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Purdon & Evanston

Purdon Dr & Evanston Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Bathurst Manor · Ward 6, York Centre

Purdon & Evanston, in Bathurst Manor, is a low-volume local intersection. At the corner: a park. Nearby: 7 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
410
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 21, 2022
12 pedestrians · 5 cyclists
Collisions
1
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 0 property damage · #5489 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
4 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 50 vehicles, 4% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 34 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 0.1 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Purdon & Evanston

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
10410536107 nearest 230 m
Express
939
Blue Night
329336
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m
Regional
York Region Transit 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St / Stanstead Dr231 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Wilmington Ave / Kennard Ave 656 m · 11 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 (9)
  • Adelfiha's Christian AcademyPrivate · 321 m
  • Charles H Best Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 507 m
  • Wilmington Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 528 m
  • Tanenbaum Chat Wallenberg CampusPrivate · 531 m
  • Nygh Outpatient and Community Services Centre/Urban InternationalPrivate · 789 m
  • Forest Valley Outdoor Education CentreEnglish Public · 881 m
  • and 3 more
Parks (9)
  • Garthdale Parkette196 m
  • Kennard Parkette536 m
  • Bayhampton Parkette638 m
  • Irving W. Chapley Park681 m
  • West Don Parkland1.1 km
  • Michael Feldman Parkette1.1 km
  • and 3 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Centennial branch1.5 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 1 eating place within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 37. The nearest is E Lemonis, 155 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2026.

Restaurants & cafés1 within 300 m · 37 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 11 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
E Lemonis · 66 Garthdale Crt 2155 mPassed, Mar 2026
Pizza Hut · 4400 Dufferin St418 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Yummy Market · 4400 Dufferin St Unit-B4grocery418 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
Moon/4544 Charcoal Grill · 4544 Dufferin St, Unit-4-5441 mPassed, Jul 2025
Gan Chabad Preschool · 147 Overbrook Pl456 mPassed, Sep 2025
St. Louis Bar & Grill · 4548 Dufferin St509 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 4 infractions
North American Impex Q/A Prosperity Foods · 4250 Dufferin St, Unit-Bgrocery514 mPassed, Oct 2025
Subway · 1123 Lodestar Rd535 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions

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 307 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Gan Chabad Preschool (476 m, 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km4 centres · 307 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 4
  • Gan Chabad Preschool · 147 Overbrook Pl
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    476 m
  • Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre · 285 Wilmington Ave
    30 spaces · school age · fee subsidy
    507 m
  • Wilmington Best Child Care Centre · 330 Wilmington Ave
    171 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    528 m
  • Gan Yeladim Day Care Centre · 100 Elder St
    57 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    815 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 143 (1.5 km), the nearest police station 32 Division (3.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 387 m away.

FireFire Station 143 · 1.5 km1009 Sheppard Ave W
Police32 Division · 3.9 km30 Ellerslie Avenue
AmbulanceEMS Headquarters/EMS 53 Stn/Fire Headquarters · 387 m4330 Dufferin St

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 seven RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 353 rental units — one social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 81 Garthdale Crt (141 m, 10 units, 3 storeys, built 1959), which scored 78 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 3 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings7 · 353 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20263 across the 7
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest11 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
81 Garthdale Crt103195978 · Aug 20240141 m
229 Pannahill Rd · Sarossa Investments Inc123195092 · Jun 20250425 m
750 Wilson Heights BlvdToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation794199386 · Aug 20241488 m
715 Finch Ave W · Ranee Management8511197088 · Aug 20242562 m
711 Finch Ave W000590 m
707 Finch Ave W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc1507196499 · Jul 20260615 m
118 Overbrook Pl173196087 · Jun 20250645 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 lots387 lots · ≈86,920 spaces · 260.8 ha
Within 500 m20 lots · ≈3,170 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 632 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking1 post-and-ring within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Downsview Lot - 415 William R Allen Rd · Surface1.9 km632 *

Nearest lots: 140 m away, ≈9 spaces; 350 m away, ≈48 spaces; 352 m away, ≈312 spaces; 357 m away, ≈682 spaces; 380 m away, ≈5 spaces; 384 m away, ≈155 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, Apr 21, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 171 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 42% of the total, against 88 from the west. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 69 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 19% above the afternoon peak from 2:00 p.m. (58). Heavy vehicles made up 2.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. 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 north171southbound · 3 bikes · 2.9% heavy
From the west88eastbound · 0 bikes · 1.1% heavy
Total vehicles41012 pedestrians · 5 cyclists · 2.7% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south151northbound · 2 bikes · 3.3% heavy
AM peak hour69 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour58 vehicles from 2:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 21, 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

On Evanston Dr between Barksdale Ave and Purdon Dr, 93 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in November 2009 put the average speed at 38 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 48 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 53 km/h or more. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. Purdon Dr between Garthdale Crt and Hyfan Crt measured slower: 35 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 44 km/h (Jan 2020). The reading is 17 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 6 speed humps slow traffic on Purdon Drive between Wilmington Ave and Evanston Dr.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Evanston Dr · Barksdale Ave – Purdon Dr · 93 mNov 2009 · 24 h63638 km/h48 km/h53 km/h
Purdon Dr · Garthdale Crt – Hyfan Crt · 269 mJan 2020 · 3 days39835 km/h44 km/h51 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Purdon Drive · Wilmington Ave – Evanston Dr
    6 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 2021, with 1 collision; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 100% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Nov 8, 2021.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions1#5489 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only0
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 20141latest Nov 8, 2021

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

Three thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Apr 2, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle310house driveway/garage (3)
Bicycle theft001

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 2, 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 Bathurst Manor.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Purdon & Evanston a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 1 lesser collision. 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 Purdon & Evanston?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Apr 21, 2022, 4% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Purdon & Evanston?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Evanston Dr between Barksdale Ave and Purdon Dr (November 2009), found an average of 38 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 48 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Purdon & Evanston?

The nearest Green P car park is Downsview Lot - 415 William R Allen Rd (1.9 km away, 632 spaces). The City's mapping shows 387 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 86,920 spaces — 20 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Purdon & Evanston by transit?

Bus routes 104, 105, 36, 107, 939 within 1 km; York Region Transit route 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St / Stanstead Dr.

What restaurants are near Purdon & Evanston?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 37 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are E Lemonis (155 m), Pizza Hut (418 m), Moon/4544 Charcoal Grill (441 m), Gan Chabad Preschool (456 m) and St. Louis Bar & Grill (509 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 Purdon & Evanston?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 307 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Gan Chabad Preschool (476 m, 49 spaces), Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre (507 m, 30 spaces) and Wilmington Best Child Care Centre (528 m, 171 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Purdon & Evanston?

Seven RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 353 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 81 Garthdale Crt (141 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 78), 229 Pannahill Rd (425 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 750 Wilson Heights Blvd (488 m, 79 units, RentSafeTO score 86) and 715 Finch Ave W (562 m, 85 units, RentSafeTO score 88). The average RentSafeTO score across the 7 is 88 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 Purdon & Evanston?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and no 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 Bathurst Manor page.

What neighbourhood is Purdon & Evanston in?

Purdon & Evanston is in Bathurst Manor (City of Toronto neighbourhood 034). It is in Ward 6, York Centre, represented by Councillor James Pasternak.

Sources

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