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Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes

Toronto, Ontario · Junction Area · Ward 5, York South-Weston

In the Junction Area, Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes is a low-volume local intersection. It has parks at the corner. Nearby: 14 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
683
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 13, 2003
19 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
5
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 5 property damage · #5086 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
1 streetcar route · 9 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 16 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 90 vehicles an hour, 7% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 36 vehicles, well below the typical 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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Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
512 nearest 523 m
TTC bus
189717940304189171161 nearest 199 m
Express
941989
Blue Night
340341
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Symes Rd / Glen Scarlett Rd - SMART 150 m · 16 docks · 9 stations, 160 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 (19)
  • Iqra Nejashi Islamic SchoolPrivate · 339 m
  • Harwood Public SchoolEnglish Public · 458 m
  • Rockcliffe Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 872 m
  • St Oscar Romero Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 941 m
  • Frank Oke Secondary SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Santa Maria Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.1 km
  • and 13 more
Community centres
Parks (26)
  • Symes - Viella Parkette68 m
  • Henrietta Park238 m
  • Runnymede Park420 m
  • Maple Claire Park443 m
  • Gaffney Park500 m
  • Harwood Park509 m
  • and 20 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Daniel G. Hill (formely Jane/Dundas) branch1.3 km
  • Toronto Public Library Annette Street branch1.4 km
  • Toronto Public Library St. Clair/Silverthorn branch1.4 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 10 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores, and 150 eating places within a kilometre — 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is El Cheese, 68 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés10 within 300 m · 150 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 28 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
El Cheese · 100 Symes Rd 11268 mPassed, Jun 2026
Freshy Box · 100 Symes Rd 11268 mPassed, May 2026
Viola Food Co. · 100 Symes Rd, Unit-112-Sharedgrocery68 mPassed, Oct 2024
Brodo House · 100 Symes Rd Unit-112-Shared68 mPassed, Jun 2026
Hart & Ziel · 100 Symes Rd Unit-11268 mPassed, Apr 2026
Rain Hard Brewing Co. · 100 Symes Rd Unit-11168 mPassed, Mar 2026
Toben Food By Design · 150 Symes Rdgrocery133 mPassed, May 2026
Junction Craft Brewing · 150 Symes Rd133 mPassed, Jul 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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 224 m away at Henrietta Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Henrietta Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 224 m; Runnymede Park drinking fountain · 343 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

Two licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 108 spaces; one accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Kids & Company the Stockyards (732 m, 82 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km2 centres · 108 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 2
  • Kids & Company the Stockyards · 100 Weston Rd
    82 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    732 m
  • Romero Bears Child Care Centre · 99 Humber Blvd
    26 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    941 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 422 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 11 Division (1.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.2 km away.

FireFire Station 422 · 1.3 km590 Jane St
Police11 Division · 1.4 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 30 · 1.2 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

Nine registered apartment buildings with 1,106 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 23. The nearest is 270 Ryding Ave (386 m, 16 units, 3 storeys, built 1958), which scored 80 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 11 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 5 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings9 · 1,106 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202611 across the 9
Open fire-code violations5
Tallest16 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
270 Ryding Ave163195880 · Aug 20261386 m
8 Castleton Ave · Orchard Park Property Management173196595 · Aug 20260717 m
121 Humber BlvdToronto Community Housing · TCH21514196891 · Aug 20262 · 2 fire762 m
283 Gilmour Ave · 1066362 Ontario Ltd O/A Lyve Properties355196590 · Aug 20260767 m
3385 Dundas St W · Realstar1317202197 · Aug 20244873 m
101 Humber BlvdToronto Community Housing · TCH24614196991 · Aug 20261908 m
340 High Park Ave103194088 · Aug 20260 · 2 fire1 km
1500 Keele Stsocial housing · Self Managed13211199695 · Nov 202531 km

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 lots641 lots · ≈35,420 spaces · 106.3 ha
Within 500 m50 lots · ≈4,930 spaces
Green P (public)9 car parks · about 300 spaces
EV charging (City)535 Runnymeade Rd · 1.2 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
3354 Dundas St W · Surface767 m1199% (Q1 2026)
1A Mould Avenue · Surface803 m7 *
385 Pacific Ave · Surface1.2 km6773% (Q1 2026)
400 Keele St · Surface1.3 km3580% (Q1 2026)
351 Keele St · Surface1.4 km7270% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 28 m away, ≈62 spaces; 40 m away, ≈4 spaces; 68 m away, ≈43 spaces; 144 m away, ≈186 spaces; 156 m away, ≈52 spaces; 176 m away, ≈960 spaces. More EV charging: 64 Annette St (1.6 km, 2 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, Nov 13, 2003

Traffic is spread evenly across the approaches, from 306 vehicles entering from the south to 377 from the north. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 128 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 32% above the morning peak from 7:45 a.m. (97). Trucks and buses were 17.7% 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 23 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2003, 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 north377southbound · 0 bikes · 19.1% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles68319 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 17.7% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south306northbound · 0 bikes · 16.0% heavy
AM peak hour97 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour128 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 13, 2003

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 Symes Rd between St Clair Ave W and Lane N of St Clair and E of Symes (181 m away) recorded an average of 25 km/h in its 3-day count in October 2023; 85% of drivers were at or under 34 km/h. That segment carries about 1,200 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on McCormack St (386 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
Symes Rd · St Clair Ave W – Lane N of St Clair and E of Symes · 181 mOct 2023 · 3 days1,20725 km/h34 km/h38 km/h

School-zone speed sign 386 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 1 collision. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 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 Apr 13, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions5#5086 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only5
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 20146latest Apr 13, 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 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 vehicle310street/outdoor (2), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Mar 25, 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 Junction Area.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes 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 Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Nov 13, 2003, 7% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Symes Rd between St Clair Ave W and Lane N of St Clair and E of Symes (October 2023), found an average of 25 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 34 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 386 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 Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes?

The nearest Green P car park is 3354 Dundas St W (767 m away, 11 spaces, 99% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 641 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 35,420 spaces — 50 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 535 Runnymeade Rd (1.2 km).

How do I get to Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes by transit?

Streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 523 m away; bus routes 189, 71, 79, 40, 30, 41, 89, 171 and 3 more within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes?

10 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 150 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are El Cheese (68 m), Freshy Box (68 m), Brodo House (68 m), Hart & Ziel (68 m) and Rain Hard Brewing Co. (68 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 Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 224 m away at Henrietta Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes?

Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 108 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Kids & Company the Stockyards (732 m, 82 spaces) and Romero Bears Child Care Centre (941 m, 26 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes?

Nine RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,106 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 270 Ryding Ave (386 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 80), 8 Castleton Ave (717 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 121 Humber Blvd (762 m, 215 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 283 Gilmour Ave (767 m, 35 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 9 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 Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes?

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 Junction Area page.

What neighbourhood is Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes in?

Symes Rd & Lane N of Viella and E of Symes & Lane N of St Clair and W of Symes is in Junction Area (City of Toronto neighbourhood 090). It is in Ward 5, York South-Weston, represented by Councillor Frances Nunziata.

Sources

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