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Richmond & Tecumseth

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

In West Queen West, in central Toronto, Richmond & Tecumseth is a lightly travelled intersection, with pedestrians outnumbering vehicles and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: 13 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
1,776
vehicles · 14-hour count, Nov 14, 2023
1,948 pedestrians · 1,883 cyclists · #2251 busiest
Collisions
24
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 18 property damage · #3173 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 2 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
6 streetcar routes · 1 bus route within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow, Sharrows
Bike Share: 9 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 130 vehicles an hour, 11% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.1 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 106.0% of vehicle volume, about 137× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 2.4 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 13.5 per 10,000 counted vehicles, 2.7× the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions fell 50%, from 16 in 2016–2020 to 8 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Richmond & Tecumseth

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
501511504508505510 nearest 75 m
TTC bus
63 nearest 664 m
Blue Night
301304305310307363
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m — Queen St West at Tecumseth St; Queen St West at Palmerston Ave
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Richmond St W installed 2014; Sharrows on Tecumseth St installed 2022; Bike Lane - Contraflow on Tecumseth St installed 2022
Bike Share
Euclid Ave / Queen St W - SMART 130 m · 9 docks · 60 stations, 1,196 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 (27)
  • St Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 135 m
  • Niagara Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 274 m
  • Charles G Fraser Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 383 m
  • Discovering Minds Montessori SchoolPrivate · 422 m
  • Alpha Alternative & Oasis AlternativeEnglish Public · 651 m
  • Ryerson Community School & Downtown Vocal Music AcademyEnglish Public · 671 m
  • and 21 more
Parks (48)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch690 m
  • Toronto Public Library Fort York branch887 m
  • Toronto Public Library Lillian H. Smith branch1.5 km
Places of interest
  • Factory TheatrePerforming Arts · 286 m
  • Theatre Passe MuraillePerforming Arts · 421 m
  • iArts MuseumMuseum · 565 m
  • Graffiti AlleyLandmark · 667 m
  • Fort York National Historic SiteMuseum · 767 m
  • Arcadia EarthAttraction · 819 m
  • The WellLandmark · 917 m
  • TIFF Bell LightboxLandmark · 1.3 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 82 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 10 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 364 — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Kits, 63 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés82 within 300 m · 364 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience10 within 300 m · 36 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Kits · 735 Queen St W63 mPassed, Jun 2026
Karahi Boys · 739 Queen St W70 mPassed, Mar 2026
Offworld Bar · 739 Queen St W, Flr-270 mPassed, Mar 2025
Jimmy's Coffee · 735 Queen St W73 mPassed, Mar 2025
Agave Azul · 745 Queen St W84 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Harlem Restaurant · 745 Queen St W86 mPassed, May 2025
Maison 118 · 709 Queen St W88 mPassed, Jun 2026
Bloomer's · 715 Queen St W90 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 Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom, 430 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 445 m away at Stanley Park North - Toronto.

  • Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom · 890 King St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    430 m
  • Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom · 700 Wellington St W
    View outdoor pool hours
    466 m
  • Alexandra Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 275 Bathurst St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    579 m
Drinking water
Stanley Park North - Toronto drinking fountain · 445 m; Stanley Park South - Toronto drinking fountain · 479 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 890 spaces; 11 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Garrison Creek Community Day Care (274 m, 152 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km13 centres · 890 spaces
Fee subsidy11 of 13
  • Garrison Creek Community Day Care · 222 Niagara St
    152 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    274 m
  • Fraser School - Community Day Care Centre · 79 Manning Ave
    136 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    383 m
  • City Kids Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 34 Bathurst St
    72 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    629 m
  • Westend Parents Daycare Centre Alpha · 20 Brant St
    26 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    651 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 331 (318 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (1.6 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.7 km away.

FireFire Station 331 · 318 m33 Claremont St
Police52 Division · 1.6 km255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 36 · 1.7 km339 Queens Quay 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 29 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 5,161 rental units — 14 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 165 Bathurst St (236 m, 47 units, 6 storeys, built 1918), which scored 79 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 29 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 54 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 9 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings29 · 5,161 units · 14 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202654 across the 29
Open fire-code violations9
Tallest46 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
165 Bathurst St · Hazelview Properties Inc476191879 · Jul 20251236 m
575 Adelaide St WToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation15011198384 · Aug 20241261 m
798 Richmond St W · Akelius Canada Ltd52513197089 · Jul 20257297 m
552 Adelaide St Wsocial housing · Par-Med Property Services Inc.845200593 · Jul 20250314 m
800 Adelaide St Wsocial housing · Homes First Society503198788 · Aug 20260393 m
115 Euclid Ave163193088 · Jul 20260424 m
15 Gore Vale Ave · Terrance Goldthorpe103192645 · Aug 20260437 m
163 Portland Stsocial housing · Par-Med Property Services Inc.464199185 · Jul 20243458 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 lots761 lots · ≈26,870 spaces · 80.6 ha
Within 500 m80 lots · ≈1,260 spaces
Green P (public)28 car parks · about 4,412 spaces
EV charging (City)10 Palmerston Ave · 154 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking208 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 70 bikes within 600 m · Indoor bike station, 97 Front St W (1.9 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
803 Richmond St W · Surface393 m4856% (Q1 2026)
15 Denison Ave · Surface554 m12054% (Q1 2026)
201 Claremont St · Surface748 m4361% (Q1 2026)
2 Portland St · Garage750 m3797% (Q1 2026)
105 Spadina Ave · Surface894 m14over 100% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 16 m away, ≈3 spaces; 87 m away, ≈4 spaces; 129 m away, ≈12 spaces; 142 m away, ≈4 spaces; 142 m away, ≈16 spaces; 155 m away, ≈5 spaces. More EV charging: 10 Portland St (598 m, 4 ports); 248 Shaw St (1 km, 2 ports); 10 Soho St. (1.1 km, 4 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 — 14-hour, Nov 14, 2023

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 893 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 50% of the total, against 20 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the east (1,049 of 1,883). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 168 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 163 from 3:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). 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.

From the north893southbound · 383 bikes · 0.8% heavy
From the west799eastbound · 214 bikes · 2.0% heavy
Total vehicles1,7761,948 pedestrians · 1,883 cyclists · 1.4% heavy
From the east64westbound · 1,049 bikes · 1.6% heavy
From the south20northbound · 237 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour168 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour163 vehicles from 3:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Nov 14, 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 Richmond St W between Bathurst St and Gershon Iskowitz Lane, 136 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2024 put the average speed at 29 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 37 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 40 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,600 vehicles a day. Tecumseth St between Whitaker Ave and Adelaide St W measured slower: 21 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 30 km/h (Sep 2025). 4 speed humps slow traffic on Richmond Street West between Niagara St and Tecumseth St.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Richmond St W · Bathurst St – Gershon Iskowitz Lane · 136 mApr 2024 · 3 days1,62129 km/h37 km/h40 km/h
Tecumseth St · Whitaker Ave – Adelaide St W · 186 mSep 2025 · 7 days2,08621 km/h30 km/h35 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Richmond Street West · Niagara St – Tecumseth St
    4 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 5 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 1 collision (4%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 25% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (4%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 23, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 13.5 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions24#3173 of 5,508
With an injury1#4590 of 4,660
Property damage only18
Fail to remain6
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#2418 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified5
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201430latest Jun 23, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on May 14, 2013.

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

Four thefts from vehicles and no 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 vehicle420street/outdoor (2), house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 29, 2023. 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 & Tecumseth a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 24 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 & Tecumseth?

A lightly travelled intersection. It ranks #2251 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 11% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Richmond & Tecumseth?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Richmond St W between Bathurst St and Gershon Iskowitz Lane (April 2024), found an average of 29 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 Richmond & Tecumseth?

The nearest Green P car park is 803 Richmond St W (393 m away, 48 spaces, 56% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 761 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 26,870 spaces — 80 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 10 Palmerston Ave (154 m).

How do I get to Richmond & Tecumseth by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 511, 504, 508 and 2 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 75 m away; bus route 63 within 1 km (nearest stop: Queen St West at Tecumseth St, 664 m).

What restaurants are near Richmond & Tecumseth?

82 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 364 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Kits (63 m), Karahi Boys (70 m), Offworld Bar (70 m), Jimmy's Coffee (73 m) and Agave Azul (84 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 & Tecumseth?

The nearest is Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom, 890 King St W, 430 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom (466 m); Alexandra Park Outdoor Pool Washroom (579 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 & Tecumseth?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 890 spaces in total; 11 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Garrison Creek Community Day Care (274 m, 152 spaces), Fraser School - Community Day Care Centre (383 m, 136 spaces) and City Kids Early Learning & Child Care Centre (629 m, 72 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Richmond & Tecumseth?

29 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 5,161 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 165 Bathurst St (236 m, 47 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 575 Adelaide St W (261 m, 150 units, RentSafeTO score 84), 798 Richmond St W (297 m, 525 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 552 Adelaide St W (314 m, 84 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 29 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 & Tecumseth?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and no 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 & Tecumseth in?

Richmond & Tecumseth 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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