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Symes & Orman

Symes Rd & Orman Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Rockcliffe-Smythe · Ward 5, York South-Weston

In Rockcliffe-Smythe, Symes & Orman is a quiet local crossing. At the corner: a school within 250 m. Nearby: 14 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
1,421
vehicles · 14-hour count, Nov 12, 2024
149 pedestrians · 40 cyclists · #2291 busiest
Collisions
3
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 1 property damage · #5324 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
1 streetcar route · 9 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 100 vehicles an hour over its 14-hour span, 9% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 10 vehicles, close to the citywide median. Cyclists were 2.8% of vehicle volume, about 3.6× the typical share. On average 0.3 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Symes & Orman

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
512 nearest 889 m
TTC bus
1717179161189404189168 nearest 395 m
Express
941989
Blue Night
340341
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Symes Rd / Glen Scarlett Rd - SMART 373 m · 16 docks · 5 stations, 76 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 (16)
  • Iqra Nejashi Islamic SchoolPrivate · 227 m
  • Harwood Public SchoolEnglish Public · 310 m
  • Rockcliffe Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 574 m
  • St Oscar Romero Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 584 m
  • Frank Oke Secondary SchoolEnglish Public · 608 m
  • Cordella Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 631 m
  • and 10 more
Community centres
Parks (28)
  • Black Creek Site East305 m
  • Gaffney Park366 m
  • Cayuga Park399 m
  • Harwood Park420 m
  • Henrietta Park468 m
  • Symes - Viella Parkette498 m
  • and 22 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Daniel G. Hill (formely Jane/Dundas) branch1.3 km
  • Toronto Public Library Mount Dennis branch1.4 km
  • Toronto Public Library Evelyn Gregory branch1.5 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 98 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Junction Craft Brewing, 319 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in November 2025.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 98 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 16 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Junction Craft Brewing · 150 Symes Rd319 mPassed, Nov 2025
The Symes · 150 Symes Rd319 mPassed, Apr 2025
Toben Food By Design · 150 Symes Rdgrocery320 mPassed, May 2026
Junction Craft Brewing · 150 Symes Rd320 mPassed, Jul 2026
Brodo House · 100 Symes Rd Unit-112-Shared397 mPassed, Jun 2026
Hart & Ziel · 100 Symes Rd Unit-112397 mPassed, Apr 2026
Rain Hard Brewing Co. · 100 Symes Rd Unit-111397 mPassed, Mar 2026
Viola Food Co. · 100 Symes Rd, Unit-112-Sharedgrocery397 mPassed, Oct 2024

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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 371 m away at Harwood Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Harwood Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 371 m; Henrietta Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 426 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

Three licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 252 spaces; two accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Romero Bears Child Care Centre (584 m, 26 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km3 centres · 252 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 3
  • Romero Bears Child Care Centre · 99 Humber Blvd
    26 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    584 m
  • Kids & Company the Stockyards · 100 Weston Rd
    82 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    1 km
  • Macaulay - George Syme Child Care Centre · 69 Pritchard Ave
    144 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    1 km

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 421 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 11 Division (1.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 421 · 1.1 km6 Lambton Ave
Police11 Division · 1.8 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 30 · 1.3 km100 Turnberry 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

Within a kilometre there are 18 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,025 rental units — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 121 Humber Blvd (369 m, 215 units, 14 storeys, built 1968), which scored 91 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 29 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 23 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings18 · 2,025 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202629 across the 18
Open fire-code violations23
Tallest16 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
121 Humber BlvdToronto Community Housing · TCH21514196891 · Aug 20262 · 2 fire369 m
101 Humber BlvdToronto Community Housing · TCH24614196991 · Aug 20261521 m
270 Ryding Ave163195880 · Aug 20261710 m
8 Castleton Ave · Orchard Park Property Management173196595 · Aug 20260747 m
190 Woolner AveToronto Community Housing · TCH30416196888 · Nov 20250 · 1 fire750 m
200 Woolner Ave · Woolner Holdings Inc30416196879 · Jun 20246 · 6 fire819 m
8 Hector Ave · Sterling Karamar Property Management183195790 · Aug 20262847 m
210 Woolner Ave · Woolner Holdings Inc1889196891 · Nov 20259 · 6 fire889 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 lots644 lots · ≈37,480 spaces · 112.5 ha
Within 500 m31 lots · ≈2,750 spaces
Green P (public)13 car parks · about 469 spaces
EV charging (City)535 Runnymeade Rd · 1.6 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1A Mould Avenue · Surface844 m7 *
3354 Dundas St W · Surface1.1 km1199% (Q1 2026)
1169 Weston Rd · Surface1.5 km3658% (Q1 2026)
385 Pacific Ave · Surface1.6 km6773% (Q1 2026)
433 Rogers Rd · Surface1.7 km2827% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 163 m away, ≈6 spaces; 169 m away, ≈12 spaces; 178 m away, ≈34 spaces; 196 m away, ≈116 spaces; 246 m away, ≈57 spaces; 250 m away, ≈213 spaces.

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 — 14-hour, Nov 12, 2024

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 760 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 53% of the total, against 42 from the north. Evening rush dominates here: 186 vehicles in the peak hour from 3:15 p.m., against 125 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 22 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north42southbound · 1 bikes · 2.4% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles1,421149 pedestrians · 40 cyclists · 3.4% heavy
From the east760westbound · 14 bikes · 3.0% heavy
From the south619northbound · 25 bikes · 4.0% heavy
AM peak hour125 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour186 vehicles from 3:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Nov 12, 2024

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

On Orman Ave between Symes Rd and Hilldale Rd, 24 m from the corner, a 2-day count in February 2001 put the average speed at 22 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 28 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 29 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,400 vehicles a day. The reading is 25 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on McCormack St (265 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.1% of the 12,968 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Orman Ave · Symes Rd – Hilldale Rd · 24 mFeb 2001 · 2 days1,40222 km/h28 km/h29 km/h
Symes Rd · Glen Scarlett Rd – Terry Dr · 165 mFeb 2002 · 3 days2,679

School-zone speed sign 265 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct23 · 33 km/h
Over the limit0.6%
50 km/h or more0.1%

McCormack St (eastbound), 151 McCormack Street · 12,968 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 2024, with 1 collision; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 2 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 Jul 16, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions3#5324 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only1
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 20143latest Jul 16, 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

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

Two thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 10, 2020. 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 Rockcliffe-Smythe.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Symes & Orman a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 3 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 Symes & Orman?

A quiet local crossing. It ranks #2291 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 9% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Symes & Orman?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Orman Ave between Symes Rd and Hilldale Rd (February 2001), found an average of 22 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 28 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 265 m away (40 km/h), 0.1% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Symes & Orman?

The nearest Green P car park is 1A Mould Avenue (844 m away, 7 spaces). The City's mapping shows 644 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 37,480 spaces — 31 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 535 Runnymeade Rd (1.6 km).

How do I get to Symes & Orman by transit?

Streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 889 m away; bus routes 171, 71, 79, 161, 189, 40, 41, 89 and 3 more within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Symes & Orman?

None within 300 m, and 98 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Junction Craft Brewing (319 m), The Symes (319 m), Junction Craft Brewing (320 m), Brodo House (397 m) and Hart & Ziel (397 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 Symes & Orman?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 371 m away at Harwood Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Symes & Orman?

Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 252 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Romero Bears Child Care Centre (584 m, 26 spaces), Kids & Company the Stockyards (1.0 km, 82 spaces) and Macaulay - George Syme Child Care Centre (1.0 km, 144 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Symes & Orman?

18 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,025 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 121 Humber Blvd (369 m, 215 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 101 Humber Blvd (521 m, 246 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 270 Ryding Ave (710 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 80) and 8 Castleton Ave (747 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 18 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 Symes & Orman?

Toronto Police place two 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 Rockcliffe-Smythe page.

What neighbourhood is Symes & Orman in?

Symes & Orman is in Rockcliffe-Smythe (City of Toronto neighbourhood 111), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 5, York South-Weston, represented by Councillor Frances Nunziata.

Sources

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