is Elsie & Ernest in?

Elsie & Ernest is in Junction-Wallace Emerson (City of Toronto neighbourhood 171). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo.

Sources

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