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Poplar Plains & Cottingham

Poplar Plains Rd & Cottingham Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Casa Loma · Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's

Poplar Plains & Cottingham, in Casa Loma, is a low-volume local intersection. At the corner: a bike lane, a school within 250 m and parks. Nearby: Dupont Station (Line 1) 468 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
4,181
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jan 29, 2026
554 pedestrians · 20 cyclists · #2061 busiest
Collisions
11
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
6 with an injury · 3 property damage · #4157 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
Dupont Station 468 m · 1 streetcar route · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Sharrows - Wayfinding, Bike Lane
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 300 vehicles, 26% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 8 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. That comes with about 1.1 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 2.6 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Poplar Plains & Cottingham

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Dupont Station (Line 1)468 m; Spadina Station (Line 1)884 m
Streetcar
512 nearest 882 m
TTC bus
26191312733 nearest 249 m
Blue Night
312
Nearest stops
3 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Sharrows - Wayfinding on Cottingham Rd installed 2017; Bike Lane on Poplar Plains Rd installed 2001
Bike Share
Glen Edyth Dr / Davenport Rd 195 m · 15 docks · 17 stations, 252 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 (38)
  • The Mabin SchoolPrivate · 118 m
  • Waldorf Academy Elementary SchoolPrivate · 327 m
  • de Lasalle College SchoolPrivate · 607 m
  • Cottingham Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 660 m
  • George Brown College - Casa Loma CampusCollege · 674 m
  • Brown Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 776 m
  • and 32 more
Community centres
Parks (50)
  • Boulton Drive Parkette35 m
  • High Level Pumping Station and Park109 m
  • Glen Edyth Drive Parkette133 m
  • Poplar Plains Parkette239 m
  • Roycroft Park Lands336 m
  • Macpherson Avenue Parkette370 m
  • and 44 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch1.2 km
  • Toronto Public Library Wychwood branch1.2 km
  • Toronto Public Library Yorkville branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • Spadina MuseumMuseum · 416 m
  • Casa LomaAttraction · 505 m
  • Tarragon TheatrePerforming Arts · 854 m
  • Bata Shoe MuseumMuseum · 1.2 km
  • Royal Conservatory of MusicPerforming Arts · 1.3 km
  • Koerner Hall (at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning)Performing Arts · 1.3 km
  • Village of Yorkville ParkNature/ Park · 1.3 km
  • Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 1.3 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 7 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 73. The nearest is 6ix Iron, 224 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2026.

Restaurants & cafés7 within 300 m · 73 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 11 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
6ix Iron · 146 Dupont St 201224 mPassed, Sep 2026
Stella's Kitchen · 182 Dupont St257 mPassed, Aug 2025
Circle K · 150 Dupont Stgrocery257 mPassed, Jan 2026
Tim Hortons · 150 Dupont St257 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 1 infraction
Haute Coffee · 153 Dupont St273 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Playa Cabana · 111 Dupont St275 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Chilliy Pepper · 176 Dupont St277 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Martino's Pizza · 178 Dupont St280 mPassed, Nov 2025 · 1 infraction

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 Ramsden Park Washroom, 691 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 412 m away at Spadina Park.

  • Ramsden Park Washroom · 1020 Yonge St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    691 m
  • Sir Winston Churchill Park Washroom · 301 St. Clair Ave W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    811 m
  • Jean Sibelius Square Fieldhouse Washroom · 50 Kendal Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    867 m
Drinking water
Spadina Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 412 m; Sergeant Ryan Russell Parkette bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 416 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

11 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 946 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Waldorf Academy Childcare Centre-Madison (327 m, 31 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km11 centres · 946 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 11
  • Waldorf Academy Childcare Centre-Madison · 250 Madison Ave
    31 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    327 m
  • Waldorf Academy Childcare Centre · 263 Spadina Rd
    44 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    375 m
  • Unicorn Day Care Centre · 240 Avenue Rd
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    440 m
  • Cottingham Child Care Centre · 85 Birch Ave
    80 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    660 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 344 (898 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (2.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 877 m away.

FireFire Station 344 · 898 m240 Howland Ave
Police52 Division · 2.9 km255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 45 · 877 m135 Davenport 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 67 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 4,468 rental units, 2.9× the median for a Toronto intersection — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 359 Davenport Rd (322 m, 17 units, 4 storeys, built 1900), which scored 79 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 67 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 97 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 27 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings67 · 4,468 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202697 across the 67
Open fire-code violations27
Tallest25 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
359 Davenport Rd · 741476 Ontario Inc.174190079 · Jul 20260322 m
200 Madison Ave · Madison View Homes826201995 · Nov 20250328 m
661 Huron St · Dash Property Management153191881 · Jul 20263370 m
320 Avenue Rd244192596 · Aug 20260401 m
326 Avenue Rd183192596 · Nov 20251407 m
330 Avenue Rd193192593 · Jul 20262413 m
340 Avenue Rd244192597 · Jul 20262428 m
291 Avenue Rd · Habosh Investments Inc.968195697 · Aug 20264431 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 lots812 lots · ≈22,850 spaces · 68.6 ha
Within 500 m58 lots · ≈1,020 spaces
Green P (public)27 car parks · about 3,228 spaces
EV charging (City)19 Spadina Rd · 1.1 km · 6 Level 2 ports
Bike parking32 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
251 Maherson Ave · Surface238 m4024% (Q1 2026)
15 Price St · Surface1.1 km71 *
9 Bedford Rd · Garage1.1 km37151% (Q1 2026)
19 Spadina Road · Surface1.1 km65 *
1010 Yonge St. · Surface1.1 km48 *

Nearest lots: 80 m away, ≈102 spaces; 87 m away, ≈12 spaces; 95 m away, ≈18 spaces; 116 m away, ≈3 spaces; 127 m away, ≈6 spaces; 151 m away, ≈17 spaces. More EV charging: 74 Yorkville Ave (1.2 km, 9 ports); 20 Delisle Ave. (1.4 km, 4 ports); 10 Delisle St (1.4 km, 4 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 — 14-hour, Jan 29, 2026

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 3,042 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 73% of the total, against 1,139 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 631 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:30 p.m., against 277 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west1,139eastbound · 5 bikes · 1.8% heavy
Total vehicles4,181554 pedestrians · 20 cyclists · 1.6% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south3,042northbound · 15 bikes · 1.5% heavy
AM peak hour277 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour631 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Jan 29, 2026

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 Poplar Plains Cres between Rathnelly Ave and Poplar Plains Rd, 198 m from the corner, a 3-day count in October 2025 put the average speed at 29 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 38 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 43 km/h or more. That segment carries about 800 vehicles a day. Poplar Plains Rd between Macpherson Ave and Boulton Dr measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 32 km/h (Mar 2026).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Cottingham Rd · Boulton Dr – Davenport Rd · 111 mAug 2015 · 3 days1,945
Poplar Plains Rd · Macpherson Ave – Boulton Dr · 119 mMar 2026 · 3 days2,93023 km/h32 km/h35 km/h
Poplar Plains Cres · Rathnelly Ave – Poplar Plains Rd · 198 mOct 2025 · 3 days83029 km/h38 km/h43 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

The worst year was 2023, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 2. 6 collisions (55%) involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 18% of collisions. 4 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (36%). The most recent report on file is from Jul 8, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 2.6 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions11#4157 of 5,508
With an injury6#2408 of 4,660
Property damage only3
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian1#2346 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist3#749 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 201415latest Jul 8, 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

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

Four thefts from vehicles and two bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle410street/outdoor (2), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft210house driveway/garage (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 20, 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 Casa Loma.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Poplar Plains & Cottingham a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 11 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 Poplar Plains & Cottingham?

A low-volume local intersection. It ranks #2061 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 26% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Poplar Plains & Cottingham?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Poplar Plains Cres between Rathnelly Ave and Poplar Plains Rd (October 2025), found an average of 29 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 38 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Poplar Plains & Cottingham?

The nearest Green P car park is 251 Maherson Ave (238 m away, 40 spaces, 24% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 812 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,850 spaces — 58 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 19 Spadina Rd (1.1 km).

How do I get to Poplar Plains & Cottingham by transit?

Dupont Station (Line 1) is 468 m away; streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 882 m away; bus routes 26, 19, 13, 127, 33 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Poplar Plains & Cottingham?

7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 73 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are 6ix Iron (224 m), Stella's Kitchen (257 m), Tim Hortons (257 m), Haute Coffee (273 m) and Playa Cabana (275 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 Poplar Plains & Cottingham?

The nearest is Ramsden Park Washroom, 1020 Yonge St, 691 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Sir Winston Churchill Park Washroom (811 m); Jean Sibelius Square Fieldhouse Washroom (867 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 Poplar Plains & Cottingham?

11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 946 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Waldorf Academy Childcare Centre-Madison (327 m, 31 spaces), Waldorf Academy Childcare Centre (375 m, 44 spaces) and Unicorn Day Care Centre (440 m, 39 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Poplar Plains & Cottingham?

67 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,468 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 359 Davenport Rd (322 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 200 Madison Ave (328 m, 82 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 661 Huron St (370 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 81) and 320 Avenue Rd (401 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 96). The average RentSafeTO score across the 67 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 Poplar Plains & Cottingham?

Toronto Police place four 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 Casa Loma page.

What neighbourhood is Poplar Plains & Cottingham in?

Poplar Plains & Cottingham is in Casa Loma (City of Toronto neighbourhood 096). It is in Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's, represented by Councillor Josh Matlow.

Sources

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