Toronto · intersection · signal 2435

Queen & Abell

Queen St W & Abell St · Toronto, Ontario · Little Portugal · Ward 9, Davenport · West Queen West BIA

Queen & Abell is a moderately travelled crossing, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. It sits in Little Portugal, in central Toronto. At the corner: parks and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: Exhibition GO 947 m away and 16 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
6,340
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 19, 2023
2,189 pedestrians · 453 cyclists
Collisions
50
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 34 property damage · #2070 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
6 streetcar routes · 3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 20 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 790 vehicles, 69% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 2.9 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 7.1% of vehicle volume, about 9.2× the typical share. That comes with about 5 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 44%, from 32 in 2016–2020 to 18 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Queen & Abell

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
Exhibition GO — Lakeshore West947 m
Streetcar
501504508505509511 nearest 152 m
TTC bus
2963402 nearest 348 m
Express
929
Blue Night
301304305329363307
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Lisgar St / Queen St W - SMART 67 m · 20 docks · 37 stations, 761 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 (17)
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Ave & the GroveEnglish Public · 485 m
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 640 m
  • Holy Family Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
  • Pope Francis Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
  • Parkdale Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Parkdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 11 more
Parks (41)
  • Lisgar Park89 m
  • Paul E. Garfinkel Park240 m
  • Rita Cox Park343 m
  • Pessoa Park350 m
  • Osler Playground369 m
  • Parkdale Amphitheatre394 m
  • and 35 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch696 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 90 m
  • Medieval Times Dinner and TournamentPerforming Arts · 1.2 km
  • Coca-Cola Coliseum (formerly Ricoh Coliseum)Sports / Entertainment Venue · 1.2 km
  • Queen Elizabeth TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.2 km
  • BMO FieldSports / Entertainment Venue · 1.2 km
  • Exhibition PlaceConvention & Trade Centres · 1.3 km
  • Enercare CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 1.3 km
  • Beanfield CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 1.5 km
Signal
2435, activated 2017 · PA - IPS · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal

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 48 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 8 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 352 — 4.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is The Drake Hotel, 19 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026.

Restaurants & cafés48 within 300 m · 352 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience8 within 300 m · 48 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
The Drake Hotel · 1150 Queen St W19 mPassed, Feb 2026
Saigon Pai · 1138 Queen St W23 mPassed, Jul 2026
Bar Prima · 1136 Queen St W28 mPassed, Dec 2025
King Slice · 1130 Queen St W38 mPassed, May 2026
Death and Taxes Free House · 1154 Queen St W45 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Shiroshi Downtown · 1128 Queen St W50 mPassed, Jun 2026
Mabel's Bakery · 1156 Queen St Wgrocery56 mPassed, May 2026
Pizza Pizza · 1124 Queen St W56 mPassed, May 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 Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 765 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 253 m away at Paul E. Garfinkel Park.

  • Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 220 Cowan Ave
    View centre hours
    765 m
  • Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 155 Crawford St
    View centre hours · accessible
    841 m
  • Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom · 66 Sheridan Ave
    View centre hours
    849 m
Drinking water
Paul E. Garfinkel Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 253 m; Rita Cox Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 338 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

13 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 879 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Queen Street Childcare Centre (317 m, 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km13 centres · 879 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 13
  • Queen Street Childcare Centre · 10 White Squirrel Way
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    317 m
  • Kids & Company King and Highline · 1100 King St W
    74 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    373 m
  • Bonaventure Child Care Centre · 295 Dufferin St
    67 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    413 m
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA · 108 Gladstone Ave
    120 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    485 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 346 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (922 m) and the nearest ambulance station 480 m away.

FireFire Station 346 · 1.1 km90 Quebec St
Police14 Division · 922 m350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 37 · 480 m1288 Queen St W

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 68 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 6,338 rental units, 3.0× the median for a Toronto intersection — 20 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 8 Beaconsfield Ave (84 m, 11 units, 4 storeys, built 1932), which scored 91 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 68 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 143 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 21 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings68 · 6,338 units · 20 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026143 across the 68
Open fire-code violations21
Tallest35 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
8 Beaconsfield Ave · Dsm Investment Group Limited114193291 · Jul 2025084 m
1176 Queen St W253191554 · Jul 20260115 m
55 Lisgar St · Medallion Corporation1169200596 · Aug 20261121 m
180 Sudbury Stsocial housing · St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society19018201182 · Sep 20242 · 2 fire150 m
45 Lisgar St · Medallion Corporation29114201091 · Aug 202620190 m
345 Dufferin Stsocial housing · Dms Property Management Ltd.2008198483 · Jul 20253349 m
1100 King St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services - Kings Club Residences Inc.506352019100 · Aug 20262 · 1 fire373 m
295 Dufferin St0015414 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 lots612 lots · ≈25,510 spaces · 76.5 ha
Within 500 m38 lots · ≈1,110 spaces
Green P (public)21 car parks · about 1,517 spaces
EV charging (City)45 Abell St · 177 m · 12 Level 2 + 4 fast ports
Bike parking112 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 72 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
45 Abell St · Garage139 m12460% (Q1 2026)
110 Dovercourt Rd · Surface154 m8over 100% (Q1 2026)
18 Ossington Ave · Surface445 m20over 100% (Q1 2026)
1155 King Street West · Surface583 m269 *
34 Hanna Ave · Surface653 m14669% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 46 m away, ≈26 spaces; 51 m away, ≈25 spaces; 128 m away, ≈4 spaces; 136 m away, ≈15 spaces; 144 m away, ≈2 spaces; 162 m away, ≈14 spaces. More EV charging: 1051 Queen Street W (323 m, 2 ports); 1224 KING ST W (571 m, 2 ports); 248 Shaw St (860 m, 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, Apr 19, 2023

No single direction dominates: each approach carried between 2,964 and 3,376 vehicles. Most cyclists arrived from the west (238 of 453). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 896 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 910 from 4:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 5.3% 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 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since. 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 north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west2,964eastbound · 238 bikes · 4.0% heavy
Total vehicles6,3402,189 pedestrians · 453 cyclists · 5.3% heavy
From the east3,376westbound · 198 bikes · 6.4% heavy
From the south0northbound · 17 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour896 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour910 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 19, 2023

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 Abell St between Queen St W and Lane S of Queen and W of Lisgar, 27 m from the corner, a 3-day count in November 2022 put the average speed at 23 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 33 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 39 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,100 vehicles a day. The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Abell St · Queen St W – Lane S of Queen and W of Lisgar · 27 mNov 2022 · 3 days1,06323 km/h33 km/h39 km/h
Queen St W · Dovercourt Rd – Lisgar St · 116 mNov 2019 · 4 days8,576

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 2018, with 8 collisions; 2025 recorded 5. 4 collisions (8%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 15 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 30% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 3 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (6%), typical for the city. The most recent report on file is from Aug 30, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions50#2070 of 5,508
With an injury4#3064 of 4,660
Property damage only34
Fail to remain15
Involving a pedestrian1#2912 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist2#1314 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified12
All since 201459latest Aug 30, 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

One theft from a vehicle and four 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 vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft400street/outdoor (2), other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 18, 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 Little Portugal.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Queen & Abell a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 50 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 Queen & Abell?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Apr 19, 2023, 69% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Queen & Abell?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Abell St between Queen St W and Lane S of Queen and W of Lisgar (November 2022), found an average of 23 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 33 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Queen & Abell?

The nearest Green P car park is 45 Abell St (139 m away, 124 spaces, 60% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 612 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 25,510 spaces — 38 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 45 Abell St (177 m).

How do I get to Queen & Abell by transit?

Exhibition GO is 947 m away; streetcar routes 501, 504, 508, 505 and 2 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 152 m away; bus routes 29, 63, 402, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Queen & Abell?

48 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 352 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The Drake Hotel (19 m), Saigon Pai (23 m), Bar Prima (28 m), King Slice (38 m) and Death and Taxes Free House (45 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 Queen & Abell?

The nearest is Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 220 Cowan Ave, 765 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom (841 m); Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom (849 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 Queen & Abell?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 879 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Queen Street Childcare Centre (317 m, 49 spaces), Kids & Company King and Highline (373 m, 74 spaces) and Bonaventure Child Care Centre (413 m, 67 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Queen & Abell?

68 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 6,338 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 8 Beaconsfield Ave (84 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 1176 Queen St W (115 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 54), 55 Lisgar St (121 m, 116 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 180 Sudbury St (150 m, 190 units, RentSafeTO score 82). The average RentSafeTO score across the 68 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 Queen & Abell?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and four 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 Little Portugal page.

What neighbourhood is Queen & Abell in?

Queen & Abell is in Little Portugal (City of Toronto neighbourhood 084). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo. The corner falls inside the West Queen West Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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