Map
Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time
Live traffic camera
The City's RESCU camera at F G Gardiner Xy W & Spadina Ave — a 320 × 240 still the City replaces every few minutes, with the frame's age and its four fixed reference views
The City's own feed for Lake Shore & Spadina, published as a 320 × 240 still that its server replaces every few minutes — the card checks for a new frame every 45 seconds while you are on the page (Reload checks now) and says whether the frame changed. The fixed views are the City's reference stills showing where the camera points in each direction.
Getting here
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk
Transit & cycling
- UP Express
- UP Express Union Station 920 m — trains to Pearson
- Streetcar
- 510509511504508 nearest 82 m
- Blue Night
- 310304307
- 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 72 m · 19 docks · 52 stations, 1,136 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 (10)
- Bishop Macdonell Catholic ElementaryEnglish Separate · 151 m
- Jean Lumb Public SchoolEnglish Public · 151 m
- City SchoolEnglish Public · 489 m
- The Waterfront SchoolEnglish Public · 531 m
- Alpha Alternative & Oasis AlternativeEnglish Public · 879 m
- St Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.2 km
- and 4 more
- Community centres
- Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre191 m
- Harrison Pool1.3 km
- Parks (37)
- Southern Linear Park111 m
- Spadina Quay Wetlands204 m
- Hto Park West248 m
- Peter Street Basin Park256 m
- Toronto Music Garden270 m
- Northern Linear Park307 m
- and 31 more
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Fort York branch641 m
- Places of interest
- Toronto Music GardenNature/ Park · 276 m
- HTO ParkNature/ Park · 370 m
- Rogers CentreSports / Entertainment Venue · 371 m
- The WellLandmark · 498 m
- Toronto Railway MuseumMuseum · 555 m
- Steam Whistle BreweryAttraction · 572 m
- Arcadia EarthAttraction · 572 m
- CN TowerAttraction · 584 m
Around the corner
Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node
Restaurants & food
There are 21 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 4 grocery and convenience stores, and 359 eating places within a kilometre — 5.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Starbucks Coffee, 106 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2026.
| Nearest food premises | Distance | Latest DineSafe inspection |
|---|---|---|
| Starbucks Coffee · 2e Spadina Ave | 106 m | Passed, Mar 2026 |
| Lakeview Convenience · 410 Queens Quay Wgrocery | 125 m | Passed, Aug 2026 |
| Subway · 10 Lower Spadina Ave | 131 m | Passed, Aug 2026 |
| Subway · 10 Lower Spadina Ave | 133 m | Passed, Sep 2026 |
| Mailo's the Pasta Project · 357 Bremner Blvd A11 | 166 m | Passed, Jun 2026 |
| Music Garden Express · 470 Queens Quay W | 166 m | Passed, Oct 2025 · 1 infraction |
| Music Garden Cafe · 460 Queens Quay W | 167 m | Passed, Aug 2026 |
| Fat Bastard Burrito · 351 Bremner Blvd | 170 m | Passed, Feb 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 Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 201 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 233 m away at Toronto Music Garden.
- Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 95 Fort York Blvd
View centre hours201 m - Automated public toilet, 318 Queens Quay W
24 hours · accessible448 m - Little Norway Park Washroom · 659 Queens Quay W
9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. · accessible732 m
- Drinking water
- Toronto Music Garden drinking fountain · 233 m; Hto Park West drinking fountain · 240 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
14 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,171 spaces; 13 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is The Neighbourhood Group Canoe Landing Before and After Program (151 m, 396 spaces, kindergarten, school age).
- The Neighbourhood Group Canoe Landing Before and After Program · 20 Brunel Crt
396 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day151 m - The Neighbourhood Group Canoe Landing Child Care · 26 Brunel Crt
52 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day155 m - Downtown Montessori at Concord City Place · 335 Bremner Blvd
59 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day175 m - Macaulay - the Well · 486 Front St W
62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day509 m
Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
Emergency services
The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 334 (341 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 341 m away.
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
14 registered apartment buildings with 3,094 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, five of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 390 Queens Quay W (193 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. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 52 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 31 fire-code violations are open across them.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | LTB orders | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 390 Queens Quay W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc. | 289 | 21 | 1987 | 99 · Sep 2024 | 16 · 15 fire | 193 m |
| 350 Queens Quay W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc. | 228 | 19 | 1987 | 98 · Sep 2026 | 13 · 16 fire | 267 m |
| 450 Front St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services | 592 | 46 | 2023 | 100 · Jul 2025 | 2 | 479 m |
| 150 Dan Leckie WayToronto Community Housing · Greenwin | 298 | 41 | 2012 | 93 · Aug 2026 | 2 | 488 m |
| 146 Fort York BlvdToronto Community Housing · Greenwin | 25 | 7 | 2000 | 90 · Sep 2024 | 0 | 538 m |
| 425 Wellington St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services LP | 171 | 13 | 2023 | 99 · Jul 2024 | 1 | 561 m |
| 125 Queens Wharf RdToronto Community Housing · Greenwin | 73 | 7 | 1990 | 93 · Aug 2026 | 2 | 564 m |
| 435 Wellington St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services LP | 160 | 13 | 2023 | 98 · Jul 2024 | 1 | 573 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
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West · Surface | 579 m | 110 * | — |
| 2 Portland St · Garage | 614 m | 37 | 97% (Q1 2026) |
| 363 Adelaide St W · Surface | 878 m | 22 | 95% (Q1 2026) |
| 105 Spadina Ave · Surface | 881 m | 14 | over 100% (Q1 2026) |
| 40 York St · Garage | 1.1 km | 311 | 41% (Q1 2026) |
Nearest lots: 70 m away, ≈25 spaces; 84 m away, ≈10 spaces; 118 m away, ≈23 spaces; 129 m away, ≈29 spaces; 145 m away, ≈12 spaces; 170 m away, ≈88 spaces. More EV charging: 10 Portland St (1 km, 4 ports); 10 Soho St. (1.2 km, 4 ports); 10 Palmerston Ave (1.5 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, 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 16,183 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.
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 Spadina Ave between Gardiner E and Spadina S (53 m away, Sep 2009) recorded volume only — about 7,116 vehicles a day — with no speed data.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spadina Ave · Gardiner E – Spadina S · 53 m | Sep 2009 · 3 days | 7,116 | — | — | — |
| 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; 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
Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.
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
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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.
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. Its latest count is from Mar 24, 2021, about the median for a counted intersection.
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 ticket in Toronto is $325 and carries no demerit points because it is issued to the vehicle's owner.
Where can I park near Lake Shore & Spadina?
The nearest Green P car park is 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West (579 m away, 110 spaces). The City's mapping shows 445 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 14,210 spaces — 24 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 40 York St (1.0 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 82 m away.
What restaurants are near Lake Shore & Spadina?
21 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 359 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Starbucks Coffee (106 m), Subway (131 m), Subway (133 m), Mailo's the Pasta Project (166 m) and Music Garden Express (166 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 Lake Shore & Spadina?
The nearest is Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 95 Fort York Blvd, 201 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: the automated public toilet at 318 Queens Quay W (448 m); Little Norway Park Washroom (732 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 Lake Shore & Spadina?
14 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,171 spaces in total; 13 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 (151 m, 396 spaces), The Neighbourhood Group Canoe Landing Child Care (155 m, 52 spaces) and Downtown Montessori at Concord City Place (175 m, 59 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Lake Shore & Spadina?
14 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,094 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 390 Queens Quay W (193 m, 289 units, RentSafeTO score 99), 350 Queens Quay W (267 m, 228 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 450 Front St W (479 m, 592 units, RentSafeTO score 100) and 150 Dan Leckie Way (488 m, 298 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 14 is 96 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.
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 Aug 29, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Jun 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.
- Around the corner: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health); Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Fire Station Locations, Police Facility Locations, Ambulance Station Locations.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport with the Ontario LTB Order Catalogue and Toronto Fire Services inspection data (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 10 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting here: 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. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Walking distance: City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Parking: 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.
- Coordinates: 43.63902, -79.39243 · centreline node 13468307.