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Memorial Park & Roosevelt

Memorial Park Ave & Roosevelt Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Danforth East York · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

Memorial Park & Roosevelt sits in Danforth East York. At the City's last count here, in 2015, it was a lightly travelled intersection, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: parks. Nearby: 7 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
879
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 15, 2015
328 pedestrians · 58 cyclists
Collisions
0
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
0
TTC stops within 100 m
7 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
50/100
city median 48 · #2,687 of 5,672
6 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 449 m

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Memorial Park & Roosevelt

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 15, 2015

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 308 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 35% of the total, against 128 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the west (33 of 58). Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 185 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 31% above the afternoon peak from 4:00 p.m. (141). Trucks and buses were 9.3% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 12 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 north140southbound · 3 bikes · 10.7% heavy
From the west303eastbound · 33 bikes · 8.6% heavy
Total vehicles879328 pedestrians · 58 cyclists · 9.3% heavy
From the east308westbound · 18 bikes · 10.1% heavy
From the south128northbound · 4 bikes · 7.8% heavy

Peak hours: 185 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 141 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

Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

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

On Roosevelt Rd between Mortimer Ave and Memorial Park Ave, 103 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2024 put the average speed at 33 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 300 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Cosburn Ave (211 m away, 40 km/h limit), 4.8% of the 97,963 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Roosevelt Rd · Mortimer Ave – Memorial Park Ave · 103 mMar 2024 · 3 days32733 km/h43 km/h49 km/h
Speed sign
Cosburn Ave (eastbound), 211 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 39 km/h, 85th percentile 45 km/h; 4.8% at 50 km/h or more. 97,963 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
62 87 70 404 8 51 nearest 224 m
Blue Night
322
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Cosburn Ave / Durant Ave 299 m · 4 min · 15 docks · 4 stations, 56 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
4 car parks · about 82 spaces
EV charging
1612 Danforth Ave. · 1.3 km · 2 Level 2 ports; also 124 Mount Joy Ave (1.3 km), 132 Chatham Ave (1.9 km)
Bike parking
9 post-and-rings within 300 m
Other lots
19 mapped lots within 500 m, 286 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
850 Coxwell Ave · Surface419 m1862% (Q1 2026)
1439 Danforth Ave · Surface1.2 km1895% (Q1 2026)
1612 Danforth Ave · Surface1.3 km2275% (Q1 2026)
737 Rhodes Ave · Surface1.4 km2450% (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

No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Alberto Grocery, 449 m away. A specialist food shop is closer still: Cheese Headz, 283 m away. Toronto Public Health inspects 6 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 36. The nearest is Abdul Rassul, 283 m away. The nearest pharmacy is East York Pharmasave, 494 m away; 4 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Michael Garron Hospital, 591 m away. Woodgreen Community Centre - Outreach Programs runs a seniors' active living programme 1.0 km away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Abdul Rassul · 850 Coxwell Ave283 m · 3 min
  • Didi Grill · 850 Coxwell Ave283 m · 3 min
  • Get Your Own Taters · 850 Coxwell Ave283 m · 3 min
  • Get Your Own Taters · 850 Coxwell Ave283 m · 3 min
  • Hotspot Bubble Tea · 850 Coxwell Ave283 m · 3 min
6 within 300 m · 36 within 1 km
Grocery
Alberto Grocery 449 m · 5 min · 2 within 1 km
Food shops
Cheese Headz 283 m · 3 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Pharmacy
East York Pharmasave 494 m · 6 min · 4 within 1 km
Child care
  • East York Montessori School · 31 spaces, toddler, preschool415 m · 5 min
  • Centennial College Early Childhood Education Centre(550 Mortimer) · 57 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day437 m · 5 min
  • McGregor Jr YMCA · 251 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day457 m · 5 min
8 licensed centres · 842 spaces within 1 km · 5 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • East York Civic Centre · Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed · accessible283 m · 3 min
  • Dieppe Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible446 m · 5 min
Drinking water: Cosburn Park 167 m
Health and care
  • Michael Garron Hospital · hospital site591 m · 7 min
  • Woodgreen Community Centre - Outreach Programs · seniors' active living centre1 km · 11 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 (10)
  • True Davidson Park72 m
  • Cosburn Park164 m
  • East York Civic Centre245 m
  • Memorial Gardens Park253 m · 3 min
  • Dieppe Park493 m · 6 min
and 5 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (11)
  • Cosburn Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 282 m · 3 min
  • R H McGregor Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 457 m · 5 min
  • Ecole Elementaire La MosaiqueFrench Public · 603 m · 7 min
  • Diefenbaker Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 609 m · 7 min
  • East York Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 611 m · 7 min
and 6 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library S. Walter Stewart branch94 m
  • Toronto Public Library Danforth/Coxwell branch1.5 km · 18 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.

50of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,687 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food16/30

    2 grocery stores within 1 km · 6 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit12/28

    4 stops within 300 m · 7 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go7/14

    library 94 m away

  • Parks and recreation7/10

    5 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 1.3 km

  • Schools and child care8/8

    2 schools within 500 m · 3 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

Within a kilometre there are six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 390 rental units — two social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 494 Mortimer Ave (301 m, 12 units, 3 storeys, built 1965), which scored 74 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
494 Mortimer Ave · Deborah Holmes123196574 · Jun 2024301 m · 4 min
470 Mortimer Ave · Mortimer Rentals Inc424195790 · Jun 2024407 m · 5 min
611 Cosburn Ave123195185 · Sep 2024551 m · 7 min
325 Sammon Ave · Brayden Irwin263195094 · Jul 2025919 m · 11 min
266 Donlands Ave Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation2548198694 · Jun 20241 km · 12 min
270 Donlands Ave social housing · Woodgreen Community Services448201298 · Aug 20261 km · 12 min

6 registered buildings · 390 units · 2 social housing · tallest 8 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

Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.

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 Danforth East York.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Memorial Park & Roosevelt 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 Memorial Park & Roosevelt?

A lightly travelled intersection at the City's last count here, in 2015. Its latest count is from Apr 15, 2015, 10% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Memorial Park & Roosevelt a walkable intersection?

Memorial Park & Roosevelt scores 50 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,687 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 schools within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m; 5 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 1.3 km; 2 grocery stores within 1 km · 6 places to eat within 300 m.

How fast do cars go at Memorial Park & Roosevelt?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Roosevelt Rd between Mortimer Ave and Memorial Park Ave (March 2024), found an average of 33 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 211 m away (40 km/h), 4.8% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Memorial Park & Roosevelt?

The nearest Green P car park is 850 Coxwell Ave (419 m away, 18 spaces, 62% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 286 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 7,150 spaces — 19 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1612 Danforth Ave. (1.3 km).

How do I get to Memorial Park & Roosevelt by transit?

Bus routes 62, 87, 70, 404, 8, 51 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Memorial Park & Roosevelt?

6 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 36 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Abdul Rassul (283 m), Didi Grill (283 m), Get Your Own Taters (283 m), Get Your Own Taters (283 m) and Hotspot Bubble Tea (283 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Memorial Park & Roosevelt?

The nearest is East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Avenue, 283 m away (Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Dieppe Park Washroom (446 m); Dieppe Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (630 m).

Is there child care near Memorial Park & Roosevelt?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 842 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are East York Montessori School (415 m, 31 spaces), Centennial College Early Childhood Education Centre(550 Mortimer) (437 m, 57 spaces) and McGregor Jr YMCA (457 m, 251 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Memorial Park & Roosevelt?

Six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 390 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 494 Mortimer Ave (301 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 74), 470 Mortimer Ave (407 m, 42 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 611 Cosburn Ave (551 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 85) and 325 Sammon Ave (919 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 6 is 89 out of 100.

What neighbourhood is Memorial Park & Roosevelt in?

Memorial Park & Roosevelt is in Danforth East York (City of Toronto neighbourhood 059). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher.

Sources

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