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Rosewell & Lawrence

Rosewell Ave & Lawrence Ave W · Toronto, Ontario · Lawrence Park South · Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence

Rosewell & Lawrence is an above-average intersection for traffic. It sits in Lawrence Park South. At the corner: 2 schools within 250 m and parks. Nearby: 6 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
13,178
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 15, 2021
411 pedestrians · 6 cyclists
Collisions
43
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 34 property damage · #2265 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
1 fatal · 1 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #575 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,650 vehicles, 1.43× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 32 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 4.3 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions rose 26%, from 19 in 2016–2020 to 24 in 2021–2025. Just one of those 43 collisions left someone killed or seriously injured.

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Rosewell & Lawrence

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
526197 nearest 81 m
Express
952
Blue Night
352320
Nearest stops
11 surface stops within 300 m — Lawrence Ave West at Rosewell Ave East Side; Lawrence Ave West at Avenue Rd
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Rosewell Ave / Cheritan Ave 363 m · 15 docks · 2 stations, 30 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 (22)
  • Havergal Jr SchoolPrivate · 219 m
  • Havergal College Sr SchoolPrivate · 249 m
  • Lawrence Park Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 305 m
  • Avro AcademyPrivate · 460 m
  • Glenview Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 474 m
  • John Ross Robertson Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 638 m
  • and 16 more
Community centres
Parks (23)
  • Glengarry Park107 m
  • Douglas Greenbelt125 m
  • Heart Park467 m
  • Bedford Parkette529 m
  • Brookdale Park571 m
  • Kimbark - Coldstream Ravine597 m
  • and 17 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Locke branch1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Barbara Frum branch1.5 km
Places of interest
  • Alexander Muir Memorial GardensNature/ Park · 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 11 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 33. The nearest is Fancy Franks, 90 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in October 2025 with 3 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés11 within 300 m · 33 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 9 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Fancy Franks · 1507 Avenue Rd, Unit-A90 mPassed, Oct 2025 · 3 infractions
Starbucks · 1507 Avenue Rd90 mPassed, Apr 2026
Fancy Franks · 1507 Avenue Rd Unit-A90 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Bento Sushi · 1539 Avenue Rd138 mPassed, Dec 2025
Mike's Fish Market · 1539 Avenue Rdgrocery138 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 1 infraction
Pusateri's · 1539 Avenue Rd138 mPassed, Jul 2024 · 1 infraction
Rosie's Burgers · 1542 Avenue Rd175 mPassed, Sep 2026 · 1 infraction
Pizzaiolo · 1548 Avenue Rd185 mPassed, Apr 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 Otter Creek Centre Outdoor Rink Washroom, 403 m away — currently listed as closed (closed for the season); in season it is View outdoor rink hours. A drinking fountain is 495 m away at Brookdale Park.

  • Otter Creek Centre Outdoor Rink Washroom · 140 Cheritan Ave
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    403 m
  • Woburn Avenue Playground Washroom · 75 Woburn Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    855 m
  • Lytton Park Tennis Clubhouse Washroom · 200 Lytton Blvd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    855 m
Drinking water
Brookdale Park drinking fountain · 495 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

Eight licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 872 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Avenue Road Child Care (1498 Avenue Road) (159 m, 93 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km8 centres · 872 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 8
  • Avenue Road Child Care (1498 Avenue Road) · 1498 Avenue Rd
    93 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    159 m
  • John Ross Robertson Child Centre · 130 Glengrove Ave W
    212 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    638 m
  • John Wanless Child Care · 245 Fairlawn Ave
    254 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    722 m
  • Toronto Cheder · 410 Lawrence Ave W
    16 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    793 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 131 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 53 Division (2.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.2 km away.

FireFire Station 131 · 1.1 km3135 Yonge St
Police53 Division · 2.1 km75 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 18 · 2.2 km643 Eglinton Ave 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 13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 756 rental units. The nearest is 284 Lawrence Ave W (51 m, 15 units, 3 storeys, built 1940), which scored 77 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 10 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings13 · 756 units
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202610 across the 13
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest12 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
284 Lawrence Ave W · Landlord Property and Rental Management153194077 · Sep 2025151 m
515 Rosewell Ave · Bentallgreenoak897200598 · Sep 2025075 m
312 Douglas Ave · Avenue Road Investment Limited113195175 · Jun 20240 · 2 fire248 m
45 Lorindale Ave · Ranee Management253195790 · Aug 20240927 m
41 Lorindale Ave · Ranee Management263195786 · Aug 20250934 m
14 Chatsworth Dr · O'shanter Development Company Ltd.414193691 · Sep 20242935 m
15 Bedford Park Ave · High Value Consultants Ltd393196099 · Jul 202501 km
1 Cheritan Ave · Canadian Apartment Properties REIT644192997 · Jul 202411 km

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 lots411 lots · ≈13,280 spaces · 39.8 ha
Within 500 m30 lots · ≈1,150 spaces
Green P (public)6 car parks · about 403 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking9 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
23 Bedford Park Ave · Surface921 m4254% (Q1 2026)
1880 Avenue Rd · Surface1.2 km3232% (Q1 2026)
25 Glenforest Road · Surface1.3 km26 *
246 Brooke Ave · Surface1.3 km9467% (Q1 2026)
6 Sherwood Avenue · Surface1.6 km46 *

Nearest lots: 38 m away, ≈21 spaces; 47 m away, ≈17 spaces; 57 m away, ≈8 spaces; 76 m away, ≈8 spaces; 98 m away, ≈12 spaces; 99 m away, ≈20 spaces.

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, Dec 15, 2021

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 6,428 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 581 from the south. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 1,919 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 9% above the afternoon peak from 5:00 p.m. (1,761). Trucks and buses were 6.7% 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 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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 west6,169eastbound · 1 bikes · 7.1% heavy
Total vehicles13,178411 pedestrians · 6 cyclists · 6.7% heavy
From the east6,428westbound · 4 bikes · 6.7% heavy
From the south581northbound · 1 bikes · 3.1% heavy
AM peak hour1,919 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,761 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 15, 2021

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 Rosewell Ave between Cheritan Ave and Lawrence Ave W, 165 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in October 2023 put the average speed at 34 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 42 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 47 km/h or more. That segment carries about 2,100 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Rosewell Ave (105 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 524 vehicles logged in May 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Lawrence Ave W · Rosewell Ave – Avenue Rd · 59 mSep 2013 · 7 days15,354
Rosewell Ave · Cheritan Ave – Lawrence Ave W · 165 mOct 2023 · 24 h2,13834 km/h42 km/h47 km/h

School-zone speed sign 105 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct0 · 0 km/h
Over the limit0.0%
40 km/h or more0.0%

Rosewell Ave (southbound), W Side Rosewell Ave Approx 107m S of Lawrence Ave W · 524 vehicles logged in May 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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 2023, with 7 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 4 collisions (9%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 9% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 3 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (7%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Mar 16, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions43#2265 of 5,508
With an injury4#2863 of 4,660
Property damage only34
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian3#1112 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality1
Severity not classified4
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201459latest Mar 16, 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

One collision in 2016–2025 was fatal. 1 pedestrian was among those hurt. It happened in daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Nov 22, 2019.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#575 of 1,505
Fatal1#210 of 319
Involving a pedestrian1#274 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness0
All KSI since 20061latest Nov 22, 2019

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

Two 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. 100% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200street/outdoor (1), school/campus (1)
Bicycle theft510apartment parking (5)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 2, 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 Lawrence Park South.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Rosewell & Lawrence a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#575 of 1,505), out of 43 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 Rosewell & Lawrence?

An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from Dec 15, 2021, 1.43× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Rosewell & Lawrence?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Rosewell Ave between Cheritan Ave and Lawrence Ave W (October 2023), found an average of 34 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 105 m away (30 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in May 2026.

Where can I park near Rosewell & Lawrence?

The nearest Green P car park is 23 Bedford Park Ave (921 m away, 42 spaces, 54% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 411 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,280 spaces — 30 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Rosewell & Lawrence by transit?

Bus routes 52, 61, 97, 952 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lawrence Ave West at Rosewell Ave East Side, 81 m).

What restaurants are near Rosewell & Lawrence?

11 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 33 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Fancy Franks (90 m), Starbucks (90 m), Fancy Franks (90 m), Bento Sushi (138 m) and Pusateri's (138 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 Rosewell & Lawrence?

The nearest is Otter Creek Centre Outdoor Rink Washroom, 140 Cheritan Ave, 403 m away (View outdoor rink hours). The City currently lists it as closed: closed for the season. Next nearest: Woburn Avenue Playground Washroom (855 m); Lytton Park Tennis Clubhouse Washroom (855 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 Rosewell & Lawrence?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 872 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Avenue Road Child Care (1498 Avenue Road) (159 m, 93 spaces), John Ross Robertson Child Centre (638 m, 212 spaces) and John Wanless Child Care (722 m, 254 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Rosewell & Lawrence?

13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 756 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 284 Lawrence Ave W (51 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 77), 515 Rosewell Ave (75 m, 89 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 312 Douglas Ave (248 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 75) and 45 Lorindale Ave (927 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 13 is 92 out of 100. 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 Rosewell & Lawrence?

Toronto Police place two 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 Lawrence Park South page.

What neighbourhood is Rosewell & Lawrence in?

Rosewell & Lawrence is in Lawrence Park South (City of Toronto neighbourhood 103). It is in Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence, represented by Councillor Mike Colle.

Sources

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