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Spadina & Willcocks

Spadina Ave & Willcocks St · Toronto, Ontario · University · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

In University, in the downtown core, Spadina & Willcocks is a busier-than-typical intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. Nearby is Spadina Station (Line 1, Line 2) 691 m away.

Traffic volume
10,504
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 19, 2005
3,279 pedestrians · 586 cyclists
Collisions
37
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
11 with an injury · 22 property damage · #2512 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 2 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
4
TTC stops within 100 m
Spadina Station 691 m · 4 streetcar routes · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 1,310 vehicles an hour, about the citywide median. 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 5.6% of vehicle volume, about 7.2× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 3.7 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 24%, from 21 in 2016–2020 to 16 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Spadina & Willcocks

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 1, Line 2)691 m; St George Station (Line 1, Line 2)785 m; Museum Station (Line 1)852 m; Queen's Park Station (Line 1)867 m; Bathurst Station (Line 2)901 m
Streetcar
510506511505 nearest 18 m
TTC bus
9413127267 nearest 199 m
Blue Night
310306305300307
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m — Spadina Ave at Willcocks St
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Spadina Ave / Willcocks St 41 m · 15 docks · 43 stations, 815 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 (54)
  • Lord Lansdowne Jr Sr & Da VinciEnglish Public · 264 m
  • School of Graduate Studies - U of T, Bldg 43University · 345 m
  • Braemar College Private Secondary SchoolPrivate · 472 m
  • Rotman School of Management - U of T, Bldg 134University · 492 m
  • Munk School of Global Affairs at Trinity - U of T, Bldg 12aUniversity · 563 m
  • Munk School of Global Affairs Graham Library - U of T, Bldg 12cUniversity · 567 m
  • and 48 more
Parks (40)
  • Margaret Fairley Park358 m
  • Sally Bird Park455 m
  • Lillian H. Smith Park474 m
  • The Doctors' Parkette474 m
  • Huron - Washington Parkette548 m
  • Glasgow Street Parkette561 m
  • and 34 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Lillian H. Smith branch442 m
  • Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch754 m
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 94 m
  • Art Museum at the University of TorontoGallery · 497 m
  • George Ignatieff TheatrePerforming Arts · 585 m
  • Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 604 m
  • Hart House TheatrePerforming Arts · 643 m
  • Bata Shoe MuseumMuseum · 673 m
  • Queen's Park: Legislative Assembly of OntarioLandmark · 797 m
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 803 m
Signal
1761, activated 1997 · SAP · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West · transit priority

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 40 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores, and 366 eating places within a kilometre — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is The Faculty Club, 41 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés40 within 300 m · 366 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 34 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
The Faculty Club · 41 Willcocks St41 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
The Faculty Club Pub · 41 Willcocks St41 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
The Coffee Shed · 40 Willcocks St41 mPassed, Mar 2026
St Volodymyr Institute · 620 Spadina Ave Unit-198 mPassed, Jun 2026
Graduate Students' Union Pub · 16 Bancroft Ave, Flr-Ground120 mPassed, Jul 2024 · 1 infraction
Graduate Students' Union Pub · 16 Bancroft Ave Flr-Ground120 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Second Cup · 55 Harbord St176 mPassed, Mar 2026
Cafe 059 · 1 Spadina Cres189 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 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, 859 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 452 m away at Sally Bird Park.

  • Bellevue Square Park Washroom · 5 Bellevue Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    859 m
Drinking water
Sally Bird Park drinking fountain · 452 m; The Doctors' Parkette bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 478 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

20 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,727 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Kodomoen Childcare Centre (159 m, 24 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km20 centres · 1,727 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 20
  • Kodomoen Childcare Centre · 630 Spadina Ave
    24 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    159 m
  • The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care · 33 Robert St
    142 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    264 m
  • University of Toronto Early Learning Centre - Glen Morris · 7 Glen Morris St
    96 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    295 m
  • Campus Community Co-Operative Day Care · 370 Huron St
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    369 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 315 (567 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (1.2 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.1 km away.

FireFire Station 315 · 567 m132 Bellevue Ave
Police52 Division · 1.2 km255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 34 · 1.1 km674 Markham St

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

55 registered apartment buildings with 4,062 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, eight of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 2.4× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 666 Spadina Ave (327 m, 334 units, 24 storeys, built 1971), which scored 94 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 55 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 75 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 32 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings55 · 4,062 units · 8 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202675 across the 55
Open fire-code violations32
Tallest24 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
666 Spadina Ave · Cromwell Management Inc.33424197194 · Aug 20244327 m
484 Spadina Ave · Fitzrovia Real Estate Inc16616202199 · Jun 20240 · 1 fire340 m
710 Spadina Ave · Camden Property Management627195987 · Aug 20251450 m
153 Borden Stsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes453198774 · Sep 20252457 m
34 Oxford StToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1895197989 · Aug 20250491 m
162 Huron St · 1771105 Ontario Ltd184190397 · Jul 20260529 m
160 Huron St · Akelius Canada Ltd695180598 · Jul 20263544 m
99 Bellevue Ave · Fv Property Management164198872 · Jul 20260550 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 lots1,039 lots · ≈23,390 spaces · 70.2 ha
Within 500 m65 lots · ≈950 spaces
Green P (public)31 car parks · about 5,069 spaces
EV charging (City)19 Spadina Rd · 758 m · 6 Level 2 ports
Bike parking124 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 28 bikes within 600 m · City Hall - Nathan Phillips Square bike station (1.7 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
4 Spadina Road · Surface657 m51 *
292 Brunswick Avenue · Surface675 m19 *
9 Madison Ave. · Surface705 m38 *
465 Huron Street · Surface720 m15 *
19 Spadina Road · Surface775 m65 *

Nearest lots: 67 m away, ≈3 spaces; 79 m away, ≈7 spaces; 100 m away, ≈5 spaces; 109 m away, ≈6 spaces; 111 m away, ≈14 spaces; 123 m away, ≈34 spaces. More EV charging: 365 Lippincott St. (803 m, 10 ports); 74 Clinton Street (1.2 km, 4 ports); 91 Elizabeth St (1.3 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 — 8-hour, May 19, 2005

The north leg carries the load — 5,527 southbound vehicles, or 53% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 63. Most cyclists arrived from the north (265 of 586). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,461 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,475 from 4:30 p.m. Trucks and buses were 8.1% 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 21 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2005, 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 north5,527southbound · 265 bikes · 8.2% heavy
From the west63eastbound · 138 bikes · 1.6% heavy
Total vehicles10,5043,279 pedestrians · 586 cyclists · 8.1% heavy
From the east188westbound · 7 bikes · 2.1% heavy
From the south4,726northbound · 176 bikes · 8.2% heavy
AM peak hour1,461 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,475 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 19, 2005

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 Willcocks St and Classic Ave (51 m away, Sep 2009) recorded volume only — about 10,738 vehicles a day — with no speed data. At the school-zone speed sign on Robert St (314 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 segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Spadina Ave · Willcocks St – Classic Ave · 51 mSep 2009 · 3 days10,738

School-zone speed sign 314 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct16 · 27 km/h
Over the limit2.4%
40 km/h or more0.4%

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

2019 was the peak year (8 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 30% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 5 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 14% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 11% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Feb 18, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions37#2512 of 5,508
With an injury11#1630 of 4,660
Property damage only22
Fail to remain5
Involving a pedestrian1#3023 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist3#894 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201442latest Feb 18, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Jan 1, 2010.

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 three thefts from vehicles and 36 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 6.5× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 6 in 2023–2025, about 2.0 a year, against 4.7 a year before that. 67% of the bike thefts were from school or campus property.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle320street/outdoor (3)
Bicycle theft3640school/campus (24), street/outdoor (5)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 14, 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 University.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Spadina & Willcocks a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 37 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 & Willcocks?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from May 19, 2005, about the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Spadina & Willcocks?

The nearest Green P car park is 4 Spadina Road (657 m away, 51 spaces). The City's mapping shows 1,039 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,390 spaces — 65 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 19 Spadina Rd (758 m).

How do I get to Spadina & Willcocks by transit?

Spadina Station (Line 1, Line 2) is 691 m away; streetcar routes 510, 506, 511, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 18 m away; bus routes 94, 13, 127, 26, 7 within 1 km (nearest stop: Spadina Ave at Willcocks St, 199 m).

What restaurants are near Spadina & Willcocks?

40 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 366 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The Faculty Club (41 m), The Faculty Club Pub (41 m), The Coffee Shed (41 m), St Volodymyr Institute (98 m) and Graduate Students' Union Pub (120 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 & Willcocks?

The nearest is Bellevue Square Park Washroom, 5 Bellevue Ave, 859 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.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 Spadina & Willcocks?

20 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,727 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Kodomoen Childcare Centre (159 m, 24 spaces), The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care (264 m, 142 spaces) and University of Toronto Early Learning Centre - Glen Morris (295 m, 96 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Spadina & Willcocks?

55 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,062 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 666 Spadina Ave (327 m, 334 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 484 Spadina Ave (340 m, 166 units, RentSafeTO score 99), 710 Spadina Ave (450 m, 62 units, RentSafeTO score 87) and 153 Borden St (457 m, 45 units, RentSafeTO score 74). The average RentSafeTO score across the 55 is 88 out of 100; 2 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 & Willcocks?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and 36 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 University page.

What neighbourhood is Spadina & Willcocks in?

Spadina & Willcocks is in University (City of Toronto neighbourhood 079). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.

Sources

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