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Harbord & St George

Harbord St & St George St · Toronto, Ontario · University · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

Harbord & St George is a moderately travelled crossing, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It sits in University, in the downtown core. It has a protected bikeway, 3 schools within 250 m and an accessible pedestrian signal at the corner. Nearby: St George Station (Line 1, Line 2) 471 m away.

Traffic volume
11,238
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jun 25, 2025
9,934 pedestrians · 3,154 cyclists · #1616 busiest
Collisions
77
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
13 with an injury · 53 property damage · #1423 of 5,508 · +3 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
St George Station 471 m · 3 streetcar routes · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track, Bike Lane
Bike Share: 54 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 800 vehicles, 69% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 1.1 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 28.1% of vehicle volume, about 36× the typical share. That comes with about 7.7 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 6.9 per 10,000 counted vehicles, 1.38× the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions fell 36%, from 47 in 2016–2020 to 30 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Harbord & St George

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
St George Station (Line 1, Line 2)471 m; Museum Station (Line 1)484 m; Spadina Station (Line 1, Line 2)560 m; Queen's Park Station (Line 1)739 m; Bay Station (Line 2)833 m; Bathurst Station (Line 2)1 km
Streetcar
506510511 nearest 305 m
TTC bus
94132612719 nearest 23 m
Blue Night
306310300307
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m — Hoskin Ave at St George St; Harbord St at St George St
Cycling
Cycle Track on Harbord St installed 2001; Bike Lane on St George St installed 2001; Cycle Track on Hoskin Ave installed 2001
Bike Share
St. George St / Hoskin Ave 51 m · 15 docks · 48 stations, 908 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 (50)
  • Rotman School of Management - U of T, Bldg 134University · 120 m
  • Munk School of Global Affairs at Trinity - U of T, Bldg 12aUniversity · 177 m
  • Munk School of Global Affairs Graham Library - U of T, Bldg 12cUniversity · 180 m
  • School of Graduate Studies - U of T, Bldg 43University · 252 m
  • School of Continuing Studies - U of T, Bldg 103University · 315 m
  • Munk School of Global Affairs at the Observatory - U of T, Bldg 89University · 371 m
  • and 44 more
Parks (53)
  • Huron - Washington Parkette341 m
  • Bloor - Bedford Parkette443 m
  • Matt Cohen Park460 m
  • Queen's Park493 m
  • Paul Martel Park544 m
  • Huron Street Playground641 m
  • and 47 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch635 m
  • Toronto Public Library Lillian H. Smith branch682 m
  • Toronto Public Library Yorkville branch1.2 km
Places of interest
  • George Ignatieff TheatrePerforming Arts · 193 m
  • Art Museum at the University of TorontoGallery · 238 m
  • Hart House TheatrePerforming Arts · 330 m
  • Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 378 m
  • Bata Shoe MuseumMuseum · 381 m
  • Koerner Hall (at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning)Performing Arts · 449 m
  • Royal Conservatory of MusicPerforming Arts · 461 m
  • Royal Ontario MuseumMuseum · 497 m
Signal
0838, activated 1948 · FT · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 26 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 374 eating places within a kilometre — 5.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is The Red Truck, 14 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés26 within 300 m · 374 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 26 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
The Red Truck · 120 St George St14 mPassed, May 2026
John Robarts Research Library · 130 St George St75 mPassed, May 2026
Meal Queen · 130 St George St75 mPassed, Jan 2026
Starbucks Coffee · 130 St George St75 mPassed, Sep 2025
Pauls Coffee Ltd · 130 St George St75 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Dai, Chua-Kuan/Ching, Kim-Mau · 110 St George St None112 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 2 infractions
Furusato International · 110 St George St None112 mPassed, Jan 2026
Sprinter Cates · 110 St George St None112 mPassed, May 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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 490 m away at Queen's Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Queen's Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 490 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

21 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,790 spaces; 12 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Campus Community Co-Operative Day Care (191 m, 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km21 centres · 1,790 spaces
Fee subsidy12 of 21
  • Campus Community Co-Operative Day Care · 370 Huron St
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    191 m
  • University of Toronto Early Learning Centre - Glen Morris · 7 Glen Morris St
    96 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    215 m
  • Huron Playschool Co-Operative · 383 Huron St
    16 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    273 m
  • Kodomoen Childcare Centre · 630 Spadina Ave
    24 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    362 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 315 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 52 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.2 km away.

FireFire Station 315 · 1 km132 Bellevue Ave
Police52 Division · 1.3 km255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 34 · 1.2 km674 Markham St

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

70 registered apartment buildings with 7,146 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, eight of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 3.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 409 Huron St (338 m, 42 units, 4 storeys, built 1898), which scored 53 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 70 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 106 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 38 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings70 · 7,146 units · 8 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026106 across the 70
Open fire-code violations38
Tallest51 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
409 Huron St · Impressions Group424189853 · Sep 20253 · 14 fire338 m
666 Spadina Ave · Cromwell Management Inc.33424197194 · Aug 20244371 m
341 Bloor St WToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation32618198082 · Sep 20255374 m
710 Spadina Ave · Camden Property Management627195987 · Aug 20251419 m
334 Bloor St W243191999 · Aug 20260548 m
145 St George St · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.13012196096 · Aug 20265564 m
25 Madison AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation124198988 · Dec 20250581 m
149 St George St487196888 · Sep 20250592 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 lots1,048 lots · ≈25,210 spaces · 75.6 ha
Within 500 m59 lots · ≈1,960 spaces
Green P (public)31 car parks · about 5,094 spaces
EV charging (City)19 Spadina Rd · 614 m · 6 Level 2 ports
Bike parking159 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 40 bikes within 600 m · City Hall - Nathan Phillips Square bike station (1.7 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
465 Huron Street · Surface482 m15 *
9 Madison Ave. · Surface519 m38 *
9 Bedford Rd · Garage550 m37151% (Q1 2026)
4 Spadina Road · Surface550 m51 *
19 Spadina Road · Surface633 m65 *

Nearest lots: 47 m away, ≈4 spaces; 57 m away, ≈6 spaces; 83 m away, ≈22 spaces; 129 m away, ≈25 spaces; 175 m away, ≈7 spaces; 186 m away, ≈4 spaces. More EV charging: 365 Lippincott St. (914 m, 10 ports); 74 Yorkville Ave (1 km, 9 ports); 9 Wellesley St W. (1.1 km, 8 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 — 14-hour, Jun 25, 2025

The east leg carries the load — 4,458 westbound vehicles, or 40% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 1,134. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,132 vehicles in the hour from 5:30 p.m., 56% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (725). Heavy vehicles made up 4.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 15 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north2,665southbound · 1,220 bikes · 2.6% heavy
From the west1,134eastbound · 303 bikes · 7.2% heavy
Total vehicles11,2389,934 pedestrians · 3,154 cyclists · 4.1% heavy
From the east4,458westbound · 511 bikes · 4.2% heavy
From the south2,981northbound · 1,120 bikes · 4.2% heavy
AM peak hour725 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour1,132 vehicles from 5:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Jun 25, 2025

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 most recent midblock count on Hoskin Ave between Devonshire Pl and St George St (64 m away, Nov 2010) recorded volume only — about 15,163 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Hoskin Ave · Devonshire Pl – St George St · 64 mNov 2010 · 3 days15,163
St George St · Hoskin Ave – Sussex Ave · 76 mNov 2010 · 3 days9,526
Harbord St · St George St – Huron St · 78 mNov 2010 · 24 h14,133

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

2017 was the peak year (16 collisions), and 2025 closed with 5. 17% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 12 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 16% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 18% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 21, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 6.9 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions77#1423 of 5,508
With an injury13#1361 of 4,660
Property damage only53
Fail to remain12
Involving a pedestrian5#723 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist9#162 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified11
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
All since 201495latest May 21, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Nov 22, 2013.

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 four thefts from vehicles and 45 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 8.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 3 in 2023–2025, about 1.0 a year, against 6.6 a year before that. 84% of the bike thefts were from school or campus property.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle410street/outdoor (2), school/campus (1)
Bicycle theft4520school/campus (38), street/outdoor (6)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Nov 5, 2025. 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 University.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Harbord & St George a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 77 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 Harbord & St George?

A moderately travelled crossing. It ranks #1616 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 69% of the median for a counted intersection, and #212 for pedestrians.

Where can I park near Harbord & St George?

The nearest Green P car park is 465 Huron Street (482 m away, 15 spaces). The City's mapping shows 1,048 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 25,210 spaces — 59 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 19 Spadina Rd (614 m).

How do I get to Harbord & St George by transit?

St George Station (Line 1, Line 2) is 471 m away; streetcar routes 506, 510, 511 stop within 1 km, the nearest 305 m away; bus routes 94, 13, 26, 127, 19 within 1 km (nearest stop: Hoskin Ave at St George St, 23 m).

What restaurants are near Harbord & St George?

26 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 374 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The Red Truck (14 m), John Robarts Research Library (75 m), Meal Queen (75 m), Starbucks Coffee (75 m) and Pauls Coffee Ltd (75 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 Harbord & St George?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 490 m away at Queen's Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Harbord & St George?

21 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,790 spaces in total; 12 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Campus Community Co-Operative Day Care (191 m, 49 spaces), University of Toronto Early Learning Centre - Glen Morris (215 m, 96 spaces) and Huron Playschool Co-Operative (273 m, 16 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Harbord & St George?

70 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 7,146 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 409 Huron St (338 m, 42 units, RentSafeTO score 53), 666 Spadina Ave (371 m, 334 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 341 Bloor St W (374 m, 326 units, RentSafeTO score 82) and 710 Spadina Ave (419 m, 62 units, RentSafeTO score 87). The average RentSafeTO score across the 70 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 Harbord & St George?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and 45 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 University page.

What neighbourhood is Harbord & St George in?

Harbord & St George is in University (City of Toronto neighbourhood 079). 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