Toronto · intersection · signal 5536

Morse & Queen

Morse St & Queen St E · Toronto, Ontario · South Riverdale · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth · Leslieville BIA

In South Riverdale, Morse & Queen is a moderately travelled crossing. At the corner: a school within 250 m and a park. Nearby: 13 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
7,411
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 5, 2001
1,033 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
38
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
3 with an injury · 24 property damage · #2467 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
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
3
TTC stops 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

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 930 vehicles, 80% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 7 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. That comes with about 3.8 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 69%, from 29 in 2016–2020 to 9 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Morse & Queen

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
501503504506505 nearest 88 m
TTC bus
728331 nearest 100 m
Blue Night
301304306305325
Nearest stops
12 surface stops within 300 m — Queen St East at Carlaw Ave; Queen St East at Logan Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Colgate Ave / Carlaw Ave 175 m · 19 docks · 20 stations, 361 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 (13)
  • Morse Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 113 m
  • Dundas Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 612 m
  • Bruce Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 640 m
  • Queen Alexandra Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 715 m
  • Seed Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 750 m
  • Eastdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 833 m
  • and 7 more
Community centres
Parks (34)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Queen/Saulter branch535 m
  • Toronto Public Library Jones branch794 m
  • Toronto Public Library Riverdale branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Soulpepper Theatre CompanyPerforming Arts · 1.4 km
  • Riverdale Park (East and West)Nature/ Park · 1.5 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 42 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 9 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 229 — 3.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is My Roti Place, 25 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés42 within 300 m · 229 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience9 within 300 m · 39 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
My Roti Place · 948 Queen St E25 mPassed, Aug 2026
Ramona's Kitchen · 913 Queen St E35 mPassed, Sep 2025
Masa Deli · 954 Queen St Egrocery36 mPassed, Feb 2026
Maestro's Gourmet Pizza · 899 Queen St E, Unit-#257 mPassed, Oct 2025
Nutbar · 899 Queen St E, Unit-357 mPassed, May 2025
Nutbar · 899 Queen St E Unit-357 mPassed, Sep 2026
Ed's Real Scoop · 920 Queen St E60 mPassed, Feb 2026
The Source Bulk Food · 901 Queen St Egrocery62 mPassed, Jan 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 Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre Washroom, 326 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 202 m away at Jimmie Simpson Park.

  • Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre Washroom · 870 Queen St E
    View centre hours
    326 m
  • Morse Street Playground Washroom · 76 Morse St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    483 m
  • Leslie Grove Park Washroom · 1158 Queen St E
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    649 m
Drinking water
Jimmie Simpson Park bottle filling station · 202 m; Jimmie Simpson Park bottle filling station · 313 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 1,084 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Mighty Kids (63 m, 43 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km12 centres · 1,084 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 12
  • Mighty Kids · 14 Verral Ave
    43 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    63 m
  • Brightpath Leslieville · 970 Queen St E
    154 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    82 m
  • Woodgreen Community Services (Morse Child Care Centre) · 180 Carlaw Ave
    192 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    113 m
  • Liberty Preparatory School Inc. · 181 Carlaw Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool
    137 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 324 (796 m), the nearest police station 51 Division (1.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 313 m away.

FireFire Station 324 · 796 m840 Gerrard St E
Police51 Division · 1.9 km51 Parliament Street
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 43 · 313 m126 Pape 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 20 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,107 rental units — 18 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 245-247 Logan Ave (94 m, 21 units, 4 storeys, built 1927), which scored 90 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 20 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 6 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings20 · 1,107 units · 18 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20266 across the 20
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
245-247 Logan Ave · Valour Management Inc.214192790 · Jun 2024094 m
841 Queen St Esocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc.363198869 · Jul 20260224 m
502 Eastern Avesocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes195198991 · Dec 20250290 m
55 Pape Avesocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc.605199688 · Aug 20240346 m
17 Renwick Cressocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc.804199692 · Oct 20251383 m
1070 Queen St Esocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc.1775199391 · Oct 20250389 m
1075 Queen St E · Imperra General Management486201698 · Aug 20261392 m
29 Louvain AveToronto Community Housing · TCH514199389 · Dec 20250396 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 lots646 lots · ≈34,410 spaces · 103.2 ha
Within 500 m83 lots · ≈2,210 spaces
Green P (public)12 car parks · about 1,040 spaces
EV charging (City)220 Carlaw Ave. · 141 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking106 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 27 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
111 Broadview Ave · Surface706 m9256% (Q1 2026)
136 Broadview Ave · Surface739 m2273% (Q1 2026)
653 Gerrard St E · Surface907 m3072% (Q1 2026)
573 Gerrard St E · Surface1.1 km3675% (Q1 2026)
83 Tannery Road · Garage1.3 km27 *

Nearest lots: 23 m away, ≈12 spaces; 37 m away, ≈11 spaces; 54 m away, ≈27 spaces; 59 m away, ≈11 spaces; 63 m away, ≈6 spaces; 65 m away, ≈13 spaces. More EV charging: 963 Gerrard St E (846 m, 2 ports); 500 Commissioners St (1.1 km, 2 ports); 43 Alton Ave (1.1 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, Apr 5, 2001

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 3,837 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 52% of the total, against 291 from the south. Evening rush dominates here: 1,252 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 1,019 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Trucks and buses were 8.4% 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 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 25 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2001, 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 west3,283eastbound · 0 bikes · 8.8% heavy
Total vehicles7,4111,033 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 8.4% heavy
From the east3,837westbound · 0 bikes · 8.1% heavy
From the south291northbound · 0 bikes · 6.9% heavy
AM peak hour1,019 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,252 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 5, 2001

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 Morse St between Lane N of Eastern and E of Logan and Lane S of Queen and E of Logan, 157 m from the corner, a 3-day count in October 2018 put the average speed at 34 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 44 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 51 km/h or more. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. The reading is 8 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Carlaw Ave (104 m away, 30 km/h limit), 20% of the 96,853 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a high share for a school zone.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Queen St E · Morse St – Verral Ave · 20 mJun 2013 · 24 h7,544
Morse St · Lane N of Eastern and E of Logan – Lane S of Queen and E of Logan · 157 mOct 2018 · 3 days56134 km/h44 km/h51 km/h

School-zone speed sign 104 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct34 · 41 km/h
Over the limit49%
40 km/h or more20%

Carlaw Ave (southbound), 180 Carlaw Avenue · 96,853 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 2016, with 12 collisions; 2025 recorded 2. 3 collisions (8%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 11 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 29% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (3%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 22, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions38#2467 of 5,508
With an injury3#3425 of 4,660
Property damage only24
Fail to remain11
Involving a pedestrian1#2908 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified11
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201445latest Jun 22, 2026

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

Six thefts from vehicles and five bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 1 in 2023–2025, about 0.3 a year, against 1.4 a year before that. 50% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 40% of the bike thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on May 30, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle600street/outdoor (3), house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft511street/outdoor (2), commercial premises (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 30, 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 South Riverdale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Morse & Queen a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 38 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 Morse & Queen?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Apr 5, 2001, 80% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Morse & Queen?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Morse St between Lane N of Eastern and E of Logan and Lane S of Queen and E of Logan (October 2018), found an average of 34 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 44 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 104 m away (30 km/h), 20% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Morse & Queen?

The nearest Green P car park is 111 Broadview Ave (706 m away, 92 spaces, 56% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 646 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 34,410 spaces — 83 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 220 Carlaw Ave. (141 m).

How do I get to Morse & Queen by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 503, 504, 506 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 88 m away; bus routes 72, 83, 31 within 1 km (nearest stop: Queen St East at Carlaw Ave, 100 m).

What restaurants are near Morse & Queen?

42 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 229 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are My Roti Place (25 m), Ramona's Kitchen (35 m), Maestro's Gourmet Pizza (57 m), Nutbar (57 m) and Nutbar (57 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 Morse & Queen?

The nearest is Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre Washroom, 870 Queen St E, 326 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Morse Street Playground Washroom (483 m); Leslie Grove Park Washroom (649 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 Morse & Queen?

12 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,084 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Mighty Kids (63 m, 43 spaces), Brightpath Leslieville (82 m, 154 spaces) and Woodgreen Community Services (Morse Child Care Centre) (113 m, 192 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Morse & Queen?

20 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,107 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 245-247 Logan Ave (94 m, 21 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 841 Queen St E (224 m, 36 units, RentSafeTO score 69), 502 Eastern Ave (290 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 55 Pape Ave (346 m, 60 units, RentSafeTO score 88). The average RentSafeTO score across the 20 is 89 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 Morse & Queen?

Toronto Police place six thefts from vehicles and five 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 South Riverdale page.

What neighbourhood is Morse & Queen in?

Morse & Queen is in South Riverdale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 070). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher. The corner falls inside the Leslieville Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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