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St John's & Brookside

St John's Rd & Brookside Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Runnymede-Bloor West Village · Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park

In Runnymede-Bloor West Village, St John's & Brookside is a quiet local crossing, with a strong pedestrian presence. It has a school within 250 m and a park at the corner. Nearby: 11 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
864
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 15, 2020
450 pedestrians · 5 cyclists
Collisions
6
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 2 property damage · #4927 of 5,508
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
8 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 110 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 9% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 1.9 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). That comes with about 0.6 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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St John's & Brookside

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
27554026791897130 nearest 201 m
Express
935
Blue Night
335340
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Priscilla Ave / Dundas St W 420 m · 23 docks · 6 stations, 110 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 (17)
  • Humbercrest Public SchoolEnglish Public · 141 m
  • Runnymede Collegiate & Mountview AlternativeEnglish Public · 298 m
  • St James Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 437 m
  • King George Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 463 m
  • James Culnan Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 529 m
  • Warren Park Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 607 m
  • and 11 more
Community centres
Parks (24)
  • Florence Gell Park488 m
  • Magwood Park617 m
  • Cashman Park659 m
  • Home Smith Park760 m
  • Scarlett - St. Clair Parkette778 m
  • Lessard Park858 m
  • and 18 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Daniel G. Hill (formely Jane/Dundas) branch451 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, and 66 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Pegrolls, 249 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés2 within 300 m · 66 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 16 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Pegrolls · 558 Jane St249 mPassed, Jul 2026
Runnymede CI- Snp Breakfast Program · 569 Jane St298 mPassed, Oct 2025 · 1 infraction
St Johns Pantry · 431 St Johns Rd408 mPassed, Jul 2026
The Grill On Jane · 425 Jane St Unit-2-3420 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
Terra Brasil Cafe Market · 415 Jane Stgrocery434 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Royal Canadian Legion · 3591 Dundas St W449 mPassed, Jun 2025
Mad Mexican Restaurant · 405 Jane St455 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Pizza Nova · 3575 Dundas St W460 mPassed, Jan 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 Home Smith Park Washroom, 804 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 488 m away at Florence Gell Park.

  • Home Smith Park Washroom · 4101 Dundas St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    804 m
  • Etienne Brule Park Washroom · 13 Crosby Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    1 km
Drinking water
Florence Gell Park drinking fountain · 488 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

16 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,141 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Humbercrest School Age YMCA (141 m, 186 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km16 centres · 1,141 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 16
  • Humbercrest School Age YMCA · 14 St Marks Rd
    186 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    141 m
  • Humbercrest Nursery School · 569 Jane St
    14 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    298 m
  • Macaulay - Mountview Child Care Centre · 569 Jane St
    43 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    298 m
  • Macaulay - Jane Street Child Care Centre · 610 Jane St
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    412 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 422 (336 m), the nearest police station 11 Division (2.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.6 km away.

FireFire Station 422 · 336 m590 Jane St
Police11 Division · 2.7 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 31 · 1.6 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

13 registered apartment buildings with 950 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 596 Jane St (352 m, 17 units, 3 storeys, built 1958), which scored 97 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 12 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings13 · 950 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202612 across the 13
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest12 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
596 Jane St173195897 · Jul 20250352 m
585 Jane St254195596 · Aug 20260374 m
392 Jane St · Biddington Property Management Corp.326196096 · Jul 20250489 m
3725 Dundas St WToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation15310197295 · Aug 20263690 m
3735 Dundas St WToronto Community Housing · TCH13210197291 · Aug 20241717 m
3385 Dundas St W · Realstar1317202197 · Aug 20244778 m
4029 Old Dundas St · Hannah Property Management Ltd.298195986 · Nov 20250851 m
4033 Old Dundas St475196071 · Jul 20240858 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 lots450 lots · ≈22,790 spaces · 68.4 ha
Within 500 m24 lots · ≈590 spaces
Green P (public)12 car parks · about 839 spaces
EV charging (City)535 Runnymeade Rd · 1 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1A Mould Avenue · Surface880 m7 *
3354 Dundas St W · Surface948 m1199% (Q1 2026)
265 Armadale Ave · Surface1.4 km14458% (Q1 2026)
17 Riverview Gdns · Surface1.4 km9552% (Q1 2026)
16 Riverview Gdns · Surface1.5 km5938% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 148 m away, ≈14 spaces; 167 m away, ≈2 spaces; 184 m away, ≈9 spaces; 325 m away, ≈72 spaces; 330 m away, ≈29 spaces; 332 m away, ≈7 spaces. More EV charging: 265 Armadale Ave (1.5 km, 9 ports); 8 Kings Lynn Rd (1.7 km, 1 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, Jan 15, 2020

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 392 westbound vehicles, or 45% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 181. Morning rush is the busier period: 231 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:00 a.m., compared with 152 from 2:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 0.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 7 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2020, 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 north181southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west291eastbound · 3 bikes · 1.7% heavy
Total vehicles864450 pedestrians · 5 cyclists · 0.8% heavy
From the east392westbound · 2 bikes · 0.5% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour231 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour152 vehicles from 2:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jan 15, 2020

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 Brookside Ave between St Mark's Rd and St John's Rd (90 m away) recorded an average of 29 km/h in its 2-day count in April 2019; 85% of drivers were at or under 38 km/h. That segment carries about 500 vehicles a day. St John's Rd between Willard Ave and Priscilla Ave measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 36 km/h (Oct 2025). The reading is 7 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Brookside Ave (75 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.2% of the 26,764 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Brookside Ave · St Mark's Rd – St John's Rd · 90 mApr 2019 · 2 days51129 km/h38 km/h42 km/h
St John's Rd · Willard Ave – Priscilla Ave · 369 mOct 2025 · 3 days3,13430 km/h36 km/h40 km/h

School-zone speed sign 75 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct16 · 27 km/h
Over the limit1.3%
40 km/h or more0.2%

Brookside Ave (southbound), 34 Brookside Avenue · 26,764 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

2018 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 67% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Sep 24, 2023.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions6#4927 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only2
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 20147latest Sep 24, 2023

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 three thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle310other (2), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 8, 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 Runnymede-Bloor West Village.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is St John's & Brookside a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 6 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 St John's & Brookside?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Jan 15, 2020, 9% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at St John's & Brookside?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Brookside Ave between St Mark's Rd and St John's Rd (April 2019), found an average of 29 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 38 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 75 m away (30 km/h), 0.2% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near St John's & Brookside?

The nearest Green P car park is 1A Mould Avenue (880 m away, 7 spaces). The City's mapping shows 450 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,790 spaces — 24 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 535 Runnymeade Rd (1.0 km).

How do I get to St John's & Brookside by transit?

Bus routes 27, 55, 40, 26, 79, 189, 71, 30 and 1 more within 1 km.

What restaurants are near St John's & Brookside?

2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 66 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Pegrolls (249 m), Runnymede CI- Snp Breakfast Program (298 m), St Johns Pantry (408 m), The Grill On Jane (420 m) and Royal Canadian Legion (449 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 St John's & Brookside?

The nearest is Home Smith Park Washroom, 4101 Dundas St W, 804 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Etienne Brule Park 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 St John's & Brookside?

16 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,141 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Humbercrest School Age YMCA (141 m, 186 spaces), Humbercrest Nursery School (298 m, 14 spaces) and Macaulay - Mountview Child Care Centre (298 m, 43 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near St John's & Brookside?

13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 950 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 596 Jane St (352 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 585 Jane St (374 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 392 Jane St (489 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 3725 Dundas St W (690 m, 153 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 13 is 91 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 St John's & Brookside?

Toronto Police place three 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 Runnymede-Bloor West Village page.

What neighbourhood is St John's & Brookside in?

St John's & Brookside is in Runnymede-Bloor West Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 089). 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