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Paul David & Orfus

Paul David St & Orfus Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Yorkdale-Glen Park · Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence

In Yorkdale-Glen Park, Paul David & Orfus is an intersection of typical volume. At the corner: a school within 250 m. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
5,419
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 13, 2019
294 pedestrians · 1 cyclists
Collisions
81
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
7 with an injury · 51 property damage · #1379 of 5,508 · +3 since Jan 2026
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
5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 680 vehicles an hour, 59% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 18 vehicles, close to the citywide median. On average 8.1 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 2.6× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. Collisions rose 45%, from 33 in 2016–2020 to 48 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Paul David & Orfus

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
18295259400 nearest 103 m
Express
929952
Blue Night
329352
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
5 York Garden Way 798 m · 15 docks · 2 stations, 30 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 (13)
  • Yorkdale Secondary School & Adult Learning CentreEnglish Public · 194 m
  • The Sterling Hall SchoolPrivate · 375 m
  • Leonardo Da Vinci AcademyPrivate · 795 m
  • Lawrence Heights Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 875 m
  • Regina Mundi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
  • Dante Alighieri Academy - Closed Til 2026English Separate · 1 km
  • and 7 more
Community centres
Parks (13)
  • Jane Osler Park485 m
  • Caledonia Park656 m
  • Ranee Park760 m
  • Conlands Parkette763 m
  • Dane Parkette785 m
  • North Park859 m
  • and 7 more
Places of interest
  • Yorkdale Shopping CentreLandmark · 1 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 11 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 86. The nearest is Kung Fu Tea, 58 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés11 within 300 m · 86 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 13 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Kung Fu Tea · 52 Orfus Rd58 mPassed, Aug 2026
Kung Fu Tea · 52 Orfus Rd58 mPassed, Jan 2025 · 1 infraction
Neocity Cafe · 38 Orfus Rd120 mPassed, May 2026
Ta Hot Dog Cart · 71 Orfus Rd172 mPassed, Jul 2026
Another World · 89 Bentworth Ave, Bldg-6193 mPassed, Sep 2025
Uncle Tetsu · 39 Orfus Rd Unit-C202 mPassed, Jul 2026
Happy Dog Hot Dog - Toronto Plate No. 02082 (Hot Dog Cart) · 39 Orfus Rd202 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Uncle Tetsu · 39 Orfus Rd, Unit-C203 mPassed, Oct 2025

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

No City washroom within 1 km.

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

Four licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 221 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Start Right Child Care Centre (194 m, 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km4 centres · 221 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 4
  • Start Right Child Care Centre · 38 Orfus Rd
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    194 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Dane Avenue Child Care Centre · 120 Via Bagnato
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    689 m
  • Leonardo Da Vinci Academy of Arts & Science · 901 Lawrence Ave W
    32 spaces · preschool
    795 m
  • Casa Del Zotto Children's Centre · 3010 Dufferin St
    78 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    1 km

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 145 (1.7 km), the nearest police station 13 Division (3.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 813 m away.

FireFire Station 145 · 1.7 km20 Beffort Rd
Police13 Division · 3.1 km1435 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 11 · 813 m1135 Caledonia 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

Within a kilometre there are 11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 587 rental units — two social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 96 Mulholland Ave (545 m, 11 units, 3 storeys, built 1960), which scored 77 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 5 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 15 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings11 · 587 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20265 across the 11
Open fire-code violations15
Tallest14 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
96 Mulholland Ave · Mpm Inc.113196077 · Sep 20250545 m
1049 Lawrence Ave W · 3 Way Investments Ltd.203196780 · Aug 20260746 m
47 Euphrasia Dr263195894 · Dec 20250772 m
1079 Lawrence Ave W153196592 · Sep 20250807 m
1111 Lawrence Ave W · Midan Properties Inc.153195890 · Aug 20261828 m
3050 Dufferin Stsocial housing · Villa Charities Inc25814198397 · Jul 20251 · 8 fire854 m
777 Lawrence Ave W103196190 · Sep 20241884 m
775 Lawrence Ave W103195899 · Aug 20260899 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 lots686 lots · ≈77,290 spaces · 231.9 ha
Within 500 m65 lots · ≈9,780 spaces
Green P (public)2 car parks · about 717 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking2 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Transit Road Lot - 25 Transit Rd · Surface1.8 km72 *
Wilson South Lot - 30 Tippett Road · Surface2 km645 *

Nearest lots: 54 m away, ≈107 spaces; 59 m away, ≈55 spaces; 66 m away, ≈44 spaces; 84 m away, ≈135 spaces; 102 m away, ≈49 spaces; 162 m away, ≈117 spaces.

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, Jun 13, 2019

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 2,362 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 44% of the total, against 67 from the south. Evening rush dominates here: 945 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 571 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Trucks and buses were 8.1% 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 7 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2019, 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 north887southbound · 0 bikes · 9.0% heavy
From the west2,362eastbound · 1 bikes · 7.4% heavy
Total vehicles5,419294 pedestrians · 1 cyclists · 8.1% heavy
From the east2,103westbound · 0 bikes · 8.6% heavy
From the south67northbound · 0 bikes · 9.0% heavy
AM peak hour571 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour945 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jun 13, 2019

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 Paul David St between Orfus Rd and Bentworth Ave, 78 m from the corner, a 3-day count in November 2021 put the average speed at 40 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 52 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 59 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,300 vehicles a day. Orfus Rd between Dufferin St and Paul David St measured slower: 35 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 44 km/h (May 2026). The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 4 speed humps slow traffic on Paul David Street between Orfus Rd and Cartwright Ave.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Paul David St · Orfus Rd – Bentworth Ave · 78 mNov 2021 · 3 days1,31840 km/h52 km/h59 km/h
Orfus Rd · Dufferin St – Paul David St · 237 mMay 2026 · 3 days6,25635 km/h44 km/h49 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Paul David Street · Orfus Rd – Cartwright Ave
    4 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 2024, with 15 collisions; 2025 recorded 7. 7 collisions (9%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 23 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 28% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (1%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 31, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions81#1379 of 5,508
With an injury7#2297 of 4,660
Property damage only51
Fail to remain23
Involving a pedestrian1#2849 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified23
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
All since 2014109latest May 31, 2026

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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 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

24 thefts from vehicles and two bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 4.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 4 in 2023–2025, about 1.3 a year, against 3.1 a year before that. 71% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Feb 6, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle2441street/outdoor (17), commercial premises (3)
Bicycle theft200commercial premises (1), street/outdoor (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 6, 2026. 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 Yorkdale-Glen Park.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Paul David & Orfus a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 81 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 Paul David & Orfus?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Jun 13, 2019, 59% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Paul David & Orfus?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Paul David St between Orfus Rd and Bentworth Ave (November 2021), found an average of 40 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 52 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Paul David & Orfus?

The nearest Green P car park is Transit Road Lot - 25 Transit Rd (1.8 km away, 72 spaces). The City's mapping shows 686 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 77,290 spaces — 65 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Paul David & Orfus by transit?

Bus routes 18, 29, 52, 59, 400, 929, 952 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Paul David & Orfus?

11 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 86 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Kung Fu Tea (58 m), Kung Fu Tea (58 m), Neocity Cafe (120 m), Ta Hot Dog Cart (172 m) and Another World (193 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there child care near Paul David & Orfus?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 221 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Start Right Child Care Centre (194 m, 49 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Dane Avenue Child Care Centre (689 m, 62 spaces) and Leonardo Da Vinci Academy of Arts & Science (795 m, 32 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Paul David & Orfus?

11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 587 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 96 Mulholland Ave (545 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 77), 1049 Lawrence Ave W (746 m, 20 units, RentSafeTO score 80), 47 Euphrasia Dr (772 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 1079 Lawrence Ave W (807 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 11 is 90 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 Paul David & Orfus?

Toronto Police place 24 thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. 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 Yorkdale-Glen Park page.

What neighbourhood is Paul David & Orfus in?

Paul David & Orfus is in Yorkdale-Glen Park (City of Toronto neighbourhood 031). It is in Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence, represented by Councillor Mike Colle.

Sources

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