Toronto · intersection

Shaver & Ovida

Shaver Ave S & Ovida Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Islington · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore

Shaver & Ovida is a lightly travelled intersection. It sits in Islington. At the corner: a park. Nearby: Kipling Station (Line 2) 881 m away and Kipling GO 835 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
2,763
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 8, 2012
93 pedestrians · 5 cyclists
Collisions
5
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 2 property damage · #5055 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Kipling Station 881 m · 10 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 350 vehicles, 30% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 30 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 0.5 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.

Map

Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time

Layers click a category to show or hide it · None then one category to see it alone
Shaver & Ovida

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Kipling Station (Line 2)881 m
GO Transit
Kipling GO — Milton835 m; GO bus 29 Guelph / Mississauga at Kipling Bus Terminal629 m
TTC bus
1111121234946145451494440 nearest 264 m
Express
900927945944
Blue Night
300345
Nearest stops
1 surface stop within 300 m
Regional
MiWay 1 Dundas3 Bloor11 Westwood20 Rathburn26 Burnhamthorpe35 Eglinton70 Keaton71 Sheridan101 Dundas Express108 Financial Express109 Meadowvale Express126 Burnhamthorpe Express at Dundas St at Shaver Ave260 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
no station 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 (7)
  • Etobicoke Secondary Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 424 m
  • Kingsley Primary SchoolPrivate · 593 m
  • Bloorlea Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 850 m
  • St Elizabeth Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 919 m
  • Mindwerx4kids Learning Centre SchoolPrivate · 1 km
  • Wedgewood Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • and 1 more
Parks (10)
  • Cloverdale Park140 m
  • Silverhill Park371 m
  • Greenfield Park470 m
  • Smithwood Park805 m
  • Six Points Park1 km
  • Wedgewood Park - Etobicoke1.1 km
  • and 4 more

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 3 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 67. The nearest is Mekong River Restaurant, 216 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026.

Restaurants & cafés3 within 300 m · 67 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 13 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Mekong River Restaurant · 5468 Dundas St W216 mPassed, Feb 2026
Circle K · 5470 Dundas St Wgrocery253 mPassed, Jun 2024
Tim Hortons · 5470 Dundas St W253 mPassed, Aug 2025
Tim Hortons · 5470 Dundas St W253 mPassed, Jul 2026
Circle K · 5470 Dundas St Wgrocery253 mPassed, Aug 2026
Armenian Bistro · 5487 Dundas St W301 mPassed, Aug 2026
Lonzos Kitchen · 5487 Dundas St W Unit-1301 mPassed, Aug 2026
Pizzaville · 5487 Dundas St W Unit-4301 mPassed, Jul 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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 128 m away at Cloverdale Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Cloverdale Park bottle filling station · 128 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

No licensed child care centre within 1 km.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 432 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 22 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 432 · 1.3 km155 the East Mall
Police22 Division · 1.7 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 39 · 1.3 km155 the East Mall

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 three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 611 rental units. The nearest is 20 Samuel Wood Way (473 m, 233 units, 21 storeys, built 2023), which scored 100 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 97, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 9 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings3 · 611 units
RentSafeTO score97 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20269 across the 3
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest41 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
20 Samuel Wood Way · Concert Real Estate Corporation233212023100 · Aug 20264473 m
5294 Dundas St W · Six Points Suites Inc457196092 · Jun 20250563 m
5249 Dundas St W · Centurion Property Associates Inc.333412021100 · Jul 20245851 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 lots512 lots · ≈100,140 spaces · 300.4 ha
Within 500 m29 lots · ≈5,030 spaces
Green P (public)4 car parks · about 2,063 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking5 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Kipling South Lot - 400 Munster Avenue · Surface1 km1,200 *
16 Royalavon Cres · Surface1.6 km5938% (Q1 2026)
22 Fieldway Rd · Surface1.7 km270 *
Islington Main Lot - 3330 Bloor Street West · Surface1.9 km534 *

Nearest lots: 171 m away, ≈35 spaces; 218 m away, ≈68 spaces; 234 m away, ≈121 spaces; 236 m away, ≈48 spaces; 243 m away, ≈77 spaces; 260 m away, ≈45 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, Feb 8, 2012

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 1,357 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 65 from the east. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 469 vehicles in the hour from 7:30 a.m. and 503 from 4:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 15 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2012, 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 north1,236southbound · 2 bikes · 1.5% heavy
From the west105eastbound · 0 bikes · 1.0% heavy
Total vehicles2,76393 pedestrians · 5 cyclists · 1.6% heavy
From the east65westbound · 1 bikes · 6.2% heavy
From the south1,357northbound · 2 bikes · 1.6% heavy
AM peak hour469 vehicles from 7:30 a.m.
PM peak hour503 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 8, 2012

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 Shaver Ave S between Statler Ave and Downing St, 212 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in April 2012 put the average speed at 44 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 53 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 58 km/h or more. That segment carries about 5,000 vehicles a day. Ovida Ave between Wilmar Rd and Shaver Ave S measured slower: 29 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 43 km/h (Jul 2011). The reading is 14 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Ovida Ave · Wilmar Rd – Shaver Ave S · 147 mJul 2011 · 24 h44529 km/h43 km/h49 km/h
Shaver Ave S · Statler Ave – Downing St · 212 mApr 2012 · 24 h5,02844 km/h53 km/h58 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 1 collision. 1 collision (20%) involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 60% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jan 24, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions5#5055 of 5,508
With an injury1#4445 of 4,660
Property damage only2
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 20146latest Jan 24, 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

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

Three thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle300house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 27, 2021. 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 Islington.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Shaver & Ovida a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 5 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 Shaver & Ovida?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Feb 8, 2012, 30% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Shaver & Ovida?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Shaver Ave S between Statler Ave and Downing St (April 2012), found an average of 44 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 53 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Shaver & Ovida?

The nearest Green P car park is Kipling South Lot - 400 Munster Avenue (1.0 km away, 1,200 spaces). The City's mapping shows 512 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 100,140 spaces — 29 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Shaver & Ovida by transit?

Kipling Station (Line 2) is 881 m away; Kipling GO is 835 m away; bus routes 111, 112, 123, 49, 46, 145, 45, 149 and 6 more within 1 km; MiWay routes 1 Dundas, 3 Bloor, 11 Westwood, 20 Rathburn at Dundas St at Shaver Ave.

What restaurants are near Shaver & Ovida?

3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 67 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Mekong River Restaurant (216 m), Tim Hortons (253 m), Tim Hortons (253 m), Armenian Bistro (301 m) and Lonzos Kitchen (301 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 Shaver & Ovida?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 128 m away at Cloverdale Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

What apartment buildings are near Shaver & Ovida?

Three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 611 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 20 Samuel Wood Way (473 m, 233 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 5294 Dundas St W (563 m, 45 units, RentSafeTO score 92) and 5249 Dundas St W (851 m, 333 units, RentSafeTO score 100). The average RentSafeTO score across the 3 is 97 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 Shaver & Ovida?

Toronto Police place three 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 Islington page.

What neighbourhood is Shaver & Ovida in?

Shaver & Ovida is in Islington (City of Toronto neighbourhood 158). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley.

Sources

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