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Kingston & Walter

Kingston Rd & Walter St · Toronto, Ontario · East End-Danforth · Ward 19, Beaches-East York

Kingston & Walter is a busier-than-typical intersection. It sits in East End-Danforth. At the corner: a school within 250 m. Nearby: Danforth GO 859 m away and 13 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
14,063
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 5, 2006
440 pedestrians · 46 cyclists
Collisions
41
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
8 with an injury · 25 property damage · #2362 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
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
3 streetcar routes · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 12 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,760 vehicles, 1.52× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 32 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 4.1 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 22%, from 23 in 2016–2020 to 18 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Kingston & Walter

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
Danforth GO — Lakeshore East859 m
Streetcar
503506501 nearest 119 m
TTC bus
6440413512117 nearest 134 m
Blue Night
306301322316324
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Southwood Dr / Kingston Rd - SMART 149 m · 12 docks · 7 stations, 114 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 (22)
  • St John Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 175 m
  • Notre Dame Catholic High SchoolEnglish Separate · 299 m
  • Beaches Alternative Jr & Kimberley JrEnglish Public · 432 m
  • Malvern Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 485 m
  • Williamson Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 541 m
  • Glen Ames Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 598 m
  • and 16 more
Parks (21)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Main Street branch521 m
  • Toronto Public Library Beaches branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Kew Gardens ParkNature/ Park · 1.3 km
  • Balmy Beach ParkNature/ Park · 1.4 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 5 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 91. The nearest is The Kingston House, 69 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés5 within 300 m · 91 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 16 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
The Kingston House · 676 Kingston Rd69 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Ce Bon Variety · 672 Kingston Rdgrocery79 mPassed, Aug 2025
The Big Carrot · 125 Southwood Dr125 mPassed, Apr 2026
Tim Hortons · 637 Kingston Rd155 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Seaspray · 629 Kingston Rd169 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions
Pizza Hut · 609 Kingston Rd197 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Main Street Terrace · 77 Main St323 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Apple Jacks Preschool · 19 Benlamond Ave337 mPassed, Jul 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 Norwood Park Washroom, 602 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible.

  • Norwood Park Washroom · 16 Norwood Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    602 m
  • Beaches Recreation Centre Washroom · 6 Williamson Rd
    View centre hours
    624 m
  • Adam Beck Community Centre Washroom · 79 Lawlor Ave
    Mon 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Tue 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Wed 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Thu 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Fri 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.; Sat 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Sun Closed
    720 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

23 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,651 spaces; 11 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Bumble Bee Academy (93 m, 47 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km23 centres · 1,651 spaces
Fee subsidy11 of 23
  • Bumble Bee Academy · 668 Kingston Rd
    47 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    93 m
  • Kids Club (Day Care Connection) · 780 Kingston Rd
    118 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    175 m
  • Waverley Road Montessori School · 646 Kingston Rd
    29 spaces · toddler, preschool
    194 m
  • Leroux Froebel Bilingual School · 72 Main St
    104 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · $10-a-day
    299 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 226 (365 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (2.0 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.4 km away.

FireFire Station 226 · 365 m87 Main St
Police55 Division · 2 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 46 · 1.4 km105 Cedarvale Ave

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 40 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,906 rental units — nine social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 700 Kingston Rd (32 m, 38 units, 7 storeys, built 1971), which scored 93 out of 100 at its September 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 35 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 21 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings40 · 1,906 units · 9 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202635 across the 40
Open fire-code violations21
Tallest24 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
700 Kingston Rd · Greenwin Corp.387197193 · Sep 2026532 m
737 Kingston Rd · Jblue Enterprises244193583 · Aug 20260103 m
656 Kingston Rdsocial housing · Neighbourhood Link Homes1066199488 · Aug 20240111 m
50 Main St · Potomac Construction Limited385197489 · Sep 20260222 m
5 Benlamond Ave · Signet Group Inc.555196093 · Aug 20250274 m
600 Kingston Rd · Hazelview Property Services Inc688195790 · Aug 20261277 m
569 Kingston Rd · Linfred Investments154194088 · Jul 20250286 m
567 Kingston Rd · Linfred Investment154195092 · Aug 20260323 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 lots425 lots · ≈18,520 spaces · 55.6 ha
Within 500 m30 lots · ≈780 spaces
Green P (public)12 car parks · about 569 spaces
EV charging (City)2231 Gerrard Street East · 580 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking15 post-and-rings within 300 m · Indoor bike station, 777 Victoria Park Ave (1.8 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
117 Hammersmith Ave · Surface860 m2947% (Q1 2026)
136 Wineva Ave. · Surface896 m28 *
85 Lee Ave · Surface1 km6861% (Q1 2026)
197 Blantyre Ave · Surface1.2 km8329% (Q1 2026)
72 Amroth Ave · Surface1.4 km5050% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 60 m away, ≈22 spaces; 63 m away, ≈5 spaces; 80 m away, ≈20 spaces; 88 m away, ≈16 spaces; 90 m away, ≈23 spaces; 104 m away, ≈9 spaces. More EV charging: 2219 Gerrard Street East (584 m, 2 ports); 912 Kingston Road (590 m, 2 ports); 117 Hammersmith Ave (864 m, 6 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, Apr 5, 2006

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 6,989 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 50% of the total, against 120 from the south. Evening rush dominates here: 2,431 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 2,223 in the morning peak from 7:30 a.m. Trucks and buses were 5.9% 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 20 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2006, 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 north142southbound · 2 bikes · 5.6% heavy
From the west6,989eastbound · 17 bikes · 5.9% heavy
Total vehicles14,063440 pedestrians · 46 cyclists · 5.9% heavy
From the east6,812westbound · 26 bikes · 6.0% heavy
From the south120northbound · 1 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour2,223 vehicles from 7:30 a.m.
PM peak hour2,431 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 5, 2006

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 Walter St between Kingston Rd and Lyall Ave, 86 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2026 put the average speed at 29 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 37 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 40 km/h or more. That segment carries about 800 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Lyall Ave (331 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 47,604 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Walter St · Kingston Rd – Lyall Ave · 86 mMar 2026 · 3 days78929 km/h37 km/h40 km/h

School-zone speed sign 331 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct9 · 21 km/h
Over the limit0.2%
40 km/h or more0.0%

Lyall Ave (eastbound), 72 Lyall Avenue · 47,604 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 8 collisions. 8 collisions (20%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 10 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 24% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (2%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Feb 4, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions41#2362 of 5,508
With an injury8#2075 of 4,660
Property damage only25
Fail to remain10
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#2017 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist2
With a fatality0
Severity not classified8
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201446latest Feb 4, 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

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.

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 nine bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.5× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 1 in 2023–2025, about 0.3 a year, against 2.0 a year before that. 67% of the vehicle thefts were from apartment-building parking; 89% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on May 12, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle610apartment parking (4), street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft901apartment parking (8), other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 12, 2026. 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 East End-Danforth.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Kingston & Walter a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 41 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 Kingston & Walter?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from Apr 5, 2006, 1.52× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kingston & Walter?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Walter St between Kingston Rd and Lyall Ave (March 2026), found an average of 29 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 37 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 331 m away (30 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Kingston & Walter?

The nearest Green P car park is 117 Hammersmith Ave (860 m away, 29 spaces, 47% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 425 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 18,520 spaces — 30 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2231 Gerrard Street East (580 m).

How do I get to Kingston & Walter by transit?

Danforth GO is 859 m away; streetcar routes 503, 506, 501 stop within 1 km, the nearest 119 m away; bus routes 64, 404, 135, 12, 117 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Kingston & Walter?

5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 91 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The Kingston House (69 m), The Big Carrot (125 m), Tim Hortons (155 m), Seaspray (169 m) and Pizza Hut (197 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 Kingston & Walter?

The nearest is Norwood Park Washroom, 16 Norwood Rd, 602 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Beaches Recreation Centre Washroom (624 m); Adam Beck Community Centre Washroom (720 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 Kingston & Walter?

23 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,651 spaces in total; 11 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Bumble Bee Academy (93 m, 47 spaces), Kids Club (Day Care Connection) (175 m, 118 spaces) and Waverley Road Montessori School (194 m, 29 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Kingston & Walter?

40 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,906 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 700 Kingston Rd (32 m, 38 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 737 Kingston Rd (103 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 83), 656 Kingston Rd (111 m, 106 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 50 Main St (222 m, 38 units, RentSafeTO score 89). The average RentSafeTO score across the 40 is 89 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 Kingston & Walter?

Toronto Police place six thefts from vehicles and nine bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. 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 East End-Danforth page.

What neighbourhood is Kingston & Walter in?

Kingston & Walter is in East End-Danforth (City of Toronto neighbourhood 062). It is in Ward 19, Beaches-East York, represented by Councillor Brad Bradford.

Sources

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