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Geary & Bristol

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

Geary & Bristol is a lightly travelled intersection. It sits in Junction-Wallace Emerson, in central Toronto. It has parks at the corner. Nearby: 12 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
3,186
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 15, 2020
294 pedestrians · 31 cyclists
Collisions
17
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 13 property damage · #3598 of 5,508 · +4 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
1 streetcar route · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 400 vehicles, 34% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 11 vehicles, in line with the citywide pattern. That comes with about 1.7 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Geary & Bristol

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
512 nearest 748 m
TTC bus
26291611276347 nearest 144 m
Express
929
Blue Night
312329363340
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Bartlett Parkette 172 m · 23 docks · 12 stations, 213 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 Mary of the Angels Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 322 m
  • Dovercourt Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 379 m
  • Regal Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 479 m
  • Uchenna AcademyPrivate · 487 m
  • St Anthony Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 725 m
  • St Sebastian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 788 m
  • and 17 more
Parks (34)
  • Bristol Avenue Parkette East92 m
  • Bristol Avenue Parkette West113 m
  • Bartlett Parkette154 m
  • Brandon Avenue Parkette214 m
  • Chandos Park South284 m
  • Wallace Emerson Park382 m
  • and 28 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Dufferin/St. Clair branch883 m
  • Toronto Public Library Davenport branch946 m
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch1 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 27 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 4 grocery and convenience stores, and 107 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is General Public Restaurant, 24 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in January 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés27 within 300 m · 107 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience4 within 300 m · 22 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
General Public Restaurant · 201 Geary Ave Bldg--24 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 2 infractions
Gawp · 209 Geary Ave27 mPassed, Jun 2025
Sana · 211 Geary Ave33 mPassed, Sep 2025
Nova Era · 200 Geary Ave40 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 4 infractions
Nova Era · 200 Geary Ave40 mPassed, Aug 2026
Nova Era · 200 Geary Ave40 mPassed, May 2025 · 3 infractions
Nova Era · 200 Geary Ave40 mPassed, Nov 2025
Paradise Winery Inc. · 218 Geary Ave41 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 2 infractions

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 Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 284 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 110 m away at Bristol Avenue Parkette West.

  • Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 1260 Dufferin St
    View centre hours
    284 m
  • Dovercourt Park Washroom · 155 Bartlett Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    637 m
Drinking water
Bristol Avenue Parkette West bottle filling station · 110 m; Bartlett Parkette drinking fountain · 175 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 534 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Dover Gardens Nursery School (379 m, 16 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km7 centres · 534 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 7
  • Dover Gardens Nursery School · 228 Bartlett Ave
    16 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    379 m
  • Macaulay - Dovercourt Child Care Centre · 228 Bartlett Ave
    131 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    379 m
  • Ascot Avenue Community Day Care · 95 Regal Rd
    183 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    479 m
  • Kids Korner Day Care · 180 Westmoreland Ave
    24 spaces · preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    612 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (266 m), the nearest police station 11 Division (1.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.1 km away.

FireFire Station 345 · 266 m1285 Dufferin St
Police11 Division · 1.8 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

16 registered apartment buildings with 1,411 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, five of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 331 Bartlett Ave N (174 m, 13 units, 3 storeys, built 1905), which scored 74 out of 100 at its September 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 51 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings16 · 1,411 units · 5 social housing
RentSafeTO score85 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202651 across the 16
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest21 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
331 Bartlett Ave NToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation133190574 · Sep 20240174 m
156 Brandon Ave19476 · Jul 20250637 m
730 St Clarens Ave · Akelius Canada Ltd27518197481 · Jul 20246671 m
10 Mount Royal Ave · 741476 Ontario Inc123191382 · Jun 20250717 m
1011 Lansdowne Ave · 1298781 Ontario Inc35221197376 · Aug 202412 · 1 fire727 m
973 Lansdowne Avesocial housing203200391 · Jul 20250745 m
2 Regal Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management1048195595 · Jul 20257755 m
1401 Dupont St · Firm Capital Properties Inc1716200672 · Jul 202513792 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 lots624 lots · ≈20,580 spaces · 61.7 ha
Within 500 m57 lots · ≈1,790 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 795 spaces
EV charging (City)91 Via Italia · 1 km · 12 Level 2 ports
Bike parking28 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 22 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
94 Northcliffe Blvd · Surface924 m1380% (Q1 2026)
91 Via Italia · Garage1 km16929% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface1.1 km3763% (Q1 2026)
141 Greenlaw Ave · Surface1.1 km5445% (Q1 2026)
7 Norton Ave · Surface1.1 km6260% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 13 m away, ≈71 spaces; 41 m away, ≈32 spaces; 47 m away, ≈4 spaces; 67 m away, ≈12 spaces; 79 m away, ≈10 spaces; 81 m away, ≈21 spaces. More EV charging: 685 Dovercourt Rd (1.4 km, 2 ports); 273 Christie St (1.4 km, 2 ports); 580 Christie St (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, Jan 15, 2020

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The west leg carries the load — 1,778 eastbound vehicles, or 56% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 335. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 584 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 544 from 5:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 13.3% 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 7 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2020, 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 north335southbound · 4 bikes · 16.1% heavy
From the west1,778eastbound · 17 bikes · 12.3% heavy
Total vehicles3,186294 pedestrians · 31 cyclists · 13.3% heavy
From the east1,073westbound · 10 bikes · 14.1% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour584 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour544 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jan 15, 2020

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 Geary Ave between Bristol Ave and Lane W of Bristol and N of Geary (27 m away) recorded an average of 40 km/h in its 3-day count in January 2020; 85% of drivers were at or under 48 km/h. That segment carries about 5,200 vehicles a day. The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Dufferin St (309 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.3% of the 90,770 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none. 5 speed humps slow traffic on Bristol Avenue between Geary Ave and Davenport Rd.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Geary Ave · Bristol Ave – Lane W of Bristol and N of Geary · 27 mJan 2020 · 3 days5,21340 km/h48 km/h52 km/h

School-zone speed sign 309 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct32 · 39 km/h
Over the limit2.5%
50 km/h or more0.3%

Dufferin St (northbound), 146 Whitehall Drive · 90,770 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Bristol Avenue · Geary Ave – Davenport Rd
    5 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 4 collisions. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 24% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 3, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions17#3598 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only13
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
Since January 2026 (outside the window)4
All since 201428latest Jun 3, 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 six thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 67% 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 vehicle600street/outdoor (4), other (1)
Bicycle theft100apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 22, 2022. 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 Geary & Bristol a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 17 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 Geary & Bristol?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Jan 15, 2020, 34% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Geary & Bristol?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Geary Ave between Bristol Ave and Lane W of Bristol and N of Geary (January 2020), found an average of 40 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 48 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 309 m away (40 km/h), 0.3% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Geary & Bristol?

The nearest Green P car park is 94 Northcliffe Blvd (924 m away, 13 spaces, 80% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 624 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 20,580 spaces — 57 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 91 Via Italia (1.0 km).

How do I get to Geary & Bristol by transit?

Streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 748 m away; bus routes 26, 29, 161, 127, 63, 47, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Geary & Bristol?

27 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 107 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are General Public Restaurant (24 m), Gawp (27 m), Sana (33 m), Nova Era (40 m) and Nova Era (40 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 Geary & Bristol?

The nearest is Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 1260 Dufferin St, 284 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Dovercourt Park Washroom (637 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 Geary & Bristol?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 534 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Dover Gardens Nursery School (379 m, 16 spaces), Macaulay - Dovercourt Child Care Centre (379 m, 131 spaces) and Ascot Avenue Community Day Care (479 m, 183 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Geary & Bristol?

16 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,411 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 331 Bartlett Ave N (174 m, 13 units, RentSafeTO score 74), 156 Brandon Ave (637 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 76), 730 St Clarens Ave (671 m, 275 units, RentSafeTO score 81) and 10 Mount Royal Ave (717 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 82). The average RentSafeTO score across the 16 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 Geary & Bristol?

Toronto Police place six thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft 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 Geary & Bristol in?

Geary & Bristol 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