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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 · Nov 6, 2002
Traffic is heaviest from the north: 1,075 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 86% of the total, against 171 from the west. Most cyclists arrived from the north (89 of 137). Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 275 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 54% above the afternoon peak from 5:00 p.m. (178). Heavy vehicles made up 4.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 24 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2002, 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.
Peak hours: 275 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 178 from 5:00 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 worst year was 2018, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 5 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 56% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Sep 17, 2025.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 9 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 4 | |
| Fail to remain | 5 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 5 | |
| 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.
Speeds here, last measured in 2021
On Shaw St between Irene Ave and Lane W of Shaw and S of Leeds, 50 m from the corner, a 3-day count in September 2021 put the average speed at 25 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 33 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 37 km/h or more. That segment carries about 900 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaw St · Irene Ave – Lane W of Shaw and S of Leeds · 50 m | Sep 2021 · 3 days | 895 | 25 km/h | 33 km/h | 37 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
- Subway
- Ossington Station (Line 2)248 m; Christie Station (Line 2)428 m · 5 min
- TTC bus
- 63 161 94 126 26 nearest 254 m · 3 min
- Blue Night
- 300 363
- Nearest stops
- 8 surface stops within 300 m — Bloor St West at Shaw St
- Cycling
- Bike Lane - Contraflow on Shaw St installed 2013
- Bike Share
- Bloor St W / Shaw St - SMART 89 m · 34 docks · 16 stations, 301 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
- 20 car parks · about 915 spaces
- EV charging
- 705 Shaw St · 222 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 685 Dovercourt Rd (762 m), 273 Christie St (1.2 km)
- Bike parking
- 73 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 33 bikes within 600 m
- Other lots
- 33 mapped lots within 500 m, 458 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 745 Ossington Ave · Surface | 212 m | 46 | 67% (Q1 2026) |
| 376 Clinton St · Surface | 637 m | 34 | 68% (Q1 2026) |
| 675 Manning Ave · Surface | 739 m | 49 | 81% (Q1 2026) |
| 9 Salem Ave · Surface | 822 m | 33 | 74% (Q1 2026) |
| 7 Bartlett Ave · Surface | 929 m | 37 | 63% (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
A grocery store is within 300 m of the corner — the nearest is Bloor Fresh Market, 162 m away. Two specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Cock-A-Doodle-Doo Bakeshop at 80 m. Toronto Public Health inspects 39 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 181 — 4.4× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Shrinking Violet, 50 m away. Three pharmacies sit within 300 m of the corner; the nearest is Ossington Medical Pharmacy, 95 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: The O'neill Centre, a long-term care home 505 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Shrinking Violet · 828 Bloor St W50 m
- The Wine Thief · 840 Bloor St W77 m
- Tall Boys Craft Beer House · 838 Bloor St W79 m
- Jolly Bar and Restaurant · 844 Bloor St W87 m
- Paradise Grapevine · 841 Bloor St W96 m
- Grocery
- Bloor Fresh Market 162 m · 9 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Cock-A-Doodle-Doo Bakeshop 80 m · 2 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
- Convenience
- 2 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- Ossington Medical Pharmacy 95 m · 9 within 1 km
- Child care
- Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day265 m · 3 min
- Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 39 spaces, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day323 m · 4 min
- Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie · 56 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day559 m · 7 min
- Washrooms
- Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed355 m · 4 min
- Christie Pits Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs409 m · 5 min
- Health and care
- The O'neill Centre · long-term care home505 m · 6 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 (26)
- Irene Avenue Parkette51 m
- Northumberland Playground306 m · 4 min
- Christie Pits Park391 m · 5 min
- Westmoreland Avenue Parkette701 m · 8 min
- Bickford Park765 m · 9 min
- Community centres
- Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre355 m · 4 min
- Native Youth Resource Centre727 m · 9 min
- Schools (21)
- St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 405 m · 5 min
- Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 594 m · 7 min
- Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 627 m · 7 min
- West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 733 m · 9 min
- Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 749 m · 9 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch902 m · 11 min
- Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch943 m · 11 min
- Places of interest
- Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 1.2 km · 15 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.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #459 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
Within a kilometre there are 17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,126 rental units — two social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 805 Bloor St W (234 m, 24 units, 4 storeys, built 1989), which scored 86 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 17 scored below 70; the average is 81, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 805 Bloor St W social housing · Neighbours Community Homes | 24 | 4 | 1989 | 86 · Sep 2025 | 234 m |
| 496 Montrose Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Management Inc | 24 | 3 | 1930 | 85 · Jul 2025 | 267 m · 3 min |
| 177 Pendrith St Toronto Community Housing · TCH | 54 | 3 | 1964 | 85 · Aug 2025 | 405 m · 5 min |
| 723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate | 16 | 4 | 1920 | 100 · Jul 2026 | 501 m · 6 min |
| 711 Bloor St W | 12 | 3 | 1920 | 23 · Jul 2026 | 524 m · 6 min |
| 220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp | 16 | 4 | 1930 | 79 · Jul 2025 | 539 m · 6 min |
17 registered buildings · 1,126 units · 2 social housing · tallest 20 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
Three thefts from vehicles and four bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 3 | 0 | 0 | street/outdoor (3) |
| Bicycle theft | 4 | 0 | 0 | house driveway/garage (4) |
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 Dovercourt Village.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Shaw & Irene a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 9 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 Shaw & Irene?
A low-volume local intersection at the City's last count here, in 2002. Its latest count is from Nov 6, 2002, 13% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Shaw & Irene a walkable intersection?
Shaw & Irene scores 77 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #459 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: 3 parks within 500 m · 2 community centres within 800 m; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 39 places to eat within 300 m; Ossington Station · 8 stops within 300 m · 9 routes within 1 km.
How fast do cars go at Shaw & Irene?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Shaw St between Irene Ave and Lane W of Shaw and S of Leeds (September 2021), found an average of 25 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 33 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Shaw & Irene?
The nearest Green P car park is 745 Ossington Ave (212 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 458 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,100 spaces — 33 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 705 Shaw St (222 m).
How do I get to Shaw & Irene by transit?
Ossington Station (Line 2) is 248 m away; bus routes 63, 161, 94, 126, 26 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bloor St West at Shaw St, 254 m).
What restaurants are near Shaw & Irene?
39 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 181 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Shrinking Violet (50 m), The Wine Thief (77 m), Tall Boys Craft Beer House (79 m), Jolly Bar and Restaurant (87 m) and Paradise Grapevine (96 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Shaw & Irene?
The nearest is Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 485 Montrose Ave, 355 m away. Next nearest: Christie Pits Park Washroom (409 m); Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom (617 m).
Is there child care near Shaw & Irene?
Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 662 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (265 m, 49 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (323 m, 39 spaces) and Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie (559 m, 56 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Shaw & Irene?
17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,126 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 805 Bloor St W (234 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 496 Montrose Ave (267 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 177 Pendrith St (405 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 85) and 723 Bloor St W (501 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 100). The average RentSafeTO score across the 17 is 81 out of 100; 3 scored below 70.
How many thefts are reported at Shaw & Irene?
Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and four bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Dovercourt Village page.
What neighbourhood is Shaw & Irene in?
Shaw & Irene is in Dovercourt Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 172). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.
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 6, 2002.
- 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 11 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: 43.66313, -79.42352 · centreline node 13464712.