Map
Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time
Getting here
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk
Transit & cycling
- Subway
- Spadina Station (Line 2)881 m; Queen's Park Station (Line 1)888 m; St George Station (Line 1, Line 2)1 km; Museum Station (Line 1)1 km
- Streetcar
- 510506511505 nearest 158 m
- TTC bus
- 9413127 nearest 389 m
- Blue Night
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- Nearest stops
- 12 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Spadina Ave / Willcocks St 242 m · 15 docks · 43 stations, 846 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 (53)
- Lord Lansdowne Jr Sr & Da VinciEnglish Public · 65 m
- Braemar College Private Secondary SchoolPrivate · 364 m
- Westside Montessori Elementary SchoolPrivate · 383 m
- School of Graduate Studies - U of T, Bldg 43University · 451 m
- Kensington Community SchoolEnglish Public · 477 m
- King Edward Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Separate · 486 m
- and 47 more
- Community centres
- Parks (39)
- The Doctors' Parkette295 m
- Margaret Fairley Park333 m
- Lillian H. Smith Park336 m
- Sonya's Park395 m
- Glasgow Street Parkette401 m
- Julius Deutsch Park479 m
- and 33 more
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Lillian H. Smith branch310 m
- Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch876 m
- Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch940 m
- Places of interest
- Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 279 m
- Art Museum at the University of TorontoGallery · 622 m
- George Ignatieff TheatrePerforming Arts · 765 m
- Hart House TheatrePerforming Arts · 771 m
- Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 791 m
- Queen's Park: Legislative Assembly of OntarioLandmark · 863 m
- Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 874 m
- Bata Shoe MuseumMuseum · 874 m
- Signal
- 2511, activated 2020 · PA - MPS · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · transit priority
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 50 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 7 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 360 — 4.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Cafe 059, 77 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026 with 1 infraction noted.
| Nearest food premises | Distance | Latest DineSafe inspection |
|---|---|---|
| Cafe 059 · 1 Spadina Cres | 77 m | Passed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction |
| The Scott Mission Kitchen · 502 Spadina Ave, Unit-1 | 111 m | Passed, Sep 2025 · 1 infraction |
| The Scott Mission · 502 Spadina Ave | 112 m | Passed, Sep 2026 · 1 infraction |
| Dina's Tavern · 486 Spadina Ave | 145 m | Passed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions |
| No 10 Dean Bar Cafe · 484 Spadina Ave | 160 m | Passed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction |
| Easy GO · 288 College St | 160 m | Passed, Jul 2026 |
| Robert Street Cookies - Truck · 1 Robert St | 174 m | Passed, May 2026 |
| Graduate Students' Union Pub · 16 Bancroft Ave, Flr-Ground | 177 m | Passed, Jul 2024 · 1 infraction |
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 Bellevue Square Park Washroom, 657 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 300 m away at The Doctors' Parkette.
- Bellevue Square Park Washroom · 5 Bellevue Ave
9 a.m. to 10 p.m.657 m - Harry R. Gairey Outdoor Rink Washroom · 275 Bathurst St
View outdoor rink hours · accessible · closed — Maintenance/Repairs937 m - Alexandra Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 275 Bathurst St
9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs1 km
- Drinking water
- The Doctors' Parkette bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 300 m; Sonya's Park bottle filling station · 386 m · off
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
17 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,381 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care (65 m, 142 spaces, kindergarten, school age).
- The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care · 33 Robert St
142 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day65 m - Kodomoen Childcare Centre · 630 Spadina Ave
24 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day344 m - Westside Montessori School · 95 Bellevue Ave
73 spaces · toddler, preschool383 m - The Neighbourhood Group Bellevue Child Care · 91 Bellevue Ave
34 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day401 m
Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
Emergency services
The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 315 (391 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (1.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.2 km away.
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 41 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 3,296 rental units — 13 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 484 Spadina Ave (152 m, 166 units, 16 storeys, built 2021), which scored 99 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 41 scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 55 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 28 fire-code violations are open across them.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | LTB orders | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 484 Spadina Ave · Fitzrovia Real Estate Inc | 166 | 16 | 2021 | 99 · Jun 2024 | 0 · 1 fire | 152 m |
| 34 Oxford StToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation | 189 | 5 | 1979 | 89 · Aug 2025 | 0 | 289 m |
| 99 Bellevue Ave · Fv Property Management | 16 | 4 | 1988 | 72 · Jul 2026 | 0 | 362 m |
| 162 Huron St · 1771105 Ontario Ltd | 18 | 4 | 1903 | 97 · Jul 2026 | 0 | 383 m |
| 160 Huron St · Akelius Canada Ltd | 69 | 5 | 1805 | 98 · Jul 2026 | 3 | 394 m |
| 87 Bellevue Avesocial housing · Homes First Society | 28 | 3 | 1885 | 76 · Sep 2025 | 0 | 402 m |
| 88 Oxford St · Turtledove Management | 11 | 4 | 1895 | 75 · Jul 2026 | 0 | 474 m |
| 666 Spadina Ave · Cromwell Management Inc. | 334 | 24 | 1971 | 94 · Aug 2024 | 4 | 513 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
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 St Andrew St · Garage | 591 m | 417 | 27% (Q1 2026) |
| 35 Bellevue Avenue · Surface | 604 m | 91 * | — |
| 205 Mc Caul St · Surface | 778 m | 39 | 79% (Q1 2026) |
| 292 Brunswick Avenue · Surface | 813 m | 19 * | — |
| 40 Larch St · Garage | 816 m | 332 | 31% (Q1 2026) |
Nearest lots: 53 m away, ≈7 spaces; 100 m away, ≈10 spaces; 102 m away, ≈14 spaces; 121 m away, ≈5 spaces; 127 m away, ≈10 spaces; 143 m away, ≈3 spaces. More EV charging: 19 Spadina Rd (948 m, 6 ports); 74 Clinton Street (1.1 km, 4 ports); 10 Soho St. (1.2 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, Jun 22, 2017
Traffic is heaviest from the north: 4,083 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 88% of the total, against 543 from the west. Most cyclists arrived from the north (418 of 482). Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 692 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m., 18% above the afternoon peak from 2:00 p.m. (586). Trucks and buses were 7.4% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. 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.
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 most recent midblock count on Spadina Ave between Spadina Cres and Willcocks St (152 m away, Sep 2009) recorded volume only — about 11,649 vehicles a day — with no speed data. At the school-zone speed sign on Robert St (115 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.4% of the 15,276 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spadina Ave · Spadina Cres – Willcocks St · 152 m | Sep 2009 · 3 days | 11,649 | — | — | — |
School-zone speed sign 115 m
Robert St (northbound), Opp 30, Robert St · 15,276 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
The worst year was 2022, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 1 collision (7%) involved an injury. 5 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 36% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (7%). The most recent report on file is from Nov 13, 2025.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 14 | #3914 of 5,508 |
| With an injury | 1 | #4554 of 4,660 |
| Property damage only | 8 | |
| Fail to remain | 5 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 1 | #2376 of 2,576 |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| With a fatality | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 5 | |
| All since 2014 | 15 | latest Nov 13, 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
Four thefts from vehicles and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 4 | 1 | 0 | street/outdoor (3), apartment parking (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0 | 0 | apartment parking (1) |
Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 30, 2023. 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 University.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Spadina & Russell a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 14 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 Spadina & Russell?
A mid-volume intersection. Its latest count is from Jun 22, 2017, 50% of the median for a counted intersection.
Where can I park near Spadina & Russell?
The nearest Green P car park is 20 St Andrew St (591 m away, 417 spaces, 27% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 1,036 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,740 spaces — 83 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 365 Lippincott St. (919 m).
How do I get to Spadina & Russell by transit?
Spadina Station (Line 2) is 881 m away; streetcar routes 510, 506, 511, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 158 m away; bus routes 94, 13, 127 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Spadina & Russell?
50 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 360 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Cafe 059 (77 m), The Scott Mission Kitchen (111 m), The Scott Mission (112 m), Dina's Tavern (145 m) and No 10 Dean Bar Cafe (160 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 Spadina & Russell?
The nearest is Bellevue Square Park Washroom, 5 Bellevue Ave, 657 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Harry R. Gairey Outdoor Rink Washroom (937 m); Alexandra Park Outdoor Pool Washroom (1.0 km). 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 Spadina & Russell?
17 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,381 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care (65 m, 142 spaces), Kodomoen Childcare Centre (344 m, 24 spaces) and Westside Montessori School (383 m, 73 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Spadina & Russell?
41 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,296 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 484 Spadina Ave (152 m, 166 units, RentSafeTO score 99), 34 Oxford St (289 m, 189 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 99 Bellevue Ave (362 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 72) and 162 Huron St (383 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 41 is 87 out of 100; 1 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 Spadina & Russell?
Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft 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 University page.
What neighbourhood is Spadina & Russell in?
Spadina & Russell is in University (City of Toronto neighbourhood 079). 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
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Jun 22, 2017.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Aug 29, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Around the corner: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health); Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Fire Station Locations, Police Facility Locations, Ambulance Station Locations.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport with the Ontario LTB Order Catalogue and Toronto Fire Services inspection data (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2023.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 11 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting here: 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. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Walking distance: City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Parking: 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.
- Coordinates: 43.65950, -79.40163 · centreline node 13465245.