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Grenview & Varley

Grenview Blvd N & Varley Lane · Toronto, Ontario · Kingsway South · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore

Grenview & Varley is a lightly travelled intersection, with heavy foot traffic. It sits in Kingsway South. At the corner: Royal York Station. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
1,199
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 23, 2024
652 pedestrians · 31 cyclists · #2317 busiest
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
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
Royal York Station
subway station within 250 m
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 14-hour count works out to close to 90 vehicles, 7% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 1.8 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 2.6% of vehicle volume, about 3.3× the typical share.

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Grenview & Varley

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Royal York Station (Line 2)124 m
TTC bus
1494873661576 nearest 251 m
Blue Night
300315373
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
9 Willingdon Blvd 196 m · 39 docks · 6 stations, 138 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 (6)
  • The Learning CommonPrivate · 769 m
  • Sunnylea Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 809 m
  • Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 866 m
  • Lambton Kingsway Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Etobicoke Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • Kingsway College SchoolPrivate · 1.3 km
Community centres
Parks (21)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Brentwood branch524 m
Places of interest
  • Montgomery's InnMuseum · 1.4 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 23 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 40. The nearest is Cheesyplace, 142 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés23 within 300 m · 40 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 5 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Cheesyplace · 2940 Bloor St W142 mPassed, Apr 2026
The Old Sod · 2936 Bloor St W145 mPassed, May 2026
Bramble · 2956 Bloor St W152 mPassed, May 2026 · 5 infractions
Dickson Barbeque Centre · 2958 Bloor St W153 mPassed, Apr 2024
Caffe Demetres · 2962 Bloor St W160 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 1 infraction
Fair Catch Fishmongers · 2 Wendover Rd174 mPassed, Apr 2026
Cafe Rouge Patisserie · 2898 Bloor St W189 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Hot Oven Bakery · 2974 Bloor St Wgrocery190 mPassed, Jun 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 Memorial Pool and Health Club Washroom, 915 m away, View centre hours.

  • Memorial Pool and Health Club Washroom · 44 Montgomery Rd
    View centre hours
    915 m
  • Central Arena Washroom · 50 Montgomery Rd
    View arena hours
    932 m
  • Lambton - Kingsway Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 37 Marquis Ave
    View outdoor pool hours
    1 km

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

Six licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 520 spaces; two accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Prince Edward Montessori School of Toronto (275 m, 32 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km6 centres · 520 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 6
  • Prince Edward Montessori School of Toronto · 2850 Bloor St W
    32 spaces · preschool
    275 m
  • Kingsway Nursery School · 85 the Kingsway
    31 spaces · toddler, preschool
    366 m
  • Treasured Moments - Bloor · 3107 Bloor St W
    78 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    730 m
  • Royal York Road School · 851 Royal York Rd
    47 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    769 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 431 (456 m), the nearest police station 22 Division (1.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.2 km away.

FireFire Station 431 · 456 m308 Prince Edward Dr S
Police22 Division · 1.8 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 31 · 1.2 km4219 Dundas 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 ten RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 208 rental units. The nearest is 2846 Bloor St W (350 m, 16 units, 4 storeys, built 1955), which scored 95 out of 100 at its December 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. No Landlord and Tenant Board order named any of them in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings10 · 208 units
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20260 across the 10
Open fire-code violations6
Tallest4 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2846 Bloor St W164195595 · Dec 20250350 m
2844 Bloor St W163195588 · Jul 20240371 m
69 Old Mill Ter · Dash Property Management264195596 · Oct 20250 · 6 fire778 m
2696 Bloor St W153195783 · Nov 20250795 m
2692-2694 Bloor St W · Orchard Apartments (Bloor) Inc404194994 · Jul 20260854 m
2675 Bloor St W · Syrmium Holdings Inc143196097 · Oct 20250875 m
2690 Bloor St W · Orchard Apartments (Bloor) Inc184194995 · Oct 20250890 m
2688 Bloor St W · Orchard Apartments (Bloor) Inc214194991 · Jul 20260910 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 lots418 lots · ≈21,830 spaces · 65.5 ha
Within 500 m64 lots · ≈910 spaces
Green P (public)13 car parks · about 1,691 spaces
EV charging (City)8 Kings Lynn Rd · 322 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking36 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
11 Grenview Blvd N · Surface109 m8341% (Q1 2026)
7 Jackson Ave · Surface155 m4038% (Q1 2026)
9 Willingdon Blvd · Surface218 m11623% (Q1 2026)
12 Willingdon Blvd · Surface228 m6457% (Q1 2026)
342 Prince Edward Dr N · Surface246 m4340% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 100 m away, ≈4 spaces (Green P); 116 m away, ≈50 spaces (Green P); 120 m away, ≈9 spaces (Green P); 130 m away, ≈39 spaces (Green P); 131 m away, ≈15 spaces (Green P); 140 m away, ≈19 spaces (Green P).

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 — 14-hour, Oct 23, 2024

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 549 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 46% of the total, against 204 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 160 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:15 p.m., against 148 in the morning peak from 7:45 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 0.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 23 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north446southbound · 13 bikes · 0.2% heavy
From the west204eastbound · 7 bikes · 0.5% heavy
Total vehicles1,199652 pedestrians · 31 cyclists · 0.8% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south549northbound · 11 bikes · 1.5% heavy
AM peak hour148 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour160 vehicles from 5:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Oct 23, 2024

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 Grenview Blvd N between King Georges Rd and The Kingsway, 245 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2025 put the average speed at 34 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 42 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 45 km/h or more. That segment carries about 400 vehicles a day. Varley Lane between Willingdon Blvd and Royal York Rd measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 38 km/h (Mar 2007).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Grenview Blvd N · King Georges Rd – The Kingsway · 245 mMar 2025 · 3 days37534 km/h42 km/h45 km/h
Varley Lane · Willingdon Blvd – Royal York Rd · 249 mMar 2007 · 2 days78330 km/h38 km/h42 km/h

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

Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Grenview & Varley a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025 and police reported no collisions of any severity. 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 Grenview & Varley?

A lightly travelled intersection. It ranks #2317 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 7% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Grenview & Varley?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Grenview Blvd N between King Georges Rd and The Kingsway (March 2025), found an average of 34 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Grenview & Varley?

The nearest Green P car park is 11 Grenview Blvd N (109 m away, 83 spaces, 41% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 418 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,830 spaces — 64 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 8 Kings Lynn Rd (322 m).

How do I get to Grenview & Varley by transit?

Royal York Station (Line 2) is 124 m away; bus routes 149, 48, 73, 66, 15, 76 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Grenview & Varley?

23 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 40 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Cheesyplace (142 m), The Old Sod (145 m), Bramble (152 m), Dickson Barbeque Centre (153 m) and Caffe Demetres (160 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 Grenview & Varley?

The nearest is Memorial Pool and Health Club Washroom, 44 Montgomery Rd, 915 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Central Arena Washroom (932 m); Lambton - Kingsway Park Outdoor Pool Washroom (1.0 km). 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 Grenview & Varley?

Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 520 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Prince Edward Montessori School of Toronto (275 m, 32 spaces), Kingsway Nursery School (366 m, 31 spaces) and Treasured Moments - Bloor (730 m, 78 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Grenview & Varley?

Ten RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 208 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2846 Bloor St W (350 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 2844 Bloor St W (371 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 69 Old Mill Ter (778 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 2696 Bloor St W (795 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 10 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.

What neighbourhood is Grenview & Varley in?

Grenview & Varley is in Kingsway South (City of Toronto neighbourhood 015). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley.

Sources

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