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Shaw & Irene

Shaw St & Irene Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Dovercourt Village · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

In Dovercourt Village, in central Toronto, Shaw & Irene is a low-volume local intersection, with significant cycling traffic. At the corner: Ossington Station, a bike lane and parks. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
1,246
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 6, 2002
248 pedestrians · 137 cyclists
Collisions
9
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 4 property damage · #4420 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
Ossington Station
subway station within 250 m
1 streetcar route · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 34 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 160 vehicles, 13% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 5 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 11.0% of vehicle volume, about 14× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 0.9 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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Shaw & Irene

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Ossington Station (Line 2)224 m; Christie Station (Line 2)382 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)872 m; Bathurst Station (Line 2)946 m
Streetcar
506 nearest 1 km
TTC bus
631619412626 nearest 213 m
Blue Night
306300363
Nearest stops
13 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 88 m · 34 docks · 25 stations, 439 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 (32)
  • West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 307 m
  • St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 317 m
  • Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 529 m
  • Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 575 m
  • Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 586 m
  • Montrose Jr & Delta Alternative SrEnglish Public · 621 m
  • and 26 more
Parks (34)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch786 m
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch915 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch929 m
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 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 51 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 264 — 3.6× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Shrinking Violet, 48 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés51 within 300 m · 264 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 39 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Shrinking Violet · 828 Bloor St W48 mPassed, Apr 2026
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo Bakeshop · 830 Bloor St Wgrocery63 mPassed, Jun 2026
The Wine Thief · 840 Bloor St Wgrocery73 mPassed, Aug 2026
A & L Mini Mart · 839 Bloor St W73 mPassed, Dec 2025
Tall Boys Craft Beer House · 838 Bloor St W74 mPassed, Jun 2026
Ba Noi · 806 Bloor St W75 mPassed, Jun 2026
Jolly Bar and Restaurant · 844 Bloor St W75 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Freta Food Store · 831 Bloor St Wgrocery78 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 Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom, 236 m away, View outdoor pool hours. A drinking fountain is 26 m away at Irene Avenue Parkette.

  • Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · 779 Crawford St
    View outdoor pool hours
    236 m
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    271 m
  • Christie Pits Park Washroom · 750 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    295 m
Drinking water
Irene Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 26 m; Northumberland Playground drinking fountain · 227 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

13 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,332 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (224 m, 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km13 centres · 1,332 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 13
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 756 Ossington Ave
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    224 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 720 Ossington Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    239 m
  • Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie · 703 Bloor St W
    56 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    475 m
  • Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre · 823 Dovercourt Rd
    106 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    501 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 539 m away.

FireFire Station 345 · 1.3 km1285 Dufferin St
Police14 Division · 1.3 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 539 m760 Dovercourt Rd

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 26 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,528 rental units — three social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 805 Bloor St W (172 m, 24 units, 4 storeys, built 1989), which scored 86 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 26 scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 38 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 6 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings26 · 1,528 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score84 average · 3 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202638 across the 26
Open fire-code violations6
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
805 Bloor St Wsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes244198986 · Sep 20250 · 1 fire172 m
496 Montrose Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Management Inc243193085 · Jul 20250200 m
177 Pendrith StToronto Community Housing · TCH543196485 · Aug 20250319 m
220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp164193079 · Jul 20250420 m
723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate1641920100 · Jul 20260424 m
711 Bloor St W123192023 · Jul 20260462 m
767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc.193200894 · Jul 20250487 m
336 Clinton St173199295 · Oct 20250494 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 lots785 lots · ≈21,520 spaces · 64.5 ha
Within 500 m48 lots · ≈740 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 1,049 spaces
EV charging (City)705 Shaw St · 222 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking82 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 33 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
745 Ossington Ave · Surface188 m4667% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface500 m3468% (Q1 2026)
675 Manning Ave · Surface627 m4981% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface696 m3374% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface803 m3763% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 37 m away, ≈3 spaces; 76 m away, ≈17 spaces; 83 m away, ≈3 spaces; 101 m away, ≈4 spaces; 114 m away, ≈15 spaces; 115 m away, ≈29 spaces. More EV charging: 685 Dovercourt Rd (575 m, 2 ports); 273 Christie St (871 m, 2 ports); 74 Clinton Street (1.1 km, 4 ports).

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 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 16,183 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.

From the north1,075southbound · 89 bikes · 4.6% heavy
From the west171eastbound · 29 bikes · 3.5% heavy
Total vehicles1,246248 pedestrians · 137 cyclists · 4.4% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south0northbound · 19 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour275 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour178 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 6, 2002

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 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 segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Shaw St · Irene Ave – Lane W of Shaw and S of Leeds · 50 mSep 2021 · 3 days89525 km/h33 km/h37 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 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.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions9#4420 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only4
Fail to remain5
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified5
All since 201410latest Sep 17, 2025

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 four bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle300street/outdoor (3)
Bicycle theft400house driveway/garage (4)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 18, 2022. 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. Its latest count is from Nov 6, 2002, 13% of the median for a counted intersection.

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 (188 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 785 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,520 spaces — 48 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 224 m away; streetcar route 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 1.0 km away; bus routes 63, 161, 94, 126, 26 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bloor St West at Shaw St, 213 m).

What restaurants are near Shaw & Irene?

51 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 264 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Shrinking Violet (48 m), A & L Mini Mart (73 m), Tall Boys Craft Beer House (74 m), Ba Noi (75 m) and Jolly Bar and Restaurant (75 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 Shaw & Irene?

The nearest is Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom, 779 Crawford St, 236 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (271 m); Christie Pits Park Washroom (295 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 Shaw & Irene?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,332 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (224 m, 49 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (239 m, 39 spaces) and Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie (475 m, 56 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Shaw & Irene?

26 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,528 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 805 Bloor St W (172 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 496 Montrose Ave (200 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 177 Pendrith St (319 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 85) and 220 Delaware Ave (420 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79). The average RentSafeTO score across the 26 is 84 out of 100; 3 scored below 70. 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 Shaw & Irene?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and four 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 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