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Pape & Gertrude

Pape Ave & Gertrude Pl · Toronto, Ontario · Danforth · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

Pape & Gertrude sits in the Danforth. At the City's last count here, in 2016, it was a mid-volume intersection. At the corner: Pape Station. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
6,660
vehicles · 8-hour count, Mar 3, 2016
935 pedestrians · 20 cyclists
Collisions
15
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
Pape Station
subway station within 250 m
10 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
76/100
city median 48 · #509 of 5,672
17 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 118 m

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Pape & Gertrude

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 3, 2016

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 3,482 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 52% of the total, against 98 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 1,059 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:15 p.m., against 880 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Trucks and buses were 18.8% 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 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 11 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2016, 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 north3,080southbound · 9 bikes · 18.2% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles6,660935 pedestrians · 20 cyclists · 18.8% heavy
From the east98westbound · 0 bikes · 17.3% heavy
From the south3,482northbound · 11 bikes · 19.4% heavy

Peak hours: 880 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,059 from 4:15 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 2020, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 1 collision (7%) involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 13% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (7%). Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 9, 2026.

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

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions15
With an injury1
Property damage only13
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian1
Involving a cyclist0
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

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.

Speeds here, last measured in 2017

On Pape Ave between Canning Ave and Browning Ave, 290 m from the corner, a 3-day count in August 2017 put the average speed at 45 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 53 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 58 km/h or more. That segment carries about 14,400 vehicles a day. The reading is 9 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Pape Ave · Canning Ave – Browning Ave · 290 mAug 2017 · 3 days14,36845 km/h53 km/h58 km/h

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
Pape Station (Line 2)183 m; Donlands Station (Line 2)768 m · 9 min; Chester Station (Line 2)852 m · 10 min
TTC bus
72 100 83 62 51 nearest 72 m
Blue Night
325 300
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — Pape Station
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Danforth Ave / Gough Ave 312 m · 4 min · 25 docks · 9 stations, 173 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
15 car parks · about 599 spaces
EV charging
14 Arundel Ave. · 763 m · 8 Level 2 ports; also 503 Jones Ave (884 m), 132 Chatham Ave (1 km)
Bike parking
42 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 64 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
25 mapped lots within 500 m, 392 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
716 Pape Ave · Surface95 m7475% (Q1 2026)
20 Eaton Avenue · Surface190 m70 *—
77 Gough Ave · Surface270 m1783% (Q1 2026)
670 Pape Ave · Surface276 m7447% (Q1 2026)
17 Eaton Ave · Surface424 m3065% (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

Three grocery stores are within 300 m of the corner — the nearest is Good Brothers Fruit Market, 118 m away. Two specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Cake Cabaret at 252 m. Toronto Public Health inspects 17 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 158 — 3.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 84 m away. Two pharmacies sit within 300 m of the corner; the nearest is Pape Drug Mart, 41 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: Nisbet Lodge, a long-term care home 31 m away. Sunshine Centres For Seniors - After Hours Virtual Bengali Program runs a seniors' active living programme 1.0 km away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Tim Hortons · 743 Pape Ave Unit-184 m
  • Swiss Chalet · 722 Pape Ave85 m
  • Souv Like · 708 Pape Ave114 m
  • Monopol Cafe · 706 Pape Ave Rm-1114 m
  • Juicy Birds · 721 Pape Ave137 m
17 within 300 m · 158 within 1 km
Grocery
Good Brothers Fruit Market 118 m · 3 within 300 m
Food shops
Cake Cabaret 252 m · 3 min · 2 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
Convenience
1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
Pharmacy
Pape Drug Mart 41 m · 9 within 1 km
Child care
  • Play Loft · 122 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · $10-a-day324 m · 4 min
  • Broad View French Montessori School · 33 spaces, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day519 m · 6 min
  • Childspace Day Care Corporation # 2 (690 Carlaw) · 115 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day532 m · 6 min
10 licensed centres · 795 spaces within 1 km · 6 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Withrow Park North Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.757 m · 9 min
  • Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · hours not listed · closed — Closed for the Season825 m · 10 min
Drinking water: Alexander the Great Parkette 571 m · 7 min; Langford Parkette 580 m · 7 min
Health and care
  • Nisbet Lodge · long-term care home31 m
  • Sunshine Centres For Seniors - After Hours Virtual Bengali Program · seniors' active living centre1 km · 12 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 (16)
  • Carlaw Avenue Parkette312 m · 4 min
  • Langford Parkette576 m · 7 min
  • Logan Green Field602 m · 7 min
  • Agnes Macphail Square612 m · 7 min
  • Logan Avenue Parkette707 m · 8 min
and 11 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (16)
  • Holy Name Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 532 m · 6 min
  • Centennial College School - Carlaw CampusCollege · 647 m · 8 min
  • Frankland Community SchoolEnglish Public · 670 m · 8 min
  • Earl Grey Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 829 m · 10 min
  • Jones Avenue Adult CentreEnglish Public · 899 m · 11 min
and 11 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Pape/Danforth branch214 m
  • Toronto Public Library Todmorden Room branch1.3 km · 15 min
Places of interest
  • The Danforth Music HallPerforming Arts · 1.2 km · 14 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.

76of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #509 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food30/30

    3 grocery stores within 300 m · 17 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit26/28

    Pape Station · 9 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go8/14

    library 214 m away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation8/10

    1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care4/8

    nearest school 0.5 km · 1 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

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 11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 619 rental units — five social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 768 Pape Ave (114 m, 15 units, 3 storeys, built 1990), which scored 73 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
768 Pape Ave153199073 · Nov 2025114 m
39 Harcourt Ave Toronto Community Housing · TCH153198994 · Nov 2025386 m · 5 min
796 Carlaw Ave314192290 · Sep 2024408 m · 5 min
98 Cavell Ave Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1006199296 · Aug 2025574 m · 7 min
100 Cavell Ave Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation3007197797 · Sep 2026582 m · 7 min
575 Pape Ave · D&d Property Management173193092 · Jul 2024645 m · 8 min

11 registered buildings · 619 units · 5 social housing · tallest 7 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

One theft from a vehicle and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft110apartment parking (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 Danforth.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Pape & Gertrude a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 15 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 Pape & Gertrude?

A mid-volume intersection at the City's last count here, in 2016. Its latest count is from Mar 3, 2016, 72% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Pape & Gertrude a walkable intersection?

Pape & Gertrude scores 76 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #509 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: 3 grocery stores within 300 m · 17 places to eat within 300 m; Pape Station · 9 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km; 1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m.

How fast do cars go at Pape & Gertrude?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Pape Ave between Canning Ave and Browning Ave (August 2017), found an average of 45 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 53 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Pape & Gertrude?

The nearest Green P car park is 716 Pape Ave (95 m away, 74 spaces, 75% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 392 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 9,050 spaces — 25 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 14 Arundel Ave. (763 m).

How do I get to Pape & Gertrude by transit?

Pape Station (Line 2) is 183 m away; bus routes 72, 100, 83, 62, 51 within 1 km (nearest stop: Pape Station, 72 m).

What restaurants are near Pape & Gertrude?

17 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 158 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Tim Hortons (84 m), Swiss Chalet (85 m), Souv Like (114 m), Monopol Cafe (114 m) and Juicy Birds (137 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Pape & Gertrude?

The nearest is Withrow Park North Washroom, 725 Logan Ave, 757 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (825 m).

Is there child care near Pape & Gertrude?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 795 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Play Loft (324 m, 122 spaces), Broad View French Montessori School (519 m, 33 spaces) and Childspace Day Care Corporation # 2 (690 Carlaw) (532 m, 115 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Pape & Gertrude?

11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 619 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 768 Pape Ave (114 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 73), 39 Harcourt Ave (386 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 796 Carlaw Ave (408 m, 31 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 98 Cavell Ave (574 m, 100 units, RentSafeTO score 96). The average RentSafeTO score across the 11 is 89 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Pape & Gertrude?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Danforth page.

What neighbourhood is Pape & Gertrude in?

Pape & Gertrude is in Danforth (City of Toronto neighbourhood 066). 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