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Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone

Jimmy Wisdom Way & Livingstone Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Briar Hill-Belgravia · Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence

Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone sits in Briar Hill-Belgravia. At the City's last count here, in 2005, it was a quiet local crossing, with heavy foot traffic. Nearby is Fairbank Station (Line 5) 270 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
1,583
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 26, 2005
534 pedestrians · 12 cyclists
Collisions
6
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
1
TTC stop within 100 m
Fairbank Station 270 m · 12 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
62/100
city median 48 · #1,475 of 5,672
25 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 427 m

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Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone

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 26, 2005

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 1,226 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 77% of the total, against 357 from the west. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 275 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m., 26% above the afternoon peak from 4:00 p.m. (219). Heavy vehicles made up 0.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 21 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2005, 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 · 3 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west357eastbound · 3 bikes · 1.4% heavy
Total vehicles1,583534 pedestrians · 12 cyclists · 0.6% heavy
From the east0westbound · 1 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south1,226northbound · 5 bikes · 0.4% heavy

Peak hours: 275 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m. and 219 from 4:00 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 2 collisions. 2 collisions (33%) involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (33%). The most recent report on file is from Jul 9, 2025.

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

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions6
With an injury2
Property damage only3
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian2
Involving a cyclist0
Severity not classified1
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

On Livingstone Ave between Times Rd and Jimmy Wisdom Way, 124 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2024 put the average speed at 33 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 42 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 46 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,800 vehicles a day. Jimmy Wisdom Way between Livingstone Ave and Belgravia Ave measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 35 km/h (Jan 2023). At the school-zone speed sign on Glenholme Ave (229 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.2% of the 125,561 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Jimmy Wisdom Way · Livingstone Ave – Belgravia Ave · 43 mJan 2023 · 3 days1,78230 km/h35 km/h39 km/h
Livingstone Ave · Times Rd – Jimmy Wisdom Way · 124 mMay 2024 · 3 days1,81633 km/h42 km/h46 km/h
Speed sign
Glenholme Ave (southbound), 229 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 17 km/h, 85th percentile 28 km/h; 0.2% at 40 km/h or more. 125,561 vehicles logged in August 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

Subway
Fairbank Station (Line 5)270 m · 3 min; Oakwood Station (Line 5)410 m · 5 min
TTC bus
34 29 63 90 164 109 nearest 99 m
Express
929
Blue Night
334 329 363
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Eglinton Ave West at Jimmy Wisdom Way
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Walter Saunders Park 343 m · 4 min · 14 docks · 9 stations, 166 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
9 car parks · about 396 spaces
EV charging
168 Chiltern Hill Rd · 1.8 km · 4 Level 2 ports
Bike parking
27 post-and-rings within 300 m
Other lots
41 mapped lots within 500 m, 465 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Shortt St · Surface506 m13827% (Q1 2026)
1531 Eglinton Ave W · Surface650 m2041% (Q1 2026)
2054 Dufferin St · Surface1.4 km4925% (Q1 2026)
2053 Dufferin Street · Surface1.4 km23 *—
406 Oakwood Ave · Surface1.4 km1757% (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

No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Family Supermarket and Meat Store, 427 m away. A specialist food shop is closer still: Frida's Mexi-Cakes, 165 m away. Toronto Public Health inspects 25 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 104 — 2.5× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Ma Starbank, 77 m away. Three pharmacies sit within 300 m of the corner; the nearest is Northcliffe Pharmacy, 143 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. La Centre For Active Seniors - Doug Saunders Apartments runs a seniors' active living programme 233 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Ma Starbank · 1736 Eglinton Ave W77 m
  • High Life Restaurant · 1741 Eglinton Ave W113 m
  • Sheryl's Authentic Caribbean Cuisine · 1720 Eglinton Ave W114 m
  • Irieman Restaurant & Bar · 1735 Eglinton Ave W120 m
  • Rincon de La Boca · 1710 Eglinton Ave W125 m
25 within 300 m · 104 within 1 km
Grocery
Family Supermarket and Meat Store 427 m · 5 min · 5 within 1 km
Food shops
Frida's Mexi-Cakes 165 m · butcher, bakery or food shop
Convenience
2 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
Pharmacy
Northcliffe Pharmacy 143 m · 9 within 1 km
Child care
  • Macaulay - St. Thomas Aquinas Child Care Centre · 41 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day278 m · 3 min
  • Lycee Francais de Toronto · 22 spaces, preschool626 m · 7 min
  • La Maison du Dodo · 25 spaces, toddler, preschool793 m · 9 min
6 licensed centres · 248 spaces within 1 km · 2 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed863 m · 10 min
Drinking water: Walter Saunders Memorial Park 297 m · 4 min (off)
Health and care
  • La Centre For Active Seniors - Doug Saunders Apartments · seniors' active living centre233 m

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 (10)
  • Walter Saunders Memorial Park359 m · 4 min
  • Senator Peter Bosa Parkette450 m · 5 min
  • Fairbank Memorial Park675 m · 8 min
  • J.t. Watson Parkette903 m · 11 min
  • Dufferin Hill Park934 m · 11 min
and 5 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (8)
  • St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 278 m · 3 min
  • Fairbank Public SchoolEnglish Public · 532 m · 6 min
  • Lycee Francais de TorontoPrivate · 626 m · 7 min
  • D'arcy McGee Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 875 m · 10 min
  • Fairbank Memorial Community SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
and 3 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Maria A. Shchuka branch111 m

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.

62of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #1,475 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food21/30

    5 grocery stores within 1 km · 25 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit22/28

    Fairbank Station 0.3 km · 4 stops within 300 m · 12 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go7/14

    library 111 m away

  • Parks and recreation6/10

    2 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 0.9 km

  • Schools and child care6/8

    1 school within 500 m · 1 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 39 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,762 rental units, 2.6× the median for a Toronto intersection — seven social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1685 Eglinton Ave W (191 m, 38 units, 3 storeys, built 1960), which scored 76 out of 100 at its October 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
1685 Eglinton Ave W383196076 · Oct 2025191 m
659 Northcliffe Blvd Toronto Community Housing · TCH547200398 · Sep 2024193 m
682 Northcliffe Blvd · Oz Property Management Ltd546196084 · Aug 2026212 m
1675 Eglinton Ave W · Shelborne Property Management Inc373196084 · Sep 2026216 m
1775 Eglinton Ave W Toronto Community Housing · TCH30014198182 · Nov 2025236 m
787 Vaughan Rd384197794 · Aug 2026254 m · 3 min

39 registered buildings · 2,762 units · 7 social housing · tallest 17 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

Seven thefts from vehicles and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 43% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Apr 22, 2026.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle711house driveway/garage (3), street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft100house driveway/garage (1)

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 Briar Hill-Belgravia.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 6 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 & Livingstone?

A quiet local crossing at the City's last count here, in 2005. Its latest count is from Oct 26, 2005, 17% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone a walkable intersection?

Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone scores 62 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,475 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: Fairbank Station 0.3 km · 4 stops within 300 m · 12 routes within 1 km; 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 5 grocery stores within 1 km · 25 places to eat within 300 m.

How fast do cars go at Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Livingstone Ave between Times Rd and Jimmy Wisdom Way (May 2024), found an average of 33 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 229 m away (30 km/h), 0.2% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Shortt St (506 m away, 138 spaces, 27% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 465 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,250 spaces — 41 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 168 Chiltern Hill Rd (1.8 km).

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

Fairbank Station (Line 5) is 270 m away; bus routes 34, 29, 63, 90, 164, 109, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Eglinton Ave West at Jimmy Wisdom Way, 99 m).

What restaurants are near Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone?

25 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 104 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Ma Starbank (77 m), High Life Restaurant (113 m), Sheryl's Authentic Caribbean Cuisine (114 m), Irieman Restaurant & Bar (120 m) and Rincon de La Boca (125 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone?

The nearest is Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Washroom, 2213 Dufferin St, 863 m away.

Is there child care near Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone?

Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 248 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Macaulay - St. Thomas Aquinas Child Care Centre (278 m, 41 spaces), Lycee Francais de Toronto (626 m, 22 spaces) and La Maison du Dodo (793 m, 25 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone?

39 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,762 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1685 Eglinton Ave W (191 m, 38 units, RentSafeTO score 76), 659 Northcliffe Blvd (193 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 682 Northcliffe Blvd (212 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 84) and 1675 Eglinton Ave W (216 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 84). The average RentSafeTO score across the 39 is 88 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone?

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Briar Hill-Belgravia page.

What neighbourhood is Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone in?

Jimmy Wisdom & Livingstone is in Briar Hill-Belgravia (City of Toronto neighbourhood 108). It is in Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence, represented by Councillor Mike Colle.

Sources

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