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Margueretta & Bloor (West)

Margueretta St & Bloor St W (West) · Toronto, Ontario · Dufferin Grove · Ward 9, Davenport · Bloordale Village BIA

At its last City count, in 2022, Margueretta & Bloor (West), in Dufferin Grove, was a moderately travelled crossing, with a well-used cycling route through it. It has Lansdowne Station, a protected bikeway and a park at the corner. Nearby: Bloor GO 821 m away.

Traffic
8,238
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 14, 2022
1,567 pedestrians · 1,796 cyclists
Collisions
61
police-reported · 2016–2025
1 killed or seriously injured · #1756 of 5,519
Getting there
Lansdowne Station
subway station within 250 m
13 routes within 1 km · protected bikeway
Within a walk
75/100
city median 48 · #531 of 5,672
43 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 225 m

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Margueretta & Bloor (West)

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 · Jun 14, 2022

The west leg carries the load — 4,788 eastbound vehicles, or 58% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 3,450. Most cyclists arrived from the west (941 of 1,796). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,128 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,084 from 4:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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 north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west4,788eastbound · 941 bikes · 4.7% heavy
Total vehicles8,2381,567 pedestrians · 1,796 cyclists · 4.8% heavy
From the east3,450westbound · 808 bikes · 4.8% heavy
From the south0northbound · 47 bikes · 0.0% heavy

Peak hours: 1,128 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,084 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

2024 was the peak year (11 collisions), and 2025 closed with 3. 20% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 14 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 23% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 26% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 6 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Aug 7, 2026.

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. 1 pedestrian was among those hurt. It happened in darkness. The most recent was on Apr 1, 2017.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions61#1756 of 5,519
With an injury12#1439 of 4,669
Property damage only37
Fail to remain14
Involving a pedestrian3#1164 of 3,196
Involving a cyclist13#73 of 2,576
Severity not classified12
Since January 2026 (outside the window)6
Killed or seriously injured1#730 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian1#402 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
In darkness1
All KSI since 20061latest Apr 1, 2017

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 Bloor St W between St Clarens Ave and Lansdowne Ave (155 m away) recorded an average of 27 km/h in its 3-day count in April 2026; 85% of drivers were at or under 35 km/h. That segment carries about 16,000 vehicles a day. Margueretta St between Susan Tibaldi Parkette Trl and Wallace Ave measured slower: 27 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 34 km/h (Jun 2022).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Bloor St W · St Clarens Ave – Lansdowne Ave · 155 mApr 2026 · 3 days16,01727 km/h35 km/h40 km/h
Margueretta St · Susan Tibaldi Parkette Trl – Wallace Ave · 268 mJun 2022 · 3 days1,23027 km/h34 km/h39 km/h

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

Subway
Lansdowne Station (Line 2)235 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)495 m · 6 min; Dundas West Station (Line 2)0.9 km · 11 min
GO Transit
Bloor GO — Kitchener821 m · 10 min
UP Express
Bloor GO/UP 821 m · 10 min — trains to Pearson
Streetcar
512 506 nearest 280 m · 3 min
TTC bus
402 47 29 168 nearest 94 m
Express
929
Blue Night
306 300 329
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Bloor St West at Brock Ave
Cycling
Cycle Track on Bloor St W installed 2020
Bike Share
Emerson Ave / Bloor St W 33 m · 23 docks · 16 stations, 293 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 412 spaces
EV charging
685 Dovercourt Rd · 1.1 km · 2 Level 2 ports; also 2285 Dundas St W (1.1 km), 2251 Dundas St W (1.2 km)
Bike parking
89 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 82 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
33 mapped lots within 500 m, 436 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Emerson Ave · Surface124 m4963% (Q1 2026)
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface270 m16over 100% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface684 m3763% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface779 m3374% (Q1 2026)
9 Bonar Pl · Surface1.1 km3471% (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

You can do a shop on foot from here: Harar Grocery is 225 m away, one of two grocery stores within 300 m. Five specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Bakerbots Baking at 67 m. There are 43 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 138 eating places within a kilometre — 3.4× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Nuthouse, 6 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Ultra - Bloor Phamacy, 15 m away, one of two within 300 m. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: New Horizons Tower, a retirement home 414 m away. La Centre For Active Seniors - Rankin Apartments runs a seniors' active living programme 518 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Nuthouse · 1256 Bloor St W6 m
  • Ibet Sushi · 1260 Bloor St W19 m
  • House of Lancaster Ii · 1215 Bloor St W22 m
  • Latin World · 1262 Bloor St W35 m
  • Galaxy. N+t · 1227 Bloor St W41 m
43 within 300 m · 138 within 1 km
Grocery
Harar Grocery 225 m · 2 within 300 m
Food shops
Bakerbots Baking 67 m · 5 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
Convenience
3 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
Pharmacy
Ultra - Bloor Phamacy 15 m · 6 within 1 km
Child care
  • Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre · 39 spaces, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day334 m · 4 min
  • Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) · 75 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day609 m · 7 min
  • PLASP Pauline Junior Public School · 28 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day617 m · 7 min
4 licensed centres · 275 spaces within 1 km · all accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · hours not listed798 m · 10 min
  • Macgregor Playground Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs862 m · 10 min
Drinking water: Susan Tibaldi Parkette 123 m
Health and care
  • New Horizons Tower · retirement home414 m · 5 min
  • La Centre For Active Seniors - Rankin Apartments · seniors' active living centre518 m · 6 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 (15)
  • Susan Tibaldi Parkette139 m
  • Salem Parkette848 m · 10 min
  • Macgregor Playground864 m · 10 min
  • Dufferin Grove Park917 m · 11 min
  • Westmoreland Avenue Parkette926 m · 11 min
and 10 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (16)
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 359 m · 4 min
  • St Sebastian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 572 m · 7 min
  • Pauline Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 617 m · 7 min
  • Brock Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 700 m · 8 min
  • St Mary Catholic Academy Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 902 m · 11 min
and 11 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch553 m · 7 min
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch1.5 km · 17 min
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 1.1 km · 13 min
  • Taras H. Shevchenko MuseumMuseum · 1.3 km · 15 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.

75of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #531 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food30/30

    2 grocery stores within 300 m · 43 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit28/28

    Lansdowne Station · 7 stops within 300 m · 13 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go6/14

    library 553 m away · 2 places of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation5/10

    1 park within 500 m · nearest centre 1.3 km

  • Schools and child care6/8

    1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

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

11 registered apartment buildings with 1,127 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1212 Bloor St W (134 m, 16 units, 3 storeys, built 1923), which scored 79 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 11 scored below 70; the average is 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
1212 Bloor St W163192379 · Jul 2025134 m
685 Lansdowne Ave · Gbs Properties Ltd.303198580 · Jul 2025271 m · 3 min
1121 Bloor St W · Charles Dieu114192690 · Jul 2025462 m · 6 min
55 Rankin Cres Toronto Community Housing · TCH1769199294 · Jun 2025506 m · 6 min
10 Dora Ave social housing · Community First Developments Inc.1348199597 · Jul 2025551 m · 7 min
919 Dufferin St · CLV Group11315197191 · Jul 2025712 m · 8 min

11 registered buildings · 1,127 units · 4 social housing · tallest 16 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 20 thefts from vehicles and three bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 3.8× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 3 in 2023–2025, about 1.0 a year, against 2.9 a year before that. 100% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 2 more have been reported, the latest on Jun 11, 2026.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle2021street/outdoor (20)
Bicycle theft311house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (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 Dufferin Grove.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Margueretta & Bloor (West) a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#730 of 1,505), out of 61 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 Margueretta & Bloor (West)?

A moderately travelled crossing at the City's last count here, in 2022. Its latest count is from Jun 14, 2022, about today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Margueretta & Bloor (West) a walkable intersection?

Margueretta & Bloor (West) scores 75 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #531 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; 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 grocery stores within 300 m · 43 places to eat within 300 m; Lansdowne Station · 7 stops within 300 m · 13 routes within 1 km; 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m.

How fast do cars go at Margueretta & Bloor (West)?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Bloor St W between St Clarens Ave and Lansdowne Ave (April 2026), found an average of 27 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 35 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Margueretta & Bloor (West)?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Emerson Ave (124 m away, 49 spaces, 63% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 436 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 14,990 spaces — 33 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 685 Dovercourt Rd (1.1 km).

How do I get to Margueretta & Bloor (West) by transit?

Lansdowne Station (Line 2) is 235 m away; Bloor GO is 821 m away; streetcar routes 512, 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 280 m away; bus routes 402, 47, 29, 168, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bloor St West at Brock Ave, 94 m).

What restaurants are near Margueretta & Bloor (West)?

43 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 138 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Nuthouse (6 m), Ibet Sushi (19 m), House of Lancaster Ii (22 m), Latin World (35 m) and Galaxy. N+t (41 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Margueretta & Bloor (West)?

The nearest is Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 875 Dufferin St, 798 m away. Next nearest: Macgregor Playground Washroom (862 m); Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom (948 m).

Is there child care near Margueretta & Bloor (West)?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 275 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre (334 m, 39 spaces), Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) (609 m, 75 spaces) and PLASP Pauline Junior Public School (617 m, 28 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Margueretta & Bloor (West)?

11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,127 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1212 Bloor St W (134 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 685 Lansdowne Ave (271 m, 30 units, RentSafeTO score 80), 1121 Bloor St W (462 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 55 Rankin Cres (506 m, 176 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 11 is 86 out of 100; 1 scored below 70.

How many thefts are reported at Margueretta & Bloor (West)?

Toronto Police place 20 thefts from vehicles and three bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 2 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Dufferin Grove page.

What neighbourhood is Margueretta & Bloor (West) in?

Margueretta & Bloor (West) is in Dufferin Grove (City of Toronto neighbourhood 083). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo. The corner falls inside the Bloordale Village Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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