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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · Jun 20, 2023
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The south leg carries the load — 6,360 northbound vehicles, or 57% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 432. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,698 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 24% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (1,365). Heavy vehicles made up 3.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. 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.
Peak hours: 1,365 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 1,698 from 4:45 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).
Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m
2024 was the peak year (5 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 15% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 15% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from May 15, 2025.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 13 | |
| With an injury | 2 | |
| Property damage only | 11 | |
| Fail to remain | 2 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Streetcar
- 501 508 507 nearest 360 m · 4 min
- TTC bus
- 77 80 66 nearest 109 m
- Blue Night
- 301
- Nearest stops
- 3 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Ripley Ave / Ormskirk Ave 185 m · 23 docks · 4 stations, 80 docks within 1 km
Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- 8 car parks · about 918 spaces
- EV charging
- 265 Armadale Ave · 1.7 km · 8 Level 2 + 1 fast ports
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 17 mapped lots within 500 m, 177 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 Lake Shore Blvd. West (Parks) · Surface | 1.1 km | 185 * | — |
| 2001 Lake Shore Blvd. West (Parks) · Surface | 1.4 km | 187 * | — |
| 17 Riverview Gdns · Surface | 1.5 km | 95 | 52% (Q1 2026) |
| 16 Riverview Gdns · Surface | 1.5 km | 59 | 38% (Q1 2026) |
| 15 Marine Parade Drive · Surface | 1.6 km | 14 * | — |
Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.
Within a walk
What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.
Food, shops and services
No grocery store is listed within a kilometre of this corner. There is a specialist food shop nearby — Cheese Boutique Giftware, 287 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 4 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Hooked, 302 m away. The nearest pharmacy is First Light Pharmacy, 904 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Hooked · 18 Ripley Ave302 m · 4 min
- Pier Food Shoppe · 2045 Lake Shore Blvd W1 km · 11 min
- Veloute Bistro · 2045 Lake Shore Blvd W, Flr-11 km · 11 min
- Palace Place Foods · 1 Palace Pier Crt1 km · 12 min
- Food shops
- Cheese Boutique Giftware 287 m · 3 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- First Light Pharmacy 904 m · 11 min
- Child care
- Windermere Early Learning Centre · 57 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day663 m · 8 min
- Swansea Kids Place · 273 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day896 m · 11 min
Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.
Parks, schools and places
- Parks (16)
- Riverside Drive Parkette47 m
- Ormskirk Park433 m · 5 min
- South Kingsway Parkette542 m · 6 min
- Coe Hill Drive Parkette641 m · 8 min
- Windermere Avenue Parkette658 m · 8 min
- Community centres
- Swansea Community Recreation Centre1 km · 12 min
- Schools
- Swansea Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 896 m · 11 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Swansea Memorial branch1.4 km · 17 min
Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.
Not within a walk: a grocery store, a public washroom or a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
Five registered apartment buildings with 315 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner — well below the median of 15. The nearest is 101 Coe Hill Dr (699 m, 47 units, 3 storeys, built 1955), which scored 94 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 93, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 Coe Hill Dr | 47 | 3 | 1955 | 94 · Jul 2026 | 699 m · 8 min |
| 99 Coe Hill Dr · Trivest Developments Corporation | 86 | 4 | 1957 | 94 · Jul 2025 | 788 m · 9 min |
| 93 Coe Hill Dr · Aman's Renovations & Property Management | 38 | 4 | 1958 | 89 · Jul 2026 | 832 m · 10 min |
| 65 Windermere Ave · Greenwin Corp. | 92 | 6 | 1962 | 95 · Jul 2025 | 860 m · 10 min |
| 75 Windermere Ave · Greenwin Corp. | 52 | 6 | 1962 | 95 · Sep 2026 | 913 m · 11 min |
5 registered buildings · 315 units · tallest 6 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.
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 High Park-Swansea.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Riverside Dr & South Kingsway a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 13 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 Riverside Dr & South Kingsway?
An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from Jun 20, 2023, 1.20× the median for a counted intersection.
Is Riverside Dr & South Kingsway a walkable intersection?
Riverside Dr & South Kingsway scores 22 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 2 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 1 km; 3 stops within 300 m · 7 routes within 1 km; nearest school 0.9 km · 2 licensed child cares within 1 km.
Where can I park near Riverside Dr & South Kingsway?
The nearest Green P car park is 2001 Lake Shore Blvd. West (Parks) (1.1 km away, 185 spaces). The City's mapping shows 177 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,690 spaces — 17 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 265 Armadale Ave (1.7 km).
How do I get to Riverside Dr & South Kingsway by transit?
Streetcar routes 501, 508, 507 stop within 1 km, the nearest 360 m away; bus routes 77, 80, 66 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Riverside Dr & South Kingsway?
None within 300 m, and 4 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Hooked (302 m), Pier Food Shoppe (1.0 km), Veloute Bistro (1.0 km) and Palace Place Foods (1.0 km). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Riverside Dr & South Kingsway?
Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 441 m away at Ormskirk Park.
Is there child care near Riverside Dr & South Kingsway?
Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 330 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Windermere Early Learning Centre (663 m, 57 spaces) and Swansea Kids Place (896 m, 273 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Riverside Dr & South Kingsway?
Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 315 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 101 Coe Hill Dr (699 m, 47 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 99 Coe Hill Dr (788 m, 86 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 93 Coe Hill Dr (832 m, 38 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 65 Windermere Ave (860 m, 92 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 is 93 out of 100.
What neighbourhood is Riverside Dr & South Kingsway in?
Riverside Dr & South Kingsway is in High Park-Swansea (City of Toronto neighbourhood 087). It is in Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, represented by Councillor Gord Perks.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Jun 20, 2023.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 4 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.63770, -79.47630 · centreline node 13468574.