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Howland & Langley

Howland Rd & Langley Ave · Toronto, Ontario · North Riverdale · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

Howland & Langley, in North Riverdale, was a lightly travelled intersection — that was the City's last count here, in 2004. Nearby are 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic
620
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 6, 2004
162 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
7
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
0
TTC stops within 100 m
9 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
32/100
city median 48
2 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 563 m

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Howland & Langley

Traffic and safety

The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets

Traffic volume8-hour count · Oct 6, 2004

The east leg carries the load — 465 westbound vehicles, or 75% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 155. Morning rush is the busier period: 128 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:15 a.m., compared with 94 from 4:30 p.m. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 22 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2004, 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 north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles620162 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 0.0% heavy
From the east465westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south155northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy

Peak hours: 128 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 94 from 4:30 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).

Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m

2016 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 57% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 8, 2026.

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions7
With an injury0
Property damage only3
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Severity not classified4
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.

How fast traffic moves here

The City's counter on Langley Ave between Broadview Ave and Howland Rd (226 m away) recorded an average of 30 km/h in its 3-day count in March 2014; 85% of drivers were at or under 38 km/h. That segment carries about 900 vehicles a day. The reading is 12 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on 722 Gerrard St East (269 m away, 40 km/h limit), 2.7% of the 25,028 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Langley Ave · Broadview Ave – Howland Rd · 226 mMar 2014 · 3 days90730 km/h38 km/h43 km/h
Speed sign
722 Gerrard St East (westbound), 269 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 33 km/h, 85th percentile 42 km/h; 2.7% at 50 km/h or more. 25,028 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; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

Streetcar
506 504 505 nearest 388 m · 5 min
TTC bus
72 121 nearest 366 m · 4 min
Blue Night
306 304 305 325
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Logan Ave / Gerrard St E 406 m · 5 min · 23 docks · 9 stations, 176 docks within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Parking within 2 km

Green P
18 car parks · about 772 spaces
EV charging
963 Gerrard St E · 898 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 220 Carlaw Ave. (1.3 km), 14 Arundel Ave. (1.3 km)
Bike parking
15 post-and-rings within 300 m
Other lots
7 mapped lots within 500 m, 514 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
653 Gerrard St E · Surface560 m3072% (Q1 2026)
573 Gerrard St E · Surface784 m3675% (Q1 2026)
25 Ferrier Ave · Surface1.3 km4682% (Q1 2026)
18 Ferrier Ave · Surface1.3 km2358% (Q1 2026)
14 Arundel Ave · Surface1.3 km3763% (Q1 2026)

Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.

Within a walk

What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.

Food, shops and services

The nearest grocery store is Yao Hua Supermarket, 563 m away; 2 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. There are 2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 62 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Batifole, 254 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Pacific Pharmacy Toronto, 356 m away; 3 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, 866 m away. Woodgreen Community Centre - Jack McCreadie runs a seniors' active living programme 640 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Batifole · 744 Gerrard St E254 m · 3 min
  • Bep Viet · 738 Gerrard St E259 m · 3 min
  • The Riverdale Perk · 633 Logan Ave383 m · 5 min
  • El Hijo de Tizoc · 797 Gerrard St E408 m · 5 min
  • Hailed Coffee · 801 Gerrard St E413 m · 5 min
2 within 300 m · 62 within 1 km
Grocery
Yao Hua Supermarket 563 m · 7 min · 2 within 1 km
Food shops
Gerrard St Bakery 588 m · 7 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Pharmacy
Pacific Pharmacy Toronto 356 m · 4 min · 3 within 1 km
Child care
  • Two Short Storeys · 88 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool553 m · 7 min
  • Matthew-John Early Learning Centre · 73 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day597 m · 7 min
  • Riverdale Mighty Kids Corp · 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day619 m · 7 min
8 licensed centres · 640 spaces within 1 km · 3 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Withrow Park South Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.650 m · 8 min
  • Riverdale Park East Fieldhouse Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible657 m · 8 min
Drinking water: Riverdale Park East 474 m · 6 min
Health and care
  • Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital · hospital site866 m · 10 min
  • Woodgreen Community Centre - Jack McCreadie · seniors' active living centre640 m · 8 min

Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.

Parks, schools and places

Parks (26)
  • Erica Stark Parkette612 m · 7 min
  • Eastdale Playground751 m · 9 min
  • Caroline Huebner Parkette769 m · 9 min
  • Hubbard Park782 m · 9 min
  • Dundas Parkette808 m · 10 min
and 21 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (16)
  • Eastdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 466 m · 6 min
  • Pape Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 558 m · 7 min
  • Withrow Ave Jr & Quest Alternative SrEnglish Public · 840 m · 10 min
  • Blake St Jr & East AlternativeEnglish Public · 924 m · 11 min
  • Dundas Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km · 11 min
and 11 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Riverdale branch709 m · 8 min
  • Toronto Public Library Queen/Saulter branch1.3 km · 15 min
Places of interest
  • Riverdale Park (East and West)Nature/ Park · 797 m · 9 min
  • Riverdale FarmAttraction · 1.2 km · 14 min

Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.

Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.

32of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food13/30

    2 grocery stores within 1 km · 2 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit6/28

    9 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go6/14

    library 709 m away · 2 places of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation3/10

    nearest park 0.6 km · nearest centre 0.9 km

  • Schools and child care4/8

    1 school within 500 m · 8 licensed child cares within 1 km

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.

Apartment buildings nearby

RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score

Five registered apartment buildings with 504 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 15. The nearest is 793 Gerrard St E (401 m, 28 units, 5 storeys, built 1950), which scored 83 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
793 Gerrard St E social housing · North44 Property Management Inc285195083 · Nov 2025401 m · 5 min
425 Broadview Ave113192082 · Jul 2026564 m · 7 min
444 Logan Ave social housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc15922196786 · Jun 2024641 m · 8 min
369 Pape Ave Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1398198193 · Aug 2026655 m · 8 min
10 Boultbee Ave Toronto Community Housing · TCH16711200192 · Jul 2026941 m · 11 min

5 registered buildings · 504 units · 4 social housing · tallest 22 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Toronto Police place nine thefts from vehicles and seven bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.7× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 2 in 2023–2025, about 0.7 a year, against 2.0 a year before that. 78% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 71% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages. Since January 2026, 3 more have been reported, the latest on May 6, 2026.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle903street/outdoor (7), house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft720house driveway/garage (5), other (2)

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 North Riverdale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Howland & Langley a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 7 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 Howland & Langley?

A lightly travelled intersection at the City's last count here, in 2004. Its latest count is from Oct 6, 2004, 7% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Howland & Langley a walkable intersection?

Howland & Langley scores 32 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 1 school within 500 m · 8 licensed child cares within 1 km; 2 grocery stores within 1 km · 2 places to eat within 300 m; library 709 m away · 2 places of interest within 1.5 km.

How fast do cars go at Howland & Langley?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Langley Ave between Broadview Ave and Howland Rd (March 2014), found an average of 30 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 38 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 269 m away (40 km/h), 2.7% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Howland & Langley?

The nearest Green P car park is 653 Gerrard St E (560 m away, 30 spaces, 72% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 514 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 14,570 spaces — 7 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 963 Gerrard St E (898 m).

How do I get to Howland & Langley by transit?

Streetcar routes 506, 504, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 388 m away; bus routes 72, 121 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Howland & Langley?

2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 62 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Batifole (254 m), Bep Viet (259 m), The Riverdale Perk (383 m), El Hijo de Tizoc (408 m) and Hailed Coffee (413 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Howland & Langley?

The nearest is Withrow Park South Washroom, 725 Logan Ave, 650 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Riverdale Park East Fieldhouse Washroom (657 m); Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (822 m).

Is there child care near Howland & Langley?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 640 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Two Short Storeys (553 m, 88 spaces), Matthew-John Early Learning Centre (597 m, 73 spaces) and Riverdale Mighty Kids Corp (619 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Howland & Langley?

Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 504 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 793 Gerrard St E (401 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 83), 425 Broadview Ave (564 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 82), 444 Logan Ave (641 m, 159 units, RentSafeTO score 86) and 369 Pape Ave (655 m, 139 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 is 87 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Howland & Langley?

Toronto Police place nine thefts from vehicles and seven bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 3 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the North Riverdale page.

What neighbourhood is Howland & Langley in?

Howland & Langley is in North Riverdale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 068). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined