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Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton

Jimmy Wisdom Way & Eglinton Ave W · Toronto, Ontario · Oakwood Village · Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's · York-Eglinton BIA

Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton, in Oakwood Village, is a moderately travelled crossing, with heavy foot traffic. At the corner: Fairbank Station and a school within 250 m.

Traffic volume
13,249
vehicles · 14-hour count, Nov 5, 2024
4,399 pedestrians · 242 cyclists · #1458 busiest
Collisions
35
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
9 with an injury · 16 property damage · #2586 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
Fairbank Station
subway station within 250 m
6 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 950 vehicles an hour over its 14-hour span, 82% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 3 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. On average 3.5 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 2.6 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Collisions fell 16%, from 19 in 2016–2020 to 16 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Fairbank Station (Line 5)169 m; Oakwood Station (Line 5)358 m; Cedarvale Station (Line 1, Line 5)928 m
TTC bus
34296390164109 nearest 17 m
Express
929
Blue Night
334329363
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m — Eglinton Ave West at Jimmy Wisdom Way; Eglinton Ave West at Northcliffe Blvd
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Eglinton Ave W / Oakwood Ave 297 m · 15 docks · 10 stations, 182 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 (15)
  • St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 138 m
  • Fairbank Public SchoolEnglish Public · 270 m
  • Lycee Francais de TorontoPrivate · 332 m
  • D'arcy McGee Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 578 m
  • Fairbank Memorial Community SchoolEnglish Public · 830 m
  • St John Bosco Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 889 m
  • and 9 more
Community centres
Parks (21)
  • Senator Peter Bosa Parkette268 m
  • Walter Saunders Memorial Park378 m
  • Fairbank Memorial Park503 m
  • J.t. Watson Parkette633 m
  • Dufferin Hill Park791 m
  • Laughlin Park1 km
  • and 15 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Maria A. Shchuka branch25 m
  • Toronto Public Library Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre branch1.3 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 40 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 7 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 133. The nearest is High Life Restaurant, 29 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2025 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés40 within 300 m · 133 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience7 within 300 m · 29 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
High Life Restaurant · 1741 Eglinton Ave W29 mPassed, May 2025 · 2 infractions
Irieman Restaurant & Bar · 1735 Eglinton Ave W36 mPassed, Aug 2026
Ma Starbank · 1736 Eglinton Ave W40 mPassed, Apr 2025
Ma Starbank · 1736 Eglinton Ave W40 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 4 infractions
Sheryl's Authentic Caribbean Cuisine · 1720 Eglinton Ave W45 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Freta Food & Convenience Store · 1721 Eglinton Ave Wgrocery51 mPassed, Jun 2026
El Puerto Marisqueria · 1727 Eglinton Ave W55 mPassed, Apr 2026
Gursha · 1719 Eglinton Ave W62 mPassed, Sep 2025

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 Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom, 565 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 360 m away at Walter Saunders Memorial Park.

  • Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom · 2213 Dufferin St
    View centre hours
    565 m
Drinking water
Walter Saunders Memorial Park bottle filling station · 360 m; Walter Saunders Memorial Park bottle filling station · 398 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 545 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Macaulay - St. Thomas Aquinas Child Care Centre (138 m, 41 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km9 centres · 545 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 9
  • Macaulay - St. Thomas Aquinas Child Care Centre · 636 Glenholme Ave
    41 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    138 m
  • Lycee Francais de Toronto · 2327 Dufferin St
    22 spaces · preschool
    332 m
  • La Maison du Dodo · 582 Oakwood Ave
    25 spaces · toddler, preschool
    524 m
  • St. Bernadette's Family Resource Centre · 20 Bansley Ave
    56 spaces · toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    578 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 341 (538 m), the nearest police station 13 Division (884 m) and the nearest ambulance station 2.3 km away.

FireFire Station 341 · 538 m555 Oakwood Ave
Police13 Division · 884 m1435 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceEMS 19 Post · 2.3 km2660 Eglinton Ave W

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 52 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 3,548 rental units, 2.3× the median for a Toronto intersection — seven social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 659 Northcliffe Blvd (62 m, 54 units, 7 storeys, built 2003), which scored 98 out of 100 at its September 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 78 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 14 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings52 · 3,548 units · 7 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202678 across the 52
Open fire-code violations14
Tallest18 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
659 Northcliffe BlvdToronto Community Housing · TCH547200398 · Sep 2024262 m
1685 Eglinton Ave W383196076 · Oct 2025079 m
682 Northcliffe Blvd · Oz Property Management Ltd546196084 · Aug 2026093 m
1675 Eglinton Ave W · Shelborne Property Management Inc373196084 · Sep 20260102 m
1775 Eglinton Ave WToronto Community Housing · TCH30014198182 · Nov 20253131 m
787 Vaughan Rd384197794 · Aug 20260137 m
633 Northcliffe Blvd · Drake Property Management8611196880 · Oct 20254 · 9 fire141 m
795 Vaughan Rd1068196685 · Aug 20250142 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 lots610 lots · ≈34,430 spaces · 103.3 ha
Within 500 m58 lots · ≈1,740 spaces
Green P (public)10 car parks · about 410 spaces
EV charging (City)168 Chiltern Hill Rd · 1.6 km · 4 Level 2 ports
Bike parking34 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Shortt St · Surface362 m13827% (Q1 2026)
1531 Eglinton Ave W · Surface550 m2041% (Q1 2026)
2054 Dufferin St · Surface1.1 km4925% (Q1 2026)
2053 Dufferin Street · Surface1.1 km23 *
406 Oakwood Ave · Surface1.1 km1757% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 22 m away, ≈13 spaces; 42 m away, ≈31 spaces; 42 m away, ≈24 spaces; 63 m away, ≈12 spaces; 89 m away, ≈115 spaces; 89 m away, ≈22 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 — 14-hour, Nov 5, 2024

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 6,957 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 53% of the total, against 16 from the north. Most cyclists arrived from the west (127 of 242). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,091 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,113 from 4:30 p.m. Trucks and buses were 6.8% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 22 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north16southbound · 29 bikes · 12.5% heavy
From the west6,276eastbound · 127 bikes · 6.9% heavy
Total vehicles13,2494,399 pedestrians · 242 cyclists · 6.8% heavy
From the east6,957westbound · 84 bikes · 6.8% heavy
From the south0northbound · 2 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour1,091 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,113 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Nov 5, 2024

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 Jimmy Wisdom Way between Eglinton Ave W and Livingstone Ave, 44 m from the corner, a 3-day count in January 2023 put the average speed at 26 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 33 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 36 km/h or more. That segment carries about 2,600 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Glenholme Ave (179 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.2% of the 129,542 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Eglinton Ave W · Jimmy Wisdom Way – Northcliffe Blvd · 15 mMar 2013 · 3 days11,411
Jimmy Wisdom Way · Eglinton Ave W – Livingstone Ave · 44 mJan 2023 · 3 days2,63126 km/h33 km/h36 km/h

School-zone speed sign 179 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct16 · 28 km/h
Over the limit1.2%
40 km/h or more0.2%

Glenholme Ave (southbound), 636 Glenholme Avenue · 129,542 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

The worst year was 2016, with 6 collisions; 2025 recorded 4. 9 collisions (26%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 11 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 31% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (6%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 13, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 2.6 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions35#2586 of 5,508
With an injury9#1879 of 4,660
Property damage only16
Fail to remain11
Involving a pedestrian2#1717 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified10
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201443latest Jun 13, 2026

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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Jun 5, 2010.

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

Nine thefts from vehicles and three bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 2 in 2023–2025, about 0.7 a year, against 1.4 a year before that. 56% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle910street/outdoor (5), other (3)
Bicycle theft310other (2), street/outdoor (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 12, 2024. 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 Oakwood Village.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 35 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 Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton?

A moderately travelled crossing. It ranks #1458 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 82% of the median for a counted intersection, and #444 for pedestrians.

How fast do cars go at Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Jimmy Wisdom Way between Eglinton Ave W and Livingstone Ave (January 2023), found an average of 26 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 33 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 179 m away (30 km/h), 0.2% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Shortt St (362 m away, 138 spaces, 27% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 610 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 34,430 spaces — 58 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 168 Chiltern Hill Rd (1.6 km).

How do I get to Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton by transit?

Fairbank Station (Line 5) is 169 m away; bus routes 34, 29, 63, 90, 164, 109, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Eglinton Ave West at Jimmy Wisdom Way, 17 m).

What restaurants are near Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton?

40 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 133 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are High Life Restaurant (29 m), Irieman Restaurant & Bar (36 m), Ma Starbank (40 m), Ma Starbank (40 m) and Sheryl's Authentic Caribbean Cuisine (45 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 Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton?

The nearest is Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom, 2213 Dufferin St, 565 m away (View centre hours). 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 Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 545 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Macaulay - St. Thomas Aquinas Child Care Centre (138 m, 41 spaces), Lycee Francais de Toronto (332 m, 22 spaces) and La Maison du Dodo (524 m, 25 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton?

52 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,548 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 659 Northcliffe Blvd (62 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 1685 Eglinton Ave W (79 m, 38 units, RentSafeTO score 76), 682 Northcliffe Blvd (93 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 84) and 1675 Eglinton Ave W (102 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 84). The average RentSafeTO score across the 52 is 88 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 Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton?

Toronto Police place nine thefts from vehicles and three 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 Oakwood Village page.

What neighbourhood is Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton in?

Jimmy Wisdom & Eglinton is in Oakwood Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 107). It is in Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's, represented by Councillor Josh Matlow. The corner falls inside the York-Eglinton Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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