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St Mark's & Watson

St Mark's Rd & Watson Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Lambton Baby Point · Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park

In Lambton Baby Point, St Mark's & Watson is a low-volume local intersection. 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
850
vehicles · 8-hour count, Mar 6, 2002
168 pedestrians · 4 cyclists
Collisions
5
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 3 property damage · #5083 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

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 110 vehicles an hour, 9% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 5 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Police have logged an average of 0.5 collisions a year here over 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 Mark's & Watson

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
27552640791897130 nearest 201 m
Express
935
Blue Night
335340
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Annette St / Jane St 301 m · 15 docks · 5 stations, 91 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 (18)
  • Humbercrest Public SchoolEnglish Public · 71 m
  • Runnymede Collegiate & Mountview AlternativeEnglish Public · 376 m
  • James Culnan Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 391 m
  • King George Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 430 m
  • Summit Micro SchoolPrivate · 500 m
  • St James Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 641 m
  • and 12 more
Community centres
Parks (26)
  • Cashman Park575 m
  • Magwood Park653 m
  • Florence Gell Park665 m
  • Lessard Park697 m
  • Etienne Brule Park835 m
  • Home Smith Park860 m
  • and 20 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Daniel G. Hill (formely Jane/Dundas) branch599 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 6 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 68 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is The Grill On Jane, 214 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés6 within 300 m · 68 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 14 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
The Grill On Jane · 425 Jane St Unit-2-3214 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
Terra Brasil Cafe Market · 415 Jane Stgrocery226 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Mad Mexican Restaurant · 405 Jane St248 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Patisserie 27 · 401 Jane St265 mPassed, Aug 2025
Patisserie 27 · 401 Jane St265 mPassed, Aug 2026
Gigli Caffe · 399 Jane St269 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 1 infraction
Queen Margherita Pizza · 787 Annette St295 mPassed, Jun 2026
Unu Banh Mi · 393 Jane St301 mPassed, Jun 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 Etienne Brule Park Washroom, 843 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 587 m away at Cashman Park.

  • Etienne Brule Park Washroom · 13 Crosby Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    843 m
  • Home Smith Park Washroom · 4101 Dundas St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    905 m
Drinking water
Cashman Park drinking fountain · 587 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 1,011 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Humbercrest School Age YMCA (71 m, 186 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km16 centres · 1,011 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 16
  • Humbercrest School Age YMCA · 14 St Marks Rd
    186 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    71 m
  • Humbercrest Nursery School · 569 Jane St
    14 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    377 m
  • Macaulay - Mountview Child Care Centre · 569 Jane St
    43 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    377 m
  • Plasp James Culnan Catholic School · 605 Willard Ave
    58 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    391 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 422 (469 m), the nearest police station 11 Division (2.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.7 km away.

FireFire Station 422 · 469 m590 Jane St
Police11 Division · 2.7 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 31 · 1.7 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

Seven registered apartment buildings with 526 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 23. The nearest is 392 Jane St (285 m, 32 units, 6 storeys, built 1960), which scored 96 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 95, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 8 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings7 · 526 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score95 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20268 across the 7
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest10 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
392 Jane St · Biddington Property Management Corp.326196096 · Jul 20250285 m
585 Jane St254195596 · Aug 20260487 m
596 Jane St173195897 · Jul 20250487 m
3385 Dundas St W · Realstar1317202197 · Aug 20244764 m
494 Runnymede Rd363197591 · Jul 20250821 m
3725 Dundas St WToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation15310197295 · Aug 20263897 m
3735 Dundas St WToronto Community Housing · TCH13210197291 · Aug 20241922 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 lots464 lots · ≈23,280 spaces · 69.8 ha
Within 500 m22 lots · ≈380 spaces
Green P (public)11 car parks · about 799 spaces
EV charging (City)535 Runnymeade Rd · 808 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking12 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
3354 Dundas St W · Surface910 m1199% (Q1 2026)
1A Mould Avenue · Surface1 km7 *
265 Armadale Ave · Surface1.2 km14458% (Q1 2026)
17 Riverview Gdns · Surface1.3 km9552% (Q1 2026)
265 Willard Ave · Surface1.3 km9053% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 23 m away, ≈9 spaces; 44 m away, ≈2 spaces; 59 m away, ≈14 spaces; 182 m away, ≈3 spaces; 213 m away, ≈10 spaces; 267 m away, ≈9 spaces. More EV charging: 265 Armadale Ave (1.3 km, 9 ports); 8 Kings Lynn Rd (1.7 km, 1 ports); 115 High Park Avenue (1.9 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, Mar 6, 2002

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 370 westbound vehicles, or 44% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 119. Morning rush is the busier period: 204 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:00 a.m., compared with 128 from 2:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 25 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2002, 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 north119southbound · 1 bikes · 6.7% heavy
From the west361eastbound · 1 bikes · 3.3% heavy
Total vehicles850168 pedestrians · 4 cyclists · 3.9% heavy
From the east370westbound · 2 bikes · 3.5% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour204 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour128 vehicles from 2:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Mar 6, 2002

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 St Mark's Rd between Watson Ave and Brookside Ave (51 m away) recorded an average of 32 km/h in its 3-day count in June 2019; 85% of drivers were at or under 42 km/h. That segment carries about 1,800 vehicles a day. Watson Ave between St Mark's Rd and St John's Rd measured slower: 28 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 38 km/h (Apr 2019). The reading is 7 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on St Marks Rd (38 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.7% of the 12,254 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
St Mark's Rd · Watson Ave – Brookside Ave · 51 mJun 2019 · 3 days1,75632 km/h42 km/h48 km/h
Watson Ave · St Mark's Rd – St John's Rd · 90 mApr 2019 · 2 days55328 km/h38 km/h42 km/h

School-zone speed sign 38 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct26 · 32 km/h
Over the limit7.6%
40 km/h or more0.7%

St Marks Rd (westbound), 8 Saint Mark's Road · 12,254 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. 20% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Feb 23, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions5#5083 of 5,508
With an injury1#4570 of 4,660
Property damage only3
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 20145latest Feb 23, 2024

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 vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 9, 2017. 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 St Mark's & Watson a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 5 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 Mark's & Watson?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Mar 6, 2002, 9% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at St Mark's & Watson?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on St Mark's Rd between Watson Ave and Brookside Ave (June 2019), found an average of 32 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 38 m away (30 km/h), 0.7% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near St Mark's & Watson?

The nearest Green P car park is 3354 Dundas St W (910 m away, 11 spaces, 99% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 464 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,280 spaces — 22 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 535 Runnymeade Rd (808 m).

How do I get to St Mark's & Watson by transit?

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

What restaurants are near St Mark's & Watson?

6 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 68 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The Grill On Jane (214 m), Mad Mexican Restaurant (248 m), Patisserie 27 (265 m), Patisserie 27 (265 m) and Gigli Caffe (269 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 Mark's & Watson?

The nearest is Etienne Brule Park Washroom, 13 Crosby Ave, 843 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Home Smith Park Washroom (905 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 St Mark's & Watson?

16 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,011 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Humbercrest School Age YMCA (71 m, 186 spaces), Humbercrest Nursery School (377 m, 14 spaces) and Macaulay - Mountview Child Care Centre (377 m, 43 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near St Mark's & Watson?

Seven RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 526 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 392 Jane St (285 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 585 Jane St (487 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 596 Jane St (487 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 97) and 3385 Dundas St W (764 m, 131 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 7 is 95 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 Mark's & Watson?

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 St Mark's & Watson in?

St Mark's & Watson 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