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Lake Shore & Symons

Lake Shore Blvd W & Symons St · Toronto, Ontario · Mimico-Queensway · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore

Lake Shore & Symons, in Mimico-Queensway, is an intersection of typical volume. At the corner: a protected bikeway, parks and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 4 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
6,104
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 1, 2021
223 pedestrians · 155 cyclists
Collisions
25
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
8 with an injury · 13 property damage · #3096 of 5,508
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 0 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #1112 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
1 streetcar route · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Bi-Directional Cycle Track
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 760 vehicles, 66% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 27 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Cyclists were 2.5% of vehicle volume, about 3.3× the typical share. That comes with about 2.5 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 44%, from 16 in 2016–2020 to 9 in 2021–2025. Just one of those 25 collisions left someone killed or seriously injured.

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Lake Shore & Symons

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
507 nearest 11 m
TTC bus
7680 nearest 64 m
Blue Night
301
Nearest stops
3 surface stops within 300 m — Lake Shore Blvd West at Symons St; Lake Shore Blvd West at Miles Rd
Cycling
Bi-Directional Cycle Track on Lake Shore Blvd W installed 2018
Bike Share
Amos Waites Park 583 m · 27 docks · 4 stations, 83 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 (12)
  • John English Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 492 m
  • Phoenix Montessori SchoolPrivate · 560 m
  • Mimico Adult CentreEnglish Public · 714 m
  • St Leo Catholic Elementary School (Future Address For Main Entrance)English Separate · 732 m
  • St Leo Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 796 m
  • Second Street Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 947 m
  • and 6 more
Community centres
Parks (20)
  • Vimy Ridge Parkette210 m
  • Lake Crescent Road End Parkette217 m
  • Miles Road End Parkette245 m
  • Mimico Memorial Park302 m
  • Lake Crescent Park363 m
  • Mimico Waterfront Park379 m
  • and 14 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Mimico Centennial branch750 m
Signal
2135, activated 2007 · SA2 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · bicycle signal

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 41 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Ali's Wraps, 338 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 41 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 9 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Ali's Wraps · 44 St George St338 mPassed, May 2026
Fiyu Food Truck · 44 St George Stgrocery338 mPassed, Feb 2025
Mangoes Restaurant · 2491 Lake Shore Blvd W488 mPassed, Jun 2026
7-Eleven · 2480 Lake Shore Blvd Wgrocery505 mPassed, Jun 2026
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts · 2458 Lake Shore Blvd W543 mPassed, Feb 2026
Gud Daae · 2461 Lake Shore Blvd W544 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 3 infractions
Maurya East Indian Roti Cuisine · 2481 Lake Shore Blvd W544 mPassed, Feb 2026
Mooring Eats · 2481a Lake Shore Blvd W Bldg-A544 mPassed, Apr 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 Amos Waites Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 536 m away, View outdoor pool hours.

  • Amos Waites Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 2441 Lake Shore Blvd W
    View outdoor pool hours
    536 m
  • Amos Waites Park Washroom · 2441 Lake Shore Blvd W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    538 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

Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 821 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is The Mint School - Mimico (414 m, 79 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, school age).

Within 1 km9 centres · 821 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 9
  • The Mint School - Mimico · 74 Royal York Rd
    79 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, school age
    414 m
  • John English YMCA · 95 Mimico Ave
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    492 m
  • Phoenix Montessori School Inc. · 2 Station Rd
    125 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten
    560 m
  • Rec Room Child Care @mimico · 46 Mimico Ave
    36 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    567 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 435 (1.6 km), the nearest police station 22 Division (5.0 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.5 km away.

FireFire Station 435 · 1.6 km130 Eighth St
Police22 Division · 5 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 38 · 2.5 km259 Horner 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 51 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,182 rental units, 2.2× the median for a Toronto intersection — one social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2561 Lake Shore Blvd W (41 m, 14 units, 4 storeys, built 1952), which scored 88 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 57 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 13 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings51 · 2,182 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202657 across the 51
Open fire-code violations13
Tallest10 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2561 Lake Shore Blvd W · Berkley Porperty Management Inc.144195288 · Aug 2026141 m
2555 Lake Shore Blvd W · Berkley Porperty Management Inc.264195295 · Aug 2025067 m
2545 Lake Shore Blvd W · Berkley Porperty Management Inc.264195293 · Aug 2025089 m
2557 Lake Shore Blvd W · Berkley Porperty Management Inc.264195282 · Aug 20262109 m
2543 Lake Shore Blvd W · CAPREIT Limited Partenership553195286 · Aug 20260116 m
2547 Lake Shore Blvd W · Berkley Porperty Management Inc.264195290 · Aug 20260123 m
2559 Lake Shore Blvd W · Berkley Porperty Management Inc.264195295 · Aug 20250151 m
2549 Lake Shore Blvd W · Berkley Porperty Management Inc.264195294 · Aug 20250165 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 lots486 lots · ≈24,810 spaces · 74.4 ha
Within 500 m29 lots · ≈1,400 spaces
Green P (public)14 car parks · about 784 spaces
EV charging (City)2390 Lake Shore Blvd W · 770 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking3 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
16 Superior Ave · Surface639 m2343% (Q1 2026)
2225 Lake shore Blvd West (Parks) · Surface1 km10 *
2300 LAKE SHORE BLVD W · Surface1.1 km2428% (Q1 2026)
66 Third St · Surface1.2 km2434% (Q1 2026)
2225 Lake shore Blvd West (Parks) · Surface1.2 km22 *

Nearest lots: 52 m away, ≈7 spaces; 117 m away, ≈14 spaces; 126 m away, ≈138 spaces; 186 m away, ≈8 spaces; 187 m away, ≈384 spaces; 204 m away, ≈9 spaces. More EV charging: 2300 Lakeshore Blvd W. (1.1 km, 7 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, Dec 1, 2021

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 3,101 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 182 from the west. Most cyclists arrived from the south (81 of 155). Evening rush dominates here: 986 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 858 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Trucks and buses were 5.5% 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 5 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.

From the north2,821southbound · 67 bikes · 5.0% heavy
From the west182eastbound · 7 bikes · 1.1% heavy
Total vehicles6,104223 pedestrians · 155 cyclists · 5.5% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south3,101northbound · 81 bikes · 6.3% heavy
AM peak hour858 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour986 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 1, 2021

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 Symons St between Lake Shore Blvd W and Wheatfield Rd, 31 m from the corner, a 3-day count in November 2021 put the average speed at 23 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 30 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 34 km/h or more. That segment carries about 700 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Symons St · Lake Shore Blvd W – Wheatfield Rd · 31 mNov 2021 · 3 days72723 km/h30 km/h34 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 8 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 8 collisions (32%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 5 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 5 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (20%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. The most recent report on file is from Dec 23, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions25#3096 of 5,508
With an injury8#2078 of 4,660
Property damage only13
Fail to remain5
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist5#456 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 201427latest Dec 23, 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

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. It involved vehicle occupants only — no pedestrian or cyclist. It happened in darkness. The most recent was on Jun 1, 2016.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1112 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness1
All KSI since 20061latest Jun 1, 2016

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

Eight thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 50% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle830house driveway/garage (4), street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 21, 2024. 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 Mimico-Queensway.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Lake Shore & Symons a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1112 of 1,505), out of 25 reported 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 & Symons?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Dec 1, 2021, 66% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Lake Shore & Symons?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Symons St between Lake Shore Blvd W and Wheatfield Rd (November 2021), found an average of 23 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 30 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Lake Shore & Symons?

The nearest Green P car park is 16 Superior Ave (639 m away, 23 spaces, 43% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 486 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 24,810 spaces — 29 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2390 Lake Shore Blvd W (770 m).

How do I get to Lake Shore & Symons by transit?

Streetcar route 507 stop within 1 km, the nearest 11 m away; bus routes 76, 80 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lake Shore Blvd West at Symons St, 64 m).

What restaurants are near Lake Shore & Symons?

None within 300 m, and 41 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Ali's Wraps (338 m), Mangoes Restaurant (488 m), Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (543 m), Gud Daae (544 m) and Maurya East Indian Roti Cuisine (544 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 & Symons?

The nearest is Amos Waites Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 2441 Lake Shore Blvd W, 536 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: Amos Waites Park Washroom (538 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 & Symons?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 821 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Mint School - Mimico (414 m, 79 spaces), John English YMCA (492 m, 71 spaces) and Phoenix Montessori School Inc. (560 m, 125 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Lake Shore & Symons?

51 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,182 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2561 Lake Shore Blvd W (41 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 2555 Lake Shore Blvd W (67 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 2545 Lake Shore Blvd W (89 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 93) and 2557 Lake Shore Blvd W (109 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 82). The average RentSafeTO score across the 51 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 Lake Shore & Symons?

Toronto Police place eight thefts from vehicles and no 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 Mimico-Queensway page.

What neighbourhood is Lake Shore & Symons in?

Lake Shore & Symons is in Mimico-Queensway (City of Toronto neighbourhood 160). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley.

Sources

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