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Queen & Saulter

Queen St E & Saulter St · Toronto, Ontario · South Riverdale · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth · Riverside District BIA

Queen & Saulter is a moderately travelled crossing, with significant cycling traffic. It sits in South Riverdale. At the corner: parks. Nearby: 12 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
6,638
vehicles · 8-hour count, Aug 3, 2017
1,300 pedestrians · 691 cyclists
Collisions
34
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
6 with an injury · 23 property damage · #2643 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
2
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 1 pedestrian · 1 cyclist · #407 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
5 streetcar routes · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 16 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 830 vehicles, 72% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 5 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 10.4% of vehicle volume, about 13× the typical share. On average 3.4 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 30%, from 20 in 2016–2020 to 14 in 2021–2025. About one in 17 of those collisions involved a death or serious injury.

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Queen & Saulter

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
501503504505506 nearest 26 m
TTC bus
72121 nearest 612 m
Blue Night
301304305306325
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Queen St East at Saulter St East Side; Queen St East at Boulton Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Saulter St / Queen St E - SMART 53 m · 16 docks · 23 stations, 411 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)
  • Dundas Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 313 m
  • Queen Alexandra Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 328 m
  • Seed Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 397 m
  • Morse Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 589 m
  • Eastdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 733 m
  • Nelson Mandela Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • and 11 more
Parks (42)
  • McCleary Playground161 m
  • Saulter Street Parkette201 m
  • Thompson Street Parkette258 m
  • Jimmie Simpson Park291 m
  • Bruce Mackey Park335 m
  • Riverside Common Park367 m
  • and 36 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Queen/Saulter branch21 m
  • Toronto Public Library Riverdale branch836 m
  • Toronto Public Library Jones branch1.3 km
Places of interest
  • Soulpepper Theatre CompanyPerforming Arts · 1 km
  • Native Earth Performing Arts & Aki StudioPerforming Arts · 1.2 km
  • Riverdale Park (East and West)Nature/ Park · 1.2 km
  • Young Centre for the Performing ArtsPerforming Arts · 1.3 km
  • The Distillery Historic DistrictLandmark · 1.4 km
  • Riverdale FarmAttraction · 1.4 km
  • Thompson Landry Gallery - Stone Building & Cooperage SpaceGallery · 1.5 km
  • Illuminarium TorontoAttraction · 1.5 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 43 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 5 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 190 — 2.6× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Ralph Thornton Centre - Student Nutrition Program, 28 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2026.

Restaurants & cafés43 within 300 m · 190 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience5 within 300 m · 40 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Ralph Thornton Centre - Student Nutrition Program · 765 Queen St E28 mPassed, Sep 2026
Queen Garden Cafe · 771 Queen St E29 mPassed, Sep 2026
El Cazo · 780 Queen St E30 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 3 infractions
The Comrade · 758 Queen St E47 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions
Royal Baithak · 755 Queen St E50 mPassed, Jul 2026
Chez Nous Wine Bar · 798 Queen St Egrocery53 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions
Amber Kitchen & Coffee · 4 Boulton Ave58 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Sea Moss Blends · 753 Queen St E58 mPassed, Aug 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

The nearest public washroom is Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre Washroom, 205 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 179 m away at McCleary Playground.

  • Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre Washroom · 870 Queen St E
    View centre hours
    205 m
  • Morse Street Playground Washroom · 76 Morse St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    685 m
  • Corktown Common Pavilion Washroom · 155 Bayview Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    770 m
Drinking water
McCleary Playground drinking fountain · 179 m; Bruce Mackey Park drinking fountain · 212 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 955 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Boulton Avenue Child Care Centre (207 m, 72 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km11 centres · 955 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 11
  • Boulton Avenue Child Care Centre · 131 Broadview Ave
    72 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    207 m
  • George Brown - Dundas Street East Child Care Centre · 935 Dundas St E
    127 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    313 m
  • Mighty Kids · 14 Verral Ave
    43 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    536 m
  • Woodgreen Community Services (Morse Child Care Centre) · 180 Carlaw Ave
    192 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    589 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 324 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 51 Division (1.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 805 m away.

FireFire Station 324 · 1 km840 Gerrard St E
Police51 Division · 1.4 km51 Parliament Street
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 43 · 805 m126 Pape Ave

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 25 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,699 rental units — 19 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 58 Lewis St (188 m, 15 units, 4 storeys, built 1987), which scored 91 out of 100 at its October 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 25 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 48 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 17 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings25 · 2,699 units · 19 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202648 across the 25
Open fire-code violations17
Tallest29 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
58 Lewis Stsocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc.154198791 · Oct 20250188 m
179 Broadview Avesocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes414199285 · Aug 20260294 m
841 Queen St Esocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc.363198869 · Jul 20260295 m
245-247 Logan Ave · Valour Management Inc.214192790 · Jun 20240434 m
859 Dundas St EToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation294197396 · Dec 20250455 m
50 Matilda StToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation564200895 · Nov 20250461 m
502 Eastern Avesocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes195198991 · Dec 20250550 m
444 Logan Avesocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc15922196786 · Jun 20243 · 3 fire692 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 lots716 lots · ≈37,130 spaces · 111.4 ha
Within 500 m88 lots · ≈3,150 spaces
Green P (public)14 car parks · about 1,591 spaces
EV charging (City)220 Carlaw Ave. · 623 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking66 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 38 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
111 Broadview Ave · Surface191 m9256% (Q1 2026)
136 Broadview Ave · Surface242 m2273% (Q1 2026)
653 Gerrard St E · Surface743 m3072% (Q1 2026)
573 Gerrard St E · Surface792 m3675% (Q1 2026)
83 Tannery Road · Garage859 m27 *

Nearest lots: 35 m away, ≈5 spaces; 47 m away, ≈3 spaces; 54 m away, ≈5 spaces; 57 m away, ≈16 spaces; 67 m away, ≈22 spaces; 95 m away, ≈12 spaces. More EV charging: 963 Gerrard St E (1.2 km, 2 ports); 500 Commissioners St (1.4 km, 2 ports); 43 Alton Ave (1.7 km, 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, Aug 3, 2017

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 3,500 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 53% of the total, against 123 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the east (412 of 691). Evening rush dominates here: 1,050 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:30 p.m., against 920 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Trucks and buses were 20.4% 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 9 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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 north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west3,015eastbound · 272 bikes · 21.1% heavy
Total vehicles6,6381,300 pedestrians · 691 cyclists · 20.4% heavy
From the east3,500westbound · 412 bikes · 19.8% heavy
From the south123northbound · 7 bikes · 17.1% heavy
AM peak hour920 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour1,050 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · Aug 3, 2017

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

3 speed humps slow traffic on Saulter Street between Queen St E and South Terminus Of Saulter Street.

Traffic calming

  • Saulter Street · Queen St E – South Terminus Of Saulter Street
    3 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 2018, with 10 collisions; 2025 recorded 4. 6 collisions (18%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 18% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 5 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (15%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 13, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions34#2643 of 5,508
With an injury6#2520 of 4,660
Property damage only23
Fail to remain6
Involving a pedestrian1#2910 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist4#638 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified5
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201444latest May 13, 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

Neither of the two serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025 was fatal. 1 pedestrian and 1 cyclist were among those hurt. One of the two happened in darkness. The most recent was on Aug 8, 2023. Going back to 2006, the total is 3.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions2#407 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian1#720 of 879
Involving a cyclist1#216 of 271
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness1
All KSI since 20063latest Aug 8, 2023

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

Six thefts from vehicles and five bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.1 a year. 33% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 40% of the bike thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle610street/outdoor (2), house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft520street/outdoor (2), commercial premises (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 13, 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 South Riverdale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Queen & Saulter a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 2 serious-injury collisions were recorded in 2016–2025 (#407 of 1,505), out of 34 reported collisions of any severity. 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 & Saulter?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Aug 3, 2017, 72% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Queen & Saulter?

The nearest Green P car park is 111 Broadview Ave (191 m away, 92 spaces, 56% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 716 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 37,130 spaces — 88 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 220 Carlaw Ave. (623 m).

How do I get to Queen & Saulter by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 503, 504, 505 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 26 m away; bus routes 72, 121 within 1 km (nearest stop: Queen St East at Saulter St East Side, 612 m).

What restaurants are near Queen & Saulter?

43 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 190 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Ralph Thornton Centre - Student Nutrition Program (28 m), Queen Garden Cafe (29 m), El Cazo (30 m), The Comrade (47 m) and Royal Baithak (50 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 & Saulter?

The nearest is Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre Washroom, 870 Queen St E, 205 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Morse Street Playground Washroom (685 m); Corktown Common Pavilion Washroom (770 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 & Saulter?

11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 955 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Boulton Avenue Child Care Centre (207 m, 72 spaces), George Brown - Dundas Street East Child Care Centre (313 m, 127 spaces) and Mighty Kids (536 m, 43 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Queen & Saulter?

25 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,699 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 58 Lewis St (188 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 179 Broadview Ave (294 m, 41 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 841 Queen St E (295 m, 36 units, RentSafeTO score 69) and 245-247 Logan Ave (434 m, 21 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 25 is 89 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 & Saulter?

Toronto Police place six thefts from vehicles and five 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 South Riverdale page.

What neighbourhood is Queen & Saulter in?

Queen & Saulter is in South Riverdale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 070). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher. The corner falls inside the Riverside District Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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