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Pape & Strathcona

Pape Ave & Strathcona Ave · Toronto, Ontario · North Riverdale · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

In North Riverdale, Pape & Strathcona is an intersection of typical volume, with a strong pedestrian presence. It has a bike lane at the corner. Nearby: Pape Station (Line 2) 456 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
4,958
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 20, 2022
1,685 pedestrians · 156 cyclists
Collisions
9
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 4 property damage · #4469 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
1
TTC stop within 100 m
Pape Station 456 m · 3 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 620 vehicles an hour, 54% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 2.9 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 3.1% of vehicle volume, about 4.1× the typical share. On average 0.9 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Pape & Strathcona

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Pape Station (Line 2)456 m; Donlands Station (Line 2)668 m; Chester Station (Line 2)762 m
Streetcar
506504505 nearest 890 m
TTC bus
728310051 nearest 72 m
Blue Night
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Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Pape Ave at Wroxeter Ave
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Strathcona Ave installed 2001
Bike Share
Carlaw Ave / Strathcona Ave 223 m · 15 docks · 13 stations, 256 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)
  • Earl Grey Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 271 m
  • Holy Name Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 338 m
  • Jones Avenue Adult CentreEnglish Public · 361 m
  • Frankland Community SchoolEnglish Public · 509 m
  • Blake St Jr & East AlternativeEnglish Public · 612 m
  • Pape Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 628 m
  • and 18 more
Parks (30)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Pape/Danforth branch317 m
  • Toronto Public Library Jones branch1.3 km
  • Toronto Public Library Riverdale branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • The Danforth Music HallPerforming Arts · 1.1 km
  • Riverdale Park (East and West)Nature/ Park · 1.3 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 208 eating places within a kilometre — 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is The Shmooz, 76 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2025.

Restaurants & cafés3 within 300 m · 208 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 31 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
The Shmooz · 590 Pape Ave76 mPassed, Aug 2025
Ono Pizza · 581 Pape Ave104 mPassed, Aug 2025 · 2 infractions
Ellas Meat Market · 674 Pape Avegrocery276 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 2 infractions
Soma Bone Broth Co. · 676 Pape Ave280 mPassed, Oct 2025
Blake Street El Ccc · 84 Blake St330 mPassed, Jun 2026
Dollarama · 685 Danforth Avegrocery331 mPassed, Feb 2026
Popeys Suppliments Toronto the Danforth · 639 Danforth Ave331 mPassed, Mar 2026
Pizza Bono · 675 Danforth Ave336 mPassed, Jul 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 Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 259 m away — currently listed as closed (closed for the season); in season it is View outdoor rink hours. A drinking fountain is 249 m away at Kempton Howard Park.

  • Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 725 Logan Ave
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    259 m
  • Withrow Park North Washroom · 725 Logan Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    318 m
  • Withrow Park South Washroom · 725 Logan Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    367 m
Drinking water
Kempton Howard Park drinking fountain · 249 m; Withrow Park bottle filling station · 297 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

19 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,944 spaces; 12 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Blake Street Early Learning & Child Care Centre (325 m, 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km19 centres · 1,944 spaces
Fee subsidy12 of 19
  • Blake Street Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 84 Blake St
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    325 m
  • Childspace Day Care Corporation # 2 (690 Carlaw) · 690 Carlaw Ave
    115 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    338 m
  • Pape Children's House · 540 Jones Ave
    159 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    361 m
  • Play Loft · 583 Danforth Ave
    122 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · $10-a-day
    366 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 323 (828 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (2.2 km) and the nearest ambulance station 828 m away.

FireFire Station 323 · 828 m153 Chatham Ave
Police55 Division · 2.2 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceEMS TRAINING/TFD Stn 323 · 828 m153 Chatham 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

15 registered apartment buildings with 1,474 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, eight of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 575 Pape Ave (107 m, 17 units, 3 storeys, built 1930), which scored 92 out of 100 at its July 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 17 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 10 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings15 · 1,474 units · 8 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202617 across the 15
Open fire-code violations10
Tallest23 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
575 Pape Ave · D&d Property Management173193092 · Jul 20241107 m
39 Harcourt AveToronto Community Housing · TCH153198994 · Nov 20250159 m
98 Cavell AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1006199296 · Aug 20251187 m
100 Cavell AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation3007197797 · Sep 20260 · 3 fire194 m
80 Blake StToronto Community Housing · TCH19014196998 · Jul 20240 · 7 fire371 m
10 Boultbee AveToronto Community Housing · TCH16711200192 · Jul 20261451 m
796 Carlaw Ave314192290 · Sep 20241474 m
768 Pape Ave153199073 · Nov 20250611 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 lots685 lots · ≈16,030 spaces · 48.1 ha
Within 500 m39 lots · ≈780 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 890 spaces
EV charging (City)503 Jones Ave · 400 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking16 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 64 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
670 Pape Ave · Surface271 m7447% (Q1 2026)
716 Pape Ave · Surface451 m7475% (Q1 2026)
20 Eaton Avenue · Surface456 m70 *
77 Gough Ave · Surface456 m1783% (Q1 2026)
17 Eaton Ave · Surface470 m3065% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 174 m away, ≈5 spaces; 184 m away, ≈4 spaces; 194 m away, ≈5 spaces; 214 m away, ≈31 spaces; 216 m away, ≈5 spaces; 220 m away, ≈2 spaces. More EV charging: 453 Jones Ave (424 m, 2 ports); 14 Arundel Ave. (687 m, 8 ports); 132 Chatham Ave (784 m, 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, Apr 20, 2022

The south leg carries the load — 2,351 northbound vehicles, or 47% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 214. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 784 vehicles in the hour from 4:00 p.m., 20% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (653). Trucks and buses were 5.9% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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 north2,077southbound · 41 bikes · 6.5% heavy
From the west214eastbound · 42 bikes · 0.5% heavy
Total vehicles4,9581,685 pedestrians · 156 cyclists · 5.9% heavy
From the east316westbound · 30 bikes · 7.3% heavy
From the south2,351northbound · 43 bikes · 5.8% heavy
AM peak hour653 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour784 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 20, 2022

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

The City's counter on Pape Ave between Frizzell Ave and Wroxeter Ave (131 m away) recorded an average of 43 km/h in its 3-day count in December 2018; 85% of drivers were at or under 52 km/h. That segment carries about 9,800 vehicles a day. Strathcona Ave between Lane E of Pape and S of Strathcona and Blake St measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 37 km/h (Apr 2024). The reading is 8 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Blake St (324 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.8% of the 17,197 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Pape Ave · Frizzell Ave – Wroxeter Ave · 131 mDec 2018 · 3 days9,83643 km/h52 km/h58 km/h
Strathcona Ave · Lane E of Pape and S of Strathcona – Blake St · 256 mApr 2024 · 3 days71830 km/h37 km/h39 km/h

School-zone speed sign 324 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct30 · 38 km/h
Over the limit3.0%
50 km/h or more0.8%

Blake St (northbound), 87m South of Strathcona Ave · 17,197 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

2023 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 22% of collisions here involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 33% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Nov 25, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions9#4469 of 5,508
With an injury2#3982 of 4,660
Property damage only4
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian1#3053 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist2#1381 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
All since 201413latest Nov 25, 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

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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

Toronto Police place ten thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 1 in 2023–2025, about 0.3 a year, against 1.6 a year before that. 40% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1010house driveway/garage (4), street/outdoor (4)
Bicycle theft200school/campus (1), apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 17, 2024. 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 North Riverdale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Pape & Strathcona a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 9 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 & Strathcona?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Apr 20, 2022, 54% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Pape & Strathcona?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Pape Ave between Frizzell Ave and Wroxeter Ave (December 2018), found an average of 43 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 52 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 324 m away (40 km/h), 0.8% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Pape & Strathcona?

The nearest Green P car park is 670 Pape Ave (271 m away, 74 spaces, 47% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 685 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 16,030 spaces — 39 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 503 Jones Ave (400 m).

How do I get to Pape & Strathcona by transit?

Pape Station (Line 2) is 456 m away; streetcar routes 506, 504, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 890 m away; bus routes 72, 83, 100, 51 within 1 km (nearest stop: Pape Ave at Wroxeter Ave, 72 m).

What restaurants are near Pape & Strathcona?

3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 208 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The Shmooz (76 m), Ono Pizza (104 m), Soma Bone Broth Co. (280 m), Blake Street El Ccc (330 m) and Popeys Suppliments Toronto the Danforth (331 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 & Strathcona?

The nearest is Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 725 Logan Ave, 259 m away (View outdoor rink hours). The City currently lists it as closed: closed for the season. Next nearest: Withrow Park North Washroom (318 m); Withrow Park South Washroom (367 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 Pape & Strathcona?

19 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,944 spaces in total; 12 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Blake Street Early Learning & Child Care Centre (325 m, 49 spaces), Childspace Day Care Corporation # 2 (690 Carlaw) (338 m, 115 spaces) and Pape Children's House (361 m, 159 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Pape & Strathcona?

15 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,474 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 575 Pape Ave (107 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 39 Harcourt Ave (159 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 98 Cavell Ave (187 m, 100 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 100 Cavell Ave (194 m, 300 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 15 is 91 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 Pape & Strathcona?

Toronto Police place ten thefts from vehicles and two 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 North Riverdale page.

What neighbourhood is Pape & Strathcona in?

Pape & Strathcona is in North Riverdale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 068). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher.

Sources

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