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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
Traffic volume8-hour count · Apr 28, 2010
This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The west leg carries the load — 311 eastbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 137. Morning rush is the busier period: 154 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:15 a.m., compared with 93 from 4:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 5.9% 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 17 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2010, 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: 154 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 93 from 4:00 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
2023 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 30% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Feb 11, 2026.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 10 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 8 | |
| Fail to remain | 3 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 2 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 1 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
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.
How fast traffic moves here
The City's counter on Lavinia Ave between Morningside Ave and Deforest Rd (267 m away) recorded an average of 28 km/h in its 3-day count in March 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 38 km/h. That segment carries about 400 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Windermere Ave (108 m away, 30 km/h limit), 5.4% of the 126,189 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lavinia Ave · Morningside Ave – Deforest Rd · 267 m | Mar 2024 · 3 days | 364 | 28 km/h | 38 km/h | 43 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Windermere Ave (southbound), 108 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 28 km/h, 85th percentile 36 km/h; 5.4% at 40 km/h or more. 126,189 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
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.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- TTC bus
- 77 nearest 149 m
- Blue Night
- 300
- Nearest stops
- 3 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Swansea Community Centre 63 m · 15 docks · 4 stations, 68 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
- 8 car parks · about 960 spaces
- EV charging
- 265 Armadale Ave · 1 km · 8 Level 2 + 1 fast ports
- Bike parking
- 2 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 5 mapped lots within 500 m, 167 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 265 Durie St · Surface | 910 m | 144 | 70% (Q1 2026) |
| 265 Willard Ave · Surface | 1 km | 90 | 53% (Q1 2026) |
| 265 Armadale Ave · Surface | 1.1 km | 144 | 58% (Q1 2026) |
| 255 Kennedy Ave · Surface | 1.1 km | 56 | 65% (Q1 2026) |
| 17 Riverview Gdns · Surface | 1.2 km | 95 | 52% (Q1 2026) |
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 Carload Food Market, 856 m away; 3 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 35 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Queens Pasta Cafe, 800 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Bloor West Pharmacy, 837 m away; 4 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Queens Pasta Cafe · 2263 Bloor St W800 m · 10 min
- Capybara · 2323 Bloor St W Unit-105807 m · 10 min
- Prime Sushi · 2323 Bloor St W Bldg-103807 m · 10 min
- Grumpy Gourmet: Purveyor of Fine Foods · 2277 Bloor St W826 m · 10 min
- Shakey's · 2255 Bloor St W826 m · 10 min
- Grocery
- Carload Food Market 856 m · 10 min · 3 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Bloor Meat Market 842 m · 10 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Bloor West Pharmacy 837 m · 10 min · 4 within 1 km
- Child care
- Swansea Kids Place · 273 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day77 m
- Windermere Kids Inc. · 73 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool677 m · 8 min
- Simplysmart Childcare Centre & Montessori · 142 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day813 m · 10 min
- Washrooms
- Swansea Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed47 m
- Rennie Park David H. Williams Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.291 m · 3 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 (14)
- Waller Avenue Ravine Lands276 m · 3 min
- Rambert Crescent Parkette428 m · 5 min
- Rennie Park510 m · 6 min
- Coe Hill Drive Parkette561 m · 7 min
- Windermere Avenue Parkette580 m · 7 min
- Community centres
- Schools
- Swansea Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 77 m
- Erudite Elementary SchoolPrivate · 806 m · 10 min
- Humberside Montessori SchoolPrivate · 1 km · 12 min
- Blyth Academy School - EtobicokePrivate · 1.2 km · 14 min
- St Pius X Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.4 km · 16 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Swansea Memorial branch389 m · 5 min
- Toronto Public Library Runnymede branch1.2 km · 14 min
- Places of interest
- The Village PlayersPerforming Arts · 1.1 km · 13 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
13 registered apartment buildings with 553 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, one of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 93 Lavinia Ave (358 m, 68 units, 5 storeys, built 1993), which scored 95 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93 Lavinia Ave social housing · Community First Developments Inc | 68 | 5 | 1993 | 95 · Aug 2026 | 358 m · 4 min |
| 1 Runnymede Rd | 28 | 4 | 1967 | 90 · Jul 2025 | 382 m · 5 min |
| 9 Morningside Ave · Westside Storeys Limited | 36 | 4 | 1957 | 93 · Aug 2024 | 426 m · 5 min |
| 2 Kennedy Ave | 25 | 4 | 1967 | 92 · Jul 2025 | 431 m · 5 min |
| 101 Coe Hill Dr | 47 | 3 | 1955 | 94 · Jul 2026 | 597 m · 7 min |
| 99 Coe Hill Dr · Trivest Developments Corporation | 86 | 4 | 1957 | 94 · Jul 2025 | 611 m · 7 min |
13 registered buildings · 553 units · 1 social housing · tallest 6 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.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 3 | 1 | 0 | other (1), house driveway/garage (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0 | 0 | school/campus (1) |
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 High Park-Swansea.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Lavinia & Waller a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 10 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 Lavinia & Waller?
A low-volume local intersection at the City's last count here, in 2010. Its latest count is from Apr 28, 2010, 7% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Lavinia & Waller a walkable intersection?
Lavinia & Waller scores 40 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: 2 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; library 389 m away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km.
How fast do cars go at Lavinia & Waller?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Lavinia Ave between Morningside Ave and Deforest Rd (March 2024), found an average of 28 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 38 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 108 m away (30 km/h), 5.4% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Lavinia & Waller?
The nearest Green P car park is 265 Durie St (910 m away, 144 spaces, 70% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 167 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 5,360 spaces — 5 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 265 Armadale Ave (1.0 km).
How do I get to Lavinia & Waller by transit?
Bus route 77 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Lavinia & Waller?
None within 300 m, and 35 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Queens Pasta Cafe (800 m), Capybara (807 m), Prime Sushi (807 m), Grumpy Gourmet: Purveyor of Fine Foods (826 m) and Shakey's (826 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Lavinia & Waller?
The nearest is Swansea Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 15 Waller Ave, 47 m away. Next nearest: Rennie Park David H. Williams Washroom (291 m).
Is there child care near Lavinia & Waller?
Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 504 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Swansea Kids Place (77 m, 273 spaces), Windermere Kids Inc. (677 m, 73 spaces) and Simplysmart Childcare Centre & Montessori (813 m, 142 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Lavinia & Waller?
13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 553 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 93 Lavinia Ave (358 m, 68 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 1 Runnymede Rd (382 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 9 Morningside Ave (426 m, 36 units, RentSafeTO score 93) and 2 Kennedy Ave (431 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 13 is 92 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Lavinia & Waller?
Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the High Park-Swansea page.
What neighbourhood is Lavinia & Waller in?
Lavinia & Waller is in High Park-Swansea (City of Toronto neighbourhood 087). It is in Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, represented by Councillor Gord Perks.
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 Apr 28, 2010.
- 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.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- 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).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 4 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: 43.64434, -79.47679 · centreline node 13467802.