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King & Fraser

King St W & Fraser Ave · Toronto, Ontario · South Parkdale · Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York

In South Parkdale, in central Toronto, King & Fraser is a moderately travelled crossing. At the corner: parks. Nearby: Exhibition GO 645 m away and 15 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
6,769
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 21, 2017
1,639 pedestrians · 275 cyclists
Collisions
26
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
5 with an injury · 18 property damage · #3026 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 2 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
1
TTC stop within 100 m
5 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 57 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 850 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 73% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 4 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 4.1% of vehicle volume, about 5.2× the typical share. On average 2.6 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 38%, from 16 in 2016–2020 to 10 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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King & Fraser

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
Exhibition GO — Lakeshore West645 m
Streetcar
504508501509511 nearest 91 m
TTC bus
296340247 nearest 205 m
Express
929
Blue Night
304301329363307
Nearest stops
12 surface stops within 300 m — King St West at Joe Shuster Way
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
King St W / Fraser Ave 35 m · 15 docks · 31 stations, 603 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 (13)
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Ave & the GroveEnglish Public · 797 m
  • Holy Family Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 798 m
  • Parkdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 904 m
  • Dr Rita Cox - Kina Minagok Public SchoolEnglish Public · 905 m
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 946 m
  • Parkdale Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 7 more
Parks (42)
  • Rita Cox Park95 m
  • Lamport Stadium Park154 m
  • Dufferin - King Park271 m
  • Melbourne Avenue Parkette307 m
  • Lisgar Park341 m
  • 34 Hanna Avenue Park434 m
  • and 36 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch660 m
Places of interest
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 413 m
  • Medieval Times Dinner and TournamentPerforming Arts · 762 m
  • Queen Elizabeth TheatrePerforming Arts · 801 m
  • BMO FieldSports / Entertainment Venue · 862 m
  • Coca-Cola Coliseum (formerly Ricoh Coliseum)Sports / Entertainment Venue · 922 m
  • Exhibition PlaceConvention & Trade Centres · 1.1 km
  • Enercare CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 1.1 km
  • Beanfield CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 1.3 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 35 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 330 — 4.5× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Louie Coffee, 48 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés35 within 300 m · 330 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 53 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Louie Coffee · 1179 King St W48 mPassed, Aug 2026
Caffino Restaurant · 1185 King St W68 mPassed, Apr 2026
Fuzion Convenience · 20 Joe Shuster Waygrocery98 mPassed, Jun 2026
Bento · 1100 King St W149 mPassed, Feb 2026
Cafe Landwer · 1100 King St W149 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions
Kids and Company · 1100 King St W149 mPassed, Sep 2026 · 1 infraction
Longo's · 1100 King St Wgrocery149 mPassed, Jan 2026
McDonald's · 1100 King St W149 mPassed, Mar 2026

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 Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 690 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 94 m away at Rita Cox Park.

  • Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 220 Cowan Ave
    View centre hours
    690 m
Drinking water
Rita Cox Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 94 m; Melbourne Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 317 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

Ten licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 718 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Bonaventure Child Care Centre (208 m, 67 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km10 centres · 718 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 10
  • Bonaventure Child Care Centre · 295 Dufferin St
    67 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    208 m
  • Kids & Company King and Highline · 1100 King St W
    74 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    221 m
  • Queen Street Childcare Centre · 10 White Squirrel Way
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    426 m
  • Liberty Kids · 125 Western Battery Rd
    18 spaces · toddler, preschool
    654 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 346 (703 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 522 m away.

FireFire Station 346 · 703 m90 Quebec St
Police14 Division · 1.3 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 37 · 522 m1288 Queen St 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 90 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 7,893 rental units, 3.9× the median for a Toronto intersection — 17 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 295 Dufferin St (208 m). One building of the 90 scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 204 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 45 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings90 · 7,893 units · 17 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026204 across the 90
Open fire-code violations45
Tallest35 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
295 Dufferin St0015208 m
1100 King St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services - Kings Club Residences Inc.506352019100 · Aug 20262 · 1 fire221 m
300 Dufferin StToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation114719802269 m
180 Sudbury Stsocial housing · St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society19018201182 · Sep 20242 · 2 fire271 m
345 Dufferin Stsocial housing · Dms Property Management Ltd.2008198483 · Jul 20253292 m
45 Lisgar St · Medallion Corporation29114201091 · Aug 202620307 m
200 Dufferin St · Hazelview Property Services Inc25114196495 · Jul 20258315 m
1245 King St Wsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes393198789 · Jul 20252335 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 lots524 lots · ≈23,050 spaces · 69.2 ha
Within 500 m79 lots · ≈3,980 spaces
Green P (public)19 car parks · about 1,413 spaces
EV charging (City)45 Abell St · 253 m · 12 Level 2 + 4 fast ports
Bike parking94 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 60 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1155 King Street West · Surface190 m269 *
45 Abell St · Garage282 m12460% (Q1 2026)
34 Hanna Ave · Surface427 m14669% (Q1 2026)
110 Dovercourt Rd · Surface514 m8over 100% (Q1 2026)
18 Ossington Ave · Surface730 m20over 100% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 32 m away, ≈47 spaces; 101 m away, ≈9 spaces; 116 m away, ≈35 spaces; 118 m away, ≈278 spaces; 131 m away, ≈4 spaces; 149 m away, ≈2 spaces. More EV charging: 1224 KING ST W (289 m, 2 ports); 1051 Queen Street W (597 m, 2 ports); 248 Shaw St (1.2 km, 2 ports).

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, Nov 21, 2017

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 3,406 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 50% of the total, against 311 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the west (205 of 275). Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 1,210 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m., 35% above the afternoon peak from 4:15 p.m. (894). Heavy vehicles made up 0.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 9 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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 · 1 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west3,406eastbound · 205 bikes · 0.8% heavy
Total vehicles6,7691,639 pedestrians · 275 cyclists · 0.9% heavy
From the east3,052westbound · 58 bikes · 1.2% heavy
From the south311northbound · 11 bikes · 0.3% heavy
AM peak hour1,210 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour894 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 21, 2017

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 King St W between Jefferson Ave and Lamport Stadium Park Trl, 214 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in August 2001 put the average speed at 38 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 48 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 54 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,600 vehicles a day. The reading is 25 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
King St W · Jefferson Ave – Lamport Stadium Park Trl · 214 mAug 2001 · 24 h1,60338 km/h48 km/h54 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 2019, with 5 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 5 collisions (19%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 12% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 3 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (12%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. The most recent report on file is from Sep 14, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions26#3026 of 5,508
With an injury5#2710 of 4,660
Property damage only18
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian1#2631 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist2#1197 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
All since 201436latest Sep 14, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Dec 14, 2015.

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

Six thefts from vehicles and four bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 4 in 2023–2025, about 1.3 a year, against 0.9 a year before that. 100% 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 vehicle640street/outdoor (6)
Bicycle theft400street/outdoor (4)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 21, 2025. 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 South Parkdale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is King & Fraser a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 26 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 King & Fraser?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Nov 21, 2017, 73% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at King & Fraser?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on King St W between Jefferson Ave and Lamport Stadium Park Trl (August 2001), found an average of 38 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 48 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near King & Fraser?

The nearest Green P car park is 1155 King Street West (190 m away, 269 spaces). The City's mapping shows 524 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,050 spaces — 79 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 45 Abell St (253 m).

How do I get to King & Fraser by transit?

Exhibition GO is 645 m away; streetcar routes 504, 508, 501, 509 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 91 m away; bus routes 29, 63, 402, 47, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: King St West at Joe Shuster Way, 205 m).

What restaurants are near King & Fraser?

35 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 330 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Louie Coffee (48 m), Caffino Restaurant (68 m), Bento (149 m), Cafe Landwer (149 m) and Kids and Company (149 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 King & Fraser?

The nearest is Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 220 Cowan Ave, 690 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 King & Fraser?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 718 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Bonaventure Child Care Centre (208 m, 67 spaces), Kids & Company King and Highline (221 m, 74 spaces) and Queen Street Childcare Centre (426 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near King & Fraser?

90 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 7,893 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 295 Dufferin St (208 m), 1100 King St W (221 m, 506 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 300 Dufferin St (269 m, 114 units) and 180 Sudbury St (271 m, 190 units, RentSafeTO score 82). The average RentSafeTO score across the 90 is 91 out of 100; 1 scored below 70. 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 King & Fraser?

Toronto Police place six thefts from vehicles and four 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 South Parkdale page.

What neighbourhood is King & Fraser in?

King & Fraser is in South Parkdale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 085), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik.

Sources

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