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Royal York & Van Dusen

Royal York Rd & Van Dusen Blvd · Toronto, Ontario · Stonegate-Queensway · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore

In Stonegate-Queensway, Royal York & Van Dusen is a mid-volume intersection. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: Royal York Station (Line 2) 465 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
8,111
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 30, 2021
198 pedestrians · 21 cyclists
Collisions
3
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 3 property damage · #5312 of 5,508
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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
Royal York Station 465 m · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 1,010 vehicles an hour, about the citywide median. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 41 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 0.3 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Royal York & Van Dusen

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Royal York Station (Line 2)465 m
TTC bus
1576731494866 nearest 12 m
Blue Night
315373300
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Royal York Rd at Van Dusen Blvd; Royal York Rd at Van Dusen Blvd North Side
Cycling
Bike Lane on Royal York Rd installed 2004
Bike Share
Willingdon Blvd / Bloor St W (Green P) 445 m · 15 docks · 5 stations, 119 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 (9)
  • The Learning CommonPrivate · 184 m
  • Sunnylea Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 319 m
  • Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 848 m
  • St Marguerite D'youville Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 1 km
  • Bishop Allen AcademyEnglish Separate · 1.2 km
  • Etobicoke Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • and 3 more
Parks (17)
  • Spring Garden Park427 m
  • Birchview Boulevard Parkette562 m
  • Sunnylea Park736 m
  • Lora Hill Park756 m
  • Reid Manor Park868 m
  • Fairfield Park1 km
  • and 11 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Brentwood branch495 m

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 56 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Vibo Restaurant, 360 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 56 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 6 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Vibo Restaurant · 2995 Bloor St W360 mPassed, Jun 2026
Hong Kong Gardens Tavern & Restaurant · 2993 Bloor St W367 mPassed, Apr 2026
Creme de La Creme · 2991 Bloor St W368 mPassed, Aug 2026
Cafe de Flore · 2989 Bloor St W373 mPassed, Aug 2026
Magic Spot Grill · 2973 Bloor St W398 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Tim Hortons · 3071 Bloor St W398 mPassed, Jul 2026
Heron Restaurant · 3008 Bloor St W, Unit-A398 mPassed, Sep 2025
Young's Produce · 3008 Bloor St Wgrocery398 mPassed, Dec 2023 · 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 Memorial Pool and Health Club Washroom, 902 m away, View centre hours.

  • Memorial Pool and Health Club Washroom · 44 Montgomery Rd
    View centre hours
    902 m
  • Fairfield Seniors' Centre Washroom · 80 Lothian Ave
    View centre hours
    904 m
  • Central Arena Washroom · 50 Montgomery Rd
    View arena hours
    934 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

Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 769 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Royal York Road School (184 m, 47 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km9 centres · 769 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 9
  • Royal York Road School · 851 Royal York Rd
    47 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    184 m
  • Sunnylea Child Care Centre · 35 Glenroy Ave
    145 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    319 m
  • Treasured Moments - Bloor · 3107 Bloor St W
    78 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    527 m
  • Prince Edward Montessori School of Toronto · 2850 Bloor St W
    32 spaces · preschool
    677 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 431 (486 m), the nearest police station 22 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.7 km away.

FireFire Station 431 · 486 m308 Prince Edward Dr S
Police22 Division · 1.5 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 31 · 1.7 km4219 Dundas St 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 four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 152 rental units. The nearest is 810 Royal York Rd (521 m, 60 units, 6 storeys, built 1960), which scored 98 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 93, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 1 final order naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings4 · 152 units
RentSafeTO score93 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20261 across the 4
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest6 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
810 Royal York Rd606196098 · Nov 20250521 m
800 Royal York Rd · Summa Property Management606196591 · Aug 20261608 m
2846 Bloor St W164195595 · Dec 20250743 m
2844 Bloor St W163195588 · Jul 20240762 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 lots525 lots · ≈33,410 spaces · 100.2 ha
Within 500 m58 lots · ≈790 spaces
Green P (public)15 car parks · about 1,778 spaces
EV charging (City)8 Kings Lynn Rd · 706 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
934 Royal York Rd · Surface306 m1164% (Q1 2026)
9 Willingdon Blvd · Surface446 m11623% (Q1 2026)
7 Jackson Ave · Surface468 m4038% (Q1 2026)
12 Willingdon Blvd · Surface470 m6457% (Q1 2026)
11 Grenview Blvd N · Surface536 m8341% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 169 m away, ≈20 spaces; 282 m away, ≈7 spaces; 318 m away, ≈9 spaces (Green P); 318 m away, ≈20 spaces; 323 m away, ≈13 spaces; 335 m away, ≈26 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, Nov 30, 2021

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 4,025 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 50% of the total, against 115 from the west. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,161 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,187 from 4:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). 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 north3,971southbound · 9 bikes · 3.4% heavy
From the west115eastbound · 1 bikes · 5.2% heavy
Total vehicles8,111198 pedestrians · 21 cyclists · 3.3% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south4,025northbound · 11 bikes · 3.1% heavy
AM peak hour1,161 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,187 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 30, 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 Royal York Rd between Meadow Crest Rd and Edgemore Dr, 115 m from the corner, a 2-day count in March 2006 put the average speed at 42 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 49 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 53 km/h or more. That segment carries about 6,500 vehicles a day. The reading is 20 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Royal York Rd · Meadow Crest Rd – Edgemore Dr · 115 mMar 2006 · 2 days6,47942 km/h49 km/h53 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 2017, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Feb 25, 2023.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions3#5312 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only3
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
All since 20143latest Feb 25, 2023

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

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

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle410house driveway/garage (4)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 9, 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 Stonegate-Queensway.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Royal York & Van Dusen a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 3 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 Royal York & Van Dusen?

A mid-volume intersection. Its latest count is from Nov 30, 2021, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Royal York & Van Dusen?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Royal York Rd between Meadow Crest Rd and Edgemore Dr (March 2006), found an average of 42 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 49 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Royal York & Van Dusen?

The nearest Green P car park is 934 Royal York Rd (306 m away, 11 spaces, 64% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 525 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 33,410 spaces — 58 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 8 Kings Lynn Rd (706 m).

How do I get to Royal York & Van Dusen by transit?

Royal York Station (Line 2) is 465 m away; bus routes 15, 76, 73, 149, 48, 66 within 1 km (nearest stop: Royal York Rd at Van Dusen Blvd, 12 m).

What restaurants are near Royal York & Van Dusen?

None within 300 m, and 56 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Vibo Restaurant (360 m), Hong Kong Gardens Tavern & Restaurant (367 m), Creme de La Creme (368 m), Cafe de Flore (373 m) and Magic Spot Grill (398 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 Royal York & Van Dusen?

The nearest is Memorial Pool and Health Club Washroom, 44 Montgomery Rd, 902 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Fairfield Seniors' Centre Washroom (904 m); Central Arena Washroom (934 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 Royal York & Van Dusen?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 769 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Royal York Road School (184 m, 47 spaces), Sunnylea Child Care Centre (319 m, 145 spaces) and Treasured Moments - Bloor (527 m, 78 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Royal York & Van Dusen?

Four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 152 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 810 Royal York Rd (521 m, 60 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 800 Royal York Rd (608 m, 60 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 2846 Bloor St W (743 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 95) and 2844 Bloor St W (762 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 88). The average RentSafeTO score across the 4 is 93 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 Royal York & Van Dusen?

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 Stonegate-Queensway page.

What neighbourhood is Royal York & Van Dusen in?

Royal York & Van Dusen is in Stonegate-Queensway (City of Toronto neighbourhood 016). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley.

Sources

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