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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · Mar 1, 2012
Traffic is heaviest from the south: 4,491 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 57% of the total, against 3,424 from the north. Most cyclists arrived from the north (63 of 126). Evening rush dominates here: 1,308 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 1,075 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Trucks and buses were 5.2% 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 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 15 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2012, 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.
Peak hours: 1,075 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,308 from 5:00 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).
Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m
The worst year was 2023, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 2 collisions (18%) involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 18% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from May 10, 2025.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 11 | |
| With an injury | 2 | |
| Property damage only | 7 | |
| Fail to remain | 2 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 2 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.
How fast traffic moves here
On Ossington Ave between Manchester Ave and Lane S of Hallam and E of Ossington, 24 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2022 put the average speed at 38 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 48 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 55 km/h or more. That segment carries about 11,300 vehicles a day. The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Manchester Ave between Shaw St and Ossington Ave measured slower: 26 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 35 km/h (Sep 2021). At the school-zone speed sign on Garnet Ave (340 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.4% of the 21,793 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ossington Ave · Manchester Ave – Lane S of Hallam and E of Ossington · 24 m | May 2022 · 3 days | 11,281 | 38 km/h | 48 km/h | 55 km/h |
| Manchester Ave · Shaw St – Ossington Ave · 102 m | Sep 2021 · 3 days | 291 | 26 km/h | 35 km/h | 39 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Garnet Ave (eastbound), 340 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 12 km/h, 85th percentile 25 km/h; 0.4% at 40 km/h or more. 21,793 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Subway
- Ossington Station (Line 2)582 m · 7 min
- TTC bus
- 63 26 161 94 126 127 29 nearest 65 m
- Blue Night
- 363 300 329
- Nearest stops
- 4 surface stops within 300 m — Ossington Ave at Hallam St
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Shaw St / Essex St - SMART 285 m · 3 min · 15 docks · 10 stations, 169 docks within 1 km
Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- 10 car parks · about 470 spaces
- EV charging
- 273 Christie St · 843 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 705 Shaw St (943 m), 685 Dovercourt Rd (1.1 km)
- Bike parking
- 12 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 8 bikes within 600 m
- Other lots
- 8 mapped lots within 500 m, 420 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 745 Ossington Ave · Surface | 573 m | 46 | 67% (Q1 2026) |
| 9 Salem Ave · Surface | 1.1 km | 33 | 74% (Q1 2026) |
| 7 Bartlett Ave · Surface | 1.2 km | 37 | 63% (Q1 2026) |
| 376 Clinton St · Surface | 1.2 km | 34 | 68% (Q1 2026) |
| 675 Manning Ave · Surface | 1.4 km | 49 | 81% (Q1 2026) |
Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.
Within a walk
What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.
Food, shops and services
No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Fiesta Farms Supermarket, 645 m away. Toronto Public Health inspects 2 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 101 — 2.5× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Actinolite Restaurant, 77 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Sone's Pharmacy, 386 m away; 6 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Actinolite Restaurant · 971 Ossington Ave77 m
- James Five · 1022 1022 Ossington Ave Ave250 m · 3 min
- Contra Cafe · 1028 Shaw St363 m · 4 min
- 915 Dupont Cafe · 915 Dupont St419 m · 5 min
- South Pacific Chinese/Polynesian Foods · 1002 Dovercourt Rd425 m · 5 min
- Grocery
- Fiesta Farms Supermarket 645 m · 8 min · 7 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Masa Deli 395 m · 5 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Sone's Pharmacy 386 m · 5 min · 6 within 1 km
- Child care
- Les Bouts D'choux · 116 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day364 m · 4 min
- Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care · 179 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day519 m · 6 min
- Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day534 m · 6 min
- Washrooms
- Dovercourt Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.651 m · 8 min
- Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · hours not listed831 m · 10 min
Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.
Parks, schools and places
- Parks (20)
- Dupont-Shaw Parkette384 m · 5 min
- Northumberland Playground523 m · 6 min
- Garrison Creek Park585 m · 7 min
- Geary Avenue Parkette700 m · 8 min
- Irene Avenue Parkette713 m · 8 min
- Community centres
- Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre1.1 km · 13 min
- Wallace Emerson Community Recreation Centre1.1 km · 13 min
- William H. Bolton Arena1.3 km · 15 min
- Schools (16)
- Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 364 m · 4 min
- Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 519 m · 6 min
- Uchenna AcademyPrivate · 584 m · 7 min
- St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 619 m · 7 min
- Dovercourt Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 744 m · 9 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Davenport branch1 km · 12 min
- Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch1.3 km · 16 min
Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.
Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,791 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
Within a kilometre there are eight RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 399 rental units — three social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 177 Pendrith St (335 m, 54 units, 3 storeys, built 1964), which scored 85 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 177 Pendrith St Toronto Community Housing · TCH | 54 | 3 | 1964 | 85 · Aug 2025 | 335 m · 4 min |
| 220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp | 16 | 4 | 1930 | 79 · Jul 2025 | 733 m · 9 min |
| 161 Christie St · Canlight Management Inc. | 15 | 4 | 1965 | 91 · Jul 2026 | 776 m · 9 min |
| 470 Melita Cres Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation | 37 | 5 | 1980 | 90 · Jun 2026 | 801 m · 10 min |
| 740 Dupont St · Greystar Canada Property Management Services Ltd | 210 | 9 | 2021 | 100 · Dec 2025 | 806 m · 10 min |
| 767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc. | 19 | 3 | 2008 | 94 · Jul 2025 | 826 m · 10 min |
8 registered buildings · 399 units · 3 social housing · tallest 9 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Four thefts from vehicles and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 4 | 0 | 0 | street/outdoor (4) |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0 | 0 | house driveway/garage (1) |
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 Dovercourt Village.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Ossington & Manchester a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 11 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 & Manchester?
A mid-volume intersection at the City's last count here, in 2012. Its latest count is from Mar 1, 2012, about today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Ossington & Manchester a walkable intersection?
Ossington & Manchester scores 49 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,791 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; Ossington Station 0.6 km · 4 stops within 300 m · 11 routes within 1 km; 1 park within 500 m · nearest centre 1.1 km.
How fast do cars go at Ossington & Manchester?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Ossington Ave between Manchester Ave and Lane S of Hallam and E of Ossington (May 2022), found an average of 38 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 48 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 340 m away (30 km/h), 0.4% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Ossington & Manchester?
The nearest Green P car park is 745 Ossington Ave (573 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 420 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 12,120 spaces — 8 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 273 Christie St (843 m).
How do I get to Ossington & Manchester by transit?
Ossington Station (Line 2) is 582 m away; bus routes 63, 26, 161, 94, 126, 127, 29 within 1 km (nearest stop: Ossington Ave at Hallam St, 65 m).
What restaurants are near Ossington & Manchester?
2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 101 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Actinolite Restaurant (77 m), James Five (250 m), Contra Cafe (363 m), 915 Dupont Cafe (419 m) and South Pacific Chinese/Polynesian Foods (425 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Ossington & Manchester?
The nearest is Dovercourt Park Washroom, 155 Bartlett Ave, 651 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom (831 m); Christie Pits Park Washroom (935 m).
Is there child care near Ossington & Manchester?
Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 763 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Les Bouts D'choux (364 m, 116 spaces), Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care (519 m, 179 spaces) and Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (534 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Ossington & Manchester?
Eight RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 399 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 177 Pendrith St (335 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 220 Delaware Ave (733 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 161 Christie St (776 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 470 Melita Cres (801 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 8 is 89 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Ossington & Manchester?
Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Dovercourt Village page.
What neighbourhood is Ossington & Manchester in?
Ossington & Manchester is in Dovercourt Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 172). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Mar 1, 2012.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 11 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.66722, -79.42786 · centreline node 13464050.