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Emerson & Paton

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

In Junction-Wallace Emerson, Emerson & Paton is a low-volume local intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence. It has Lansdowne Station, a bike lane and a school within 250 m at the corner. Nearby: Bloor GO 827 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
486
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 24, 2014
381 pedestrians · 10 cyclists
Collisions
11
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 3 property damage · #4208 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
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
1 streetcar route · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 60 vehicles an hour, 5% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 1.3 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 2.1% of vehicle volume, about 2.7× the typical share. On average 1.1 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Emerson & Paton

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)205 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)482 m; Dundas West Station (Line 2)859 m
GO Transit
Bloor GO — Kitchener827 m
UP Express
Bloor GO/UP 827 m — trains to Pearson
Streetcar
512 nearest 160 m
TTC bus
47402291682640161 nearest 160 m
Express
929
Blue Night
300329340
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Emerson Ave installed 2025
Bike Share
9 Emerson Ave 201 m · 25 docks · 23 stations, 402 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)
  • St Sebastian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 235 m
  • Pauline Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 257 m
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 464 m
  • St Anthony Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 611 m
  • Dovercourt Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 788 m
  • St Luigi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 816 m
  • and 18 more
Parks (33)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch629 m
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch822 m
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 773 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 30 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 10 grocery and convenience stores, and 203 eating places within a kilometre — 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Balam Toronto, 164 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés30 within 300 m · 203 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience10 within 300 m · 40 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Balam Toronto · 584 Lansdowne Ave164 mPassed, May 2026
Subway · 1171 Bloor St W210 mPassed, May 2026
Pentone Cigar Store · 176 Wallace Ave226 mPassed, Dec 2023
Easy Health Food Store · 1276 Bloor St Wgrocery241 mPassed, Oct 2025
Bakerbots Baking · 1242 Bloor St W242 mPassed, Jul 2025
Agp Mart · 4 Wade Ave245 mPassed, Dec 2025
Ibet Sushi · 1260 Bloor St W246 mPassed, Jan 2025
Latin World · 1262 Bloor St W248 mPassed, Mar 2026

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, 591 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 228 m away at Susan Tibaldi Parkette.

  • Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 225 Campbell Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    591 m
  • Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 1260 Dufferin St
    View centre hours
    723 m
  • Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 875 Dufferin St
    View outdoor rink hours
    788 m
Drinking water
Susan Tibaldi Parkette drinking fountain, dog fountain · 228 m; Erwin Krickhahn Park bottle filling station · 429 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

Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 744 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre (234 m, 39 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km9 centres · 744 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 9
  • Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre · 544 Lansdowne Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    234 m
  • Plasp Pauline Junior Public School · 100 Pauline Ave
    28 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    257 m
  • Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) · 1411 Bloor St W
    75 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    628 m
  • Dover Gardens Nursery School · 228 Bartlett Ave
    16 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    788 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (752 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 945 m away.

FireFire Station 345 · 752 m1285 Dufferin St
Police14 Division · 1.7 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 945 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 3,772 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, five of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 685 Lansdowne Ave (249 m, 30 units, 3 storeys, built 1985), which scored 80 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 22 scored below 70; the average is 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 75 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings22 · 3,772 units · 5 social housing
RentSafeTO score86 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202675 across the 22
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest29 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
685 Lansdowne Ave · Gbs Properties Ltd.303198580 · Jul 20250249 m
1212 Bloor St W163192379 · Jul 20250295 m
77 Rankin CresToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1217199292 · Sep 20240 · 1 fire469 m
55 Rankin CresToronto Community Housing · TCH1769199294 · Jun 20252 · 1 fire515 m
1121 Bloor St W · Charles Dieu114192690 · Jul 20250564 m
800 Lansdowne Ave · Berkley Property Management Inc.1384199282 · Jul 20253570 m
10 Dora Avesocial housing · Community First Developments Inc.1348199597 · Jul 20251591 m
973 Lansdowne Avesocial housing203200391 · Jul 20250664 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 lots653 lots · ≈21,230 spaces · 63.7 ha
Within 500 m47 lots · ≈1,300 spaces
Green P (public)17 car parks · about 944 spaces
EV charging (City)685 Dovercourt Rd · 1 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking77 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 90 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Emerson Ave · Surface219 m4963% (Q1 2026)
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface248 m16over 100% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface695 m3763% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface803 m3374% (Q1 2026)
9 Bonar Pl · Surface1.1 km3471% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 187 m away, ≈5 spaces; 204 m away, ≈14 spaces; 204 m away, ≈43 spaces (Green P); 224 m away, ≈12 spaces (Green P); 224 m away, ≈9 spaces; 238 m away, ≈5 spaces. More EV charging: 2285 Dundas St W (1.1 km, 2 ports); 2251 Dundas St W (1.1 km, 2 ports); 430 Roncesvalles Ave (1.3 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, Feb 24, 2014

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The north leg carries the load — 357 southbound vehicles, or 73% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 1. Morning rush is the busier period: 93 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:15 a.m., compared with 61 from 4:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 14.4% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 13 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2014, 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 north357southbound · 7 bikes · 15.7% heavy
From the west128eastbound · 3 bikes · 10.9% heavy
Total vehicles486381 pedestrians · 10 cyclists · 14.4% heavy
From the east1westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour93 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour61 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 24, 2014

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 Paton Rd between Lansdowne Ave and Wade Ave (245 m away) recorded an average of 32 km/h in its 3-day count in April 2012; 85% of drivers were at or under 42 km/h. That segment carries about 600 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 14 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Emerson Ave · Paton Rd – Wallace Ave · 101 mMar 2024 · 3 days28725 km/h33 km/h37 km/h
Paton Rd · Lansdowne Ave – Wade Ave · 245 mApr 2012 · 3 days58032 km/h42 km/h47 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

2018 was the peak year (4 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 8 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 73% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jan 16, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions11#4208 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only3
Fail to remain8
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified8
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201417latest Jan 16, 2026

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 22 thefts from vehicles and six bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 4.7× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 3 in 2023–2025, about 1.0 a year, against 3.6 a year before that. 50% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 83% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle2230street/outdoor (11), house driveway/garage (6)
Bicycle theft600house driveway/garage (5), other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Mar 7, 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 Junction-Wallace Emerson.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Emerson & Paton a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 11 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 & Paton?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Feb 24, 2014, 5% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Emerson & Paton?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Paton Rd between Lansdowne Ave and Wade Ave (April 2012), found an average of 32 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Emerson & Paton?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Emerson Ave (219 m away, 49 spaces, 63% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 653 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,230 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 & Paton by transit?

Lansdowne Station (Line 2) is 205 m away; Bloor GO is 827 m away; streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 160 m away; bus routes 47, 402, 29, 168, 26, 40, 161, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Emerson & Paton?

30 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 203 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Balam Toronto (164 m), Subway (210 m), Pentone Cigar Store (226 m), Bakerbots Baking (242 m) and Agp Mart (245 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 & Paton?

The nearest is Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 225 Campbell Ave, 591 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom (723 m); Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (788 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 & Paton?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 744 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre (234 m, 39 spaces), Plasp Pauline Junior Public School (257 m, 28 spaces) and Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) (628 m, 75 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Emerson & Paton?

22 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,772 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 685 Lansdowne Ave (249 m, 30 units, RentSafeTO score 80), 1212 Bloor St W (295 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 77 Rankin Cres (469 m, 121 units, RentSafeTO score 92) and 55 Rankin Cres (515 m, 176 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 22 is 86 out of 100; 1 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 & Paton?

Toronto Police place 22 thefts from vehicles and six 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 & Paton in?

Emerson & Paton 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