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Pape & Gowan

Pape Ave & Gowan Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Danforth East York · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth · Pape Village BIA

In Danforth East York, Pape & Gowan is a moderately travelled crossing. Nearby is 10 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
7,792
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 3, 2008
1,297 pedestrians · 13 cyclists
Collisions
42
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
7 with an injury · 29 property damage · #2321 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
7 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 970 vehicles, 84% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 6 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Police have logged an average of 4.2 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions rose 150%, from 12 in 2016–2020 to 30 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Pape & Gowan

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
72100876282551 nearest 96 m
Express
925
Blue Night
325322
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m — Pape Ave at Cosburn Ave; Pape Ave at Floyd Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Pape Ave / Gamble Ave 238 m · 19 docks · 7 stations, 130 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 (15)
  • Chester Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 277 m
  • Westwood Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 297 m
  • William Burgess Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 387 m
  • Centennial College School - Carlaw CampusCollege · 424 m
  • Holy Cross Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 649 m
  • The Three Hierarchs AcademyPrivate · 935 m
  • and 9 more
Parks (19)
  • Gamble Playground317 m
  • Agnes Macphail Square331 m
  • Westwood Park371 m
  • Livingstone Park525 m
  • Aldwych Park695 m
  • Charles Sauriol Parkette741 m
  • and 13 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Todmorden Room branch361 m
  • Toronto Public Library Pape/Danforth branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Todmorden Mills Heritage SiteLandmark · 1 km
  • Evergreen Brick WorksAttraction · 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 21 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 63. The nearest is Pho Challenge, 28 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés21 within 300 m · 63 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 13 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Pho Challenge · 1025 Pape Ave28 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
Elmer's Fine Foods · 1027 Pape Avegrocery28 mPassed, Feb 2026
241 Pizza · 1029 Pape Ave39 mPassed, Feb 2026
Zoomys Juicery · 1015 Pape Ave Unit-1/246 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
D'tropical Hub · 1015 Pape Ave47 mPassed, Apr 2025
Mirch Matters · 1015 Pape Ave47 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
C Market European Deli · 1013 Pape Avegrocery53 mPassed, Sep 2024
Shawarma Frenzy · 1011 Pape Ave56 mPassed, May 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 East York Community Centre Washroom, 374 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 308 m away at Gamble Playground.

  • East York Community Centre Washroom · 1081 Pape Ave
    View centre hours
    374 m
Drinking water
Gamble Playground drinking fountain · 308 m; Livingstone Park drinking fountain · 534 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

Ten licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 983 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Child's Nest Early Learning Centre (144 m, 40 spaces, infant, toddler).

Within 1 km10 centres · 983 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 10
  • Network Child Care Services - Child's Nest Early Learning Centre · 121 Cosburn Ave
    40 spaces · infant, toddler · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    144 m
  • Network - Child's Nest Early Years and Child Care Centre - 123 Cosburn · 123 Cosburn Ave
    58 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    151 m
  • Chester Jr YMCA · 115 Gowan Ave
    161 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    277 m
  • William Burgess Jr YMCA · 100 Torrens Ave
    166 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    387 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 322 (567 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (3.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 520 m away.

FireFire Station 322 · 567 m256 Cosburn Ave
Police55 Division · 3.3 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 41 · 520 m1300 Pape 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 75 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 4,959 rental units, 3.3× the median for a Toronto intersection — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 111 Cosburn Ave (92 m, 36 units, 3 storeys, built 1955), which scored 96 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 75 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 133 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 58 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings75 · 4,959 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026133 across the 75
Open fire-code violations58
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
111 Cosburn Ave · Mpct Dif Cosburn Avenue GP Inc.363195596 · Nov 2025392 m
160 Floyd Ave123195277 · Jul 2025198 m
156 Floyd Avesocial housing · Affordable Property Management Inc416199293 · Oct 20250100 m
101 Cosburn Ave · O'shanter Development Company Ltd7310196093 · Jul 20262107 m
130 Gowan Ave · Greenwin Inc16012196898 · Jun 20247 · 2 fire121 m
117 Cosburn Ave243195079 · Jul 20240125 m
91 Cosburn Ave · Greenwin Corp.8611198697 · Nov 20253148 m
120 Cosburn Ave · Sowein Apartments576195086 · Jun 20240158 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 lots498 lots · ≈21,070 spaces · 63.2 ha
Within 500 m85 lots · ≈1,760 spaces
Green P (public)15 car parks · about 593 spaces
EV charging (City)41 FULTON AVE · 889 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking38 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
716 Pape Ave · Surface1 km7475% (Q1 2026)
20 Eaton Avenue · Surface1 km70 *
77 Gough Ave · Surface1 km1783% (Q1 2026)
17 Eaton Ave · Surface1 km3065% (Q1 2026)
12 Woodycrest Ave · Surface1 km3543% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 31 m away, ≈4 spaces; 37 m away, ≈6 spaces; 39 m away, ≈23 spaces; 41 m away, ≈6 spaces; 50 m away, ≈28 spaces; 64 m away, ≈7 spaces. More EV charging: 14 Arundel Ave. (1.1 km, 8 ports); 132 Chatham Ave (1.4 km, 2 ports); 35 Erindale Ave (1.4 km, 10 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, Jan 3, 2008

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 3,370 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 43% of the total, against 500 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 1,113 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:00 p.m., against 1,003 in the morning peak from 7:30 a.m. Trucks and buses were 7.2% 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 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 19 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 north3,370southbound · 10 bikes · 9.3% heavy
From the west706eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles7,7921,297 pedestrians · 13 cyclists · 7.2% heavy
From the east500westbound · 2 bikes · 1.8% heavy
From the south3,216northbound · 1 bikes · 7.3% heavy
AM peak hour1,003 vehicles from 7:30 a.m.
PM peak hour1,113 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jan 3, 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 Gowan Ave between Logan Ave and Carlaw Ave, 287 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2024 put the average speed at 26 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 34 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 39 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,400 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Gowan Ave (220 m away, 30 km/h limit), 2.7% of the 30,134 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a small minority. 6 speed humps slow traffic on Gowan Avenue between Pape Ave and Cosburn Ave.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Pape Ave · Gowan Ave – Cosburn Ave · 56 mApr 2017 · 9 days7,253
Gowan Ave · Logan Ave – Carlaw Ave · 287 mApr 2024 · 3 days1,38726 km/h34 km/h39 km/h

School-zone speed sign 220 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct23 · 32 km/h
Over the limit9.9%
40 km/h or more2.7%

Gowan Ave (westbound), Burncrest Road · 30,134 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Gowan Avenue · Pape Ave – Cosburn Ave
    6 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 2023, with 8 collisions; 2025 recorded 6. 7 collisions (17%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 7 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 17% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 3 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (7%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. The most recent report on file is from Nov 9, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions42#2321 of 5,508
With an injury7#2298 of 4,660
Property damage only29
Fail to remain7
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist3#862 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified6
All since 201451latest Nov 9, 2025

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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Jul 18, 2007.

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

Seven thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 71% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle700house driveway/garage (5), commercial premises (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 27, 2022. 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 East York.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Pape & Gowan a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 42 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 & Gowan?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Jan 3, 2008, 84% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Pape & Gowan?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Gowan Ave between Logan Ave and Carlaw Ave (April 2024), found an average of 26 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 34 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 220 m away (30 km/h), 2.7% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Pape & Gowan?

The nearest Green P car park is 716 Pape Ave (1.0 km away, 74 spaces, 75% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 498 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,070 spaces — 85 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 41 FULTON AVE (889 m).

How do I get to Pape & Gowan by transit?

Bus routes 72, 100, 87, 62, 8, 25, 51, 925 within 1 km (nearest stop: Pape Ave at Cosburn Ave, 96 m).

What restaurants are near Pape & Gowan?

21 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 63 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Pho Challenge (28 m), 241 Pizza (39 m), Zoomys Juicery (46 m), D'tropical Hub (47 m) and Mirch Matters (47 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 Pape & Gowan?

The nearest is East York Community Centre Washroom, 1081 Pape Ave, 374 m away (View centre hours). 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 Pape & Gowan?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 983 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Child's Nest Early Learning Centre (144 m, 40 spaces), Network - Child's Nest Early Years and Child Care Centre - 123 Cosburn (151 m, 58 spaces) and Chester Jr YMCA (277 m, 161 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Pape & Gowan?

75 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,959 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 111 Cosburn Ave (92 m, 36 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 160 Floyd Ave (98 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 77), 156 Floyd Ave (100 m, 41 units, RentSafeTO score 93) and 101 Cosburn Ave (107 m, 73 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 75 is 90 out of 100; 1 scored below 70. 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 Pape & Gowan?

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and no 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 Danforth East York page.

What neighbourhood is Pape & Gowan in?

Pape & Gowan is in Danforth East York (City of Toronto neighbourhood 059). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher. The corner falls inside the Pape Village Business Improvement Area.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined