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Lowther & Admiral

Lowther Ave & Admiral Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Annex · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

Lowther & Admiral is a lightly travelled intersection, with more people on foot than in cars and a well-used cycling route through it. It sits in the Annex, in central Toronto. It has St George Station, a bike lane and 2 schools within 250 m at the corner. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
1,036
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 24, 2023
1,446 pedestrians · 147 cyclists
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
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
St George Station
subway station within 250 m
2 streetcar routes · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings)
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 130 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 11% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.4 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 14.2% of vehicle volume, about 18× the typical share.

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Lowther & Admiral

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
St George Station (Line 1, Line 2)205 m; Spadina Station (Line 1, Line 2)445 m; Museum Station (Line 1)580 m; Bay Station (Line 2)616 m; Dupont Station (Line 1)711 m
Streetcar
506510 nearest 451 m
TTC bus
2613127199497 nearest 95 m
Blue Night
306310300320
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m — Bedford Rd at Lowther Ave
Cycling
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Lowther Ave installed 2001
Bike Share
Taddle Creek Park 84 m · 15 docks · 40 stations, 747 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 (41)
  • The Shire SchoolPrivate · 215 m
  • Huron Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 246 m
  • Munk School of Global Affairs at the Observatory - U of T, Bldg 89University · 302 m
  • Howlett Academy SchoolPrivate · 356 m
  • School of Continuing Studies - U of T, Bldg 103University · 378 m
  • Taddle Creek Montessori SchoolPrivate · 425 m
  • and 35 more
Community centres
Parks (62)
  • Taddle Creek Park58 m
  • Huron Street Playground212 m
  • Bloor - Bedford Parkette250 m
  • Boswell Parkette399 m
  • Paul Martel Park416 m
  • Huron - Washington Parkette460 m
  • and 56 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch496 m
  • Toronto Public Library Yorkville branch892 m
  • Toronto Public Library Toronto Reference Library branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Bata Shoe MuseumMuseum · 316 m
  • Royal Conservatory of MusicPerforming Arts · 345 m
  • Koerner Hall (at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning)Performing Arts · 348 m
  • Royal Ontario MuseumMuseum · 458 m
  • George Ignatieff TheatrePerforming Arts · 535 m
  • Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 546 m
  • Gardiner MuseumMuseum · 553 m
  • Village of Yorkville ParkNature/ Park · 624 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 12 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, and 346 eating places within a kilometre — 4.7× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is The Royal Canadian Yacht Club, 178 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in December 2025 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés12 within 300 m · 346 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 21 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club · 141 St George St Unit-1178 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 2 infractions
Trattoria Fieramosca · 36a Prince Arthur Ave183 mPassed, May 2025 · 6 infractions
Duke of York Restaurant · 39 Prince Arthur Ave Unit-2189 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Opus Restaurant · 37 Prince Arthur Ave Unit-1203 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Starbucks Coffee · 1 Bedford Rd222 mPassed, Apr 2025 · 1 infraction
Caffe'in · 252 Bloor St W259 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Huron Superfriends · 541 Huron St262 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Tim Hortons · 246 Bloor St W263 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction

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 Ramsden Park Washroom, 770 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 101 m away at Taddle Creek Park.

  • Ramsden Park Washroom · 1020 Yonge St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    770 m
  • Jean Sibelius Square Fieldhouse Washroom · 50 Kendal Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    805 m
  • Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 1020 Yonge St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    892 m
Drinking water
Taddle Creek Park drinking fountain · 101 m; Huron Street Playground bottle filling station, drinking fountain, dog fountain · 233 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

16 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,185 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Friends Day Care Centre (74 m, 22 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km16 centres · 1,185 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 16
  • Friends Day Care Centre · 60 Lowther Ave
    22 spaces · preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    74 m
  • University of Toronto Early Learning Centre - O.i.s.e. · 252 Bloor St W
    26 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    193 m
  • Huron Superfriends Inc. · 541 Huron St
    111 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    246 m
  • Atelier Kids Annex · 34 Madison Ave
    98 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool
    375 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 312 (869 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (1.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 712 m away.

FireFire Station 312 · 869 m34 Yorkville Ave
Police52 Division · 1.9 km255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 45 · 712 m135 Davenport Rd

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

72 registered apartment buildings with 7,714 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, six of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 3.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 85 Lowther Ave (79 m, 44 units, 8 storeys, built 1955), which scored 86 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 72 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 133 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 47 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings72 · 7,714 units · 6 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026133 across the 72
Open fire-code violations47
Tallest51 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
85 Lowther Ave · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.448195586 · Jun 2024079 m
153 St George St · Hollyburn Properties Ltd487196295 · Aug 2026383 m
151 St George St487195297 · Aug 2026391 m
161 St George St · Cogir Real Estate627196093 · Sep 2025191 m
50 Prince Arthur Ave14919196886 · Aug 20240 · 6 fire98 m
149 St George St487196888 · Sep 20250102 m
145 St George St · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.13012196096 · Aug 20265116 m
25 Bedford Rd · Firm Capital628200496 · Aug 20265139 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 lots960 lots · ≈25,200 spaces · 75.6 ha
Within 500 m89 lots · ≈2,150 spaces
Green P (public)25 car parks · about 3,536 spaces
EV charging (City)19 Spadina Rd · 449 m · 6 Level 2 ports
Bike parking73 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 56 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Bedford Rd · Garage225 m37151% (Q1 2026)
465 Huron Street · Surface312 m15 *
9 Madison Ave. · Surface390 m38 *
19 Spadina Road · Surface450 m65 *
4 Spadina Road · Surface518 m51 *

Nearest lots: 83 m away, ≈54 spaces; 94 m away, ≈24 spaces; 119 m away, ≈30 spaces; 128 m away, ≈4 spaces; 131 m away, ≈11 spaces; 141 m away, ≈34 spaces. More EV charging: 74 Yorkville Ave (668 m, 9 ports); 365 Lippincott St. (1 km, 10 ports); 20 Charles St E. (1.2 km, 23 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, May 24, 2023

The east leg carries the load — 1,032 westbound vehicles, or 100% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 4. Most cyclists arrived from the east (105 of 147). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 162 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 11% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (146). Heavy vehicles made up 2.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since. 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 north0southbound · 11 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 30 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles1,0361,446 pedestrians · 147 cyclists · 2.5% heavy
From the east1,032westbound · 105 bikes · 2.5% heavy
From the south4northbound · 1 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour146 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour162 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 24, 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 counter on Admiral Rd between Lowther Ave and Bernard Ave (185 m away) recorded an average of 27 km/h in its 2-day count in September 2007; 85% of drivers were at or under 39 km/h. That segment carries about 500 vehicles a day. Lowther Ave between Bedford Rd and Taddle Creek Park Trl measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 39 km/h (Sep 2014). The reading is 19 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Huron St (259 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.3% of the 29,792 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Lowther Ave · Bedford Rd – Taddle Creek Park Trl · 68 mSep 2014 · 24 h2,80630 km/h39 km/h44 km/h
Admiral Rd · Lowther Ave – Bernard Ave · 185 mSep 2007 · 2 days49927 km/h39 km/h45 km/h

School-zone speed sign 259 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct26 · 31 km/h
Over the limit4.0%
40 km/h or more0.3%

Huron St (northbound), 521 Huron Street · 29,792 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Jan 8, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle421street/outdoor (2), other (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jan 8, 2026. 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 Annex.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Lowther & Admiral 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 Lowther & Admiral?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from May 24, 2023, 11% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Lowther & Admiral?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Admiral Rd between Lowther Ave and Bernard Ave (September 2007), found an average of 27 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 39 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 259 m away (30 km/h), 0.3% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Lowther & Admiral?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Bedford Rd (225 m away, 371 spaces, 51% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 960 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 25,200 spaces — 89 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 19 Spadina Rd (449 m).

How do I get to Lowther & Admiral by transit?

St George Station (Line 1, Line 2) is 205 m away; streetcar routes 506, 510 stop within 1 km, the nearest 451 m away; bus routes 26, 13, 127, 19, 94, 97 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bedford Rd at Lowther Ave, 95 m).

What restaurants are near Lowther & Admiral?

12 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 346 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The Royal Canadian Yacht Club (178 m), Trattoria Fieramosca (183 m), Duke of York Restaurant (189 m), Opus Restaurant (203 m) and Starbucks Coffee (222 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 Lowther & Admiral?

The nearest is Ramsden Park Washroom, 1020 Yonge St, 770 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Jean Sibelius Square Fieldhouse Washroom (805 m); Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (892 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 Lowther & Admiral?

16 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,185 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Friends Day Care Centre (74 m, 22 spaces), University of Toronto Early Learning Centre - O.i.s.e. (193 m, 26 spaces) and Huron Superfriends Inc. (246 m, 111 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Lowther & Admiral?

72 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 7,714 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 85 Lowther Ave (79 m, 44 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 153 St George St (83 m, 48 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 151 St George St (91 m, 48 units, RentSafeTO score 97) and 161 St George St (91 m, 62 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 72 is 88 out of 100; 2 scored below 70. 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 Lowther & Admiral?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. 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 Annex page.

What neighbourhood is Lowther & Admiral in?

Lowther & Admiral is in Annex (City of Toronto neighbourhood 095). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.

Sources

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