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Islington & La Rose

Islington Ave & La Rose Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview · Ward 2, Etobicoke Centre

Islington & La Rose, in Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview, is a moderately heavy crossing. At the corner: a park. Nearby: 10 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
13,880
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 15, 2004
29 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
17
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
5 with an injury · 12 property damage · #3616 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
6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,740 vehicles, 1.50× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 479 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 1.7 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Islington & La Rose

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
37405325245145 nearest 175 m
Express
937
Blue Night
337334345
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
no station 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 (14)
  • Richview Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 329 m
  • Silver Creek PreschoolPrivate · 474 m
  • Father Serra Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 532 m
  • St George's Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Hilltop Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • All Saints Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.1 km
  • and 8 more
Parks (12)
  • Lion's Gate Park189 m
  • Silver Creek Park316 m
  • Eden Valley Park536 m
  • Green Meadows Park - Etobicoke York602 m
  • Westway Park700 m
  • Widdicombe Hill Park831 m
  • and 6 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Richview branch232 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 15 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Richview Collegiate Institute, 310 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 15 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 1 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Richview Collegiate Institute · 1738 Islington Ave Staff Room Main310 mPassed, Apr 2026
Richview Collegiate Institute - Student Nutrition Program - A.m. · 1738 Islington Ave310 mPassed, Apr 2026
Lumenus Community Services · 65 Hartsdale Dr Door 1 & 4475 mPassed, Apr 2026
Silver Creek Centre For Early Learning · 65 Hartsdale Dr Door 2475 mPassed, Apr 2026
Booster Juice · 265 Wincott Dr 2a479 mPassed, Mar 2026
Second Cup · 265 Wincott Dr479 mPassed, Apr 2026
Subway · 265 Wincott Dr479 mPassed, Nov 2025 · 1 infraction
Subway · 265 Wincott Dr 2b479 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction

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 Richmond Gardens Outdoor Pool Washroom, 457 m away, View outdoor pool hours.

  • Richmond Gardens Outdoor Pool Washroom · 44 Strathdee Dr
    View outdoor pool hours
    457 m
  • Westway Outdoor Rink Washroom · 175 The Westway
    View outdoor rink hours
    785 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

Five licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 233 spaces; two accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is The Castle Child Care Centre (154 m, 41 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km5 centres · 233 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 5
  • The Castle Child Care Centre · 4480 Eglinton Ave W
    41 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    154 m
  • Silver Creek Centre For Early Learning & Development · 65 Hartsdale Dr
    40 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    475 m
  • Plasp Father Serra Catholic School · 111 Sun Row Dr
    86 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    532 m
  • Itty Bitty Scholars Daycare Inc. · 4650 Eglinton Ave W
    36 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool
    719 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 443 (404 m), the nearest police station 22 Division (4.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.0 km away.

FireFire Station 443 · 404 m1724 Islington Ave
Police22 Division · 4.4 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 13 · 2 km555 Martin Grove Rd

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

Within a kilometre there are three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 272 rental units. The nearest is 51-67 Waterford Dr (42 m, 29 units, 8 storeys, built 1962), which scored 95 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 95, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 4 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings3 · 272 units
RentSafeTO score95 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20264 across the 3
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest11 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
51-67 Waterford Dr · Quadreal Residential Properties G.p. Inc.298196295 · Aug 2026042 m
25 Widdicombe Hill · Boulevard Management Ltd.12211196895 · Sep 20262737 m
35 Widdicombe Hill · Boulevard Management Ltd.12111196895 · Nov 20252930 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 lots139 lots · ≈18,400 spaces · 55.2 ha
Within 500 m11 lots · ≈810 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 71 m away, ≈7 spaces; 119 m away, ≈119 spaces; 164 m away, ≈53 spaces; 231 m away, ≈32 spaces; 284 m away, ≈141 spaces; 308 m away, ≈226 spaces.

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 15, 2004

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 6,881 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 50% of the total, against 573 from the east. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,246 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,330 from 4:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. 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 north6,426southbound · 0 bikes · 3.9% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles13,88029 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 3.8% heavy
From the east573westbound · 0 bikes · 1.9% heavy
From the south6,881northbound · 0 bikes · 3.7% heavy
AM peak hour2,246 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour2,330 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 15, 2004

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

On La Rose Ave between Russell Rd and Hamptonbrook Dr, 293 m from the corner, a 2-day count in April 2012 put the average speed at 51 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 60 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 67 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,700 vehicles a day. The reading is 14 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Islington Ave · Eglinton Ave W – La Rose Ave · 102 mOct 2014 · 7 days12,649
La Rose Ave · Russell Rd – Hamptonbrook Dr · 293 mApr 2012 · 2 days1,69051 km/h60 km/h67 km/h

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

The worst year was 2018, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 5 collisions (29%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 6% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Oct 29, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions17#3616 of 5,508
With an injury5#2695 of 4,660
Property damage only12
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
All since 201421latest Oct 29, 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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 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 Islington & La Rose a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 17 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 Islington & La Rose?

A moderately heavy crossing. Its latest count is from Dec 15, 2004, 1.50× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Islington & La Rose?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on La Rose Ave between Russell Rd and Hamptonbrook Dr (April 2012), found an average of 51 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 60 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Islington & La Rose?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 139 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 18,400 spaces — 11 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Islington & La Rose by transit?

Bus routes 37, 405, 32, 52, 45, 145, 937 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Islington & La Rose?

None within 300 m, and 15 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Richview Collegiate Institute (310 m), Richview Collegiate Institute - Student Nutrition Program - A.m. (310 m), Lumenus Community Services (475 m), Silver Creek Centre For Early Learning (475 m) and Booster Juice (479 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 Islington & La Rose?

The nearest is Richmond Gardens Outdoor Pool Washroom, 44 Strathdee Dr, 457 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: Westway Outdoor Rink Washroom (785 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 Islington & La Rose?

Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 233 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Castle Child Care Centre (154 m, 41 spaces), Silver Creek Centre For Early Learning & Development (475 m, 40 spaces) and Plasp Father Serra Catholic School (532 m, 86 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Islington & La Rose?

Three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 272 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 51-67 Waterford Dr (42 m, 29 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 25 Widdicombe Hill (737 m, 122 units, RentSafeTO score 95) and 35 Widdicombe Hill (930 m, 121 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 3 is 95 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 Islington & La Rose in?

Islington & La Rose is in Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview (City of Toronto neighbourhood 007). It is in Ward 2, Etobicoke Centre, represented by Councillor Stephen Holyday.

Sources

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