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Hillside & Central

Hillside Ave & Central St · Toronto, Ontario · Mimico-Queensway · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore

Hillside & Central is a low-volume local intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence. It sits in Mimico-Queensway. It has a school within 250 m and parks at the corner. Nearby: Mimico GO 725 m away and 4 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
1,105
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 25, 2015
727 pedestrians · 31 cyclists
Collisions
3
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 2 property damage · #5277 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
1 streetcar route · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 140 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 12% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 1.5 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 2.8% of vehicle volume, about 3.6× the typical share. That comes with about 0.3 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Hillside & Central

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
Mimico GO — Lakeshore West725 m
Streetcar
507 nearest 263 m
TTC bus
7680 nearest 221 m
Blue Night
301
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Royal York Rd / Mimico Ave 301 m · 20 docks · 6 stations, 133 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 (13)
  • John English Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 153 m
  • Phoenix Montessori SchoolPrivate · 252 m
  • Mimico Adult CentreEnglish Public · 374 m
  • St Leo Catholic Elementary School (Future Address For Main Entrance)English Separate · 392 m
  • St Leo Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 461 m
  • Second Street Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 948 m
  • and 7 more
Community centres
Parks (23)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Mimico Centennial branch459 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores, and 40 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Ali's Wraps, 181 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés3 within 300 m · 40 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 10 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Fiyu Food Truck · 44 St George Stgrocery181 mPassed, Feb 2025
Ali's Wraps · 44 St George St181 mPassed, May 2026
Mimico Convenience Plus · 176 Royal York Rdgrocery256 mPassed, Sep 2025
Tc Tibetan Momo · 182a Royal York Rd Bldg-A270 mPassed, Apr 2026
Il Padre's Yummy Pizza · 196 Royal York Rd292 mPassed, Sep 2025
The Rec Room · 255 Royal York Rd354 mPassed, Apr 2026
7-Eleven · 2480 Lake Shore Blvd Wgrocery369 mPassed, Jun 2026
Mangoes Restaurant · 2491 Lake Shore Blvd W401 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 Amos Waites Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 505 m away, View outdoor pool hours.

  • Amos Waites Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 2441 Lake Shore Blvd W
    View outdoor pool hours
    505 m
  • Amos Waites Park Washroom · 2441 Lake Shore Blvd W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    515 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

Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 821 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is John English YMCA (153 m, 71 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km9 centres · 821 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 9
  • John English YMCA · 95 Mimico Ave
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    153 m
  • Phoenix Montessori School Inc. · 2 Station Rd
    125 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten
    252 m
  • Rec Room Child Care @mimico · 46 Mimico Ave
    36 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    349 m
  • The Rec Room Before & After School Program · 255 Royal York Rd
    180 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · $10-a-day
    374 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 435 (1.5 km), the nearest police station 22 Division (4.6 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.3 km away.

FireFire Station 435 · 1.5 km130 Eighth St
Police22 Division · 4.6 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 38 · 2.3 km259 Horner 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

55 registered apartment buildings with 2,727 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 2.4× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 2532 Lake Shore Blvd W (238 m, 46 units, 4 storeys, built 1955), which scored 96 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 65 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 19 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings55 · 2,727 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202665 across the 55
Open fire-code violations19
Tallest16 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2532 Lake Shore Blvd W · Signet Group Inc.464195596 · Sep 20250238 m
2521 Lake Shore Blvd W · CAPREIT Limited Partnership373195297 · Sep 20252282 m
2519 Lake Shore Blvd W · Aiderbrook Management Inc.444197088 · Sep 20252285 m
2517 Lake Shore Blvd W · Travi Inc424195592 · Sep 20250296 m
2543 Lake Shore Blvd W · CAPREIT Limited Partenership553195286 · Aug 20260322 m
2515 Lake Shore Blvd W · King George Apts.304195095 · Sep 20250322 m
2513 Lake Shore Blvd W113195089 · Sep 20250324 m
2545 Lake Shore Blvd W · Berkley Porperty Management Inc.264195293 · Aug 20250326 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 lots595 lots · ≈36,550 spaces · 109.6 ha
Within 500 m73 lots · ≈2,570 spaces
Green P (public)16 car parks · about 828 spaces
EV charging (City)2390 Lake Shore Blvd W · 641 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking5 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 8 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
16 Superior Ave · Surface483 m2343% (Q1 2026)
2300 LAKE SHORE BLVD W · Surface1 km2428% (Q1 2026)
2225 Lake shore Blvd West (Parks) · Surface1.1 km10 *
66 Third St · Surface1.2 km2434% (Q1 2026)
105 Fourth Street · Surface1.3 km22 *

Nearest lots: 44 m away, ≈23 spaces; 44 m away, ≈5 spaces; 69 m away, ≈9 spaces; 78 m away, ≈7 spaces; 95 m away, ≈10 spaces; 147 m away, ≈94 spaces. More EV charging: 2300 Lakeshore Blvd W. (1 km, 7 ports); 625 The Queensway (1.9 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, Jun 25, 2015

The west leg carries the load — 509 eastbound vehicles, or 46% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 9. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 223 vehicles in the hour from 4:15 p.m., 27% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (176). Heavy vehicles made up 2.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 11 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2015, 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 north9southbound · 0 bikes · 22.2% heavy
From the west509eastbound · 15 bikes · 1.8% heavy
Total vehicles1,105727 pedestrians · 31 cyclists · 2.0% heavy
From the east432westbound · 14 bikes · 1.4% heavy
From the south155northbound · 2 bikes · 3.2% heavy
AM peak hour176 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour223 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jun 25, 2015

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 Hillside Ave between Wheatfield Rd and Central St (48 m away) recorded an average of 30 km/h in its 3-day count in November 2021; 85% of drivers were at or under 35 km/h. That segment carries about 1,800 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Mimico Ave (381 m away, 30 km/h limit), 1.2% of the 126,081 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Hillside Ave · Wheatfield Rd – Central St · 48 mNov 2021 · 3 days1,83130 km/h35 km/h39 km/h

School-zone speed sign 381 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct24 · 32 km/h
Over the limit6.3%
40 km/h or more1.2%

Mimico Ave (westbound), 30 Mimico Avenue · 126,081 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

2017 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 33% of collisions here involved an injury. People walking or cycling were involved in 33% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Nov 17, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions3#5277 of 5,508
With an injury1#4306 of 4,660
Property damage only2
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian1#2548 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
All since 20143latest Nov 17, 2024

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 one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 4, 2019. 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 Mimico-Queensway.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Hillside & Central a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 3 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 Hillside & Central?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Jun 25, 2015, 12% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Hillside & Central?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Hillside Ave between Wheatfield Rd and Central St (November 2021), found an average of 30 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 35 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 381 m away (30 km/h), 1.2% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Hillside & Central?

The nearest Green P car park is 16 Superior Ave (483 m away, 23 spaces, 43% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 595 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 36,550 spaces — 73 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2390 Lake Shore Blvd W (641 m).

How do I get to Hillside & Central by transit?

Mimico GO is 725 m away; streetcar route 507 stop within 1 km, the nearest 263 m away; bus routes 76, 80 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Hillside & Central?

3 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 Ali's Wraps (181 m), Tc Tibetan Momo (270 m), Il Padre's Yummy Pizza (292 m), The Rec Room (354 m) and Mangoes Restaurant (401 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 Hillside & Central?

The nearest is Amos Waites Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 2441 Lake Shore Blvd W, 505 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: Amos Waites Park Washroom (515 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 Hillside & Central?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 821 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are John English YMCA (153 m, 71 spaces), Phoenix Montessori School Inc. (252 m, 125 spaces) and Rec Room Child Care @mimico (349 m, 36 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Hillside & Central?

55 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,727 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2532 Lake Shore Blvd W (238 m, 46 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 2521 Lake Shore Blvd W (282 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 2519 Lake Shore Blvd W (285 m, 44 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 2517 Lake Shore Blvd W (296 m, 42 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 55 is 90 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 Hillside & Central?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no 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 Mimico-Queensway page.

What neighbourhood is Hillside & Central in?

Hillside & Central is in Mimico-Queensway (City of Toronto neighbourhood 160). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley.

Sources

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