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Myrtle & Bushell

Myrtle Ave & Bushell Ave · Toronto, Ontario · South Riverdale · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

Myrtle & Bushell, in South Riverdale, is a quiet local crossing, with pedestrians outnumbering vehicles and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: 2 schools within 250 m. Nearby: 8 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
141
vehicles · 8-hour count, Sep 29, 2004
206 pedestrians · 76 cyclists
Collisions
6
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 4 property damage · #4894 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
1 streetcar route · 4 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 20 vehicles, 2% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.5 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 53.9% of vehicle volume, about 70× the typical share. That comes with about 0.6 reported collisions a year, 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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Myrtle & Bushell

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
506 nearest 278 m
TTC bus
83723151 nearest 100 m
Blue Night
306325300
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Blake St / Boultbee Ave 244 m · 15 docks · 13 stations, 259 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 (25)
  • Bon Berger Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 143 m
  • Riverdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 202 m
  • Blake St Jr & East AlternativeEnglish Public · 252 m
  • Pape Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 552 m
  • Leslieville Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 554 m
  • Jones Avenue Adult CentreEnglish Public · 692 m
  • and 19 more
Parks (34)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Jones branch654 m
  • Toronto Public Library Pape/Danforth branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Gerrard/Ashdale branch1.1 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 10 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 107. The nearest is Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, 132 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés10 within 300 m · 107 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 20 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge · 343 Jones Ave132 mPassed, Jun 2026
Riverdale Collegiate Institute- Snp · 1094 Gerrard St E201 mPassed, Dec 2025
Yummy House · 234 Jones Ave262 mPassed, Apr 2026
Scenic · 1060 Gerrard St E270 mPassed, Apr 2026
Greek Restaurant · 1056 Gerrard St E276 mPassed, Jan 2026
Royal Hakka & Sizzler · 1056 Gerrard St E276 mPassed, Aug 2026
Sprouty · 1062 Gerrard St E280 mPassed, Nov 2025
Chula · 1058 Gerrard St E284 mPassed, Aug 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 Greenwood Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom, 523 m away, View facility hours. A drinking fountain is 507 m away at Matty Eckler Playground.

  • Greenwood Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom · 150 Greenwood Ave
    View facility hours
    523 m
  • Matty Eckler Recreation Centre Washroom · 953 Gerrard St E
    View centre hours
    554 m
  • Greenwood Park Fieldhouse Washroom · 150 Greenwood Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    598 m
Drinking water
Matty Eckler Playground bottle filling station · 507 m; Greenwood Park drinking fountain · 554 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 899 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Jones (143 m, 128 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten).

Within 1 km14 centres · 899 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 14
  • Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Jones · 343 Jones Ave
    128 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    143 m
  • Woodgreen Community Services (Riverdale Child Care) · 1094 Gerrard St E
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    202 m
  • All About Kids Inc. (1055 Gerrard Street East) · 1055 Gerrard St E
    82 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day
    329 m
  • Riverdale Learning Loft Inc. · 433 Pape Ave
    41 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool
    498 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 324 (798 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 859 m away.

FireFire Station 324 · 798 m840 Gerrard St E
Police55 Division · 1.5 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceEMS TRAINING/TFD Stn 323 · 859 m153 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 17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,558 rental units — 13 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1119 Gerrard St E (308 m, 29 units, 5 storeys, built 1996), which scored 93 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 29 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 13 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings17 · 1,558 units · 13 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202629 across the 17
Open fire-code violations13
Tallest14 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1119 Gerrard St Esocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc.295199693 · Aug 20260308 m
10 Boultbee AveToronto Community Housing · TCH16711200192 · Jul 20261381 m
80 Blake StToronto Community Housing · TCH19014196998 · Jul 20240 · 7 fire437 m
369 Pape AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1398198193 · Aug 20266487 m
575 Pape Ave · D&d Property Management173193092 · Jul 20241708 m
1320 Gerrard St Esocial housing455199496 · Nov 20250727 m
2 Phin AveToronto Community Housing · TCH343197085 · Aug 20262757 m
100 Unity Rdsocial housing · Dms Property Management Ltd.986198589 · Aug 20246770 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 lots691 lots · ≈30,760 spaces · 92.3 ha
Within 500 m28 lots · ≈1,080 spaces
Green P (public)24 car parks · about 1,008 spaces
EV charging (City)453 Jones Ave · 499 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking5 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 32 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
151 Hiawatha Road · Surface1 km50 *
670 Pape Ave · Surface1 km7447% (Q1 2026)
31 Langford Ave · Surface1.1 km2761% (Q1 2026)
12 Woodycrest Ave · Surface1.1 km3543% (Q1 2026)
17 Eaton Ave · Surface1.1 km3065% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 133 m away, ≈44 spaces; 149 m away, ≈17 spaces; 165 m away, ≈23 spaces; 209 m away, ≈18 spaces; 254 m away, ≈4 spaces; 254 m away, ≈13 spaces. More EV charging: 963 Gerrard St E (518 m, 2 ports); 503 Jones Ave (659 m, 2 ports); 1313 Gerrard ST E (715 m, 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, Sep 29, 2004

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 91 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 65% of the total, against 50 from the south. Evening rush dominates here: 36 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 22 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Trucks and buses were 17.7% 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 22 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2004, 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 west91eastbound · 27 bikes · 20.9% heavy
Total vehicles141206 pedestrians · 76 cyclists · 17.7% heavy
From the east0westbound · 38 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south50northbound · 11 bikes · 12.0% heavy
AM peak hour22 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour36 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Sep 29, 2004

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

The City's most recent midblock count on Myrtle Ave between Jones Ave and Bushell Ave (53 m away, Nov 2007) recorded volume only — about 257 vehicles a day — with no speed data. At the school-zone speed sign on Jones Ave (242 m away, 30 km/h limit), 63% of the 129,903 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a high share for a school zone.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Myrtle Ave · Jones Ave – Bushell Ave · 53 mNov 2007 · 3 days257

School-zone speed sign 242 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct42 · 49 km/h
Over the limit81%
40 km/h or more63%

Jones Ave (southbound), 366 Jones Avenue · 129,903 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 2020, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 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 Dec 29, 2023.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions6#4894 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 Dec 29, 2023

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: 2 in 2023–2025, about 0.7 a year, against 1.3 a year before that. 83% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 80% of the bike thefts were from other premises.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle620street/outdoor (5), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft500other (4), house driveway/garage (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jan 13, 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 South Riverdale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Myrtle & Bushell 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 Myrtle & Bushell?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Sep 29, 2004, 2% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Myrtle & Bushell?

The nearest Green P car park is 151 Hiawatha Road (1.0 km away, 50 spaces). The City's mapping shows 691 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 30,760 spaces — 28 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 453 Jones Ave (499 m).

How do I get to Myrtle & Bushell by transit?

Streetcar route 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 278 m away; bus routes 83, 72, 31, 51 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Myrtle & Bushell?

10 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 107 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (132 m), Riverdale Collegiate Institute- Snp (201 m), Yummy House (262 m), Scenic (270 m) and Greek Restaurant (276 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 Myrtle & Bushell?

The nearest is Greenwood Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom, 150 Greenwood Ave, 523 m away (View facility hours). Next nearest: Matty Eckler Recreation Centre Washroom (554 m); Greenwood Park Fieldhouse Washroom (598 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 Myrtle & Bushell?

14 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 899 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Jones (143 m, 128 spaces), Woodgreen Community Services (Riverdale Child Care) (202 m, 49 spaces) and All About Kids Inc. (1055 Gerrard Street East) (329 m, 82 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Myrtle & Bushell?

17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,558 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1119 Gerrard St E (308 m, 29 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 10 Boultbee Ave (381 m, 167 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 80 Blake St (437 m, 190 units, RentSafeTO score 98) and 369 Pape Ave (487 m, 139 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 17 is 91 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 Myrtle & Bushell?

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

What neighbourhood is Myrtle & Bushell in?

Myrtle & Bushell is in South Riverdale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 070). 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