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Ossington & Carus

Ossington Ave & Carus Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Wychwood · Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's

In Wychwood, Ossington & Carus is a moderately travelled crossing. At the corner: a park. Nearby: 12 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
5,434
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 4, 2003
94 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
5
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 5 property damage · #5054 of 5,508 · +2 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
1 streetcar route · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 680 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 59% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 58 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). On average 0.5 collisions a year were reported here in 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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Ossington & Carus

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
512 nearest 833 m
TTC bus
631272616112629 nearest 118 m
Express
929
Blue Night
312363329340
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Winona Dr / Davenport Rd 221 m · 11 docks · 16 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 (24)
  • St Bruno and St Raymond Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 256 m
  • Uchenna AcademyPrivate · 347 m
  • Winona Drive Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 455 m
  • McMurrich Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 575 m
  • Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 743 m
  • Regal Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 798 m
  • and 18 more
Parks (32)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Davenport branch234 m
  • Toronto Public Library Dufferin/St. Clair branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Wychwood branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • Artscape Wychwood BarnsLandmark · 927 m
  • Tarragon TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.4 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 7 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 151 — 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Aspiring Academics Preschool, 136 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés7 within 300 m · 151 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 21 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Aspiring Academics Preschool · 56 Somerset Ave136 mPassed, Aug 2026
A-D Cafe · 1147 Davenport Rd205 mPassed, Feb 2025
Lambretta Pizzeria · 1151 Davenport Rd211 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Lambretta Pizzeria · 1151 Davenport Rd211 mPassed, Apr 2025
Salto Antipasto Lounge · 1138 Davenport Rd227 mPassed, Apr 2025
Davenport & Dovercourt · 1150 Davenport Rd251 mPassed, Jun 2024
Super Coffee · 1085 Davenport Rd251 mPassed, Apr 2026
Our Place Community of Hope · 1183 Davenport Rd309 mPassed, Feb 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 Hillcrest Park Washroom, 638 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 197 m away at Geary Avenue Parkette.

  • Hillcrest Park Washroom · 950 Davenport Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    638 m
  • Dovercourt Park Washroom · 155 Bartlett Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    840 m
  • Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 1260 Dufferin St
    View centre hours
    1 km
Drinking water
Geary Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 197 m; Geary Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 258 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

14 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,135 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Aspiring Academics Preschool - Somerset (136 m, 46 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km14 centres · 1,135 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 14
  • Aspiring Academics Preschool - Somerset · 56 Somerset Ave
    46 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    136 m
  • McMurrich Sprouts · 115 Winona Dr
    177 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    575 m
  • Oakwood Children's House · 115 Winona Dr
    16 spaces · preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    575 m
  • McMurrich Co-Operative Playschool · 115 Winona Dr
    16 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    575 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 343 (798 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (2.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 343 · 798 m65 Hendrick Ave
Police14 Division · 2.4 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 1.3 km760 Dovercourt Rd

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 27 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,326 rental units — nine social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1060 Davenport Rd (233 m, 10 units, 4 storeys, built 1992), which scored 82 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 19 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings27 · 1,326 units · 9 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202619 across the 27
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest19 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1060 Davenport Rdsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes104199282 · Nov 20250233 m
11 Winona Drsocial housing · Hellenic Home For the Aged Inc.1507198797 · Jul 20260281 m
470 Melita CresToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation375198090 · Jun 20261296 m
10 Mount Royal Ave · 741476 Ontario Inc123191382 · Jun 20250327 m
2 Regal Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management1048195595 · Jul 20257394 m
740 Dupont St · Greystar Canada Property Management Services Ltd21092021100 · Dec 20250529 m
331 Bartlett Ave NToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation133190574 · Sep 20240582 m
2 Lambertlodge AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation645198391 · Nov 20250617 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 lots684 lots · ≈19,720 spaces · 59.2 ha
Within 500 m53 lots · ≈1,180 spaces
Green P (public)24 car parks · about 999 spaces
EV charging (City)273 Christie St · 773 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking19 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 14 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
789 St. Clair Avenue West · Surface868 m18 *
94 Northcliffe Blvd · Surface1 km1380% (Q1 2026)
287 RUSHTON RD. · Surface1 km1737% (Q1 2026)
700 St. Clair Ave West · Surface1 km18 *
640 St Clair Ave W · Surface1.1 km1866% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 111 m away, ≈37 spaces; 158 m away, ≈3 spaces; 170 m away, ≈20 spaces; 183 m away, ≈5 spaces; 187 m away, ≈6 spaces; 187 m away, ≈10 spaces. More EV charging: 580 Christie St (831 m, 2 ports); 91 Via Italia (1.3 km, 12 ports); 705 Shaw St (1.4 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, Feb 4, 2003

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 2,785 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 37 from the east. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 878 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 10% above the afternoon peak from 4:15 p.m. (796). Trucks and buses were 6.8% 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 24 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2003, 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 north2,612southbound · 0 bikes · 6.8% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles5,43494 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 6.8% heavy
From the east37westbound · 0 bikes · 10.8% heavy
From the south2,785northbound · 0 bikes · 6.8% heavy
AM peak hour878 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour796 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 4, 2003

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 Ossington Ave between Carus Ave and Marchmount Rd, 63 m from the corner, a 3-day count in October 2021 put the average speed at 45 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 54 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 60 km/h or more. That segment carries about 14,500 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Melita Cres (376 m away, 30 km/h limit), 1.0% of the 16,988 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Ossington Ave · Carus Ave – Marchmount Rd · 63 mOct 2021 · 3 days14,49045 km/h54 km/h60 km/h

School-zone speed sign 376 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct20 · 29 km/h
Over the limit5.0%
40 km/h or more1.0%

Melita Cres (eastbound), 338 Melita Avenue · 16,988 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 1 collision. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 21, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions5#5054 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only5
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 20149latest May 21, 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

Two 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. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Mar 30, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle201house driveway/garage (1), street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft400house driveway/garage (4)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Mar 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 Wychwood.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Ossington & Carus 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 Ossington & Carus?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Feb 4, 2003, 59% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Ossington & Carus?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Ossington Ave between Carus Ave and Marchmount Rd (October 2021), found an average of 45 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 54 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 376 m away (30 km/h), 1.0% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Ossington & Carus?

The nearest Green P car park is 789 St. Clair Avenue West (868 m away, 18 spaces). The City's mapping shows 684 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 19,720 spaces — 53 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 273 Christie St (773 m).

How do I get to Ossington & Carus by transit?

Streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 833 m away; bus routes 63, 127, 26, 161, 126, 29, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Ossington & Carus?

7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 151 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Aspiring Academics Preschool (136 m), A-D Cafe (205 m), Lambretta Pizzeria (211 m), Lambretta Pizzeria (211 m) and Salto Antipasto Lounge (227 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 Ossington & Carus?

The nearest is Hillcrest Park Washroom, 950 Davenport Rd, 638 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Dovercourt Park Washroom (840 m); Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre Washroom (1.0 km). 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 Ossington & Carus?

14 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,135 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Aspiring Academics Preschool - Somerset (136 m, 46 spaces), McMurrich Sprouts (575 m, 177 spaces) and Oakwood Children's House (575 m, 16 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Ossington & Carus?

27 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,326 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1060 Davenport Rd (233 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 82), 11 Winona Dr (281 m, 150 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 470 Melita Cres (296 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 10 Mount Royal Ave (327 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 82). The average RentSafeTO score across the 27 is 88 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 Ossington & Carus?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and four 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 Wychwood page.

What neighbourhood is Ossington & Carus in?

Ossington & Carus is in Wychwood (City of Toronto neighbourhood 094). It is in Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's, represented by Councillor Josh Matlow.

Sources

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