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Richmond & Strachan

Richmond St W & Strachan Ave · Toronto, Ontario · West Queen West · Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York

In West Queen West, in central Toronto, Richmond & Strachan is a quiet local crossing, with significant cycling traffic. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: 14 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
3,377
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 20, 2018
583 pedestrians · 1,645 cyclists
Collisions
17
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 14 property damage · #3657 of 5,508 · +3 since Jan 2026
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 · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Sharrows, Sharrows - Wayfinding
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 420 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 37% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 6 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 48.7% of vehicle volume, about 63× the typical share. On average 1.7 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Richmond & Strachan

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
501504508505511509 nearest 111 m
TTC bus
6329 nearest 264 m
Blue Night
301304305363307329
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Sharrows on Strachan Ave installed 2006; Sharrows - Wayfinding on Richmond St W installed 2016
Bike Share
Adelaide St W / Strachan Ave 124 m · 15 docks · 46 stations, 1,023 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 (15)
  • Discovering Minds Montessori SchoolPrivate · 133 m
  • Niagara Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 369 m
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 446 m
  • Charles G Fraser Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 540 m
  • St Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 679 m
  • Ecole Elementaire Pierre Elliott TrudeauFrench Public · 861 m
  • and 9 more
Community centres
Parks (41)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Fort York branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1.3 km
Places of interest
  • Factory TheatrePerforming Arts · 814 m
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 854 m
  • Fort York National Historic SiteMuseum · 895 m
  • Theatre Passe MuraillePerforming Arts · 1 km
  • Exhibition PlaceConvention & Trade Centres · 1 km
  • Enercare CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 1 km
  • Coca-Cola Coliseum (formerly Ricoh Coliseum)Sports / Entertainment Venue · 1.1 km
  • iArts MuseumMuseum · 1.1 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 41 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 360 — 4.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Matty's Patty's Burger Club, 103 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés41 within 300 m · 360 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 40 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bocados Bake Shop · 923 Queen St W Unit-Bgrocery103 mPassed, Dec 2025
Matty's Patty's Burger Club · 923 Queen St W Unit-A103 mPassed, May 2026
Agora · 921 Queen St W104 mPassed, Mar 2026
White Squirrel Coffee Shop · 907 Queen St W121 mPassed, Jun 2026
Pennies · 127 Strachan Ave125 mPassed, Mar 2026
The Library Specialty Coffee · 917 Queen St W128 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Plush Cafe and Bar · 897 Queen St W149 mPassed, Apr 2026
Oyster Boy · 872 Queen St W155 mPassed, Apr 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 Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 274 m away, View centre hours; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 147 m away at Trinity Bellwoods Park.

  • Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 155 Crawford St
    View centre hours · accessible
    274 m
  • Trinity Bellwoods Playground Washroom · 790 Queen St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    301 m
  • Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom · 890 King St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    329 m
Drinking water
Trinity Bellwoods Park drinking fountain · 147 m; Stanley Park North - Toronto drinking fountain · 305 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 917 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Trinity Bellwoods Community Children's Group/Care (Crawford Street) (296 m, 35 spaces, school age).

Within 1 km11 centres · 917 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 11
  • Trinity Bellwoods Community Children's Group/Care (Crawford Street) · 155 Crawford St
    35 spaces · school age · fee subsidy
    296 m
  • Downtown Kids Academy, Inc. · 905 King St W
    50 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    296 m
  • Garrison Creek Community Day Care · 222 Niagara St
    152 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    369 m
  • Givins/Shaw School Community Day Care · 49 Givins St
    121 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    446 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 331 (416 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 331 · 416 m33 Claremont St
Police14 Division · 1.3 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 35 · 1.3 km265 Manitoba Dr

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 19 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 3,766 rental units — seven social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 800 Adelaide St W (207 m, 50 units, 3 storeys, built 1987), which scored 88 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 19 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 59 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings19 · 3,766 units · 7 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202659 across the 19
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest35 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
800 Adelaide St Wsocial housing · Homes First Society503198788 · Aug 20260207 m
900 Queen St Wsocial housing · Artscape Non-Profit Housing Inc.223199681 · Jul 20241240 m
798 Richmond St W · Akelius Canada Ltd52513197089 · Jul 20257258 m
15 Gore Vale Ave · Terrance Goldthorpe103192645 · Aug 20260260 m
24 Shaw Stsocial housing2009198987 · Aug 20261343 m
100 Lower Ossington Ave · Killam Apartment REIT1798201391 · Aug 20240497 m
25 Ordnance St · Bentallgreenoak Residential Services333312021100 · Jul 20257609 m
15 Solidarity Way · Rhapsody Property Management440262021100 · Aug 20246613 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 lots755 lots · ≈27,560 spaces · 82.7 ha
Within 500 m51 lots · ≈1,270 spaces
Green P (public)26 car parks · about 2,465 spaces
EV charging (City)10 Palmerston Ave · 587 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking184 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 77 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
803 Richmond St W · Surface165 m4856% (Q1 2026)
1030 King Street West - garage entrance via Shank St. · Garage384 m152 *
18 Ossington Ave · Surface523 m20over 100% (Q1 2026)
110 Dovercourt Rd · Surface803 m8over 100% (Q1 2026)
1117 Dundas St W · Surface807 m3786% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 82 m away, ≈12 spaces; 91 m away, ≈7 spaces; 115 m away, ≈14 spaces; 117 m away, ≈17 spaces; 123 m away, ≈8 spaces (Green P); 131 m away, ≈3 spaces. More EV charging: 1051 Queen Street W (621 m, 2 ports); 248 Shaw St (705 m, 2 ports); 45 Abell St (926 m, 16 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, Jun 20, 2018

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 1,622 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 48% of the total, against 558 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 522 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 452 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 8 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2018, 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 north1,197southbound · 354 bikes · 1.3% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 673 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles3,377583 pedestrians · 1,645 cyclists · 2.8% heavy
From the east558westbound · 0 bikes · 3.6% heavy
From the south1,622northbound · 618 bikes · 3.5% heavy
AM peak hour452 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour522 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jun 20, 2018

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 Strachan Ave between Adelaide St W and Richmond St W, 56 m from the corner, a 7-day count in June 2018 put the average speed at 35 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 43 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 48 km/h or more. That segment carries about 6,600 vehicles a day. Richmond St W between Lane W of Tecumseth and S of Queen and Niagara St measured slower: 27 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 37 km/h (Nov 2023). The reading is 8 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Strachan Ave · Adelaide St W – Richmond St W · 56 mJun 2018 · 7 days6,62435 km/h43 km/h48 km/h
Richmond St W · Lane W of Tecumseth and S of Queen – Niagara St · 387 mNov 2023 · 3 days1,99827 km/h37 km/h40 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 2019, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 24% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 17, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions17#3657 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only14
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
All since 201421latest May 17, 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

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

Ten thefts from vehicles and six bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.7× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 3 in 2023–2025, about 1.0 a year, against 1.9 a year before that. 40% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 67% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1010street/outdoor (4), house driveway/garage (3)
Bicycle theft620house driveway/garage (4), apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 18, 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 West Queen West.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Richmond & Strachan a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 17 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 Richmond & Strachan?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Jun 20, 2018, 37% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Richmond & Strachan?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Strachan Ave between Adelaide St W and Richmond St W (June 2018), found an average of 35 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Richmond & Strachan?

The nearest Green P car park is 803 Richmond St W (165 m away, 48 spaces, 56% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 755 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 27,560 spaces — 51 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 10 Palmerston Ave (587 m).

How do I get to Richmond & Strachan by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 504, 508, 505 and 2 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 111 m away; bus routes 63, 29 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Richmond & Strachan?

41 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 360 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Matty's Patty's Burger Club (103 m), Agora (104 m), White Squirrel Coffee Shop (121 m), Pennies (125 m) and The Library Specialty Coffee (128 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 Richmond & Strachan?

The nearest is Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 155 Crawford St, 274 m away (View centre hours), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Trinity Bellwoods Playground Washroom (301 m); Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom (329 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 Richmond & Strachan?

11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 917 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Trinity Bellwoods Community Children's Group/Care (Crawford Street) (296 m, 35 spaces), Downtown Kids Academy, Inc. (296 m, 50 spaces) and Garrison Creek Community Day Care (369 m, 152 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Richmond & Strachan?

19 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,766 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 800 Adelaide St W (207 m, 50 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 900 Queen St W (240 m, 22 units, RentSafeTO score 81), 798 Richmond St W (258 m, 525 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 15 Gore Vale Ave (260 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 45). The average RentSafeTO score across the 19 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 Richmond & Strachan?

Toronto Police place ten thefts from vehicles and six 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 West Queen West page.

What neighbourhood is Richmond & Strachan in?

Richmond & Strachan is in West Queen West (City of Toronto neighbourhood 162). It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik.

Sources

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