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Shaw & Pendrith

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

Shaw & Pendrith, in Dovercourt Village, in central Toronto, is a quiet local crossing, with a well-used cycling route through it. It has a bike lane and 2 schools within 250 m at the corner. Nearby: Ossington Station (Line 2) 459 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
1,477
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 22, 2017
442 pedestrians · 801 cyclists
Collisions
8
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 3 property damage · #4597 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Ossington Station 459 m · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 180 vehicles, 16% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 3 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 54.2% of vehicle volume, about 70× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 0.8 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Shaw & Pendrith

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)459 m; Christie Station (Line 2)534 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)1 km
TTC bus
631269426161127 nearest 200 m
Blue Night
363300
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Shaw St installed 2013
Bike Share
Shaw St / Essex St - SMART 80 m · 15 docks · 20 stations, 390 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 (31)
  • St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 156 m
  • Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 173 m
  • Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 288 m
  • West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 597 m
  • Uchenna AcademyPrivate · 709 m
  • St Bruno and St Raymond Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 783 m
  • and 25 more
Parks (35)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch874 m
  • Toronto Public Library Davenport branch1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 1.2 km
  • Tarragon TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.4 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, and 218 eating places within a kilometre — 3.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Paleta Kings Storage On Essex, 73 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés3 within 300 m · 218 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 34 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Paleta Kings Storage On Essex · 127 Essex St73 mPassed, Jun 2026
Ecole Elementaire Catholique du Sacre-Coeur Snp · 98 Essex St177 mPassed, May 2024
Les Bouts D'choux · 98 Essex St177 mPassed, Sep 2026
Actinolite Restaurant · 971 Ossington Ave310 mPassed, Apr 2026
Contra Cafe · 1028 Shaw St318 mPassed, Aug 2026
Fiesta Farms Supermarket · 200 Christie St Unit-1grocery405 mPassed, Apr 2026
Morellina's · 146 Christie St406 mPassed, May 2026
Ba Noi · 806 Bloor St W422 mPassed, Jun 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, 283 m away, View outdoor pool hours. A drinking fountain is 271 m away at Alex Duff Memorial Pool.

  • Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · 779 Crawford St
    View outdoor pool hours
    283 m
  • Christie Pits Park Washroom · 750 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    376 m
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    575 m
Drinking water
Alex Duff Memorial Pool drinking fountain · 271 m; Irene Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 395 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

14 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,144 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Les Bouts D'choux (173 m, 116 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km14 centres · 1,144 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 14
  • Les Bouts D'choux · 98 Essex St
    116 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    173 m
  • Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care · 50 Essex St
    179 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    288 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 756 Ossington Ave
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    431 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 720 Ossington Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    534 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 660 m away.

FireFire Station 345 · 1.1 km1285 Dufferin St
Police14 Division · 1.7 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 660 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

23 registered apartment buildings with 1,497 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 177 Pendrith St (112 m, 54 units, 3 storeys, built 1964), which scored 85 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 23 scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 37 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 6 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings23 · 1,497 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score84 average · 3 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202637 across the 23
Open fire-code violations6
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
177 Pendrith StToronto Community Housing · TCH543196485 · Aug 20250112 m
161 Christie St · Canlight Management Inc.154196591 · Jul 20260437 m
805 Bloor St Wsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes244198986 · Sep 20250 · 1 fire493 m
496 Montrose Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Management Inc243193085 · Jul 20250498 m
220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp164193079 · Jul 20250559 m
740 Dupont St · Greystar Canada Property Management Services Ltd21092021100 · Dec 20250578 m
767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc.193200894 · Jul 20250618 m
723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate1641920100 · Jul 20260628 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 lots786 lots · ≈21,520 spaces · 64.6 ha
Within 500 m28 lots · ≈540 spaces
Green P (public)29 car parks · about 1,129 spaces
EV charging (City)273 Christie St · 574 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking3 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 33 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
745 Ossington Ave · Surface443 m4667% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface624 m3468% (Q1 2026)
675 Manning Ave · Surface737 m4981% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface810 m3374% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface895 m3763% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 159 m away, ≈45 spaces; 178 m away, ≈21 spaces; 191 m away, ≈27 spaces; 214 m away, ≈13 spaces; 218 m away, ≈28 spaces; 245 m away, ≈33 spaces. More EV charging: 705 Shaw St (599 m, 2 ports); 685 Dovercourt Rd (815 m, 2 ports); 365 Lippincott St. (1.2 km, 10 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 22, 2017

The north leg carries the load — 1,010 southbound vehicles, or 68% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 467. Most cyclists arrived from the north (404 of 801). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 297 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 304 from 4:15 p.m. Trucks and buses were 6.9% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 9 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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 north1,010southbound · 404 bikes · 7.8% heavy
From the west467eastbound · 1 bikes · 4.9% heavy
Total vehicles1,477442 pedestrians · 801 cyclists · 6.9% heavy
From the east0westbound · 16 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south0northbound · 380 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour297 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour304 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 22, 2017

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

The City's counter on Pendrith St between Roblocke Ave and Ossington Ave (149 m away) recorded an average of 27 km/h in its 3-day count in November 2021; 85% of drivers were at or under 35 km/h. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. Shaw St between Garnet Ave and Hallam St measured slower: 19 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 28 km/h (Jun 2022). The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Garnet Ave (245 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.4% of the 21,135 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none. 5 speed humps slow traffic on Pendrith Street between Shaw St and Christie St, and 1 more calmed segment ends here.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Pendrith St · Roblocke Ave – Ossington Ave · 149 mNov 2021 · 3 days58927 km/h35 km/h39 km/h
Shaw St · Garnet Ave – Hallam St · 224 mJun 2022 · 24 h2,84219 km/h28 km/h33 km/h

School-zone speed sign 245 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct14 · 26 km/h
Over the limit2.2%
40 km/h or more0.4%

Garnet Ave (eastbound), 88 Garnet Avenue · 21,135 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Pendrith Street · Shaw St – Christie St
    5 speed humps
  • Pendrith Street · Ossington Ave – Shaw St
    3 speed humps

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

2023 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 13% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 50% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 38% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Aug 10, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions8#4597 of 5,508
With an injury1#4463 of 4,660
Property damage only3
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian1#2879 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist2#1298 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 20148latest Aug 10, 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

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and five bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 60% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft540house driveway/garage (3), other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 6, 2025. 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 & Pendrith a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 8 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 & Pendrith?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Nov 22, 2017, 16% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Shaw & Pendrith?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Pendrith St between Roblocke Ave and Ossington Ave (November 2021), found an average of 27 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 35 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 245 m away (30 km/h), 0.4% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Shaw & Pendrith?

The nearest Green P car park is 745 Ossington Ave (443 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 786 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,520 spaces — 28 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 273 Christie St (574 m).

How do I get to Shaw & Pendrith by transit?

Ossington Station (Line 2) is 459 m away; bus routes 63, 126, 94, 26, 161, 127 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Shaw & Pendrith?

3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 218 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Paleta Kings Storage On Essex (73 m), Ecole Elementaire Catholique du Sacre-Coeur Snp (177 m), Les Bouts D'choux (177 m), Actinolite Restaurant (310 m) and Contra Cafe (318 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 & Pendrith?

The nearest is Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom, 779 Crawford St, 283 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: Christie Pits Park Washroom (376 m); Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (575 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 & Pendrith?

14 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,144 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Les Bouts D'choux (173 m, 116 spaces), Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care (288 m, 179 spaces) and Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (431 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Shaw & Pendrith?

23 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,497 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 177 Pendrith St (112 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 161 Christie St (437 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 805 Bloor St W (493 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 86) and 496 Montrose Ave (498 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 85). The average RentSafeTO score across the 23 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 & Pendrith?

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 Dovercourt Village page.

What neighbourhood is Shaw & Pendrith in?

Shaw & Pendrith is in Dovercourt Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 172). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.

Sources

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