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MacDonell & Fern

MacDonell Ave & Fern Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Roncesvalles · Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park

MacDonell & Fern, in Roncesvalles, is a lightly travelled intersection, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: a park. Nearby: 14 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
773
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 15, 2023
354 pedestrians · 125 cyclists
Collisions
10
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 6 property damage · #4322 of 5,508
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
1
TTC stop within 100 m
5 streetcar routes · 3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 100 vehicles an hour, 8% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 2.2 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 16.2% of vehicle volume, about 21× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 1 collision a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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MacDonell & Fern

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
505506501504508 nearest 436 m
TTC bus
4740229 nearest 98 m
Express
929
Blue Night
305306301304329
Nearest stops
3 surface stops within 300 m — Lansdowne Ave at Rideau Ave South Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Wright Ave / Sorauren Ave - SMART 213 m · 18 docks · 26 stations, 461 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 (22)
  • Shirley St Jr & City View AlternativeEnglish Public · 380 m
  • Parkdale Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 431 m
  • Academy of Enlightened MindsPrivate · 487 m
  • Fern Avenue Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 491 m
  • St Vincent de Paul Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 627 m
  • Saint Frere Andre Secondary SchoolFrench Separate · 694 m
  • and 16 more
Parks (32)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library High Park branch709 m
  • Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch816 m
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 1 km
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 1.4 km

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 1 eating place within 300 m of this corner, plus 5 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 281 — 3.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is I Deal Coffee, 267 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés1 within 300 m · 281 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience5 within 300 m · 59 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Butcher By Charlie's World of Meat · 222 Lansdowne Avegrocery189 mPassed, Jan 2026
Fahmee Bakery & Jamaican Foods · 222 Lansdowne Ave, Unit-Bgrocery189 mPassed, Dec 2024
Mike's No Frills · 222 Lansdowne Avegrocery189 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Seafood By Easy Seafood Ltd. · 222 Lansdowne Avegrocery189 mPassed, Nov 2025 · 1 infraction
I Deal Coffee · 221 Sorauren Ave267 mPassed, Jun 2026
Wilson's Variety &grocery · 220 Sorauren Avegrocery270 mPassed, Jun 2026
I Deal On the Park · 250 Sorauren Ave322 mPassed, May 2026
Bairradino Rotisserie & Grill · 222 Lansdowne Ave B377 mPassed, Nov 2025

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 Sorauren Avenue Park Fieldhouse Washroom, 311 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 160 m away at West Lodge Park.

  • Sorauren Avenue Park Fieldhouse Washroom · 289 Sorauren Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    311 m
  • Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom · 66 Sheridan Ave
    View centre hours
    587 m
  • Macgregor Playground Washroom · 346 Lansdowne Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    782 m
Drinking water
West Lodge Park drinking fountain · 160 m; Charles G. Williams Park bottle filling station · 236 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

12 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,201 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Odyssey Montessori School Incorporated (361 m, 64 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km12 centres · 1,201 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 12
  • Odyssey Montessori School Incorporated · 136 Sorauren Ave
    64 spaces · preschool
    361 m
  • Shirley Street Jr YMCA · 38 Shirley St
    103 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    380 m
  • Parkdale Childcare Centre · 78 Seaforth Ave
    177 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    431 m
  • Ferncliff Daycare and After School Group · 128 Fern Ave
    174 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    491 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (162 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 922 m away.

FireFire Station 426 · 162 m140 Lansdowne Ave
Police14 Division · 1.3 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 37 · 922 m1288 Queen St W

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 65 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 4,869 rental units, 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection — 13 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 105 West Lodge Ave (303 m, 371 units, 19 storeys, built 1965), which scored 91 out of 100 at its July 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 65 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 145 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 46 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings65 · 4,869 units · 13 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026145 across the 65
Open fire-code violations46
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
105 West Lodge Ave · Hazelview Property Services Inc.37119196591 · Jul 202419 · 7 fire303 m
103 West Lodge Ave · Hazelview Property Services Inc.37118196585 · Jun 202517 · 9 fire373 m
301 Lansdowne Ave355193226 · Jul 20240508 m
20 West Lodge AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation29911195991 · Jul 20246542 m
267 Brock Ave · Signet Group Inc113188589 · Jul 20250546 m
12 Lansdowne Ave · Anchor Property Managers Inc263197990 · Aug 20260607 m
10 Lansdowne Avesocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes213189781 · Jul 20240622 m
22 O'Hara AveToronto Community Housing · TCH133191897 · Jul 20240637 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 lots570 lots · ≈22,580 spaces · 67.8 ha
Within 500 m23 lots · ≈970 spaces
Green P (public)20 car parks · about 1,621 spaces
EV charging (City)430 Roncesvalles Ave · 1.1 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking22 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
14 Fuller Ave · Surface603 m4247% (Q1 2026)
1624 Queen St W · Surface763 m3371% (Q1 2026)
1325 Queen St W · Surface774 m3294% (Q1 2026)
9 Bonar Pl · Surface893 m3471% (Q1 2026)
2201 Dundas St W · Surface1.2 km1070% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 166 m away, ≈77 spaces; 190 m away, ≈8 spaces; 267 m away, ≈22 spaces; 293 m away, ≈11 spaces; 295 m away, ≈34 spaces; 315 m away, ≈5 spaces. More EV charging: 1224 KING ST W (1.3 km, 2 ports); 2251 Dundas St W (1.3 km, 2 ports); 2285 Dundas St W (1.4 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, Feb 15, 2023

Evening rush dominates here: 155 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 86 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2023, 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 north773southbound · 88 bikes · 4.5% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 3 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles773354 pedestrians · 125 cyclists · 4.5% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south0northbound · 34 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour86 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour155 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 15, 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

On Fern Ave between Lane W of Macdonell and N of Fern and Lane E of Sorauren and N of Fern, 114 m from the corner, a 3-day count in October 2024 put the average speed at 28 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 36 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 39 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,400 vehicles a day. MacDonell Ave between Pearson Ave and Galley Ave measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 29 km/h (Oct 2024). At the school-zone speed sign on Lansdowne Ave (366 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.6% of the 39,866 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Fern Ave · Lane W of Macdonell and N of Fern – Lane E of Sorauren and N of Fern · 114 mOct 2024 · 3 days1,35028 km/h36 km/h39 km/h
MacDonell Ave · Pearson Ave – Galley Ave · 252 mOct 2024 · 3 days50023 km/h29 km/h33 km/h

School-zone speed sign 366 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct34 · 39 km/h
Over the limit2.6%
50 km/h or more0.6%

Lansdowne Ave (southbound), 76/78, Lansdowne Avenue · 39,866 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

The worst year was 2017, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 40% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Sep 8, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions10#4322 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only6
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 201410latest Sep 8, 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

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 four 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 vehicle410house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft410other (2), house driveway/garage (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 11, 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 Roncesvalles.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is MacDonell & Fern 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 MacDonell & Fern?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Feb 15, 2023, 8% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at MacDonell & Fern?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Fern Ave between Lane W of Macdonell and N of Fern and Lane E of Sorauren and N of Fern (October 2024), found an average of 28 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 36 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 366 m away (40 km/h), 0.6% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near MacDonell & Fern?

The nearest Green P car park is 14 Fuller Ave (603 m away, 42 spaces, 47% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 570 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,580 spaces — 23 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 430 Roncesvalles Ave (1.1 km).

How do I get to MacDonell & Fern by transit?

Streetcar routes 505, 506, 501, 504 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 436 m away; bus routes 47, 402, 29, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lansdowne Ave at Rideau Ave South Side, 98 m).

What restaurants are near MacDonell & Fern?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 281 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are I Deal Coffee (267 m), I Deal On the Park (322 m) and Bairradino Rotisserie & Grill (377 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 MacDonell & Fern?

The nearest is Sorauren Avenue Park Fieldhouse Washroom, 289 Sorauren Ave, 311 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom (587 m); Macgregor Playground Washroom (782 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 MacDonell & Fern?

12 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,201 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Odyssey Montessori School Incorporated (361 m, 64 spaces), Shirley Street Jr YMCA (380 m, 103 spaces) and Parkdale Childcare Centre (431 m, 177 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near MacDonell & Fern?

65 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,869 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 105 West Lodge Ave (303 m, 371 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 103 West Lodge Ave (373 m, 371 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 301 Lansdowne Ave (508 m, 35 units, RentSafeTO score 26) and 20 West Lodge Ave (542 m, 299 units, RentSafeTO score 91). The average RentSafeTO score across the 65 is 88 out of 100; 1 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 MacDonell & Fern?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and four 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 Roncesvalles page.

What neighbourhood is MacDonell & Fern in?

MacDonell & Fern is in Roncesvalles (City of Toronto neighbourhood 086). It is in Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, represented by Councillor Gord Perks.

Sources

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