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Portland & Stewart

Portland St & Stewart St · Toronto, Ontario · Wellington Place · Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York · Toronto Downtown West BIA

Portland & Stewart is a low-volume local intersection, with pedestrians outnumbering vehicles and significant cycling traffic. It sits in Wellington Place, in the downtown core. At the corner: a park. Nearby: 10 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic
2,464
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jul 7, 2026
8,875 pedestrians · 1,520 cyclists
Collisions
47
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured · #2168 of 5,519
Getting there
1
TTC stop within 100 m
10 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
62/100
city median 48 · #1,490 of 5,672
65 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 376 m

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Portland & Stewart

Traffic and safety

The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets

Traffic volume14-hour count · Jul 7, 2026

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 1,194 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 48% of the total, against 123 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the south (774 of 1,520). Evening rush dominates here: 251 vehicles in the peak hour from 7:00 p.m., against 182 in the morning peak from 9:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north1,194southbound · 674 bikes · 5.8% heavy
From the west1,017eastbound · 56 bikes · 4.4% heavy
Total vehicles2,4648,875 pedestrians · 1,520 cyclists · 4.7% heavy
From the east130westbound · 16 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south123northbound · 774 bikes · 1.6% heavy

Peak hours: 182 vehicles in the hour from 9:30 a.m. and 251 from 7:00 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).

Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 10 collisions. 2 collisions (4%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 18 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 38% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (4%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Aug 9, 2026.

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions47#2168 of 5,519
With an injury2
Property damage only27
Fail to remain18
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist2
Involving a motorcyclist1
Severity not classified18
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.

How fast traffic moves here

On Stewart St between Portland St and Bathurst St, 111 m from the corner, a 3-day count in November 2022 put the average speed at 26 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 37 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 43 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,300 vehicles a day. The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Portland St between Stewart St and Lane S of King and W of Portland measured slower: 16 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 25 km/h (Jul 2025).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Portland St · Stewart St – Lane S of King and W of Portland · 21 mJul 2025 · 3 days6,46916 km/h25 km/h30 km/h
Stewart St · Portland St – Bathurst St · 111 mNov 2022 · 3 days1,30626 km/h37 km/h43 km/h

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

Streetcar
504 508 511 510 501 509 nearest 96 m
Blue Night
304 310 301 307
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — King St West at Portland St
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Portland St / Wellington St W 97 m · 15 docks · 45 stations, 903 docks within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Parking within 2 km

Green P
18 car parks · about 3,707 spaces
EV charging
10 Portland St · 556 m · 4 Level 2 ports; also 10 Palmerston Ave (946 m), 10 Soho St. (1.2 km)
Bike parking
118 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 60 bikes within 600 m · Indoor bike station, 97 Front St W (1.6 km)
Other lots
41 mapped lots within 500 m, 489 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
2 Portland St · Garage254 m3797% (Q1 2026)
15 Denison Ave · Surface614 m12054% (Q1 2026)
105 Spadina Ave · Surface661 m14over 100% (Q1 2026)
363 Adelaide St W · Surface683 m2295% (Q1 2026)
545 Lake Shore Boulevard West · Surface1.1 km110 *—

Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.

Within a walk

What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.

Food, shops and services

No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Little Harvest Fresh Market, 376 m away. Toronto Public Health inspects 65 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 365 — 8.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Chica, 5 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Wholehealth Phcy Fashion Dist, 345 m away; 11 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Toronto Western Hospital, 1.3 km away, then Kensington Eye Institute at 1.7 km.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Chica · 79 Portland St5 m
  • Pop · 67 Portland St29 m
  • Little Baba By Amal · 75 Portland St30 m
  • Maxime's · 75 Portland St30 m
  • Jrew's House · 83 Portland St, Unit-Outside59 m
65 within 300 m · 365 within 1 km
Grocery
Little Harvest Fresh Market 376 m · 4 min · 9 within 1 km
Food shops
Big Fat Cookies 376 m · 4 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Pharmacy
Wholehealth Phcy Fashion Dist 345 m · 4 min · 11 within 1 km
Child care
  • Macaulay - the Well · 62 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day376 m · 4 min
  • City Kids Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 72 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day401 m · 5 min
  • Westend Parents Daycare Centre Alpha · 26 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day408 m · 5 min
9 licensed centres · 561 spaces within 1 km · 7 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom · hours not listed805 m · 10 min
  • Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible855 m · 10 min
Drinking water: Victoria Memorial Square Park 198 m; St. Andrew's Playground 367 m · 4 min
Health and care
  • Toronto Western Hospital · hospital site1.3 km · 16 min
  • Kensington Eye Institute · hospital site1.7 km · 20 min

Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.

Parks, schools and places

Parks (36)
  • Victoria Memorial Square Park156 m
  • Adelaide Place Parkette289 m · 3 min
  • Draper Park297 m · 4 min
  • Portland Street Parkette342 m · 4 min
  • St. Andrew's Playground401 m · 5 min
and 31 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (11)
  • Alpha Alternative & Oasis AlternativeEnglish Public · 408 m · 5 min
  • St Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 622 m · 7 min
  • Niagara Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 869 m · 10 min
  • Ryerson Community School & Downtown Vocal Music AcademyEnglish Public · 946 m · 11 min
  • City SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
and 6 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Fort York branch671 m · 8 min
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch1.2 km · 14 min
Places of interest
  • iArts MuseumMuseum · 179 m
  • Arcadia EarthAttraction · 325 m · 4 min
  • Factory TheatrePerforming Arts · 434 m · 5 min
  • The WellLandmark · 588 m · 7 min

Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.

Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.

62of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #1,490 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food21/30

    9 grocery stores within 1 km · 65 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit15/28

    6 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go12/14

    library 671 m away · 3 places of interest within 500 m

  • Parks and recreation7/10

    5 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 0.9 km

  • Schools and child care7/8

    1 school within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.

Apartment buildings nearby

RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score

Within a kilometre there are 16 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 3,159 rental units — seven social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 50 Portland St (49 m, 232 units, 10 storeys, built 2005), which scored 96 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
50 Portland St · Morguard23210200596 · Aug 202649 m
39 Niagara St · Minto Properties50119201999 · Jul 2025245 m
435 Wellington St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services LP16013202398 · Jul 2024364 m · 4 min
552 Adelaide St W social housing · Par-Med Property Services Inc.845200593 · Jul 2025386 m · 5 min
425 Wellington St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services LP17113202399 · Jul 2024410 m · 5 min
525 Richmond St W10310200381 · Aug 2024446 m · 5 min

16 registered buildings · 3,159 units · 7 social housing · tallest 46 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

12 thefts from vehicles and six bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 3.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.8 a year. 67% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 50% of the bike thefts were from commercial premises — shops, offices and their lots. Since January 2026, 2 more have been reported, the latest on Apr 11, 2026.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1241street/outdoor (8), apartment parking (3)
Bicycle theft611commercial premises (3), apartment parking (2)

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 Wellington Place.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Portland & Stewart a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 47 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 Portland & Stewart?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Jul 7, 2026, 15% of the median for a counted intersection, and #242 for pedestrians.

Is Portland & Stewart a walkable intersection?

Portland & Stewart scores 62 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,490 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 1 school within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m; library 671 m away · 3 places of interest within 500 m; 9 grocery stores within 1 km · 65 places to eat within 300 m.

How fast do cars go at Portland & Stewart?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Stewart St between Portland St and Bathurst St (November 2022), found an average of 26 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 37 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Portland & Stewart?

The nearest Green P car park is 2 Portland St (254 m away, 37 spaces, 97% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 489 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 14,130 spaces — 41 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 10 Portland St (556 m).

How do I get to Portland & Stewart by transit?

Streetcar routes 504, 508, 511, 510 and 2 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 96 m away.

What restaurants are near Portland & Stewart?

65 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 365 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Chica (5 m), Pop (29 m), Little Baba By Amal (30 m), Maxime's (30 m) and Jrew's House (59 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Portland & Stewart?

The nearest is Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom, 700 Wellington St W, 805 m away. Next nearest: Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom (855 m); Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre Washroom (1.0 km).

Is there child care near Portland & Stewart?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 561 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Macaulay - the Well (376 m, 62 spaces), City Kids Early Learning & Child Care Centre (401 m, 72 spaces) and Westend Parents Daycare Centre Alpha (408 m, 26 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Portland & Stewart?

16 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,159 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 50 Portland St (49 m, 232 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 39 Niagara St (245 m, 501 units, RentSafeTO score 99), 435 Wellington St W (364 m, 160 units, RentSafeTO score 98) and 552 Adelaide St W (386 m, 84 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 16 is 90 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Portland & Stewart?

Toronto Police place 12 thefts from vehicles and six bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 2 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Wellington Place page.

What neighbourhood is Portland & Stewart in?

Portland & Stewart is in Wellington Place (City of Toronto neighbourhood 164). It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik. The corner falls inside the Toronto Downtown West Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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