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Sunnyside & Westminster

Sunnyside Ave & Westminster Ave · Toronto, Ontario · High Park-Swansea · Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park

In High Park-Swansea, Sunnyside & Westminster is a low-volume local intersection, with a well-used cycling route through it. Nearby is 11 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
2,012
vehicles · 8-hour count, Sep 19, 2017
486 pedestrians · 167 cyclists
Collisions
7
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 3 property damage · #4763 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
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
5 streetcar routes · 2 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 250 vehicles an hour, 22% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 4 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 8.3% of vehicle volume, about 11× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 0.7 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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Sunnyside & Westminster

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
504506505501508 nearest 233 m
TTC bus
80402 nearest 413 m
Blue Night
304306305301
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Roncesvalles Ave / Fermanagh Ave 238 m · 19 docks · 15 stations, 278 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)
  • St Vincent de Paul Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 304 m
  • Howard Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 411 m
  • Garden Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 446 m
  • Fern Avenue Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 482 m
  • High Park Gardens Montessori SchoolPrivate · 504 m
  • Westminster Classical Christian Academy Elementary SchoolPrivate · 609 m
  • and 12 more
Community centres
Parks (20)
  • Columbus Parkette653 m
  • Charles G. Williams Park685 m
  • Sorauren Avenue Park726 m
  • Ritchie Avenue Parkette819 m
  • High Park896 m
  • Grafton Avenue Park929 m
  • and 14 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library High Park branch290 m
Places of interest
  • Colborne LodgeMuseum · 1 km
  • High ParkNature/ Park · 1 km
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 1 km
  • Taras H. Shevchenko MuseumMuseum · 1.1 km
  • Sunnyside BeachNature/ Park · 1.1 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 19 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 8 grocery and convenience stores, and 124 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Affect Coffee Co., 205 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés19 within 300 m · 124 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience8 within 300 m · 30 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Affect Coffee Co. · 283 Roncesvalles Ave205 mPassed, Aug 2026
Sunnyside Provisions · 287 Roncesvalles Ave207 mPassed, May 2026
Chicago Delicatesen and Bakery Store · 289 Roncesvalles Ave Unit-1grocery210 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 2 infractions
Anchor Fresh Seafood · 291 Roncesvalles Avegrocery211 mPassed, Aug 2026
Sushi On Roncy · 293 Roncesvalles Ave213 mPassed, Aug 2026
Barque Smokehouse · 299 Roncesvalles Ave214 mPassed, Mar 2026
The Mercantile · 297 Roncesvalles Ave217 mPassed, Aug 2026
Super Bowls · 279 Roncesvalles Ave224 mPassed, Aug 2026

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 High Park Parkside Drive Washroom, 515 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 547 m away at High Park.

  • High Park Parkside Drive Washroom · 1873 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    515 m
  • Sorauren Avenue Park Fieldhouse Washroom · 289 Sorauren Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    709 m
  • High Park Colborne Lodge Coach House Washroom · 1873 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    1 km
Drinking water
High Park bottle filling station · 547 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

13 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,176 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Sunnyside Day Care - Roncesvalles (106 m, 87 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km13 centres · 1,176 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 13
  • Sunnyside Day Care - Roncesvalles · 10 High Park Blvd
    87 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    106 m
  • My School Co-Operative Nursery School · 116 Fermanagh Ave
    24 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    303 m
  • St. Vincent Sunshine · 116 Fermanagh Ave
    50 spaces · kindergarten, school age
    303 m
  • Kids Zone Daycare On Constance · 76 Constance St
    35 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    326 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (2.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.6 km away.

FireFire Station 426 · 1 km140 Lansdowne Ave
Police14 Division · 2.1 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 32 · 1.6 km9 Clendenan Ave

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

16 registered apartment buildings with 871 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, one of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 256 Roncesvalles Ave (191 m, 15 units, 3 storeys, built 1940), which scored 73 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 46 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings16 · 871 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202646 across the 16
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
256 Roncesvalles Ave · Yu Shan Chiu153194073 · Jul 20260191 m
246 Roncesvalles Ave · La Valette Property Management223196995 · Aug 20260198 m
244 Roncesvalles Ave224196795 · Aug 20260212 m
150 Fermanagh Ave · Akelius Canada Ltd665195294 · Jul 20250251 m
310 Roncesvalles Ave · Orchard Park Property Management134191491 · Nov 20250288 m
320 Roncesvalles Ave · Orchard Park Property Management164191891 · Jul 20251369 m
109 Indian Rd · Akelius Ltd388197096 · Jul 20250387 m
83 Indian Rd215196086 · Aug 20250520 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 lots467 lots · ≈17,160 spaces · 51.5 ha
Within 500 m24 lots · ≈410 spaces
Green P (public)13 car parks · about 1,144 spaces
EV charging (City)430 Roncesvalles Ave · 589 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking44 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
2201 Dundas St W · Surface739 m1070% (Q1 2026)
1575 Lake Shore Blvd. W. (Parks) · Surface1 km193 *
1624 Queen St W · Surface1.1 km3371% (Q1 2026)
Keele Lot - 400 Indian Road · Surface1.1 km187 *
14 Fuller Ave · Surface1.2 km4247% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 88 m away, ≈12 spaces; 186 m away, ≈9 spaces; 191 m away, ≈25 spaces; 204 m away, ≈4 spaces; 237 m away, ≈13 spaces; 237 m away, ≈16 spaces. More EV charging: 2251 Dundas St W (868 m, 2 ports); 2285 Dundas St W (942 m, 2 ports); 115 High Park Avenue (1.7 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, Sep 19, 2017

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The south leg carries the load — 1,012 northbound vehicles, or 50% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 458. Most cyclists arrived from the north (73 of 167). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 332 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 342 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. 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.

From the north458southbound · 73 bikes · 1.7% heavy
From the west542eastbound · 8 bikes · 1.3% heavy
Total vehicles2,012486 pedestrians · 167 cyclists · 1.1% heavy
From the east0westbound · 20 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south1,012northbound · 66 bikes · 0.7% heavy
AM peak hour332 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour342 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Sep 19, 2017

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 Sunnyside Ave between Westminster Ave and Geoffrey St (49 m away) recorded an average of 34 km/h in its 3-day count in September 2006; 85% of drivers were at or under 43 km/h. That segment carries about 1,400 vehicles a day. Westminster Ave between Lane E of Roncesvalles and S of Westminster and Lane E of Roncesvalles and S of Geoffrey measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 37 km/h (Jun 2019). The reading is 20 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Sunnyside Ave (340 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.2% of the 58,140 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Sunnyside Ave · Westminster Ave – Geoffrey St · 49 mSep 2006 · 3 days1,38734 km/h43 km/h49 km/h
Westminster Ave · Lane E of Roncesvalles and S of Westminster – Lane E of Roncesvalles and S of Geoffrey · 312 mJun 2019 · 2 days1,09130 km/h37 km/h41 km/h

School-zone speed sign 340 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct19 · 26 km/h
Over the limit1.1%
40 km/h or more0.2%

Sunnyside Ave (southbound), 178 Sunnyside Avenue · 58,140 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 1 collision. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 57% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. 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 collisions7#4763 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only3
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 20149latest 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

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 two thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft200other (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 23, 2021. 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 High Park-Swansea.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Sunnyside & Westminster a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 7 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 Sunnyside & Westminster?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Sep 19, 2017, 22% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Sunnyside & Westminster?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Sunnyside Ave between Westminster Ave and Geoffrey St (September 2006), found an average of 34 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 340 m away (30 km/h), 0.2% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Sunnyside & Westminster?

The nearest Green P car park is 2201 Dundas St W (739 m away, 10 spaces, 70% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 467 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 17,160 spaces — 24 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 430 Roncesvalles Ave (589 m).

How do I get to Sunnyside & Westminster by transit?

Streetcar routes 504, 506, 505, 501 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 233 m away; bus routes 80, 402 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Sunnyside & Westminster?

19 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 124 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Affect Coffee Co. (205 m), Sunnyside Provisions (207 m), Sushi On Roncy (213 m), Barque Smokehouse (214 m) and The Mercantile (217 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 Sunnyside & Westminster?

The nearest is High Park Parkside Drive Washroom, 1873 Bloor St W, 515 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Sorauren Avenue Park Fieldhouse Washroom (709 m); High Park Colborne Lodge Coach House 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 Sunnyside & Westminster?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,176 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Sunnyside Day Care - Roncesvalles (106 m, 87 spaces), My School Co-Operative Nursery School (303 m, 24 spaces) and St. Vincent Sunshine (303 m, 50 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Sunnyside & Westminster?

16 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 871 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 256 Roncesvalles Ave (191 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 73), 246 Roncesvalles Ave (198 m, 22 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 244 Roncesvalles Ave (212 m, 22 units, RentSafeTO score 95) and 150 Fermanagh Ave (251 m, 66 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 16 is 90 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 Sunnyside & Westminster?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and two 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 High Park-Swansea page.

What neighbourhood is Sunnyside & Westminster in?

Sunnyside & Westminster is in High Park-Swansea (City of Toronto neighbourhood 087). 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