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Paton & Rankin

Paton Rd & Rankin Cres · Toronto, Ontario · Junction-Wallace Emerson · Ward 9, Davenport

Paton & Rankin, in Junction-Wallace Emerson, is a low-volume local intersection, with a well-used cycling route through it. It has a park at the corner. Nearby: Lansdowne Station (Line 2) 354 m away and Bloor GO 436 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
203
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jul 30, 2014
58 pedestrians · 12 cyclists
Collisions
5
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 3 property damage · #5057 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Lansdowne Station 354 m · 4 streetcar routes · 6 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 30 vehicles, 2% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 4 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 5.9% of vehicle volume, about 7.6× the typical share. That comes with about 0.5 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Paton & Rankin

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Lansdowne Station (Line 2)354 m; Dundas West Station (Line 2)446 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)894 m
GO Transit
Bloor GO — Kitchener436 m
UP Express
Bloor GO/UP 436 m — trains to Pearson
Streetcar
512504505506 nearest 167 m
TTC bus
16840247402629 nearest 153 m
Express
929
Blue Night
304305306300340329
Nearest stops
11 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Wallace Ave / Symington Ave - SMART 268 m · 12 docks · 20 stations, 335 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 (25)
  • St Luigi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 496 m
  • Tamarack West Outdoor SchoolPrivate · 531 m
  • Perth Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 554 m
  • Bishop Marrocco Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 611 m
  • St Sebastian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 633 m
  • Pauline Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 675 m
  • and 19 more
Community centres
Parks (33)
  • Erwin Krickhahn Park86 m
  • Perth Avenue Parkette291 m
  • West Toronto Railpath421 m
  • Campbell Avenue Park421 m
  • Susan Tibaldi Parkette582 m
  • Perth Square Park638 m
  • and 27 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch673 m
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 611 m
  • Taras H. Shevchenko MuseumMuseum · 812 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 4 grocery and convenience stores, and 200 eating places within a kilometre — 2.7× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Space Social, 82 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés7 within 300 m · 200 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience4 within 300 m · 44 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Space Social · 87 Wade Ave82 mPassed, Jul 2026
Propeller Coffee Co. · 50 Wade Ave165 mPassed, Jun 2025
Propeller Coffee Co. · 50 Wade Ave165 mPassed, Jul 2026
Tavora International Supermarket · 15 Jenet Avegrocery194 mPassed, Jun 2026
Halo Brewery · 247 Wallace Ave None199 mPassed, Apr 2026
Phuoc Thanh Food Co. · 245 Wallace Ave Nonegrocery201 mPassed, Jun 2026
Blue Collar Bakery Hq · 241 Wallace Ave Nonegrocery208 mPassed, Apr 2026
Wallace Market · 147 Symington Avegrocery265 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 Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 358 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 121 m away at Erwin Krickhahn Park.

  • Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 225 Campbell Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    358 m
  • Perth Square Park Washroom · 350 Perth Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    666 m
  • Macgregor Playground Washroom · 346 Lansdowne Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    861 m
Drinking water
Erwin Krickhahn Park bottle filling station · 121 m; Perth Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 273 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

Six licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 388 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre (279 m, 39 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km6 centres · 388 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 6
  • Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre · 544 Lansdowne Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    279 m
  • Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) · 1411 Bloor St W
    75 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    312 m
  • Perth Avenue Early Learning Centre · 14 Ruskin Ave
    192 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    554 m
  • Plasp Pauline Junior Public School · 100 Pauline Ave
    28 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    675 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 11 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.4 km away.

FireFire Station 345 · 1.1 km1285 Dufferin St
Police11 Division · 1.7 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 1.4 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

25 registered apartment buildings with 3,403 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, six of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 77 Rankin Cres (183 m, 121 units, 7 storeys, built 1992), which scored 92 out of 100 at its September 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 60 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings25 · 3,403 units · 6 social housing
RentSafeTO score87 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202660 across the 25
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest29 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
77 Rankin CresToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1217199292 · Sep 20240 · 1 fire183 m
55 Rankin CresToronto Community Housing · TCH1769199294 · Jun 20252 · 1 fire243 m
11 Randolph AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation956199488 · Jun 20250333 m
685 Lansdowne Ave · Gbs Properties Ltd.303198580 · Jul 20250350 m
10 Dora Avesocial housing · Community First Developments Inc.1348199597 · Jul 20251504 m
2376 Dundas St W · Dun West Properties Ltd3942720230534 m
2360 Dundas St W · Creccal Investments Ltd63829197694 · Aug 20252553 m
2350 Dundas St W · Creccal Investments Ltd45729197694 · Sep 20245553 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 lots673 lots · ≈23,060 spaces · 69.2 ha
Within 500 m42 lots · ≈2,190 spaces
Green P (public)15 car parks · about 853 spaces
EV charging (City)2285 Dundas St W · 687 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking23 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 90 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface344 m16over 100% (Q1 2026)
9 Emerson Ave · Surface538 m4963% (Q1 2026)
2201 Dundas St W · Surface818 m1070% (Q1 2026)
Keele Lot - 400 Indian Road · Surface1 km187 *
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface1.1 km3763% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 114 m away, ≈11 spaces; 130 m away, ≈11 spaces; 150 m away, ≈140 spaces; 170 m away, ≈19 spaces; 186 m away, ≈27 spaces; 208 m away, ≈9 spaces. More EV charging: 2251 Dundas St W (737 m, 2 ports); 430 Roncesvalles Ave (1 km, 2 ports); 64 Annette St (1.3 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, Jul 30, 2014

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The west leg carries the load — 106 eastbound vehicles, or 52% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 30. Morning rush is the busier period: 32 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:30 a.m., compared with 29 from 4:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 8.9% 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 12 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2014, 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 north67southbound · 6 bikes · 4.5% heavy
From the west106eastbound · 5 bikes · 12.3% heavy
Total vehicles20358 pedestrians · 12 cyclists · 8.9% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south30northbound · 1 bikes · 6.7% heavy
AM peak hour32 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour29 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jul 30, 2014

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 Rankin Cres between Erwin Krickhahn Park Trl and Paton Rd (39 m away) recorded an average of 31 km/h in its 3-day count in June 2017; 85% of drivers were at or under 40 km/h. That segment carries about 400 vehicles a day. Paton Rd between Campbell Ave and Lane E of Symington and S of Paton measured slower: 28 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 35 km/h (Apr 2012). The reading is 9 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Rankin Cres · Erwin Krickhahn Park Trl – Paton Rd · 39 mJun 2017 · 3 days37131 km/h40 km/h45 km/h
Paton Rd · Campbell Ave – Lane E of Symington and S of Paton · 99 mApr 2012 · 3 days63928 km/h35 km/h40 km/h

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

2024 was the peak year (1 collision), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 40% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Nov 7, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions5#5057 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only3
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 20145latest Nov 7, 2024

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 seven thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 57% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle700street/outdoor (4), house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 15, 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 Junction-Wallace Emerson.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Paton & Rankin 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 Paton & Rankin?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Jul 30, 2014, 2% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Paton & Rankin?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Rankin Cres between Erwin Krickhahn Park Trl and Paton Rd (June 2017), found an average of 31 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 40 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Paton & Rankin?

The nearest Green P car park is 695 Lansdowne Ave (344 m away, 16 spaces). The City's mapping shows 673 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,060 spaces — 42 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2285 Dundas St W (687 m).

How do I get to Paton & Rankin by transit?

Lansdowne Station (Line 2) is 354 m away; Bloor GO is 436 m away; streetcar routes 512, 504, 505, 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 167 m away; bus routes 168, 402, 47, 40, 26, 29, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Paton & Rankin?

7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 200 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Space Social (82 m), Propeller Coffee Co. (165 m), Propeller Coffee Co. (165 m) and Halo Brewery (199 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 Paton & Rankin?

The nearest is Campbell Avenue Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 225 Campbell Ave, 358 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Perth Square Park Washroom (666 m); Macgregor Playground Washroom (861 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 Paton & Rankin?

Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 388 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Wade Avenue Centre (279 m, 39 spaces), Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) (312 m, 75 spaces) and Perth Avenue Early Learning Centre (554 m, 192 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Paton & Rankin?

25 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,403 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 77 Rankin Cres (183 m, 121 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 55 Rankin Cres (243 m, 176 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 11 Randolph Ave (333 m, 95 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 685 Lansdowne Ave (350 m, 30 units, RentSafeTO score 80). The average RentSafeTO score across the 25 is 87 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 Paton & Rankin?

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 Junction-Wallace Emerson page.

What neighbourhood is Paton & Rankin in?

Paton & Rankin is in Junction-Wallace Emerson (City of Toronto neighbourhood 171). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo.

Sources

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