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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 volume14-hour count · Nov 14, 2023
The east leg carries the load — 1,971 westbound vehicles, or 61% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 37. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 358 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 38% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (260). Heavy vehicles made up 2.0% 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.
Peak hours: 260 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 358 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
The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 3 collisions. 7% of collisions here involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 21% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 21% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Aug 8, 2025.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 14 | 4.4 a year per 10,000 daily vehicles |
| With an injury | 1 | |
| Property damage only | 11 | |
| Fail to remain | 3 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 1 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 2 | |
| Severity not classified | 2 | |
| 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.
How fast traffic moves here
The City's counter on Robinson St between Markham St and Palmerston Ave (52 m away) recorded an average of 27 km/h in its 7-day count in July 2026; 85% of drivers were at or under 34 km/h. That segment carries about 3,400 vehicles a day. Palmerston Ave between Wolseley St and Lane S of Robinson and W of Palmerston measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 32 km/h (Nov 2023).
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robinson St · Markham St – Palmerston Ave · 52 m | Jul 2026 · 7 days | 3,411 | 27 km/h | 34 km/h | 39 km/h |
| Palmerston Ave · Wolseley St – Lane S of Robinson and W of Palmerston · 73 m | Nov 2023 · 3 days | 1,058 | 23 km/h | 32 km/h | 36 km/h |
Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Streetcar
- 501 511 504 508 505 506 nearest 194 m
- Blue Night
- 301 304 305 306 307
- Nearest stops
- 4 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- Bike Lane - Contraflow on Palmerston Ave installed 2022
- Bike Share
- Euclid Ave / Queen St W - SMART 276 m · 3 min · 9 docks · 25 stations, 476 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
- 22 car parks · about 1,974 spaces
- EV charging
- 10 Palmerston Ave · 118 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 10 Portland St (858 m), 74 Clinton Street (1.3 km)
- Bike parking
- 76 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 60 bikes within 600 m
- Other lots
- 32 mapped lots within 500 m, 558 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Denison Ave · Surface | 657 m | 120 | 54% (Q1 2026) |
| 201 Claremont St · Surface | 665 m | 43 | 61% (Q1 2026) |
| 803 Richmond St W · Surface | 712 m | 48 | 56% (Q1 2026) |
| 35 Bellevue Avenue · Surface | 1 km | 91 * | — |
| 20 St Andrew St · Garage | 1.2 km | 417 | 27% (Q1 2026) |
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
You can do a shop on foot from here: Fresh 1 Market is 270 m away, one of two grocery stores within 300 m. There is also a specialist food shop, Kayzpopz Boutique Bakery, 275 m away. There are 24 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 365 eating places within a kilometre — 8.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Infinity Mart, 176 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Hilary's Pharmacy, 391 m away; 12 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Toronto Western Hospital, 732 m away, then Kensington Eye Institute at 1.4 km. Scadding Court Community Centre runs a seniors' active living programme 601 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Infinity Mart · 652 Queen St W176 m
- Scoops Unlimited · 654 Queen St W184 m
- A & W · 650 1/2 Queen St W188 m
- North of Brooklyn Pizzeria/ Gigi Sapi · 650 1/2 Queen St W188 m
- Lost In Tokyo Parfait Shop · 636 Queen St W190 m
- Grocery
- Fresh 1 Market 270 m · 3 min · 2 within 300 m
- Food shops
- Kayzpopz Boutique Bakery 275 m · 3 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- Hilary's Pharmacy 391 m · 5 min · 12 within 1 km
- Child care
- Fraser School - Community Day Care Centre · 136 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day313 m · 4 min
- Garrison Creek Community Day Care · 152 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day661 m · 8 min
- Alexandra Park Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 36 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day676 m · 8 min
- Washrooms
- Alexandra Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs516 m · 6 min
- Harry R. Gairey Outdoor Rink Washroom · hours not listed · accessible · closed — Maintenance/Repairs555 m · 7 min
- Health and care
- Toronto Western Hospital · hospital site732 m · 9 min
- Kensington Eye Institute · hospital site1.4 km · 17 min
- Scadding Court Community Centre · seniors' active living centre601 m · 7 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 (20)
- Alexandra Park478 m · 6 min
- Randy Padmore Park553 m · 7 min
- Portland Street Parkette749 m · 9 min
- Adelaide Place Parkette776 m · 9 min
- Stanley Park North - Toronto848 m · 10 min
- Community centres
- Scadding Court Community Centre603 m · 7 min
- Trinity Community Recreation Centre853 m · 10 min
- Schools (14)
- Charles G Fraser Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 313 m · 4 min
- St Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 445 m · 5 min
- Niagara Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 661 m · 8 min
- Discovering Minds Montessori SchoolPrivate · 706 m · 8 min
- Ryerson Community School & Downtown Vocal Music AcademyEnglish Public · 714 m · 9 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch615 m · 7 min
- Toronto Public Library Fort York branch1.3 km · 16 min
- Places of interest
- Theatre Passe MuraillePerforming Arts · 455 m · 5 min
- Factory TheatrePerforming Arts · 625 m · 7 min
- Graffiti AlleyLandmark · 868 m · 10 min
- iArts MuseumMuseum · 1 km · 12 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 care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #924 of 5,672. 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
16 registered apartment buildings with 1,604 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, ten of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 115 Euclid Ave (230 m, 16 units, 3 storeys, built 1930), which scored 88 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 16 scored below 70; the average is 83, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 Euclid Ave | 16 | 3 | 1930 | 88 · Jul 2026 | 230 m |
| 165 Bathurst St · Hazelview Properties Inc | 47 | 6 | 1918 | 79 · Jul 2025 | 456 m · 5 min |
| 138 Claremont St social housing · Neighbours Community Homes | 18 | 3 | 1994 | 90 · Aug 2025 | 556 m · 7 min |
| 798 Richmond St W · Akelius Canada Ltd | 525 | 13 | 1970 | 89 · Jul 2025 | 571 m · 7 min |
| 15 Gore Vale Ave · Terrance Goldthorpe | 10 | 3 | 1926 | 45 · Aug 2026 | 593 m · 7 min |
| 575 Adelaide St W Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation | 150 | 11 | 1983 | 84 · Aug 2024 | 598 m · 7 min |
16 registered buildings · 1,604 units · 10 social housing · tallest 14 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
Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Mar 8, 2026.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 2 | 1 | 1 | street/outdoor (2) |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0 | 0 | other (1) |
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 Trinity-Bellwoods.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Robinson & Palmerston a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 14 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 Robinson & Palmerston?
A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Nov 14, 2023, 20% of the median for a counted intersection.
Is Robinson & Palmerston a walkable intersection?
Robinson & Palmerston scores 69 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #924 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; 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 grocery stores within 300 m · 24 places to eat within 300 m; 2 schools within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m.
How fast do cars go at Robinson & Palmerston?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Robinson St between Markham St and Palmerston Ave (July 2026), found an average of 27 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 34 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Robinson & Palmerston?
The nearest Green P car park is 15 Denison Ave (657 m away, 120 spaces, 54% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 558 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 12,740 spaces — 32 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 10 Palmerston Ave (118 m).
How do I get to Robinson & Palmerston by transit?
Streetcar routes 501, 511, 504, 508 and 2 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 194 m away.
What restaurants are near Robinson & Palmerston?
24 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 365 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Infinity Mart (176 m), Scoops Unlimited (184 m), A & W (188 m), North of Brooklyn Pizzeria/ Gigi Sapi (188 m) and Lost In Tokyo Parfait Shop (190 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Robinson & Palmerston?
The nearest is Alexandra Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 275 Bathurst St, 516 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). The City currently lists it as closed: maintenance/repairs. Next nearest: Harry R. Gairey Outdoor Rink Washroom (555 m); Trinity Bellwoods Playground Washroom (827 m).
Is there child care near Robinson & Palmerston?
Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 480 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Fraser School - Community Day Care Centre (313 m, 136 spaces), Garrison Creek Community Day Care (661 m, 152 spaces) and Alexandra Park Early Learning & Child Care Centre (676 m, 36 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Robinson & Palmerston?
16 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,604 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 115 Euclid Ave (230 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 165 Bathurst St (456 m, 47 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 138 Claremont St (556 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 798 Richmond St W (571 m, 525 units, RentSafeTO score 89). The average RentSafeTO score across the 16 is 83 out of 100; 1 scored below 70.
How many thefts are reported at Robinson & Palmerston?
Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Trinity-Bellwoods page.
What neighbourhood is Robinson & Palmerston in?
Robinson & Palmerston is in Trinity-Bellwoods (City of Toronto neighbourhood 081). It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik.
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 Nov 14, 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.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts.
- 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 10 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: 43.64832, -79.40707 · centreline node 13467070.