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Monarch Park & Sammon (East)

Monarch Park Ave & Sammon Ave (East) · Toronto, Ontario · Danforth East York · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

Monarch Park & Sammon (East) is a lightly travelled intersection, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. It sits in Danforth East York. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: Greenwood Station (Line 2) 578 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
665
vehicles · 8-hour count, Aug 18, 2020
230 pedestrians · 237 cyclists
Collisions
6
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 4 property damage · #4893 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Greenwood Station 578 m · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Sharrows
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 80 vehicles an hour, 7% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 2.9 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 35.6% of vehicle volume, about 46× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 0.6 collisions 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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Monarch Park & Sammon (East)

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Greenwood Station (Line 2)578 m; Coxwell Station (Line 2)622 m
TTC bus
627040431872251 nearest 196 m
Blue Night
322300
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Sharrows on Monarch Park Ave installed 2021
Bike Share
Greenwood Ave / Sammon Ave 448 m · 11 docks · 11 stations, 177 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 (21)
  • Ecole Elementaire La MosaiqueFrench Public · 120 m
  • R H McGregor Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 284 m
  • Cosburn Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 681 m
  • Earl Beatty Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 683 m
  • Danforth Collegiate & Greenwood Secondary SchoolEnglish Public · 690 m
  • East York Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 788 m
  • and 15 more
Community centres
Parks (26)
  • East York Civic Centre363 m
  • Memorial Gardens Park377 m
  • True Davidson Park459 m
  • Cosburn Park552 m
  • Dieppe Park630 m
  • Les Anthony Parkette643 m
  • and 20 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library S. Walter Stewart branch461 m
  • Toronto Public Library Danforth/Coxwell branch802 m

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 4 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 132. The nearest is Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, 120 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés4 within 300 m · 132 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 26 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Alberto Grocery · 472 Sammon Avegrocery24 mPassed, Oct 2025
Yanu's Convenience · 471 Sammon Avegrocery26 mPassed, Oct 2025
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge · 80 Queensdale Ave120 mPassed, Jul 2026
Ecole Elementaire La Mosaique · 80 Queensdale Ave120 mPassed, Oct 2025
Pizza Depot · 549 Sammon Ave275 mPassed, May 2025
Puwan Convenience Store · 551 Sammon Avegrocery280 mPassed, Oct 2025
McGregor Junior Y ( YMCA) · 555 Mortimer Ave284 mPassed, Jul 2026
The Apple Cafe · 840 Coxwell Ave318 mPassed, Sep 2026

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 East York Civic Centre, 342 m away, Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 363 m away at Memorial Gardens Park.

  • East York Civic Centre · 850 Coxwell Avenue
    Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed · accessible
    342 m
  • Dieppe Park Washroom · 455 Cosburn Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    606 m
  • Earl Beatty Community Centre Washroom · 455 Glebeholme Blvd
    View centre hours
    680 m
Drinking water
Memorial Gardens Park drinking fountain · 363 m; Cosburn Park drinking fountain · 558 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

14 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,864 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Queensdale (120 m, 278 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km14 centres · 1,864 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 14
  • Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Queensdale · 80 Queensdale Ave
    278 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    120 m
  • McGregor Jr YMCA · 555 Mortimer Ave
    251 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    284 m
  • Monarch Park Montessori Inc. · 201 Monarch Park Ave
    55 spaces · toddler, preschool
    314 m
  • Centennial College Early Childhood Education Centre(550 Mortimer) · 550 Mortimer Ave
    57 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    336 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 323 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 55 Division (2.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.0 km away.

FireFire Station 323 · 1 km153 Chatham Ave
Police55 Division · 2.3 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceEMS TRAINING/TFD Stn 323 · 1 km153 Chatham Ave

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 11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 806 rental units — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 494 Mortimer Ave (238 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 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 11 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 4 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings11 · 806 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score86 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202611 across the 11
Open fire-code violations4
Tallest14 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
494 Mortimer Ave · Deborah Holmes123196574 · Jun 20240238 m
470 Mortimer Ave · Mortimer Rentals Inc424195790 · Jun 20240287 m
325 Sammon Ave · Brayden Irwin263195094 · Jul 20252464 m
280 Sammon Ave344195571 · Sep 20240632 m
1435 Danforth Ave · 1239798 Ontario Ltd123195085 · Sep 20240660 m
611 Cosburn Ave123195185 · Sep 20240701 m
1577 Danforth Avesocial housing · Aykler Real Estate Inc1266199196 · Nov 20250743 m
1275 Danforth AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1094198887 · Jun 20242757 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 lots478 lots · ≈12,360 spaces · 37.1 ha
Within 500 m28 lots · ≈680 spaces
Green P (public)17 car parks · about 652 spaces
EV charging (City)1612 Danforth Ave. · 709 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking9 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
850 Coxwell Ave · Surface323 m1862% (Q1 2026)
1439 Danforth Ave · Surface647 m1895% (Q1 2026)
737 Rhodes Ave · Surface692 m2450% (Q1 2026)
1612 Danforth Ave · Surface714 m2275% (Q1 2026)
31 Langford Ave · Surface1.2 km2761% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 61 m away, ≈22 spaces; 113 m away, ≈26 spaces; 187 m away, ≈13 spaces; 240 m away, ≈12 spaces; 244 m away, ≈60 spaces; 245 m away, ≈70 spaces. More EV charging: 124 Mount Joy Ave (815 m, 2 ports); 132 Chatham Ave (1 km, 2 ports); 31 Roseheath Ave (1.2 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, Aug 18, 2020

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 243 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 37% of the total, against 110 from the south. Evening rush dominates here: 97 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 67 in the morning peak from 7:45 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 0.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 6 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2020, 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 north167southbound · 23 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west145eastbound · 56 bikes · 0.7% heavy
Total vehicles665230 pedestrians · 237 cyclists · 0.8% heavy
From the east243westbound · 86 bikes · 0.4% heavy
From the south110northbound · 72 bikes · 2.7% heavy
AM peak hour67 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour97 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Aug 18, 2020

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 Monarch Park Ave between Glebeholme Blvd and Milverton Blvd, 302 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in October 2011 put the average speed at 31 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 37 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 39 km/h or more. That segment carries about 800 vehicles a day. Sammon Ave between Leroy Ave and Kimbourne Ave measured slower: 26 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 34 km/h (Apr 2017). The reading is 15 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Durant Ave (176 m away, 30 km/h limit), 5.2% of the 9,959 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem. 2 speed humps slow traffic on Monarch Park Avenue between Mortimer Ave and Sammon Ave.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Monarch Park Ave · Glebeholme Blvd – Milverton Blvd · 302 mOct 2011 · 24 h84431 km/h37 km/h39 km/h
Sammon Ave · Leroy Ave – Kimbourne Ave · 326 mApr 2017 · 3 days2,40026 km/h34 km/h39 km/h

School-zone speed sign 176 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct25 · 34 km/h
Over the limit20%
40 km/h or more5.2%

Durant Ave (northbound), 555 Mortimer Avenue · 9,959 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Monarch Park Avenue · Mortimer Ave – Sammon Ave
    2 speed humps

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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 2 collisions. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Oct 24, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions6#4893 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only4
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 20147latest Oct 24, 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

Five thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 60% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle520house driveway/garage (3), street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 30, 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 Monarch Park & Sammon (East) a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 6 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 Monarch Park & Sammon (East)?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Aug 18, 2020, 7% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Monarch Park & Sammon (East)?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Monarch Park Ave between Glebeholme Blvd and Milverton Blvd (October 2011), found an average of 31 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 37 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 176 m away (30 km/h), 5.2% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Monarch Park & Sammon (East)?

The nearest Green P car park is 850 Coxwell Ave (323 m away, 18 spaces, 62% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 478 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 12,360 spaces — 28 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1612 Danforth Ave. (709 m).

How do I get to Monarch Park & Sammon (East) by transit?

Greenwood Station (Line 2) is 578 m away; bus routes 62, 70, 404, 31, 87, 22, 51 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Monarch Park & Sammon (East)?

4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 132 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (120 m), Ecole Elementaire La Mosaique (120 m), Pizza Depot (275 m), McGregor Junior Y ( YMCA) (284 m) and The Apple Cafe (318 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 Monarch Park & Sammon (East)?

The nearest is East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Avenue, 342 m away (Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Dieppe Park Washroom (606 m); Earl Beatty Community Centre Washroom (680 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 Monarch Park & Sammon (East)?

14 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,864 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Queensdale (120 m, 278 spaces), McGregor Jr YMCA (284 m, 251 spaces) and Monarch Park Montessori Inc. (314 m, 55 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Monarch Park & Sammon (East)?

11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 806 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 494 Mortimer Ave (238 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 74), 470 Mortimer Ave (287 m, 42 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 325 Sammon Ave (464 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 280 Sammon Ave (632 m, 34 units, RentSafeTO score 71). The average RentSafeTO score across the 11 is 86 out of 100. 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 Monarch Park & Sammon (East)?

Toronto Police place five thefts from vehicles and no 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 Danforth East York page.

What neighbourhood is Monarch Park & Sammon (East) in?

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

Sources

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