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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets, and the red-light camera
Live traffic camera RESCU 9307 · 29 m
Which way is it looking?3 reference views
Fixed shots from the City, not live.The City's own feed for Lake Shore & Spadina, replaced every few minutes. This card checks for a new frame every 45 seconds.
Traffic volume8-hour count · Mar 24, 2021
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The west leg carries the load — 5,902 eastbound vehicles, or 70% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 538. Most cyclists arrived from the north (79 of 156). Morning rush is the busier period: 1,347 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:00 a.m., compared with 1,046 from 2:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 6.4% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 6 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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.
Peak hours: 1,347 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,046 from 2:00 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
Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
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.
Traffic on these streets
The City's most recent midblock count on Lake Shore Blvd W between Gardiner E and Gardiner E (231 m away, May 2011) recorded volume only — about 22,371 vehicles a day — with no speed data.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spadina Ave · Bremner Blvd – Blue Jays Way · 222 m | Sep 2009 · 3 days | 47,896 | — | — | — |
| Lake Shore Blvd W · Gardiner E – Gardiner E · 231 m | May 2011 · 24 h | 22,371 | — | — | — |
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.
- Red-light camera
- In operation since 2017 (e/b lake shore blvd); 888 tickets in 2025, 296 so far in 2026. Tickets by camera · cameras in Toronto and East York.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Streetcar
- 510 509 511 504 508 nearest 91 m
- Blue Night
- 310 304 307
- Nearest stops
- 6 surface stops within 300 m — Queens Quay Loop at Lower Spadina Ave
- Cycling
- Multi-Use Trail on Canoe Landing Park Trl installed 2013
- Bike Share
- Lower Spadina Ave / Lake Shore Blvd W 82 m · 19 docks · 36 stations, 871 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
- 11 car parks · about 1,571 spaces
- EV charging
- 10 Portland St · 1.3 km · 4 Level 2 ports; also 40 York St (1.3 km), 10 Soho St. (1.4 km)
- Bike parking
- 70 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 48 bikes within 600 m · Indoor bike station, 25 York St (1.1 km)
- Other lots
- 16 mapped lots within 500 m, 321 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West · Surface | 622 m | 110 * | — |
| 2 Portland St · Garage | 888 m | 37 | 97% (Q1 2026) |
| 105 Spadina Ave · Surface | 903 m | 14 | over 100% (Q1 2026) |
| 363 Adelaide St W · Surface | 925 m | 22 | 95% (Q1 2026) |
| 250 Fort York Blvd. · Surface | 1.3 km | 49 * | — |
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
The nearest grocery store is Right Field Market - 109, 534 m away; 11 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. A specialist food shop is closer still: The Sweet Mama Makes, 130 m away. There are 12 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 273 eating places within a kilometre — 6.7× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Starbucks Coffee, 126 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Shoppers Drug Mart, 229 m away; 10 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre runs a seniors' active living programme 685 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Starbucks Coffee · 2e Spadina Ave126 m
- Subway · 10 Lower Spadina Ave167 m
- Mailo's the Pasta Project · 357 Bremner Blvd A11206 m
- Music Garden Express · 470 Queens Quay W210 m
- Aimant Pour Les Femmes · 415 Queens Quay W None214 m
- Grocery
- Right Field Market - 109 534 m · 6 min · 11 within 1 km
- Food shops
- The Sweet Mama Makes 130 m · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- Shoppers Drug Mart 229 m · 10 within 1 km
- Child care
- The Neighbourhood Group Canoe Landing Before and After Program · 396 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day187 m
- The Neighbourhood Group Canoe Landing Child Care · 52 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day197 m
- Downtown Montessori at Concord City Place · 59 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day281 m · 3 min
- Washrooms
- Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed293 m · 3 min
- Automated public toilet, 318 Queens Quay W · 24 hours · accessible564 m · 7 min
- Health and care
- Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre · seniors' active living centre685 m · 8 min
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 (33)
- Southern Linear Park126 m
- Spadina Quay Wetlands286 m · 3 min
- Hto Park West338 m · 4 min
- Peter Street Basin Park384 m · 5 min
- Toronto Music Garden387 m · 5 min
- Community centres
- Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre250 m · 3 min
- Schools (6)
- Bishop Macdonell Catholic ElementaryEnglish Separate · 187 m
- Jean Lumb Public SchoolEnglish Public · 187 m
- City SchoolEnglish Public · 610 m · 7 min
- The Waterfront SchoolEnglish Public · 704 m · 8 min
- Alpha Alternative & Oasis AlternativeEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Fort York branch806 m · 10 min
- Places of interest
- Toronto Music GardenNature/ Park · 389 m · 5 min
- HTO ParkNature/ Park · 519 m · 6 min
- Rogers CentreSports / Entertainment Venue · 551 m · 7 min
- Steam Whistle BreweryAttraction · 602 m · 7 min
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.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
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
11 registered apartment buildings with 2,347 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, five of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 390 Queens Quay W (317 m, 289 units, 21 storeys, built 1987), which scored 99 out of 100 at its September 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 96, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 390 Queens Quay W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc. | 289 | 21 | 1987 | 99 · Sep 2024 | 317 m · 4 min |
| 350 Queens Quay W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc. | 228 | 19 | 1987 | 98 · Sep 2026 | 347 m · 4 min |
| 150 Dan Leckie Way Toronto Community Housing · Greenwin | 298 | 41 | 2012 | 93 · Aug 2026 | 583 m · 7 min |
| 450 Front St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services | 592 | 46 | 2023 | 100 · Jul 2025 | 599 m · 7 min |
| 146 Fort York Blvd Toronto Community Housing · Greenwin | 25 | 7 | 2000 | 90 · Sep 2024 | 693 m · 8 min |
| 57 Spadina Ave · Tricon | 286 | 36 | 2022 | 100 · Jun 2024 | 700 m · 8 min |
11 registered buildings · 2,347 units · 5 social housing · tallest 46 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.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Lake Shore & Spadina a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025 and police reported no collisions of any severity. 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 Lake Shore & Spadina?
A mid-volume intersection at the City's last count here, in 2021. Its latest count is from Mar 24, 2021, about today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Lake Shore & Spadina a walkable intersection?
Lake Shore & Spadina scores 62 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; 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: 7 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; 2 schools within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m; library 806 m away · 1 place of interest within 500 m.
Is there a red-light camera at Lake Shore & Spadina?
Yes. A red-light camera has operated at Lake Shore & Spadina since 2017 (e/b lake shore blvd), according to the City of Toronto's red-light camera list. It issued 888 tickets in 2025 (864 in 2024) and 296 in 2026 through Jun 30, 2026; 7,583 since it was switched on.
How many red-light camera tickets are issued at Lake Shore & Spadina?
888 in 2025, according to the City's annual charges data — about the same as 864 in 2024, and 296 in 2026 through Jun 30, 2026. The camera has issued 7,583 tickets since 2017. A red-light camera penalty in Toronto is $328.25 — a $260 set fine, a $60 victim fund component and an $8.25 provincial licence plate access fee. It carries no demerit points and does not touch anyone's driving record, because the notice goes to the vehicle's registered owner regardless of who was driving.
Where can I park near Lake Shore & Spadina?
The nearest Green P car park is 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West (622 m away, 110 spaces). The City's mapping shows 321 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,990 spaces — 16 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 10 Portland St (1.3 km).
How do I get to Lake Shore & Spadina by transit?
Streetcar routes 510, 509, 511, 504 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 91 m away.
What restaurants are near Lake Shore & Spadina?
12 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 273 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Starbucks Coffee (126 m), Subway (167 m), Mailo's the Pasta Project (206 m), Music Garden Express (210 m) and Aimant Pour Les Femmes (214 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Lake Shore & Spadina?
The nearest is Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 95 Fort York Blvd, 293 m away. Next nearest: the automated public toilet at 318 Queens Quay W (564 m); Little Norway Park Washroom (942 m).
Is there child care near Lake Shore & Spadina?
Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 841 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Neighbourhood Group Canoe Landing Before and After Program (187 m, 396 spaces), The Neighbourhood Group Canoe Landing Child Care (197 m, 52 spaces) and Downtown Montessori at Concord City Place (281 m, 59 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Lake Shore & Spadina?
11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,347 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 390 Queens Quay W (317 m, 289 units, RentSafeTO score 99), 350 Queens Quay W (347 m, 228 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 150 Dan Leckie Way (583 m, 298 units, RentSafeTO score 93) and 450 Front St W (599 m, 592 units, RentSafeTO score 100). The average RentSafeTO score across the 11 is 96 out of 100.
What neighbourhood is Lake Shore & Spadina in?
Lake Shore & Spadina is in Harbourfront-CityPlace (City of Toronto neighbourhood 165). It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik. The corner falls inside the CityPlace and Fort York Business Improvement Area.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Mar 24, 2021.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras; tickets from Red Light Camera Annual Charges (2026 figures through Jun 30, 2026); live image from Traffic Cameras (RESCU).
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 10 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.63902, -79.39243 · centreline node 13468307.