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Gladstone & Waterloo

Gladstone Ave & Waterloo Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Little Portugal · Ward 9, Davenport

Gladstone & Waterloo is a low-volume local intersection, with pedestrians outnumbering vehicles and significant cycling traffic. It sits in Little Portugal, in central Toronto. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: 16 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
795
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 6, 2022
898 pedestrians · 236 cyclists
Collisions
9
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 3 property damage · #4408 of 5,508
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
5 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 100 vehicles an hour, 9% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.1 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 29.7% of vehicle volume, about 38× the typical share. On average 0.9 collisions a year were reported here in 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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Gladstone & Waterloo

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
501505504508506 nearest 367 m
TTC bus
296340247 nearest 158 m
Express
929
Blue Night
301305304306329363
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Waterloo Ave installed 2017; Bike Lane - Contraflow on Gladstone Ave installed 2017
Bike Share
Alma Ave / Gladstone Ave SMART 100 m · 15 docks · 28 stations, 521 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 (22)
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Ave & the GroveEnglish Public · 48 m
  • Parkdale Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 735 m
  • Shirley St Jr & City View AlternativeEnglish Public · 739 m
  • The Orchard Montessori SchoolPrivate · 775 m
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 862 m
  • Pope Francis Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 882 m
  • and 16 more
Parks (38)
  • Pessoa Park262 m
  • Parkdale Amphitheatre382 m
  • Pat Capponi Parkette429 m
  • McCormick Park440 m
  • Gwynne Avenue Parkette462 m
  • Osler Playground494 m
  • and 32 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch606 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1.2 km
Places of interest
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 513 m
  • Medieval Times Dinner and TournamentPerforming Arts · 1.5 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 4 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 356 — 4.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Fix Coffee + Bikes, 86 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés4 within 300 m · 356 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 44 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Fix Coffee + Bikes · 80 Gladstone Ave86 mPassed, Aug 2026
450/ Rooms Coffee · 450 Dufferin St154 mPassed, Jul 2024 · 2 infractions
C.o.r.e. · 41 Alma Ave Flr-2nd Flr None169 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Iren's Grocery · 528 Dufferin Stgrocery202 mPassed, Dec 2023
G Mercato · 440 Dufferin St205 mPassed, Jul 2024
H-N Grocery Ltd. · 554 Dufferin Stgrocery284 mPassed, Dec 2023 · 1 infraction
Island Foods · 8 Gladstone Avegrocery316 mPassed, Aug 2026
Freshco · 22 Northcote Avegrocery342 mPassed, Jul 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 Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom, 421 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 441 m away at McCormick Park.

  • Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom · 66 Sheridan Ave
    View centre hours
    421 m
  • Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 220 Cowan Ave
    View centre hours
    691 m
Drinking water
McCormick Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 441 m; Osler Playground bottle filling station, drinking fountain, dog fountain · 493 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

15 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,210 spaces; 11 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA (48 m, 120 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km15 centres · 1,210 spaces
Fee subsidy11 of 15
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA · 108 Gladstone Ave
    120 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    48 m
  • Bumble Bee Garden Child Care Ltd. · 1275 Dundas St W
    28 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    474 m
  • Bonaventure Child Care Centre · 295 Dufferin St
    67 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    641 m
  • Parkdale Childcare Centre · 78 Seaforth Ave
    177 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    735 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (847 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (647 m) and the nearest ambulance station 429 m away.

FireFire Station 426 · 847 m140 Lansdowne Ave
Police14 Division · 647 m350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 37 · 429 m1288 Queen St W

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 67 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 6,104 rental units, 2.9× the median for a Toronto intersection — 18 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 410 Dufferin St (202 m, 198 units, 10 storeys, built 2021), which scored 100 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 67 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 144 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 28 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings67 · 6,104 units · 18 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026144 across the 67
Open fire-code violations28
Tallest35 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
410 Dufferin St · Rhapsody Property Management Services198102021100 · Jul 20255 · 1 fire202 m
400 Dufferin St · Rhapsody Property Management Service15213202199 · Jul 20255 · 1 fire234 m
8 Beaconsfield Ave · Dsm Investment Group Limited114193291 · Jul 20250358 m
1176 Queen St W253191554 · Jul 20260368 m
34 Noble St · Cogir Real Estate183193591 · Jun 20252403 m
225 Gladstone Ave · Gulburg Inc.274191187 · Jul 20250410 m
1289 Dundas St Wsocial housing · Villa Luso Non Profit Housing Corp1497198698 · Aug 20260452 m
255 Dovercourt Rd · 2153244 Ontario Inc163191285 · Aug 20250459 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 lots690 lots · ≈26,860 spaces · 80.6 ha
Within 500 m44 lots · ≈970 spaces
Green P (public)24 car parks · about 1,584 spaces
EV charging (City)45 Abell St · 598 m · 12 Level 2 + 4 fast ports
Bike parking16 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 76 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
110 Dovercourt Rd · Surface499 m8over 100% (Q1 2026)
45 Abell St · Garage561 m12460% (Q1 2026)
146 Harrison St · Surface610 m7968% (Q1 2026)
1325 Queen St W · Surface693 m3294% (Q1 2026)
18 Ossington Ave · Surface742 m20over 100% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 152 m away, ≈37 spaces; 155 m away, ≈5 spaces; 181 m away, ≈26 spaces; 184 m away, ≈10 spaces; 205 m away, ≈35 spaces; 205 m away, ≈7 spaces. More EV charging: 1051 Queen Street W (670 m, 2 ports); 1224 KING ST W (770 m, 2 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (789 m, 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, Dec 6, 2022

Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 140 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 26% above the afternoon peak from 2:00 p.m. (111). Heavy vehicles made up 3.0% 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 north795southbound · 53 bikes · 3.0% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 100 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles795898 pedestrians · 236 cyclists · 3.0% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south0northbound · 83 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour140 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour111 vehicles from 2:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 6, 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 Waterloo Ave between Gladstone Ave and Lane E of Dufferin and N of Alma, 23 m from the corner, a 3-day count in December 2021 put the average speed at 24 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 33 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 38 km/h or more. That segment carries about 300 vehicles a day. Gladstone Ave between Peel Ave and Alma Ave measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 32 km/h (Sep 2025). The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Dufferin St (116 m away, 30 km/h limit), 38% of the 279,345 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a high share for a school zone.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Waterloo Ave · Gladstone Ave – Lane E of Dufferin and N of Alma · 23 mDec 2021 · 3 days34424 km/h33 km/h38 km/h
Gladstone Ave · Peel Ave – Alma Ave · 145 mSep 2025 · 7 days2,06123 km/h32 km/h35 km/h

School-zone speed sign 116 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct37 · 46 km/h
Over the limit63%
40 km/h or more38%

Dufferin St (northbound), 447 Dufferin Street · 279,345 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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 2. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 67% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Aug 18, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions9#4408 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only3
Fail to remain6
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified6
All since 201411latest Aug 18, 2025

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

Three thefts from vehicles and five bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 60% of the bike thefts were from other premises.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle310street/outdoor (3)
Bicycle theft500other (3), street/outdoor (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 28, 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 Little Portugal.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Gladstone & Waterloo 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 Gladstone & Waterloo?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Dec 6, 2022, 9% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Gladstone & Waterloo?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Waterloo Ave between Gladstone Ave and Lane E of Dufferin and N of Alma (December 2021), found an average of 24 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 33 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 116 m away (30 km/h), 38% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Gladstone & Waterloo?

The nearest Green P car park is 110 Dovercourt Rd (499 m away, 8 spaces). The City's mapping shows 690 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 26,860 spaces — 44 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 45 Abell St (598 m).

How do I get to Gladstone & Waterloo by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 505, 504, 508 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 367 m away; bus routes 29, 63, 402, 47, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Gladstone & Waterloo?

4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 356 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Fix Coffee + Bikes (86 m), 450/ Rooms Coffee (154 m), C.o.r.e. (169 m) and G Mercato (205 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 Gladstone & Waterloo?

The nearest is Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom, 66 Sheridan Ave, 421 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom (691 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 Gladstone & Waterloo?

15 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,210 spaces in total; 11 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA (48 m, 120 spaces), Bumble Bee Garden Child Care Ltd. (474 m, 28 spaces) and Bonaventure Child Care Centre (641 m, 67 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Gladstone & Waterloo?

67 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 6,104 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 410 Dufferin St (202 m, 198 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 400 Dufferin St (234 m, 152 units, RentSafeTO score 99), 8 Beaconsfield Ave (358 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 1176 Queen St W (368 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 54). The average RentSafeTO score across the 67 is 89 out of 100; 2 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 Gladstone & Waterloo?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and five 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 Little Portugal page.

What neighbourhood is Gladstone & Waterloo in?

Gladstone & Waterloo is in Little Portugal (City of Toronto neighbourhood 084). 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