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Silverthorn & Howick

Silverthorn Ave & Howick Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Weston-Pelham Park · Ward 9, Davenport

Silverthorn & Howick is a lightly travelled intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It sits in Weston-Pelham Park. It has a bike lane and a park at the corner. Nearby: 13 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
1,134
vehicles · 14-hour count, Sep 23, 2025
1,081 pedestrians · 263 cyclists · #2324 busiest
Collisions
4
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 4 property damage · #5157 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
1 streetcar route · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 80 vehicles an hour over its 14-hour span, 7% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 1.0 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 23.2% of vehicle volume, about 30× the typical share. On average 0.4 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Silverthorn & Howick

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
512 nearest 241 m
TTC bus
411681274789161189 nearest 231 m
Express
941989
Blue Night
312341340
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Silverthorn Ave installed 2025
Bike Share
Silverthorn Ave / Pryor Ave 178 m · 23 docks · 11 stations, 192 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 (19)
  • St Paul Vi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 362 m
  • General Mercer Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 380 m
  • Carleton Village Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 452 m
  • St Nicholas of Bari Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 719 m
  • St Matthew Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 737 m
  • F H Miller Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 864 m
  • and 13 more
Community centres
Parks (26)
  • S.a.d.r.a. Park134 m
  • Prescott Parkette284 m
  • Don Panos Parkette361 m
  • Turnberry South Park403 m
  • Wadsworth Park507 m
  • Constable Percy Cummins Parkette512 m
  • and 20 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library St. Clair/Silverthorn branch232 m
  • Toronto Public Library Evelyn Gregory branch1.4 km
  • Toronto Public Library Dufferin/St. Clair branch1.5 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 18 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 8 grocery and convenience stores, and 135 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Geladona, 210 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés18 within 300 m · 135 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience8 within 300 m · 39 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Pacho's Convenience · 78 Rockwell Avegrocery118 mPassed, Dec 2025
Geladona · 9 Silverthorn Ave210 mPassed, Jul 2026
The Original Thunderbolt Cafe · 1728 St Clair Ave W225 mPassed, Jun 2026
Kiik Mexican Food · 1740 St Clair Ave Wgrocery227 mPassed, Sep 2026
Las Palmas Restaurant Sports Bar · 1708 St Clair Ave W229 mPassed, Jun 2026
Huong Viet Restaurant · 1750 St Clair Ave W229 mPassed, Dec 2024 · 1 infraction
Wings Saints St.clair · 1750 St Clair Ave W Unit-1750230 mPassed, May 2026
Sabor Carioca · 1702 St Clair Ave W230 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 Giovanni Caboto Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom, 706 m away, View the facility hours. A drinking fountain is 88 m away at S.a.d.r.a. Park.

  • Giovanni Caboto Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom · 1367 St. Clair Ave W
    View the facility hours
    706 m
  • Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre Washroom · 1369 St. Clair Ave W
    View centre hours
    769 m
  • Earlscourt Park Washroom · 1200 Lansdowne Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    790 m
Drinking water
S.a.d.r.a. Park drinking fountain · 88 m; S.a.d.r.a. Park bottle filling station · 189 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 519 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Macaulay - St. Paul Vi (362 m, 67 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km7 centres · 519 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 7
  • Macaulay - St. Paul Vi · 270 Laughton Ave
    67 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    362 m
  • General Mercer Early Learning Centre · 30 Turnberry Ave
    97 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    380 m
  • Carleton Village Early Learning Centre · 315 Osler St
    153 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    452 m
  • Macaulay - St.nicholas of Bari Child Care Centre · 363 Rogers Rd
    28 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    719 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 342 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 11 Division (588 m) and the nearest ambulance station 504 m away.

FireFire Station 342 · 1 km106 Ascot Ave
Police11 Division · 588 m2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 30 · 504 m100 Turnberry Ave

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

Four registered apartment buildings with 683 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, all of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 23. The nearest is 223 Osler St (751 m, 13 units, 4 storeys, built 1992), which scored 81 out of 100 at its June 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 9 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings4 · 683 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20269 across the 4
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest17 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
223 Osler Stsocial housing · Anchor Property Managers Inc134199281 · Jun 20250751 m
61 Pelham Park GdnsToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation35217196891 · Jun 20254 · 1 fire829 m
1884 Davenport RdToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1869197888 · Sep 20242844 m
1500 Keele Stsocial housing · Self Managed13211199695 · Nov 202531 km

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 lots708 lots · ≈32,390 spaces · 97.2 ha
Within 500 m42 lots · ≈2,170 spaces
Green P (public)15 car parks · about 652 spaces
EV charging (City)91 Via Italia · 1.3 km · 12 Level 2 ports
Bike parking13 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
31 Blackthorn Ave · Surface233 m37 *
20 Prescott Avenue · Surface305 m7 *
433 Rogers Rd · Surface726 m2827% (Q1 2026)
141 Greenlaw Ave · Surface1.1 km5445% (Q1 2026)
400 Keele St · Surface1.2 km3580% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 191 m away, ≈13 spaces; 204 m away, ≈23 spaces; 218 m away, ≈4 spaces; 221 m away, ≈6 spaces; 235 m away, ≈36 spaces (Green P); 242 m away, ≈7 spaces. More EV charging: 64 Annette St (1.4 km, 2 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 — 14-hour, Sep 23, 2025

The north leg carries the load — 552 southbound vehicles, or 49% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 5. Most cyclists arrived from the north (129 of 263). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 155 vehicles in the hour from 5:15 p.m., 25% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (124). Heavy vehicles made up 2.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north552southbound · 129 bikes · 2.9% heavy
From the west300eastbound · 19 bikes · 1.0% heavy
Total vehicles1,1341,081 pedestrians · 263 cyclists · 2.8% heavy
From the east277westbound · 14 bikes · 4.7% heavy
From the south5northbound · 101 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour124 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour155 vehicles from 5:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Sep 23, 2025

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 Howick Ave between Carrick Ave and Silverthorn Ave (37 m away) recorded an average of 27 km/h in its 24-hour count in October 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 34 km/h. That segment carries about 500 vehicles a day. Silverthorn Ave between Howick Ave and S.a.d.r.a. Park Trl measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 30 km/h (Sep 2025). At the school-zone speed sign on Osler St (380 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 7,363 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Howick Ave · Carrick Ave – Silverthorn Ave · 37 mOct 2024 · 24 h47227 km/h34 km/h39 km/h
Silverthorn Ave · Howick Ave – S.a.d.r.a. Park Trl · 46 mSep 2025 · 3 days1,04723 km/h30 km/h34 km/h

School-zone speed sign 380 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct12 · 23 km/h
Over the limit0.1%
40 km/h or more0.0%

Osler St (southbound), 356, Osler Street · 7,363 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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

2019 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 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 30, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions4#5157 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only4
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 20145latest Jan 30, 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

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 no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 3, 2020. 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 Weston-Pelham Park.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Silverthorn & Howick a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 4 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 Silverthorn & Howick?

A lightly travelled intersection. It ranks #2324 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 7% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Silverthorn & Howick?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Howick Ave between Carrick Ave and Silverthorn Ave (October 2024), found an average of 27 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 34 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 380 m away (30 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Silverthorn & Howick?

The nearest Green P car park is 31 Blackthorn Ave (233 m away, 37 spaces). The City's mapping shows 708 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 32,390 spaces — 42 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 91 Via Italia (1.3 km).

How do I get to Silverthorn & Howick by transit?

Streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 241 m away; bus routes 41, 168, 127, 47, 89, 161, 189, 941 and 1 more within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Silverthorn & Howick?

18 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 135 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Geladona (210 m), The Original Thunderbolt Cafe (225 m), Las Palmas Restaurant Sports Bar (229 m), Huong Viet Restaurant (229 m) and Wings Saints St.clair (230 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 Silverthorn & Howick?

The nearest is Giovanni Caboto Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom, 1367 St. Clair Ave W, 706 m away (View the facility hours). Next nearest: Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre Washroom (769 m); Earlscourt Park Washroom (790 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 Silverthorn & Howick?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 519 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Macaulay - St. Paul Vi (362 m, 67 spaces), General Mercer Early Learning Centre (380 m, 97 spaces) and Carleton Village Early Learning Centre (452 m, 153 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Silverthorn & Howick?

Four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 683 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 223 Osler St (751 m, 13 units, RentSafeTO score 81), 61 Pelham Park Gdns (829 m, 352 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 1884 Davenport Rd (844 m, 186 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 1500 Keele St (1.0 km, 132 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 4 is 89 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 Silverthorn & Howick?

Toronto Police place two 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 Weston-Pelham Park page.

What neighbourhood is Silverthorn & Howick in?

Silverthorn & Howick is in Weston-Pelham Park (City of Toronto neighbourhood 091), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo.

Sources

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