Toronto · intersection · signal 1320

King & John

King St W & John St · Toronto, Ontario · Wellington Place · Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York · Toronto Downtown West BIA

King & John is a mid-volume intersection, with pedestrians outnumbering vehicles and significant cycling traffic. It sits in Wellington Place, in the downtown core. At the corner: parks and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: St Andrew Station (Line 1) 416 m away and Union Station GO 751 m away.

Traffic volume
9,522
vehicles · 14-hour count, Sep 10, 2025
53,790 pedestrians · 2,489 cyclists · #1738 busiest
Collisions
100
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
20 with an injury · 64 property damage · #1114 of 5,508 · +4 since Jan 2026
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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
St Andrew Station 416 m · 7 streetcar routes · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 58 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 680 vehicles an hour, 59% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 5.6 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 26.1% of vehicle volume, about 34× the typical share. On average 10 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 10.5 per 10,000 counted vehicles, 2.1× the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions fell 48%, from 66 in 2016–2020 to 34 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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King & John

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
St Andrew Station (Line 1)416 m; Osgoode Station (Line 1)501 m; Union Station (Line 1)673 m; St Patrick Station (Line 1)840 m; King Station (Line 1)1 km
GO Transit
Union Station GO — Barrie, Kitchener, Lakeshore East, Lakeshore West, Milton, Richmond Hill, Stouffville751 m
UP Express
UP Express Union Station 562 m — trains to Pearson
VIA Rail
Toronto 782 m
Streetcar
504508501510503509505 nearest 36 m
TTC bus
1997114121202 nearest 790 m
Blue Night
304301310305320
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — King St West at John St West Side; King St West at John St East Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
John St / Mercer St - SMART 58 m · 12 docks · 60 stations, 1,339 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 (31)
  • OCAD University - Inclusive Design InstituteUniversity · 556 m
  • Ogden Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 577 m
  • OCAD University - Student CentreUniversity · 586 m
  • OCAD University - Aboveground Art SuppliesUniversity · 659 m
  • Alpha Alternative & Oasis AlternativeEnglish Public · 691 m
  • OCAD University - Main Building 416 977-6000University · 722 m
  • and 25 more
Parks (51)
  • David Pecaut Square141 m
  • Grasett Park161 m
  • Simcoe Park310 m
  • Isabella Valancy Crawford Park356 m
  • Clarence Square Park417 m
  • St. Patricks Square461 m
  • and 45 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library City Hall branch890 m
  • Toronto Public Library Fort York branch1.2 km
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • Princess of Wales TheatrePerforming Arts · 54 m
  • TIFF Bell LightboxLandmark · 63 m
  • Royal Alexandra TheatrePerforming Arts · 191 m
  • Canada's Walk of FameLandmark · 246 m
  • Roy Thomson HallPerforming Arts · 267 m
  • Glenn Gould StudioPerforming Arts · 292 m
  • 299 Queen Street WestLandmark · 319 m
  • The 48th Highlanders MuseumMuseum · 334 m
Signal
1320, activated 1979 · FT · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · transit priority

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 130 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 9 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 364 — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Canteen, 17 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés130 within 300 m · 364 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience9 within 300 m · 36 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Canteen · 330 King St W17 mPassed, Apr 2026
Luma · 330 King St W17 mPassed, Jun 2026
Malaparte · 330 King St W17 mPassed, Dec 2025
Tulum Mexican Restaurant · 291 King St W18 mPassed, Aug 2026
Starbucks · 326 King St W20 mPassed, Jul 2026
Aroma Fine Indian Cuisine · 287 King St W23 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Tiee Express · 287 King St W23 mPassed, Apr 2026
Kinoya · 293 King St W24 mPassed, Aug 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 Metro Hall, 81 m away, Mon-Fri 8:00am-6:00pm, Sat 10:00am-6:00pm, Sun Closed; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 412 m away at Clarence Square Park.

  • Metro Hall · 55 John Street
    Mon-Fri 8:00am-6:00pm, Sat 10:00am-6:00pm, Sun Closed · accessible
    81 m
  • Harrison Pool Washroom · 15 Stephanie St
    View centre hours
    507 m
  • Grange Park South Washroom · 26 Grange Rd W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    676 m
Drinking water
Clarence Square Park bottle filling station · 412 m; Clarence Square Park dog fountain · 420 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

26 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,998 spaces; 19 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Metro Hall Early Learning & Child Care Centre (81 m, 62 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km26 centres · 1,998 spaces
Fee subsidy19 of 26
  • Metro Hall Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 55 John St
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    81 m
  • Kids & Company - Front Street Site · 320 Front St W
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day
    308 m
  • Blue Butterfly Montessori School Inc. · 300 Richmond St W
    62 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    322 m
  • Kids & Company St Andrews · 73 Simcoe St
    37 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    336 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 332 (190 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (846 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.0 km away.

FireFire Station 332 · 190 m260 Adelaide St W
Police52 Division · 846 m255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 36 · 1 km339 Queens Quay 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 22 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 3,558 rental units — 11 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 50 John St (112 m, 14 units, 3 storeys, built 1940), which scored 93 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 55 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 40 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings22 · 3,558 units · 11 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202655 across the 22
Open fire-code violations40
Tallest46 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
50 John St · 1725460 Ontario Inc143194093 · Nov 20253112 m
57 Spadina Ave · Tricon286362022100 · Jun 20242423 m
168 John StToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1807197994 · Jul 20254429 m
20 St Patrick St · Fidelity Property Management Limited25614198282 · Aug 20246 · 7 fire486 m
190 John StToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation264199293 · Aug 20260515 m
50 Stephanie St · Bernada Properties28424196680 · Jul 20250582 m
425 Wellington St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services LP17113202399 · Jul 20241598 m
11 Sullivan StToronto Community Housing · TCH173192383 · Sep 20242632 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 lots735 lots · ≈21,090 spaces · 63.3 ha
Within 500 m36 lots · ≈1,430 spaces
Green P (public)23 car parks · about 6,916 spaces
EV charging (City)10 Soho St. · 493 m · 4 Level 2 ports
Bike parking324 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 70 bikes within 600 m · Indoor bike station, 97 Front St W (633 m)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
363 Adelaide St W · Surface417 m2295% (Q1 2026)
105 Spadina Ave · Surface443 m14over 100% (Q1 2026)
40 York St · Garage576 m31141% (Q1 2026)
110 Queen St W · Garage746 m1,63628% (Q1 2026)
15 Denison Ave · Surface875 m12054% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 93 m away, ≈14 spaces; 164 m away, ≈4 spaces; 175 m away, ≈22 spaces; 175 m away, ≈26 spaces; 199 m away, ≈4 spaces; 202 m away, ≈13 spaces. More EV charging: 40 York St (544 m, 12 ports); 10 Portland St (753 m, 4 ports); Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St W. (849 m, 11 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 — 14-hour, Sep 10, 2025

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 3,865 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 41% of the total, against 1,323 from the east. Most cyclists arrived from the west (1,003 of 2,489). Evening rush dominates here: 878 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:15 p.m., against 690 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Trucks and buses were 6.2% 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. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north2,912southbound · 453 bikes · 3.8% heavy
From the west1,422eastbound · 1,003 bikes · 12.9% heavy
Total vehicles9,52253,790 pedestrians · 2,489 cyclists · 6.2% heavy
From the east1,323westbound · 693 bikes · 13.2% heavy
From the south3,865northbound · 340 bikes · 3.2% heavy
AM peak hour690 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour878 vehicles from 5:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Sep 10, 2025

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

The City's most recent midblock count on John St between Lane S of King and W of John and King St W (22 m away, Nov 2011) recorded volume only — about 6,260 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
John St · Lane S of King and W of John – King St W · 22 mNov 2011 · 3 days6,260
King St W · Emily St – Simcoe St · 333 mNov 2015 · 7 days8,573

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 21 collisions; 2025 recorded 4. 20 collisions (20%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 23 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 23% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 15 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (15%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 30, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 10.5 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions100#1114 of 5,508
With an injury20#862 of 4,660
Property damage only64
Fail to remain23
Involving a pedestrian6#580 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist9#165 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified16
Since January 2026 (outside the window)4
All since 2014148latest Jun 30, 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. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Sep 28, 2012.

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

11 thefts from vehicles and 23 bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 5.7× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 4 in 2023–2025, about 1.3 a year, against 4.3 a year before that. 82% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 48% of the bike thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1100street/outdoor (9), apartment parking (2)
Bicycle theft2340street/outdoor (11), commercial premises (5)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 13, 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 Wellington Place.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is King & John a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 100 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 & John?

A mid-volume intersection. It ranks #1738 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 59% of the median for a counted intersection, and #4 for pedestrians.

Where can I park near King & John?

The nearest Green P car park is 363 Adelaide St W (417 m away, 22 spaces, 95% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 735 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,090 spaces — 36 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 10 Soho St. (493 m).

How do I get to King & John by transit?

St Andrew Station (Line 1) is 416 m away; Union Station GO is 751 m away; streetcar routes 504, 508, 501, 510 and 3 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 36 m away; bus routes 19, 97, 114, 121, 202 within 1 km (nearest stop: King St West at John St West Side, 790 m).

What restaurants are near King & John?

130 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 364 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Canteen (17 m), Luma (17 m), Malaparte (17 m), Tulum Mexican Restaurant (18 m) and Starbucks (20 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 & John?

The nearest is Metro Hall, 55 John Street, 81 m away (Mon-Fri 8:00am-6:00pm, Sat 10:00am-6:00pm, Sun Closed), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Harrison Pool Washroom (507 m); Grange Park South Washroom (676 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 King & John?

26 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,998 spaces in total; 19 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Metro Hall Early Learning & Child Care Centre (81 m, 62 spaces), Kids & Company - Front Street Site (308 m, 62 spaces) and Blue Butterfly Montessori School Inc. (322 m, 62 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near King & John?

22 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,558 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 50 John St (112 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 57 Spadina Ave (423 m, 286 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 168 John St (429 m, 180 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 20 St Patrick St (486 m, 256 units, RentSafeTO score 82). The average RentSafeTO score across the 22 is 90 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 King & John?

Toronto Police place 11 thefts from vehicles and 23 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 Wellington Place page.

What neighbourhood is King & John in?

King & John is in Wellington Place (City of Toronto neighbourhood 164). It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik. The corner falls inside the Toronto Downtown West Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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