Spadina & Ava

Traffic volume8-hour count · Mar 5, 2007

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 3,133 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 104 from the west. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 1,041 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 17% above the afternoon peak from 4:45 p.m. (890). Heavy vehicles made up 2.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 20 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2007, 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: 1,041 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 890 from 4:45 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 2024, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 14% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Nov 18, 2024.

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

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.

How fast traffic moves here

On Spadina Rd between Ardmore Rd and Silverwood Ave, 306 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2004 put the average speed at 47 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 54 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 59 km/h or more. That segment carries about 12,900 vehicles a day. The reading is 22 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Ava Rd between Spadina Rd and Ava Cres measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 37 km/h (Sep 2026) — a much more recent reading than the one above.

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.

Not within a walk: a grocery store or a care or retirement home.

• Groceries and food3/30

  16 within 1 km

• Transit20/28

  Chaplin Station 0.7 km · 4 stops within 300 m · 8 routes within 1 km

• Library and places to go5/14

  library 652 m away

• Parks and recreation3/10

  nearest park 0.5 km · nearest centre 0.9 km

• Schools and child care2/8

  nearest school 0.6 km · 5 licensed child cares within 1 km

• Crossing on foot0/10

  no crossing features on file

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.

Within a kilometre there are 30 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,415 rental units, 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection — three social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 650 Eglinton Ave W (538 m, 102 units, 8 storeys, built 1961), which scored 99 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 30 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm.

30 registered buildings · 1,415 units · 3 social housing · tallest 11 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.

• Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Mar 5, 2007.
• 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).
• Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 12 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: 43.69821, -79.41668 · centreline node 13458469.