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Norway & Wheeler

Norway Ave & Wheeler Ave · Toronto, Ontario · The Beaches · Ward 19, Beaches-East York

Norway & Wheeler is a lightly travelled intersection. It sits in The Beaches. At the corner: a bike lane, a school within 250 m and a park. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
1,631
vehicles · 8-hour count, Mar 31, 2008
337 pedestrians · 9 cyclists
Collisions
5
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 1 property damage · #5105 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
3 streetcar routes · 3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Sharrows
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 200 vehicles an hour, 18% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 5 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Police have logged an average of 0.5 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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Norway & Wheeler

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
503501506 nearest 375 m
TTC bus
6492404 nearest 234 m
Blue Night
301306322
Nearest stops
1 surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
Sharrows on Norway Ave installed 2019
Bike Share
Heyworth Cres / Kingston Rd 500 m · 19 docks · 9 stations, 193 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 (18)
  • Glen Ames Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 187 m
  • Williamson Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 259 m
  • Norway Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 487 m
  • Boardwalk Montessori SchoolPrivate · 552 m
  • Kew Beach Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 700 m
  • Avalon Children's Montessori SchoolPrivate · 788 m
  • and 12 more
Parks (27)
  • Love Crescent Parkette548 m
  • Ivan Forrest Gardens694 m
  • Glen Stewart Park713 m
  • Kew Gardens738 m
  • Cassels Avenue Playground788 m
  • Pantry Park820 m
  • and 21 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Beaches branch528 m
  • Toronto Public Library Main Street branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Kew Gardens ParkNature/ Park · 736 m
  • Balmy Beach ParkNature/ Park · 1.4 km

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 103 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Loft Community Services, 325 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 103 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 11 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Loft Community Services · 505 Kingston Rd325 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Kingston 's Convenience · 452 Kingston Rdgrocery392 mPassed, Aug 2025
Paper Route Cafe · 462 Kingston Rd394 mPassed, Sep 2025
K & S Milk Store · 438 Kingston Rd409 mPassed, Aug 2025
Atrium at Kew Beach · 500 Kingston Rd413 mPassed, May 2026
Neighbours Community Homes · 550 Kingston Rd436 mPassed, Mar 2026
Captain Jack · 2 Wheeler Ave467 mPassed, Jul 2024
Freshii · 2032 Queen St E469 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions

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 Beaches Recreation Centre Washroom, 168 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 566 m away at Kew Gardens (currently off).

  • Beaches Recreation Centre Washroom · 6 Williamson Rd
    View centre hours
    168 m
  • Kew Gardens Playground Washroom · 2075 Queen St E
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    593 m
  • Norwood Park Washroom · 16 Norwood Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    847 m
Drinking water
Kew Gardens drinking fountain · 566 m · off

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

20 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,628 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Williamson Road Day Care Centre (259 m, 116 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km20 centres · 1,628 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 20
  • Williamson Road Day Care Centre · 24 Williamson Rd
    116 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    259 m
  • Norway School Age YMCA · 390 Kingston Rd
    99 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    487 m
  • Waverley Road Montessori School · 646 Kingston Rd
    29 spaces · toddler, preschool
    506 m
  • Boardwalk Montessori School Inc. · 1975 Queen St E
    57 spaces · toddler, preschool
    542 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 227 (697 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.6 km away.

FireFire Station 227 · 697 m1904 Queen St E
Police55 Division · 1.5 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 46 · 1.6 km105 Cedarvale 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 48 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,994 rental units, 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection — 11 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 191 Kenilworth Ave (325 m, 31 units, 4 storeys, built 1961), which scored 94 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 59 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 12 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings48 · 1,994 units · 11 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202659 across the 48
Open fire-code violations12
Tallest9 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
191 Kenilworth Ave · Kings College Management Ltd.314196194 · Jul 20251325 m
501 Kingston Rd · Akelius Canada Ltd757195098 · Jul 20254 · 2 fire327 m
485 Kingston Rd · Twelvestone Realty Advisors Inc.1159195888 · Aug 20261330 m
441 Kingston Rd · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.153192089 · Aug 20260354 m
530 Kingston RdToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation903195490 · Jul 20261402 m
474 Kingston Rd · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.384195895 · Jul 20261406 m
567 Kingston Rd · Linfred Investment154195092 · Aug 20260408 m
569 Kingston Rd · Linfred Investments154194088 · Jul 20250424 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 lots401 lots · ≈17,850 spaces · 53.5 ha
Within 500 m20 lots · ≈600 spaces
Green P (public)18 car parks · about 1,176 spaces
EV charging (City)1981 Queen Street East · 520 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingno post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 16 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
85 Lee Ave · Surface508 m6861% (Q1 2026)
136 Wineva Ave. · Surface531 m28 *
117 Hammersmith Ave · Surface602 m2947% (Q1 2026)
166 Woodbine Ave · Surface833 m2146% (Q1 2026)
192 Boardwalk Dr · Surface908 m2445% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 138 m away, ≈86 spaces; 198 m away, ≈18 spaces; 261 m away, ≈82 spaces; 306 m away, ≈15 spaces; 323 m away, ≈31 spaces; 405 m away, ≈14 spaces. More EV charging: 117 Hammersmith Ave (592 m, 6 ports); 2150 Queen Street East (770 m, 2 ports); 166 Woodbine Ave (811 m, 6 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, Mar 31, 2008

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 708 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 43% of the total, against 85 from the north. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 329 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 319 from 5:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 5.9% 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 18 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2008, 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 north85southbound · 0 bikes · 4.7% heavy
From the west577eastbound · 6 bikes · 5.7% heavy
Total vehicles1,631337 pedestrians · 9 cyclists · 5.9% heavy
From the east708westbound · 3 bikes · 5.5% heavy
From the south261northbound · 0 bikes · 8.0% heavy
AM peak hour329 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour319 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Mar 31, 2008

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 Wheeler Ave between Queen St E and Norway Ave, 250 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2003 put the average speed at 35 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 44 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 50 km/h or more. That segment carries about 700 vehicles a day. The reading is 23 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 5 speed humps slow traffic on Wheeler Avenue between Queen St E and Norway Ave.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Wheeler Ave · Queen St E – Norway Ave · 250 mMay 2003 · 3 days67435 km/h44 km/h50 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Wheeler Avenue · Queen St E – Norway Ave
    5 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 worst year was 2018, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 1 collision (20%) involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 60% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Oct 14, 2023.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions5#5105 of 5,508
With an injury1#4638 of 4,660
Property damage only1
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
All since 20146latest Oct 14, 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

Three thefts from vehicles and four bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle300street/outdoor (2), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft400other (3), apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 12, 2021. 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 The Beaches.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Norway & Wheeler a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 5 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 Norway & Wheeler?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Mar 31, 2008, 18% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Norway & Wheeler?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Wheeler Ave between Queen St E and Norway Ave (May 2003), found an average of 35 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 44 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Norway & Wheeler?

The nearest Green P car park is 85 Lee Ave (508 m away, 68 spaces, 61% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 401 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 17,850 spaces — 20 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1981 Queen Street East (520 m).

How do I get to Norway & Wheeler by transit?

Streetcar routes 503, 501, 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 375 m away; bus routes 64, 92, 404 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Norway & Wheeler?

None within 300 m, and 103 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Loft Community Services (325 m), Paper Route Cafe (394 m), K & S Milk Store (409 m), Atrium at Kew Beach (413 m) and Neighbours Community Homes (436 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 Norway & Wheeler?

The nearest is Beaches Recreation Centre Washroom, 6 Williamson Rd, 168 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Kew Gardens Playground Washroom (593 m); Norwood Park Washroom (847 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 Norway & Wheeler?

20 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,628 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Williamson Road Day Care Centre (259 m, 116 spaces), Norway School Age YMCA (487 m, 99 spaces) and Waverley Road Montessori School (506 m, 29 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Norway & Wheeler?

48 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,994 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 191 Kenilworth Ave (325 m, 31 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 501 Kingston Rd (327 m, 75 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 485 Kingston Rd (330 m, 115 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 441 Kingston Rd (354 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 89). The average RentSafeTO score across the 48 is 90 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 Norway & Wheeler?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and four 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 The Beaches page.

What neighbourhood is Norway & Wheeler in?

Norway & Wheeler is in The Beaches (City of Toronto neighbourhood 063). It is in Ward 19, Beaches-East York, represented by Councillor Brad Bradford.

Sources

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