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Emerson & Armstrong

Emerson Ave & Armstrong Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Junction-Wallace Emerson · Ward 9, Davenport

In Junction-Wallace Emerson, Emerson & Armstrong is a lightly travelled intersection, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: Lansdowne Station (Line 2) 481 m away and Bloor GO 1.0 km away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
529
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 8, 2006
219 pedestrians · 58 cyclists
Collisions
7
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 3 property damage · #4653 of 5,508
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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Lansdowne Station 481 m · 1 streetcar route · 8 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 70 vehicles, 6% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 2.4 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 11.0% of vehicle volume, about 14× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 0.7 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Emerson & Armstrong

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Lansdowne Station (Line 2)481 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)663 m; Dundas West Station (Line 2)1 km
GO Transit
Bloor GO — Kitchener1 km
UP Express
Bloor GO/UP 1 km — trains to Pearson
Streetcar
512 nearest 195 m
TTC bus
47262940216812740161 nearest 195 m
Express
929
Blue Night
329300340
Nearest stops
3 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Emerson Ave installed 2025
Bike Share
Wallace Ave / Pauline Ave 249 m · 17 docks · 19 stations, 337 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)
  • St Sebastian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 246 m
  • Pauline Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 317 m
  • St Anthony Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 629 m
  • Dovercourt Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 658 m
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 703 m
  • St Luigi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 707 m
  • and 17 more
Parks (33)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch599 m
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch817 m
  • Toronto Public Library Dufferin/St. Clair branch1.5 km
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 1 km
  • Taras H. Shevchenko MuseumMuseum · 1.3 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 5 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 174 — 2.4× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Dairy King, 126 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés5 within 300 m · 174 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 44 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Dairy King · 115 Millicent St126 mPassed, Jun 2026
Pentone Cigar Store · 176 Wallace Ave142 mPassed, Dec 2023
Wallace Espresso · 188 Wallace Ave172 mPassed, Apr 2026
Donna's · 827 Lansdowne Ave179 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Cantanhede O Bairradino · 662 Lansdowne Ave198 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 2 infractions
Paris Bakery & Pastry · 654 Lansdowne Avegrocery205 mPassed, Apr 2026
Pepper's Food and Drink · 189 Wallace Avegrocery222 mPassed, Apr 2026
Dollarama · 800 Lansdowne Avegrocery285 mPassed, Aug 2025 · 1 infraction

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, 471 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 484 m away at Campbell Avenue Park.

  • Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 225 Campbell Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    471 m
  • Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 1260 Dufferin St
    View centre hours
    495 m
  • Perth Square Park Washroom · 350 Perth Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    822 m
Drinking water
Campbell Avenue Park drinking fountain · 484 m; Susan Tibaldi Parkette drinking fountain, dog fountain · 516 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 505 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Plasp Pauline Junior Public School (317 m, 28 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km7 centres · 505 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 7
  • Plasp Pauline Junior Public School · 100 Pauline Ave
    28 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    317 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre · 544 Lansdowne Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    476 m
  • Dover Gardens Nursery School · 228 Bartlett Ave
    16 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    658 m
  • Macaulay - Dovercourt Child Care Centre · 228 Bartlett Ave
    131 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    658 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (553 m), the nearest police station 11 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.1 km away.

FireFire Station 345 · 553 m1285 Dufferin St
Police11 Division · 1.7 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 1.1 km760 Dovercourt Rd

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

Within a kilometre there are 17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,758 rental units — six social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 800 Lansdowne Ave (312 m, 138 units, 4 storeys, built 1992), which scored 82 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 47 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings17 · 1,758 units · 6 social housing
RentSafeTO score85 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202647 across the 17
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest21 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
800 Lansdowne Ave · Berkley Property Management Inc.1384199282 · Jul 20253312 m
973 Lansdowne Avesocial housing203200391 · Jul 20250380 m
1401 Dupont St · Firm Capital Properties Inc1716200672 · Jul 202513435 m
730 St Clarens Ave · Akelius Canada Ltd27518197481 · Jul 20246468 m
1407 Dupont St · Firm Capital Properties Inc745200892 · Jul 20269482 m
1011 Lansdowne Ave · 1298781 Ontario Inc35221197376 · Aug 202412 · 1 fire498 m
685 Lansdowne Ave · Gbs Properties Ltd.303198580 · Jul 20250522 m
1212 Bloor St W163192379 · Jul 20250573 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 lots668 lots · ≈21,580 spaces · 64.7 ha
Within 500 m33 lots · ≈1,210 spaces
Green P (public)17 car parks · about 875 spaces
EV charging (City)2285 Dundas St W · 1.2 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking19 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 90 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Emerson Ave · Surface514 m4963% (Q1 2026)
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface519 m16over 100% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface840 m3763% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface938 m3374% (Q1 2026)
2201 Dundas St W · Surface1.3 km1070% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 204 m away, ≈2 spaces; 222 m away, ≈7 spaces; 229 m away, ≈4 spaces; 236 m away, ≈4 spaces; 318 m away, ≈102 spaces; 347 m away, ≈9 spaces. More EV charging: 685 Dovercourt Rd (1.2 km, 2 ports); 2251 Dundas St W (1.3 km, 2 ports); 430 Roncesvalles Ave (1.5 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 — 8-hour, Jun 8, 2006

Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 82 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 26% above the afternoon peak from 4:45 p.m. (65). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 20 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2006, not today's volume. It was an 8-hour count, which is not directly comparable with the 14-hour counts the City has used since September 2023.

From the north529southbound · 31 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles529219 pedestrians · 58 cyclists · 0.0% heavy
From the east0westbound · 10 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south0northbound · 17 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour82 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour65 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jun 8, 2006

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

On Armstrong Ave between Lane W of Dufferin and N of Wallace and Lane E of Emerson and S of Armstrong, 224 m from the corner, a 3-day count in December 2018 put the average speed at 44 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 58 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 68 km/h or more. That segment carries about 400 vehicles a day. Emerson Ave between Paton Rd and Wallace Ave measured slower: 25 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 33 km/h (Mar 2024). The reading is 8 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Emerson Ave · Paton Rd – Wallace Ave · 200 mMar 2024 · 3 days28725 km/h33 km/h37 km/h
Armstrong Ave · Lane W of Dufferin and N of Wallace – Lane E of Emerson and S of Armstrong · 224 mDec 2018 · 3 days39244 km/h58 km/h68 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

The worst year was 2021, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 57% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Oct 24, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions7#4653 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only3
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 20147latest Oct 24, 2024

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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 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.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

23 thefts from vehicles and three bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 4.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 1 in 2023–2025, about 0.3 a year, against 3.6 a year before that. 61% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle2310street/outdoor (14), house driveway/garage (7)
Bicycle theft300other (2), apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 29, 2024. Police offset every occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing, so these are thefts on the streets and premises around this node, not necessarily at the corner itself. Other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see Junction-Wallace Emerson.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Emerson & Armstrong a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 7 lesser collisions. 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 Emerson & Armstrong?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Jun 8, 2006, 6% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Emerson & Armstrong?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Armstrong Ave between Lane W of Dufferin and N of Wallace and Lane E of Emerson and S of Armstrong (December 2018), found an average of 44 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 58 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Emerson & Armstrong?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Emerson Ave (514 m away, 49 spaces, 63% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 668 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,580 spaces — 33 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2285 Dundas St W (1.2 km).

How do I get to Emerson & Armstrong by transit?

Lansdowne Station (Line 2) is 481 m away; Bloor GO is 1.0 km away; streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 195 m away; bus routes 47, 26, 29, 402, 168, 127, 40, 161 and 1 more within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Emerson & Armstrong?

5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 174 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Dairy King (126 m), Pentone Cigar Store (142 m), Wallace Espresso (172 m), Donna's (179 m) and Cantanhede O Bairradino (198 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 Emerson & Armstrong?

The nearest is Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 225 Campbell Ave, 471 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom (495 m); Perth Square Park Washroom (822 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 Emerson & Armstrong?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 505 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Plasp Pauline Junior Public School (317 m, 28 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre (476 m, 39 spaces) and Dover Gardens Nursery School (658 m, 16 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Emerson & Armstrong?

17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,758 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 800 Lansdowne Ave (312 m, 138 units, RentSafeTO score 82), 973 Lansdowne Ave (380 m, 20 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 1401 Dupont St (435 m, 171 units, RentSafeTO score 72) and 730 St Clarens Ave (468 m, 275 units, RentSafeTO score 81). The average RentSafeTO score across the 17 is 85 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.

How many thefts are reported at Emerson & Armstrong?

Toronto Police place 23 thefts from vehicles and three bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Junction-Wallace Emerson page.

What neighbourhood is Emerson & Armstrong in?

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

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined