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Lake Shore & Third

Lake Shore Blvd W & Third St · Toronto, Ontario · New Toronto · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore · Lakeshore Village BIA

Lake Shore & Third is an intersection of typical volume. It sits in New Toronto. At the corner: a school within 250 m and a park. Nearby: 5 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
7,960
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 12, 2015
1,409 pedestrians · 78 cyclists
Collisions
35
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
5 with an injury · 18 property damage · #2593 of 5,508 · +2 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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
1 streetcar route · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 1,000 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, about the citywide median. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 6 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. On average 3.5 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions rose 33%, from 15 in 2016–2020 to 20 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Lake Shore & Third

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
507 nearest 14 m
TTC bus
11076 nearest 387 m
Blue Night
301337
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Lake Shore Blvd West at Third St
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Second St / Lake Shore Blvd W 110 m · 15 docks · 4 stations, 71 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)
  • Second Street Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 227 m
  • Seventh Street Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 343 m
  • Children's Urban Enrichment StudioPrivate · 544 m
  • St Josaphat Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 722 m
  • John English Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • Mimico Adult CentreEnglish Public · 1.3 km
  • and 6 more
Parks (16)
  • Sand Beach Road Parkette312 m
  • Prince of Wales Park349 m
  • Jordon Carter Memorial Park584 m
  • Sixth Street Park610 m
  • Cliff Lumsdon Park735 m
  • Lakeshore Village Park752 m
  • and 10 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library New Toronto branch792 m
Signal
0234, activated 1958 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

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 21 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 44. The nearest is Domino's Pizza, 31 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés21 within 300 m · 44 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 11 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Domino's Pizza · 2811 Lake Shore Blvd W31 mPassed, Jul 2026
Halibut House Fish & Chips · 2814 Lake Shore Blvd W Unit-1grocery38 mPassed, Aug 2026
Pizza Pizza · 2814 Lake Shore Blvd W38 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Faine Meesto · 2790 Lake Shore Blvd W58 mPassed, Mar 2026
House of Snooker · 2789 Lake Shore Blvd W70 mPassed, Aug 2024
Pizza Hut · 2788 Lake Shore Blvd W Bldg-372 mPassed, Jun 2026
Olive Kebab · 2836 Lake Shore Blvd W76 mPassed, Jan 2026
Basket of Bread · 2783 Lake Shore Blvd W82 mPassed, May 2025 · 2 infractions

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 New Toronto Seniors Centre Washroom, 87 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 241 m away at Prince of Wales Park.

  • New Toronto Seniors Centre Washroom · 105 Fourth St
    View centre hours
    87 m
  • Prince of Wales Outdoor Rink Washroom · 1 Third St
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    352 m
  • Rotary Peace Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 25 Eleventh St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    906 m
Drinking water
Prince of Wales Park drinking fountain · 241 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

Six licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 448 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Second Street School Age YMCA (227 m, 127 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km6 centres · 448 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 6
  • Second Street School Age YMCA · 71 Second St
    127 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    227 m
  • Lamp Jr YMCA · 185 Fifth St
    47 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    294 m
  • Lakeshore Community Childcare Centre · 101 Seventh St
    164 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    343 m
  • Le Jardin de Moliere Inc · 3029 Lake Shore Blvd W
    15 spaces · toddler · $10-a-day
    688 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 435 (505 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.8 km away.

FireFire Station 435 · 505 m130 Eighth St
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 38 · 1.8 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 27 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,127 rental units — two social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2835 Lake Shore Blvd W (76 m, 148 units, 9 storeys, built 1980), which scored 97 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 49 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings27 · 1,127 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202649 across the 27
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest14 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2835 Lake Shore Blvd WToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1489198097 · Aug 2025576 m
121 Fourth St · Ipg Management Group Inc103198387 · Aug 20260120 m
24 Second St234195585 · Nov 20250136 m
8 Lake Shore Dr113196092 · Jul 20250224 m
122 Fifth St · Infinity Property Management123195888 · Sep 20240231 m
23 Third St · 346 Hopewell Inc113197089 · Sep 20240239 m
8 Sand Beach Rd243196688 · Aug 20241275 m
50 Fourth St · Alto Properties Inc.113195891 · Sep 20240297 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 lots551 lots · ≈31,190 spaces · 93.6 ha
Within 500 m90 lots · ≈1,550 spaces
Green P (public)10 car parks · about 534 spaces
EV charging (City)2390 Lake Shore Blvd W · 1.8 km · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking42 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 16 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
66 Third St · Surface61 m2434% (Q1 2026)
105 Fourth Street · Surface121 m22 *
140 Fifth St · Surface214 m5239% (Q1 2026)
120 Sixth St · Surface315 m5832% (Q1 2026)
139 ISLINGTON AVE. · Surface369 m11 *

Nearest lots: 28 m away, ≈3 spaces (Green P); 31 m away, ≈20 spaces; 43 m away, ≈10 spaces; 47 m away, ≈3 spaces (Green P); 58 m away, ≈32 spaces; 63 m away, ≈23 spaces (Green P).

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, Nov 12, 2015

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 3,876 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 231 from the north. Most cyclists arrived from the west (38 of 78). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,201 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m. and 1,213 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 11 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2015, 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 north231southbound · 3 bikes · 0.9% heavy
From the west3,876eastbound · 38 bikes · 3.2% heavy
Total vehicles7,9601,409 pedestrians · 78 cyclists · 3.4% heavy
From the east3,496westbound · 36 bikes · 3.9% heavy
From the south357northbound · 1 bikes · 1.4% heavy
AM peak hour1,201 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour1,213 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 12, 2015

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 Third St between Lane N of Lake Shore and W of Third and Birmingham St, 168 m from the corner, a 4-day count in October 2006 put the average speed at 35 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 43 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 49 km/h or more. That segment carries about 800 vehicles a day. The reading is 20 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Third St · Lane N of Lake Shore and W of Third – Birmingham St · 168 mOct 2006 · 4 days79235 km/h43 km/h49 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 2023, with 5 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 5 collisions (14%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 12 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 34% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (3%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Mar 31, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions35#2593 of 5,508
With an injury5#2729 of 4,660
Property damage only18
Fail to remain12
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#2047 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist2
With a fatality0
Severity not classified12
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201447latest Mar 31, 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

Four 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.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle420street/outdoor (3), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 29, 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 New Toronto.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Lake Shore & Third a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 35 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 Lake Shore & Third?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Nov 12, 2015, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Lake Shore & Third?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Third St between Lane N of Lake Shore and W of Third and Birmingham St (October 2006), found an average of 35 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Lake Shore & Third?

The nearest Green P car park is 66 Third St (61 m away, 24 spaces, 34% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 551 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 31,190 spaces — 90 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2390 Lake Shore Blvd W (1.8 km).

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

Streetcar route 507 stop within 1 km, the nearest 14 m away; bus routes 110, 76 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lake Shore Blvd West at Third St, 387 m).

What restaurants are near Lake Shore & Third?

21 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 44 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Domino's Pizza (31 m), Pizza Pizza (38 m), Faine Meesto (58 m), House of Snooker (70 m) and Pizza Hut (72 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 & Third?

The nearest is New Toronto Seniors Centre Washroom, 105 Fourth St, 87 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Prince of Wales Outdoor Rink Washroom (352 m); Rotary Peace Park Outdoor Pool Washroom (906 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 & Third?

Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 448 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Second Street School Age YMCA (227 m, 127 spaces), Lamp Jr YMCA (294 m, 47 spaces) and Lakeshore Community Childcare Centre (343 m, 164 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Lake Shore & Third?

27 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,127 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2835 Lake Shore Blvd W (76 m, 148 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 121 Fourth St (120 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 24 Second St (136 m, 23 units, RentSafeTO score 85) and 8 Lake Shore Dr (224 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 27 is 91 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 & Third?

Toronto Police place four 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 New Toronto page.

What neighbourhood is Lake Shore & Third in?

Lake Shore & Third is in New Toronto (City of Toronto neighbourhood 018). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley. The corner falls inside the Lakeshore Village Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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