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Emerson & Wallace

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

Emerson & Wallace is a low-volume local intersection, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. It sits in Junction-Wallace Emerson. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: Lansdowne Station (Line 2) 384 m away and Bloor GO 904 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
1,547
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 25, 2006
1,005 pedestrians · 210 cyclists
Collisions
11
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 9 property damage · #4235 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Lansdowne Station 384 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 190 vehicles an hour, 17% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 1.5 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 13.6% of vehicle volume, about 18× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 1.1 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 & Wallace

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)384 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)591 m; Dundas West Station (Line 2)917 m
GO Transit
Bloor GO — Kitchener904 m
UP Express
Bloor GO/UP 904 m — trains to Pearson
Streetcar
512 nearest 157 m
TTC bus
47294022616840161 nearest 157 m
Express
929
Blue Night
329300340
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Emerson Ave installed 2025
Bike Share
Wallace Ave / Pauline Ave 221 m · 17 docks · 20 stations, 357 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 · 197 m
  • Pauline Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 262 m
  • St Anthony Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 607 m
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 616 m
  • Dovercourt Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 690 m
  • St Luigi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 732 m
  • and 18 more
Parks (35)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch667 m
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch745 m
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 936 m
  • 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 6 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 210 — 2.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Pentone Cigar Store, 102 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in December 2023.

Restaurants & cafés6 within 300 m · 210 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 47 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Pentone Cigar Store · 176 Wallace Ave102 mPassed, Dec 2023
Wallace Espresso · 188 Wallace Ave150 mPassed, Apr 2026
Donna's · 827 Lansdowne Ave175 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Paris Bakery & Pastry · 654 Lansdowne Avegrocery188 mPassed, Apr 2026
Cantanhede O Bairradino · 662 Lansdowne Ave192 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 2 infractions
Pepper's Food and Drink · 189 Wallace Avegrocery200 mPassed, Apr 2026
Dairy King · 115 Millicent St206 mPassed, Jun 2026
Balam Toronto · 584 Lansdowne Ave258 mPassed, May 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, 494 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 416 m away at Susan Tibaldi Parkette.

  • Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 225 Campbell Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    494 m
  • Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 1260 Dufferin St
    View centre hours
    565 m
  • Dovercourt Park Washroom · 155 Bartlett Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    849 m
Drinking water
Susan Tibaldi Parkette drinking fountain, dog fountain · 416 m; Campbell Avenue Park drinking fountain · 515 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 (262 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
    262 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre · 544 Lansdowne Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    385 m
  • Dover Gardens Nursery School · 228 Bartlett Ave
    16 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    690 m
  • Macaulay - Dovercourt Child Care Centre · 228 Bartlett Ave
    131 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    690 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (612 m), the nearest police station 11 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.0 km away.

FireFire Station 345 · 612 m1285 Dufferin St
Police11 Division · 1.7 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 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 — 1,771 rental units — five social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 800 Lansdowne Ave (393 m, 138 units, 4 storeys, built 1992), which scored 82 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 17 scored below 70; the average is 84, 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 · 1,771 units · 5 social housing
RentSafeTO score84 average · 1 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 20253393 m
685 Lansdowne Ave · Gbs Properties Ltd.303198580 · Jul 20250426 m
973 Lansdowne Avesocial housing203200391 · Jul 20250474 m
1212 Bloor St W163192379 · Jul 20250475 m
1401 Dupont St · Firm Capital Properties Inc1716200672 · Jul 202513526 m
1407 Dupont St · Firm Capital Properties Inc745200892 · Jul 20269567 m
730 St Clarens Ave · Akelius Canada Ltd27518197481 · Jul 20246567 m
77 Rankin CresToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1217199292 · Sep 20240 · 1 fire574 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 · ≈21,250 spaces · 63.8 ha
Within 500 m36 lots · ≈1,220 spaces
Green P (public)18 car parks · about 954 spaces
EV charging (City)685 Dovercourt Rd · 1.1 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking23 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 90 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Emerson Ave · Surface414 m4963% (Q1 2026)
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface423 m16over 100% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface781 m3763% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface883 m3374% (Q1 2026)
2201 Dundas St W · Surface1.3 km1070% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 205 m away, ≈4 spaces; 210 m away, ≈4 spaces; 290 m away, ≈2 spaces; 300 m away, ≈7 spaces; 310 m away, ≈9 spaces; 323 m away, ≈140 spaces. More EV charging: 2285 Dundas St W (1.2 km, 2 ports); 2251 Dundas St W (1.2 km, 2 ports); 430 Roncesvalles Ave (1.4 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 25, 2006

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 576 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 37% of the total, against 433 from the north. Most cyclists arrived from the west (84 of 210). Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 293 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 21% above the afternoon peak from 4:30 p.m. (242). Heavy vehicles made up 1.2% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). 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 north433southbound · 29 bikes · 0.2% heavy
From the west538eastbound · 84 bikes · 1.1% heavy
Total vehicles1,5471,005 pedestrians · 210 cyclists · 1.2% heavy
From the east576westbound · 72 bikes · 2.1% heavy
From the south0northbound · 25 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour293 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour242 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 25, 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 Emerson Ave between Paton Rd and Wallace Ave, 98 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2024 put the average speed at 25 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 33 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 37 km/h or more. That segment carries about 300 vehicles a day. Wallace Ave between Pauline Ave and Brock Ave measured slower: 22 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 29 km/h (Apr 2026). 6 speed humps slow traffic on Emerson Avenue between Wallace Ave and Dupont St, and 1 more calmed segment ends here.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Emerson Ave · Paton Rd – Wallace Ave · 98 mMar 2024 · 3 days28725 km/h33 km/h37 km/h
Wallace Ave · Pauline Ave – Brock Ave · 213 mApr 2026 · 7 days2,77622 km/h29 km/h33 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Emerson Avenue · Wallace Ave – Dupont St
    6 speed humps
  • 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

The worst year was 2023, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 1 collision (9%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 9% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (9%). The most recent report on file is from Sep 4, 2023.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions11#4235 of 5,508
With an injury1#4620 of 4,660
Property damage only9
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#2471 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 201413latest Sep 4, 2023

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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Dec 20, 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

Seven thefts from vehicles and three bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 1 in 2023–2025, about 0.3 a year, against 1.3 a year before that. 71% 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 vehicle710street/outdoor (5), house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft300house driveway/garage (2), other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Nov 11, 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 & Wallace 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 & Wallace?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from May 25, 2006, 17% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Emerson & Wallace?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Emerson Ave between Paton Rd and Wallace Ave (March 2024), found an average of 25 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 33 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Emerson & Wallace?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Emerson Ave (414 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 21,250 spaces — 36 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 685 Dovercourt Rd (1.1 km).

How do I get to Emerson & Wallace by transit?

Lansdowne Station (Line 2) is 384 m away; Bloor GO is 904 m away; streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 157 m away; bus routes 47, 29, 402, 26, 168, 40, 161, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Emerson & Wallace?

6 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 210 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Pentone Cigar Store (102 m), Wallace Espresso (150 m), Donna's (175 m), Cantanhede O Bairradino (192 m) and Dairy King (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 Emerson & Wallace?

The nearest is Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 225 Campbell Ave, 494 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom (565 m); Dovercourt Park Washroom (849 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 & Wallace?

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 (262 m, 28 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre (385 m, 39 spaces) and Dover Gardens Nursery School (690 m, 16 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Emerson & Wallace?

17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,771 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 800 Lansdowne Ave (393 m, 138 units, RentSafeTO score 82), 685 Lansdowne Ave (426 m, 30 units, RentSafeTO score 80), 973 Lansdowne Ave (474 m, 20 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 1212 Bloor St W (475 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79). The average RentSafeTO score across the 17 is 84 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 & Wallace?

Toronto Police place seven 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 & Wallace in?

Emerson & Wallace 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