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Gerrard & Beaton

Gerrard St E & Beaton Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Woodbine Corridor · Ward 19, Beaches-East York

In Woodbine Corridor, Gerrard & Beaton is a mid-volume intersection. At the corner: a school within 250 m and parks. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
5,813
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 19, 2022
996 pedestrians · 93 cyclists
Collisions
14
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 11 property damage · #3871 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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
2 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 19 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 730 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 63% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 6 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. That comes with about 1.4 reported collisions a year, 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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Gerrard & Beaton

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
506503 nearest 14 m
TTC bus
229270404 nearest 279 m
Blue Night
306322300
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Gerrard St East at Beaton Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Fairmount Park 70 m · 19 docks · 11 stations, 203 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 (16)
  • Bowmore Road Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 199 m
  • Georges Etienne Cartier Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 278 m
  • Roden Public & Equinox Holistic AlternativeEnglish Public · 554 m
  • Monarch Park Collegiate & School of Life ExperienceEnglish Public · 581 m
  • Earl Haig Public SchoolEnglish Public · 669 m
  • Kew Park Montessori School - HiawathaPrivate · 717 m
  • and 10 more
Parks (30)
  • Fairmount Park105 m
  • Williamson Park Ravine211 m
  • Fairford Avenue Parkette312 m
  • Coxwell Avenue Parkette358 m
  • Coxwell Avenue Playground391 m
  • Cairns Avenue Parkette512 m
  • and 24 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Gerrard/Ashdale branch582 m
  • Toronto Public Library Danforth/Coxwell branch908 m

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 5 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 95. The nearest is Bowmore Child Enrichment Centre, 199 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés5 within 300 m · 95 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 18 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bowmore Child Enrichment Centre · 80 Bowmore Rd Unit-11199 mPassed, May 2026
Bowmore Extended Day Program (Edp) · 80 Bowmore Rd199 mPassed, Mar 2026
The Wright Spot · 80 Bowmore Rd199 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Bodega · 1801 Gerrard St E272 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 2 infractions
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough · 250 Gainsborough Rd279 mPassed, May 2026
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge · 419 Coxwell Ave310 mPassed, May 2026
Dollarama · 293 Coxwell Avegrocery314 mPassed, Jan 2025
Deco Gallery · 291 Coxwell Ave319 mPassed, May 2024

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 Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom, 175 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 137 m away at Fairmount Park.

  • Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom · 1725 Gerrard St E
    View centre hours
    175 m
  • Monarch Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom · 115 Felstead Ave
    View facility hours
    713 m
Drinking water
Fairmount Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 137 m; Fairmount Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 141 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

13 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,084 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Bowmore (199 m, 89 spaces, preschool, kindergarten).

Within 1 km13 centres · 1,084 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 13
  • Bowmore · 80 Bowmore Rd
    89 spaces · preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    199 m
  • Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough · 250 Gainsborough Rd
    167 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    278 m
  • Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Coxwell · 419 Coxwell Ave
    69 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    309 m
  • Downtown Montessori at Coatsworth (Formerly Ward Nine -Coatsworth) · 11 Coatsworth Cres
    57 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    459 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 227 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 55 Division (778 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 227 · 1.2 km1904 Queen St E
Police55 Division · 778 m101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 46 · 1.3 km105 Cedarvale Ave

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 43 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,811 rental units — 20 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1691 Gerrard St E (64 m, 66 units, 7 storeys, built 1958), which scored 94 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 49 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 4 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings43 · 1,811 units · 20 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202649 across the 43
Open fire-code violations4
Tallest7 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1691 Gerrard St E667195894 · Sep 2025264 m
4 Newbold Ave124196488 · Oct 20250131 m
11 Newbold AveToronto Community Housing · TCH214198483 · Sep 20240146 m
1636 Gerrard St E · Signet Group Inc.486196092 · Sep 20262235 m
419 Coxwell Avesocial housing · New Frontiers Aboriginal Residential Corporation4432003100 · Aug 20261309 m
425 Coxwell Avesocial housing · New Frontiers Aboriginal Residential Corporation303200296 · Nov 20250345 m
15 Eastwood Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc244196091 · Oct 20252394 m
1845 Gerrard St Esocial housing · St Jude Community Homes203195089 · Jun 20240414 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 lots528 lots · ≈19,590 spaces · 58.8 ha
Within 500 m24 lots · ≈730 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 1,202 spaces
EV charging (City)29 Bowmore Rd · 341 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking8 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
268 Rhodes Ave · Surface534 m3968% (Q1 2026)
151 Hiawatha Road · Surface624 m50 *
1612 Danforth Ave · Surface1 km2275% (Q1 2026)
737 Rhodes Ave · Surface1 km2450% (Q1 2026)
1439 Danforth Ave · Surface1 km1895% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 78 m away, ≈48 spaces; 221 m away, ≈48 spaces; 236 m away, ≈8 spaces; 263 m away, ≈14 spaces; 264 m away, ≈12 spaces; 301 m away, ≈32 spaces. More EV charging: 31 Roseheath Ave (617 m, 2 ports); 1313 Gerrard ST E (945 m, 2 ports); 1612 Danforth Ave. (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, Oct 19, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 3,125 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 54% of the total, against 142 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the east (52 of 93). Evening rush dominates here: 982 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:45 p.m., against 909 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. 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 north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west2,546eastbound · 36 bikes · 4.9% heavy
Total vehicles5,813996 pedestrians · 93 cyclists · 4.7% heavy
From the east3,125westbound · 52 bikes · 4.7% heavy
From the south142northbound · 5 bikes · 1.4% heavy
AM peak hour909 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour982 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 19, 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

On Beaton Ave between Wrenson Rd and Gerrard St E, 42 m from the corner, a 3-day count in September 2022 put the average speed at 27 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 34 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 39 km/h or more. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Gerrard St E (52 m away, 40 km/h limit), 1.0% of the 89,176 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a small minority. 1 speed hump slow traffic on Beaton Avenue between Gerrard St E and Wrenson Rd.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Beaton Ave · Wrenson Rd – Gerrard St E · 42 mSep 2022 · 3 days59327 km/h34 km/h39 km/h

School-zone speed sign 52 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct36 · 42 km/h
Over the limit6.4%
50 km/h or more1.0%

Gerrard St E (eastbound), 1696 Gerrard Street East · 89,176 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Beaton Avenue · Gerrard St E – Wrenson Rd
    1 speed hump

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 2018, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 2 collisions (14%) involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 14% 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 26, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions14#3871 of 5,508
With an injury2#3726 of 4,660
Property damage only11
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201417latest Jan 26, 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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 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

One theft from a vehicle and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Mar 7, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle101other (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Mar 7, 2026. 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 Woodbine Corridor.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Gerrard & Beaton a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 14 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 Gerrard & Beaton?

A mid-volume intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 19, 2022, 63% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Gerrard & Beaton?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Beaton Ave between Wrenson Rd and Gerrard St E (September 2022), found an average of 27 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 34 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 52 m away (40 km/h), 1.0% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Gerrard & Beaton?

The nearest Green P car park is 268 Rhodes Ave (534 m away, 39 spaces, 68% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 528 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 19,590 spaces — 24 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 29 Bowmore Rd (341 m).

How do I get to Gerrard & Beaton by transit?

Streetcar routes 506, 503 stop within 1 km, the nearest 14 m away; bus routes 22, 92, 70, 404 within 1 km (nearest stop: Gerrard St East at Beaton Ave, 279 m).

What restaurants are near Gerrard & Beaton?

5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 95 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Bowmore Child Enrichment Centre (199 m), Bowmore Extended Day Program (Edp) (199 m), The Wright Spot (199 m), Bodega (272 m) and Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough (279 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 Gerrard & Beaton?

The nearest is Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom, 1725 Gerrard St E, 175 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Monarch Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom (713 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 Gerrard & Beaton?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,084 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Bowmore (199 m, 89 spaces), Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough (278 m, 167 spaces) and Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Coxwell (309 m, 69 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Gerrard & Beaton?

43 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,811 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1691 Gerrard St E (64 m, 66 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 4 Newbold Ave (131 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 11 Newbold Ave (146 m, 21 units, RentSafeTO score 83) and 1636 Gerrard St E (235 m, 48 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 43 is 92 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 Gerrard & Beaton?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. 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 Woodbine Corridor page.

What neighbourhood is Gerrard & Beaton in?

Gerrard & Beaton is in Woodbine Corridor (City of Toronto neighbourhood 064). It is in Ward 19, Beaches-East York, represented by Councillor Brad Bradford.

Sources

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