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Emerson & Bloor

Emerson Ave & Bloor St W · Toronto, Ontario · Dufferin Grove · Ward 9, Davenport · Bloordale Village BIA

Emerson & Bloor is a moderately travelled crossing, with a well-used cycling route through it. It sits in Dufferin Grove. It has Lansdowne Station, a protected bikeway and a park at the corner. Nearby: Bloor GO 787 m away.

Traffic volume
8,451
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 26, 2022
2,075 pedestrians · 1,436 cyclists
Collisions
40
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
7 with an injury · 27 property damage · #2378 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
Lansdowne Station
subway station within 250 m
4 streetcar routes · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track, Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 48 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 1,060 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, about the citywide median. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 4 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 17.0% of vehicle volume, about 22× the typical share. On average 4 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 40%, from 25 in 2016–2020 to 15 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Emerson & Bloor

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)147 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)452 m; Dundas West Station (Line 2)845 m
GO Transit
Bloor GO — Kitchener787 m
UP Express
Bloor GO/UP 787 m — trains to Pearson
Streetcar
512506505504 nearest 175 m
TTC bus
40247291681612640 nearest 123 m
Express
929
Blue Night
306305304300329340
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Cycle Track on Bloor St W installed 2020; Bike Lane - Contraflow on Emerson Ave installed 2025
Bike Share
Emerson Ave / Bloor St W 7 m · 23 docks · 27 stations, 474 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 (24)
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 350 m
  • Pauline Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 432 m
  • St Sebastian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 448 m
  • Brock Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 679 m
  • St Mary Catholic Academy Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 700 m
  • St Anthony Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 712 m
  • and 18 more
Parks (33)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch558 m
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 587 m
  • Taras H. Shevchenko MuseumMuseum · 1.2 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 47 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 9 grocery and convenience stores, and 215 eating places within a kilometre — 2.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Galaxy. N+t, 11 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés47 within 300 m · 215 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience9 within 300 m · 42 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Galaxy. N+t · 1227 Bloor St W11 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Latin World · 1262 Bloor St W18 mPassed, Mar 2026
Latin World · 1229 Bloor St W20 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Green Bamboo Vietnamese Cuisine · 1266 Bloor St W23 mPassed, Jan 2025 · 3 infractions
Nuthouse · 1256 Bloor St W25 mPassed, Mar 2026
Ibet Sushi · 1260 Bloor St W28 mPassed, Jan 2025
Seoul Shakers · 1241 Bloor St W37 mPassed, Nov 2024 · 4 infractions
Happy Cup Bar and Restaurant · 1274 Bloor St W45 mPassed, Feb 2025

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 Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 609 m away, View outdoor rink hours. A drinking fountain is 115 m away at Susan Tibaldi Parkette.

  • Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 875 Dufferin St
    View outdoor rink hours
    609 m
  • Macgregor Playground Washroom · 346 Lansdowne Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    635 m
  • Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom · 875 Dufferin St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    714 m
Drinking water
Susan Tibaldi Parkette drinking fountain, dog fountain · 115 m; Erwin Krickhahn Park bottle filling station · 435 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 457 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre (224 m, 39 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km7 centres · 457 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 7
  • Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre · 544 Lansdowne Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    224 m
  • Plasp Pauline Junior Public School · 100 Pauline Ave
    28 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    432 m
  • Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) · 1411 Bloor St W
    75 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    559 m
  • Brock Early Learning Centre · 93 Margueretta St
    133 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    679 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 929 m away.

FireFire Station 345 · 1 km1285 Dufferin St
Police14 Division · 1.4 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 929 m760 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

22 registered apartment buildings with 3,536 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, five of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 685 Lansdowne Ave (155 m, 30 units, 3 storeys, built 1985), which scored 80 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 22 scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 71 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings22 · 3,536 units · 5 social housing
RentSafeTO score85 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202671 across the 22
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest29 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
685 Lansdowne Ave · Gbs Properties Ltd.303198580 · Jul 20250155 m
1212 Bloor St W163192379 · Jul 20250160 m
10 Dora Avesocial housing · Community First Developments Inc.1348199597 · Jul 20251398 m
77 Rankin CresToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1217199292 · Sep 20240 · 1 fire438 m
55 Rankin CresToronto Community Housing · TCH1769199294 · Jun 20252 · 1 fire454 m
1121 Bloor St W · Charles Dieu114192690 · Jul 20250486 m
919 Dufferin St · CLV Group11315197191 · Jul 20251559 m
11 Randolph AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation956199488 · Jun 20250763 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 lots615 lots · ≈19,280 spaces · 57.9 ha
Within 500 m47 lots · ≈2,880 spaces
Green P (public)12 car parks · about 634 spaces
EV charging (City)685 Dovercourt Rd · 1 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking88 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 90 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Emerson Ave · Surface85 m4963% (Q1 2026)
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface162 m16over 100% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface665 m3763% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface771 m3374% (Q1 2026)
9 Bonar Pl · Surface870 m3471% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 26 m away, ≈5 spaces; 38 m away, ≈13 spaces; 76 m away, ≈5 spaces; 78 m away, ≈43 spaces (Green P); 123 m away, ≈13 spaces (Green P); 124 m away, ≈12 spaces (Green P). More EV charging: 2285 Dundas St W (1 km, 2 ports); 2251 Dundas St W (1 km, 2 ports); 430 Roncesvalles Ave (1.1 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 — 8-hour, May 26, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The west leg carries the load — 5,010 eastbound vehicles, or 59% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 290. Most cyclists arrived from the west (705 of 1,436). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,159 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,099 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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 north290southbound · 85 bikes · 3.8% heavy
From the west5,010eastbound · 705 bikes · 4.5% heavy
Total vehicles8,4512,075 pedestrians · 1,436 cyclists · 4.8% heavy
From the east3,151westbound · 646 bikes · 5.4% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour1,159 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,099 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 26, 2022

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 Bloor St W between St Clarens Ave and Lansdowne Ave (125 m away) recorded an average of 27 km/h in its 3-day count in April 2026; 85% of drivers were at or under 35 km/h. That segment carries about 16,000 vehicles a day. Emerson Ave between Lane N of Bloor and E of St Clarens and Paton Rd measured slower: 22 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 31 km/h (Mar 2024). 7 speed humps slow traffic on Emerson Avenue between Bloor St W and Wallace Ave.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Bloor St W · St Clarens Ave – Lansdowne Ave · 125 mApr 2026 · 3 days16,01727 km/h35 km/h40 km/h
Emerson Ave · Lane N of Bloor and E of St Clarens – Paton Rd · 152 mMar 2024 · 3 days53822 km/h31 km/h35 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Emerson Avenue · Bloor St W – Wallace Ave
    7 speed humps

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

2019 was the peak year (7 collisions), and 2025 closed with 4. 18% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 9 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 23% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 15% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). The most recent report on file is from Oct 10, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions40#2378 of 5,508
With an injury7#2188 of 4,660
Property damage only27
Fail to remain9
Involving a pedestrian4#879 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist2#1030 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified6
All since 201454latest Oct 10, 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.

Thefts reported at this corner

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

Toronto Police place 11 thefts from vehicles and three bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.4 a year. 82% 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 vehicle1130street/outdoor (9), other (1)
Bicycle theft320street/outdoor (2), house driveway/garage (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 26, 2025. 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 Dufferin Grove.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Emerson & Bloor a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 40 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 & Bloor?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from May 26, 2022, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Emerson & Bloor?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Bloor St W between St Clarens Ave and Lansdowne Ave (April 2026), found an average of 27 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 35 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Emerson & Bloor?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Emerson Ave (85 m away, 49 spaces, 63% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 615 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 19,280 spaces — 47 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 685 Dovercourt Rd (1.0 km).

How do I get to Emerson & Bloor by transit?

Lansdowne Station (Line 2) is 147 m away; Bloor GO is 787 m away; streetcar routes 512, 506, 505, 504 stop within 1 km, the nearest 175 m away; bus routes 402, 47, 29, 168, 161, 26, 40, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Emerson & Bloor?

47 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 215 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Galaxy. N+t (11 m), Latin World (18 m), Latin World (20 m), Green Bamboo Vietnamese Cuisine (23 m) and Nuthouse (25 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 & Bloor?

The nearest is Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 875 Dufferin St, 609 m away (View outdoor rink hours). Next nearest: Macgregor Playground Washroom (635 m); Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom (714 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 & Bloor?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 457 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre (224 m, 39 spaces), Plasp Pauline Junior Public School (432 m, 28 spaces) and Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) (559 m, 75 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Emerson & Bloor?

22 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,536 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 685 Lansdowne Ave (155 m, 30 units, RentSafeTO score 80), 1212 Bloor St W (160 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 10 Dora Ave (398 m, 134 units, RentSafeTO score 97) and 77 Rankin Cres (438 m, 121 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 22 is 85 out of 100; 2 scored below 70. 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 & Bloor?

Toronto Police place 11 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 Dufferin Grove page.

What neighbourhood is Emerson & Bloor in?

Emerson & Bloor is in Dufferin Grove (City of Toronto neighbourhood 083). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo. The corner falls inside the Bloordale Village Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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