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Irene & Roblocke

Irene Ave & Roblocke Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Dovercourt Village · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

At its last City count, in 2003, Irene & Roblocke, in Dovercourt Village, in central Toronto, was a quiet local crossing, with pedestrians outnumbering vehicles. At the corner: Ossington Station and parks. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
149
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 23, 2003
153 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
14
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
Ossington Station
subway station within 250 m
10 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
77/100
city median 48 · #466 of 5,672
46 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 98 m

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Irene & Roblocke

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 · Jun 23, 2003

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 106 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 71% of the total, against 43 from the north. Evening rush dominates here: 37 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:15 p.m., against 27 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 23 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2003, 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 north43southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west106eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles149153 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 0.0% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy

Peak hours: 27 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 37 from 4:15 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

The worst year was 2019, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 29% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from May 26, 2023.

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions14
With an injury0
Property damage only11
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Severity not classified3
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.

Getting there

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

Transit and cycling

Subway
Ossington Station (Line 2)184 m; Christie Station (Line 2)488 m · 6 min; Dufferin Station (Line 2)0.9 km · 11 min
TTC bus
63 161 94 126 26 nearest 190 m
Blue Night
300 363
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Bloor St W / Shaw St - SMART 137 m · 34 docks · 15 stations, 286 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
19 car parks · about 900 spaces
EV charging
705 Shaw St · 270 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 685 Dovercourt Rd (698 m), 273 Christie St (1.2 km)
Bike parking
81 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 33 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
33 mapped lots within 500 m, 458 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
745 Ossington Ave · Surface148 m4667% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface690 m3468% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface758 m3374% (Q1 2026)
675 Manning Ave · Surface792 m4981% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface865 m3763% (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

A grocery store is within 300 m of the corner — the nearest is Bloor Fresh Market, 98 m away. Two specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Cock-A-Doodle-Doo Bakeshop at 128 m. Toronto Public Health inspects 46 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 182 — 4.4× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Jolly Bar and Restaurant, 45 m away. Three pharmacies sit within 300 m of the corner; the nearest is Ossington Medical Pharmacy, 143 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: The O'neill Centre, a long-term care home 565 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Jolly Bar and Restaurant · 844 Bloor St W45 m
  • The Wine Thief · 840 Bloor St W60 m
  • Loft Kitchen · 850 Bloor St W68 m
  • Tall Boys Craft Beer House · 838 Bloor St W72 m
  • Shrinking Violet · 828 Bloor St W87 m
46 within 300 m · 182 within 1 km
Grocery
Bloor Fresh Market 98 m · 8 within 1 km
Food shops
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo Bakeshop 128 m · 2 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
Convenience
2 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
Pharmacy
Ossington Medical Pharmacy 143 m · 9 within 1 km
Child care
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day201 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 39 spaces, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day259 m · 3 min
  • Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre · 106 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day607 m · 7 min
8 licensed centres · 789 spaces within 1 km · 7 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed405 m · 5 min
  • Christie Pits Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs469 m · 6 min
Drinking water: Irene Avenue Parkette 56 m; Northumberland Playground 240 m
Health and care
  • The O'neill Centre · long-term care home565 m · 7 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 (21)
and 16 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (20)
  • St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 469 m · 6 min
  • Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 658 m · 8 min
  • Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 675 m · 8 min
  • West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 786 m · 9 min
  • Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 813 m · 10 min
and 15 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch943 m · 11 min
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch1 km · 11 min
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 1.3 km · 15 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.

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Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #466 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food28/30

    1 grocery store within 300 m · 46 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit26/28

    Ossington Station · 9 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go6/14

    library 943 m away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation10/10

    3 parks within 500 m · 2 community centres within 800 m

  • Schools and child care7/8

    1 school within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m

  • 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

Within a kilometre there are 17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,126 rental units — two social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 805 Bloor St W (282 m, 24 units, 4 storeys, built 1989), which scored 86 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 17 scored below 70; the average is 81, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
805 Bloor St W social housing · Neighbours Community Homes244198986 · Sep 2025282 m · 3 min
496 Montrose Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Management Inc243193085 · Jul 2025315 m · 4 min
177 Pendrith St Toronto Community Housing · TCH543196485 · Aug 2025341 m · 4 min
220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp164193079 · Jul 2025475 m · 6 min
723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate1641920100 · Jul 2026554 m · 7 min
767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc.193200894 · Jul 2025568 m · 7 min

17 registered buildings · 1,126 units · 2 social housing · tallest 20 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

23 thefts from vehicles and three bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 4.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 0 in 2023–2025, about 0.0 a year, against 3.7 a year before that. 74% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle2300street/outdoor (17), house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft300house driveway/garage (3)

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 Dovercourt Village.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Irene & Roblocke a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 14 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 Irene & Roblocke?

A quiet local crossing at the City's last count here, in 2003. Its latest count is from Jun 23, 2003, 2% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Irene & Roblocke a walkable intersection?

Irene & Roblocke scores 77 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #466 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; 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: 3 parks within 500 m · 2 community centres within 800 m; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 46 places to eat within 300 m; Ossington Station · 9 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km.

Where can I park near Irene & Roblocke?

The nearest Green P car park is 745 Ossington Ave (148 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 458 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,690 spaces — 33 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 705 Shaw St (270 m).

How do I get to Irene & Roblocke by transit?

Ossington Station (Line 2) is 184 m away; bus routes 63, 161, 94, 126, 26 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Irene & Roblocke?

46 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 182 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Jolly Bar and Restaurant (45 m), The Wine Thief (60 m), Loft Kitchen (68 m), Tall Boys Craft Beer House (72 m) and Shrinking Violet (87 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Irene & Roblocke?

The nearest is Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 485 Montrose Ave, 405 m away. Next nearest: Christie Pits Park Washroom (469 m); Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom (681 m).

Is there child care near Irene & Roblocke?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 789 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (201 m, 49 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (259 m, 39 spaces) and Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre (607 m, 106 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Irene & Roblocke?

17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,126 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 805 Bloor St W (282 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 496 Montrose Ave (315 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 177 Pendrith St (341 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 85) and 220 Delaware Ave (475 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79). The average RentSafeTO score across the 17 is 81 out of 100; 3 scored below 70.

How many thefts are reported at Irene & Roblocke?

Toronto Police place 23 thefts from vehicles and three bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Dovercourt Village page.

What neighbourhood is Irene & Roblocke in?

Irene & Roblocke is in Dovercourt Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 172). 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