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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · Mar 6, 2017
The north leg carries the load — 3,226 southbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 4. Most cyclists arrived from the north (190 of 321). Morning rush is the busier period: 1,003 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:00 a.m., compared with 915 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 10 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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.
Peak hours: 1,003 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 915 from 5:00 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).
Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m
The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 2 collisions. 33% of collisions here involved an injury. People walking or cycling were involved in 33% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Dec 29, 2025.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 9 | |
| With an injury | 3 | |
| Property damage only | 6 | |
| Fail to remain | 0 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 2 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 1 | |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.
How fast traffic moves here
The City's most recent midblock count on Christie St between Barton Ave and John McIntosh Lane (184 m away, Apr 2013) recorded volume only — about 7,112 vehicles a day — with no speed data. At the school-zone speed sign on Essex St (164 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 29,370 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christie St · Barton Ave – John McIntosh Lane · 184 m | Apr 2013 · 3 days | 7,112 | — | — | — |
- Speed sign
- Essex St (westbound), 164 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 21 km/h, 85th percentile 30 km/h; 0.0% at 50 km/h or more. 29,370 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.
- The crossing
- pedestrian crossover
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Subway
- Christie Station (Line 2)491 m · 6 min; Bathurst Station (Line 2)1 km · 12 min
- TTC bus
- 126 26 63 7 127 nearest 28 m
- Blue Night
- 300 363 307
- Nearest stops
- 6 surface stops within 300 m — Christie St at Essex St South Side; Christie St at Follis Ave North Side
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Essex St / Christie St 29 m · 19 docks · 14 stations, 308 docks within 1 km
Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- 20 car parks · about 796 spaces
- EV charging
- 273 Christie St · 278 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 705 Shaw St (1 km), 365 Lippincott St. (1.3 km)
- Bike parking
- 28 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 17 mapped lots within 500 m, 526 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 376 Clinton St · Surface | 589 m | 34 | 68% (Q1 2026) |
| 675 Manning Ave · Surface | 705 m | 49 | 81% (Q1 2026) |
| 557 Palmerston Ave · Surface | 899 m | 55 | 80% (Q1 2026) |
| 745 Ossington Ave · Surface | 1.1 km | 46 | 67% (Q1 2026) |
| 365 Lippincott St · Surface | 1.3 km | 136 | 54% (Q1 2026) |
Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.
Within a walk
What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.
Food, shops and services
You can do a shop on foot from here: Fiesta Farms Supermarket is 28 m away. For everything else there is one convenience store or gas bar within 300 m. There are 3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 133 eating places within a kilometre — 3.2× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Morellina's, 109 m away. The nearest pharmacy is The Drug Store Pharmacy, 470 m away; 8 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: The O'neill Centre, a long-term care home 438 m away (two within a kilometre); Christie Gardens, a retirement home 622 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Morellina's · 146 Christie St109 m
- Fine Artisanal Wines & Food · 226 Christie St191 m
- Rosalu Snackbar · 228 Christie St198 m
- Crossroads Kafe · 262 Christie St309 m · 4 min
- A & W · 659 Dupont St373 m · 4 min
- Grocery
- Fiesta Farms Supermarket 28 m · 8 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Midnight Cookie 637 m · 8 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- The Drug Store Pharmacy 470 m · 6 min · 8 within 1 km
- Child care
- Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care · 179 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day198 m
- Odyssey Montessori School · 57 spaces, toddler, preschool294 m · 4 min
- Les Bouts D'choux · 116 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day354 m · 4 min
- Washrooms
- Christie Pits Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs475 m · 6 min
- Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · hours not listed559 m · 7 min
- Health and care
- The O'neill Centre · long-term care home · 2 within 1 km438 m · 5 min
- Christie Gardens · retirement home622 m · 7 min
Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.
Parks, schools and places
- Parks (26)
- Christie Pits Park501 m · 6 min
- Vermont Square Park672 m · 8 min
- Frankel - Lambert Park723 m · 9 min
- Marian Engel Park790 m · 9 min
- Euclid Avenue Parkette808 m · 10 min
- Community centres
- William H. Bolton Arena691 m · 8 min
- Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre793 m · 9 min
- Native Youth Resource Centre798 m · 10 min
- Schools (20)
- Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 198 m
- Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 354 m · 4 min
- St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 502 m · 6 min
- Palmerston Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 555 m · 7 min
- Monsignor Fraser College - Annex CampusEnglish Separate · 724 m · 9 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch873 m · 10 min
- Toronto Public Library Davenport branch1.2 km · 15 min
- Places of interest
- Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 1.3 km · 15 min
- Tarragon TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.3 km · 16 min
- Artscape Wychwood BarnsLandmark · 1.4 km · 17 min
Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #1,119 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
17 registered apartment buildings with 596 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 161 Christie St (104 m, 15 units, 4 storeys, built 1965), which scored 91 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 17 scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 161 Christie St · Canlight Management Inc. | 15 | 4 | 1965 | 91 · Jul 2026 | 104 m |
| 723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate | 16 | 4 | 1920 | 100 · Jul 2026 | 578 m · 7 min |
| 711 Bloor St W | 12 | 3 | 1920 | 23 · Jul 2026 | 600 m · 7 min |
| 740 Dupont St · Greystar Canada Property Management Services Ltd | 210 | 9 | 2021 | 100 · Dec 2025 | 607 m · 7 min |
| 2 Lambertlodge Ave Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation | 64 | 5 | 1983 | 91 · Nov 2025 | 666 m · 8 min |
| 42 Barton Ave · Tyndallwood Investments Ltd | 24 | 4 | 1929 | 100 · Jul 2026 | 682 m · 8 min |
17 registered buildings · 596 units · 4 social housing · tallest 9 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Toronto Police place no thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 1 | 0 | house driveway/garage (1) |
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 Annex.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Essex & Christie a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 9 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 Essex & Christie?
A moderately travelled crossing at the City's last count here, in 2017. Its latest count is from Mar 6, 2017, 69% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Essex & Christie a walkable intersection?
Essex & Christie scores 66 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,119 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 2 schools within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m; Christie Station 0.5 km · 6 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 3 places to eat within 300 m. The crossing itself: pedestrian crossover.
Where can I park near Essex & Christie?
The nearest Green P car park is 376 Clinton St (589 m away, 34 spaces, 68% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 526 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,820 spaces — 17 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 273 Christie St (278 m).
How do I get to Essex & Christie by transit?
Christie Station (Line 2) is 491 m away; bus routes 126, 26, 63, 7, 127 within 1 km (nearest stop: Christie St at Essex St South Side, 28 m).
What restaurants are near Essex & Christie?
3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 133 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Morellina's (109 m), Fine Artisanal Wines & Food (191 m), Rosalu Snackbar (198 m), Crossroads Kafe (309 m) and A & W (373 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Essex & Christie?
The nearest is Christie Pits Park Washroom, 750 Bloor St W, 475 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). The City currently lists it as closed: maintenance/repairs. Next nearest: Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom (559 m); Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (793 m).
Is there child care near Essex & Christie?
Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 616 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care (198 m, 179 spaces), Odyssey Montessori School (294 m, 57 spaces) and Les Bouts D'choux (354 m, 116 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Essex & Christie?
17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 596 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 161 Christie St (104 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 723 Bloor St W (578 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 711 Bloor St W (600 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 23) and 740 Dupont St (607 m, 210 units, RentSafeTO score 100). The average RentSafeTO score across the 17 is 85 out of 100; 2 scored below 70.
How many thefts are reported at Essex & Christie?
Toronto Police place no thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Annex page.
What neighbourhood is Essex & Christie in?
Essex & Christie is in Annex (City of Toronto neighbourhood 095). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Mar 6, 2017.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 11 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.66835, -79.42026 · centreline node 13463865.