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Skylark & Kentucky

Skylark Rd & Kentucky Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Lambton Baby Point · Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park

Skylark & Kentucky, in Lambton Baby Point, is a quiet local crossing, with a strong pedestrian presence. It has 2 schools within 250 m and a park at the corner. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
95
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 1, 2022
29 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
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
6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 10 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 1% 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).

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Skylark & Kentucky

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
5540791892726 nearest 109 m
Express
935
Blue Night
335340
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Florence Gell Park 181 m · 15 docks · 7 stations, 121 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 (12)
  • Warren Park Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 223 m
  • St James Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 232 m
  • Humbercrest Public SchoolEnglish Public · 526 m
  • Lambton Park Community SchoolEnglish Public · 538 m
  • Runnymede Collegiate & Mountview AlternativeEnglish Public · 556 m
  • King George Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 787 m
  • and 6 more
Community centres
Parks (24)
  • Florence Gell Park160 m
  • Scarlett - St. Clair Parkette432 m
  • Home Smith Park575 m
  • Magwood Park605 m
  • Marie Baldwin Park766 m
  • Cashman Park840 m
  • and 18 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Daniel G. Hill (formely Jane/Dundas) branch509 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There is 1 restaurant, café or takeout within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 49 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Bento Sushi, 291 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés1 within 300 m · 49 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 12 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bento Sushi · 3671 Dundas St W291 mPassed, Apr 2026
Loblaws · 3671 Dundas St Wgrocery291 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Summerhill Market · 3609 Dundas St Wgrocery353 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Royal Canadian Legion · 3591 Dundas St W417 mPassed, Jun 2025
Churrasqueira Martins · 2700 St Clair Ave W419 mPassed, Jul 2026
Messina Italian Bakery · 19 Scarlett Rdgrocery467 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Pegrolls · 558 Jane St494 mPassed, Jul 2026
Mr. Sub · 4020 Dundas St W542 mPassed, Aug 2025

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 Home Smith Park Washroom, 609 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 164 m away at Florence Gell Park.

  • Home Smith Park Washroom · 4101 Dundas St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    609 m
Drinking water
Florence Gell Park drinking fountain · 164 m; Home Smith Park drinking fountain · 558 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

11 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 931 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Macaulay - Warren Park Child Care Centre (223 m, 80 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km11 centres · 931 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 11
  • Macaulay - Warren Park Child Care Centre · 135 Varsity Rd
    80 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    223 m
  • Green Apple Kids · 3605 Dundas St W
    130 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool
    377 m
  • Macaulay - Jane Street Child Care Centre · 610 Jane St
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    501 m
  • Humbercrest School Age YMCA · 14 St Marks Rd
    186 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    526 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 422 (487 m), the nearest police station 11 Division (3.0 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 422 · 487 m590 Jane St
Police11 Division · 3 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 31 · 1.3 km4219 Dundas St W

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

Ten registered apartment buildings with 766 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 3725 Dundas St W (325 m, 153 units, 10 storeys, built 1972), which scored 95 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 8 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings10 · 766 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20268 across the 10
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest12 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
3725 Dundas St WToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation15310197295 · Aug 20263325 m
3735 Dundas St WToronto Community Housing · TCH13210197291 · Aug 20241338 m
4029 Old Dundas St · Hannah Property Management Ltd.298195986 · Nov 20250456 m
4033 Old Dundas St475196071 · Jul 20240465 m
596 Jane St173195897 · Jul 20250489 m
585 Jane St254195596 · Aug 20260544 m
4075 Old Dundas St · Granview Property Management757196586 · Jul 20242556 m
4049 Dundas St Wsocial housing · Aykler Real Estate Inc.20812199097 · Aug 20252 · 3 fire571 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 lots444 lots · ≈21,650 spaces · 64.9 ha
Within 500 m28 lots · ≈950 spaces
Green P (public)13 car parks · about 907 spaces
EV charging (City)535 Runnymeade Rd · 1.3 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1A Mould Avenue · Surface1 km7 *
3354 Dundas St W · Surface1.2 km1199% (Q1 2026)
342 Prince Edward Dr N · Surface1.7 km4340% (Q1 2026)
17 Riverview Gdns · Surface1.7 km9552% (Q1 2026)
16 Riverview Gdns · Surface1.8 km5938% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 247 m away, ≈17 spaces; 250 m away, ≈10 spaces; 251 m away, ≈26 spaces; 266 m away, ≈63 spaces; 282 m away, ≈175 spaces; 305 m away, ≈117 spaces. More EV charging: 8 Kings Lynn Rd (1.7 km, 1 ports); 265 Armadale Ave (1.8 km, 9 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, Feb 1, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The south leg carries the load — 45 northbound vehicles, or 47% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 16. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 18 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 20% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (15). Trucks and buses were 13.7% 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 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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 north34southbound · 0 bikes · 11.8% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles9529 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 13.7% heavy
From the east16westbound · 0 bikes · 12.5% heavy
From the south45northbound · 0 bikes · 15.6% heavy
AM peak hour15 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour18 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 1, 2022

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

At the school-zone speed sign on Varsity Rd (211 m away, 30 km/h limit), 15% of the 36,834 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.

School-zone speed sign 211 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct32 · 39 km/h
Over the limit41%
40 km/h or more15%

Varsity Rd (westbound), 125 Varsity Road · 36,834 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

Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.

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 one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle110house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 7, 2024. 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 Lambton Baby Point.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Skylark & Kentucky a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025 and police reported no collisions of any severity. 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 Skylark & Kentucky?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Feb 1, 2022, 1% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Skylark & Kentucky?

The nearest Green P car park is 1A Mould Avenue (1.0 km away, 7 spaces). The City's mapping shows 444 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,650 spaces — 28 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 535 Runnymeade Rd (1.3 km).

How do I get to Skylark & Kentucky by transit?

Bus routes 55, 40, 79, 189, 27, 26, 935 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Skylark & Kentucky?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 49 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Bento Sushi (291 m), Royal Canadian Legion (417 m), Churrasqueira Martins (419 m), Pegrolls (494 m) and Mr. Sub (542 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 Skylark & Kentucky?

The nearest is Home Smith Park Washroom, 4101 Dundas St W, 609 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. 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 Skylark & Kentucky?

11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 931 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Macaulay - Warren Park Child Care Centre (223 m, 80 spaces), Green Apple Kids (377 m, 130 spaces) and Macaulay - Jane Street Child Care Centre (501 m, 62 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Skylark & Kentucky?

Ten RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 766 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 3725 Dundas St W (325 m, 153 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 3735 Dundas St W (338 m, 132 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 4029 Old Dundas St (456 m, 29 units, RentSafeTO score 86) and 4033 Old Dundas St (465 m, 47 units, RentSafeTO score 71). The average RentSafeTO score across the 10 is 90 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 Skylark & Kentucky?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle 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 Lambton Baby Point page.

What neighbourhood is Skylark & Kentucky in?

Skylark & Kentucky is in Lambton Baby Point (City of Toronto neighbourhood 114). It is in Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, represented by Councillor Gord Perks.

Sources

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