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Hillside & Queens

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

Hillside & Queens is a lightly travelled intersection. It sits in Mimico-Queensway. It has a park at the corner. Nearby: Mimico GO 796 m away and 4 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
977
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 1, 2021
252 pedestrians · 17 cyclists
Collisions
13
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
3 with an injury · 9 property damage · #3968 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
2
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

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 120 vehicles an hour, 11% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 4 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Police have logged an average of 1.3 collisions a year here over 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 & Queens

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 West796 m
Streetcar
507 nearest 66 m
TTC bus
7680 nearest 98 m
Blue Night
301
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Lake Shore Blvd West at Hillside Ave; Lake Shore Blvd West at Norris Cres
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Amos Waites Park 338 m · 27 docks · 7 stations, 148 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 (12)
  • John English Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 287 m
  • Phoenix Montessori SchoolPrivate · 295 m
  • Mimico Adult CentreEnglish Public · 502 m
  • St Leo Catholic Elementary School (Future Address For Main Entrance)English Separate · 512 m
  • St Leo Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 548 m
  • David Hornell Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 917 m
  • and 6 more
Community centres
Parks (21)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Mimico Centennial branch461 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 40 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Mangoes Restaurant, 228 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés7 within 300 m · 40 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 10 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
7-Eleven · 2480 Lake Shore Blvd Wgrocery221 mPassed, Jun 2026
Mangoes Restaurant · 2491 Lake Shore Blvd W228 mPassed, Jun 2026
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts · 2458 Lake Shore Blvd W264 mPassed, Feb 2026
Canadiana Grill By the Lake · 2454 Lake Shore Blvd W Bldg--280 mPassed, Mar 2026
Gud Daae · 2461 Lake Shore Blvd W280 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 3 infractions
Maurya East Indian Roti Cuisine · 2481 Lake Shore Blvd W280 mPassed, Feb 2026
Mooring Eats · 2481a Lake Shore Blvd W Bldg-A280 mPassed, Apr 2026
Valanimman Thai Cuisine · 2451 Lake Shore Blvd W280 mPassed, Feb 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, 318 m away, View outdoor pool hours.

  • Amos Waites Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 2441 Lake Shore Blvd W
    View outdoor pool hours
    318 m
  • Amos Waites Park Washroom · 2441 Lake Shore Blvd W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    327 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 752 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Rec Room Child Care @mimico (267 m, 36 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km9 centres · 752 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 9
  • Rec Room Child Care @mimico · 46 Mimico Ave
    36 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    267 m
  • John English YMCA · 95 Mimico Ave
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    287 m
  • Phoenix Montessori School Inc. · 2 Station Rd
    125 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten
    295 m
  • Martin Luther Child Care - Superior · 5 Superior Ave
    26 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    493 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 435 (1.7 km), the nearest police station 22 Division (4.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.5 km away.

FireFire Station 435 · 1.7 km130 Eighth St
Police22 Division · 4.7 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 38 · 2.5 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 2,796 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 (54 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 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 71 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 19 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings55 · 2,796 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202671 across the 55
Open fire-code violations19
Tallest16 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2532 Lake Shore Blvd W · Signet Group Inc.464195596 · Sep 2025054 m
2517 Lake Shore Blvd W · Travi Inc424195592 · Sep 20250101 m
2519 Lake Shore Blvd W · Aiderbrook Management Inc.444197088 · Sep 20252112 m
2515 Lake Shore Blvd W · King George Apts.304195095 · Sep 20250125 m
2513 Lake Shore Blvd W113195089 · Sep 20250129 m
2507 Lake Shore Blvd W213195579 · Aug 20260143 m
2521 Lake Shore Blvd W · CAPREIT Limited Partnership373195297 · Sep 20252144 m
2523 Lake Shore Blvd W · CAPREIT Limited Partnership103191097 · Aug 20262179 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 lots551 lots · ≈32,700 spaces · 98.1 ha
Within 500 m72 lots · ≈2,320 spaces
Green P (public)16 car parks · about 828 spaces
EV charging (City)2390 Lake Shore Blvd W · 500 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking15 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 16 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
16 Superior Ave · Surface353 m2343% (Q1 2026)
2300 LAKE SHORE BLVD W · Surface875 m2428% (Q1 2026)
2225 Lake shore Blvd West (Parks) · Surface919 m10 *
2225 Lake shore Blvd West (Parks) · Surface1.1 km22 *
2225 Lake shore Blvd West (Parks) · Surface1.3 km28 *

Nearest lots: 22 m away, ≈21 spaces; 64 m away, ≈9 spaces; 127 m away, ≈7 spaces; 129 m away, ≈24 spaces; 134 m away, ≈10 spaces; 135 m away, ≈9 spaces. More EV charging: 2300 Lakeshore Blvd W. (884 m, 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, Dec 1, 2021

The west leg carries the load — 598 eastbound vehicles, or 61% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 59. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 172 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 31% above the morning peak from 7:45 a.m. (131). Heavy vehicles made up 2.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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 north73southbound · 8 bikes · 4.1% heavy
From the west598eastbound · 0 bikes · 2.3% heavy
Total vehicles977252 pedestrians · 17 cyclists · 2.8% heavy
From the east247westbound · 5 bikes · 2.8% heavy
From the south59northbound · 4 bikes · 5.1% heavy
AM peak hour131 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour172 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 1, 2021

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 Queens Ave between Hillside Ave and Allen Ave (84 m away) recorded an average of 30 km/h in its 3-day count in November 2021; 85% of drivers were at or under 39 km/h. That segment carries about 500 vehicles a day. Hillside Ave between Lake Shore Blvd W and Queens Ave measured slower: 26 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 34 km/h (Nov 2021). 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 (265 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 · Lake Shore Blvd W – Queens Ave · 37 mNov 2021 · 3 days1,37326 km/h34 km/h39 km/h
Queens Ave · Hillside Ave – Allen Ave · 84 mNov 2021 · 3 days45430 km/h39 km/h43 km/h

School-zone speed sign 265 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

2019 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 23% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 15% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Apr 4, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions13#3968 of 5,508
With an injury3#3307 of 4,660
Property damage only9
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 201416latest Apr 4, 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

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Hillside & Queens a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 13 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 & Queens?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Dec 1, 2021, 11% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Hillside & Queens?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Queens Ave between Hillside Ave and Allen Ave (November 2021), found an average of 30 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 39 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 265 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 & Queens?

The nearest Green P car park is 16 Superior Ave (353 m away, 23 spaces, 43% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 551 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 32,700 spaces — 72 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2390 Lake Shore Blvd W (500 m).

How do I get to Hillside & Queens by transit?

Mimico GO is 796 m away; streetcar route 507 stop within 1 km, the nearest 66 m away; bus routes 76, 80 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lake Shore Blvd West at Hillside Ave, 98 m).

What restaurants are near Hillside & Queens?

7 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 Mangoes Restaurant (228 m), Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (264 m), Canadiana Grill By the Lake (280 m), Gud Daae (280 m) and Maurya East Indian Roti Cuisine (280 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 & Queens?

The nearest is Amos Waites Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 2441 Lake Shore Blvd W, 318 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: Amos Waites Park Washroom (327 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 & Queens?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 752 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Rec Room Child Care @mimico (267 m, 36 spaces), John English YMCA (287 m, 71 spaces) and Phoenix Montessori School Inc. (295 m, 125 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Hillside & Queens?

55 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,796 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2532 Lake Shore Blvd W (54 m, 46 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 2517 Lake Shore Blvd W (101 m, 42 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 2519 Lake Shore Blvd W (112 m, 44 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 2515 Lake Shore Blvd W (125 m, 30 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 55 is 91 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 Hillside & Queens in?

Hillside & Queens 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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