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Thirtieth & Lake Shore

Thirtieth St & Lake Shore Blvd W · Toronto, Ontario · Long Branch · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore · Long Branch BIA

Thirtieth & Lake Shore is a busier-than-typical intersection. It sits in Long Branch. At the corner: a bike lane, 2 schools within 250 m and parks. Nearby: 6 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
11,260
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 18, 2014
638 pedestrians · 4 cyclists
Collisions
128
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
26 with an injury · 87 property damage · #836 of 5,508 · +5 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
4
TTC stops within 100 m
1 streetcar route · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings), Bike Lane
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,410 vehicles, 1.22× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 18 vehicles, close to the citywide median. Police have logged an average of 13 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 4.1× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. Collisions edged up 6%, from 62 in 2016–2020 to 66 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Thirtieth & Lake Shore

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
507 nearest 19 m
TTC bus
110123 nearest 20 m
Blue Night
301345315
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m — Lake Shore Blvd West at Thirtieth St; Thirtieth St at Lake Shore Blvd West
Cycling
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Thirtieth St installed 2007; Bike Lane on Lake Shore Blvd W installed 2001
Bike Share
Lake Shore Blvd W / Long Branch Ave 344 m · 11 docks · 3 stations, 49 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 (10)
  • Penguin Private SchoolPrivate · 22 m
  • James S Bell Jr Mdl Sports and Wellness AcademyEnglish Public · 113 m
  • Vincent Massey AcademyPrivate · 300 m
  • St Leo Catholic School (Temporary Location)English Separate · 684 m
  • Humber College School - Lakeshore CampusCollege · 785 m
  • Twentieth Street Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 845 m
  • and 4 more
Parks (15)
  • Skeens Lane Parkette130 m
  • Syd Cole Park333 m
  • Birch Park447 m
  • Laburnham Park553 m
  • Long Branch Park & Cenotaph576 m
  • Twenty Eighth Street Park686 m
  • and 9 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Long Branch branch133 m
Places of interest
  • Marie Curtis Park East BeachNature/ Park · 1.4 km
Signal
0239, activated 1958 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval North/South

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 17 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 66. The nearest is 850 Degrees, 1 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés17 within 300 m · 66 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 11 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
850 Degrees · 3455 Lake Shore Blvd W1 mPassed, May 2026
Holy Cannoli · 1 Thirtieth St42 mPassed, Aug 2026
Sweet Stuff Inc · 3440 Lake Shore Blvd W46 mPassed, Jun 2026
Cake Star · 3431 Lake Shore Blvd W67 mPassed, May 2026
The Salvation Army Community Kitchen · 5 Thirtieth St69 mPassed, Jan 2026
Thrive Eatery · 3473 Lake Shore Blvd W70 mPassed, Nov 2025
Abanico Dance & Entertainment · 3473 Lake Shore Blvd W, Bsmt-A70 mPassed, Jun 2024
T.j. O'shea's Irish Snug · 3481 Lake Shore Blvd W78 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 2 infractions

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 Gus Ryder Pool and Health Club Washroom, 909 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 316 m away at Syd Cole Park.

  • Gus Ryder Pool and Health Club Washroom · 1 Faustina Dr
    View centre hours
    909 m
Drinking water
Syd Cole Park bottle filling station · 316 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 439 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Plasp James S Bell Junior Middle School (113 m, 58 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km7 centres · 439 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 7
  • Plasp James S Bell Junior Middle School · 90 Thirty First St
    58 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    113 m
  • Thomas Berry Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 3495 Lake Shore Blvd W
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    132 m
  • Vincent Massey Academy - (521909 Ontario Ltd.) · 68 Daisy Ave
    62 spaces · toddler, preschool
    300 m
  • Rec Room Child Care @ Long Branch · 69 Long Branch Ave
    124 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age
    347 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 434 (1.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.4 km away.

FireFire Station 434 · 1.4 km3 Lunness Rd
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 38 · 1.4 km259 Horner 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 26 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,022 rental units. The nearest is 15 Birchlea Ave (327 m, 14 units, 3 storeys, built 1950), which scored 78 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 38 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings26 · 1,022 units
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202638 across the 26
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest7 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
15 Birchlea Ave · Czapla Investments Ltd.143195078 · Jun 20240327 m
13 Birchlea Ave · Czapla Investments Ltd.143195080 · Jun 20240328 m
11 Birchlea Ave133195585 · Jul 20262329 m
9 Birchlea Ave133195590 · Aug 20264329 m
7 Birchlea Ave133195590 · Jul 20250330 m
5 Birchlea Ave133195590 · Jul 20253332 m
44 Arcadian Crcl133195794 · Sep 20240333 m
3 Birchlea Ave · Hd Property Management103195095 · Aug 20260334 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 lots546 lots · ≈37,990 spaces · 114 ha
Within 500 m99 lots · ≈1,790 spaces
Green P (public)4 car parks · about 344 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking12 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
3239-3243 Lake Shore Blvd W · Surface675 m2451% (Q1 2026)
5 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive · Surface753 m52 *
65 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive · Surface1.1 km210 *
128 Eight St · Surface2 km5821% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 43 m away, ≈10 spaces; 44 m away, ≈8 spaces; 52 m away, ≈19 spaces; 58 m away, ≈5 spaces; 61 m away, ≈9 spaces; 69 m away, ≈6 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 — 8-hour, Feb 18, 2014

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 5,194 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 46% of the total, against 978 from the north. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,768 vehicles in the hour from 7:30 a.m. and 1,684 from 4:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 6.2% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 13 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2014, 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 north978southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west5,088eastbound · 0 bikes · 6.1% heavy
Total vehicles11,260638 pedestrians · 4 cyclists · 6.2% heavy
From the east5,194westbound · 3 bikes · 7.6% heavy
From the south0northbound · 1 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour1,768 vehicles from 7:30 a.m.
PM peak hour1,684 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 18, 2014

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 Thirtieth St between Lake Shore Blvd W and Skeens Lane, 23 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2018 put the average speed at 45 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 53 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 58 km/h or more. That segment carries about 3,900 vehicles a day. The reading is 8 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Thirtieth St · Lake Shore Blvd W – Skeens Lane · 23 mMar 2018 · 3 days3,88945 km/h53 km/h58 km/h

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 2019, with 18 collisions; 2025 recorded 14. 26 collisions (20%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 18 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 14% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 12 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (9%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 5 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 8, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions128#836 of 5,508
With an injury26#622 of 4,660
Property damage only87
Fail to remain18
Involving a pedestrian8#354 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist4#624 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified15
Since January 2026 (outside the window)5
All since 2014141latest May 8, 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

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

One theft from a vehicle and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Apr 1, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100apartment parking (1)
Bicycle theft001

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 1, 2026. 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 Long Branch.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Thirtieth & Lake Shore a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 128 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 Thirtieth & Lake Shore?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from Feb 18, 2014, 1.22× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Thirtieth & Lake Shore?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Thirtieth St between Lake Shore Blvd W and Skeens Lane (March 2018), found an average of 45 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 53 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Thirtieth & Lake Shore?

The nearest Green P car park is 3239-3243 Lake Shore Blvd W (675 m away, 24 spaces, 51% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 546 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 37,990 spaces — 99 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Thirtieth & Lake Shore by transit?

Streetcar route 507 stop within 1 km, the nearest 19 m away; bus routes 110, 123 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lake Shore Blvd West at Thirtieth St, 20 m).

What restaurants are near Thirtieth & Lake Shore?

17 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 850 Degrees (1 m), Holy Cannoli (42 m), Sweet Stuff Inc (46 m), Cake Star (67 m) and The Salvation Army Community Kitchen (69 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 Thirtieth & Lake Shore?

The nearest is Gus Ryder Pool and Health Club Washroom, 1 Faustina Dr, 909 m away (View centre hours). 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 Thirtieth & Lake Shore?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 439 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Plasp James S Bell Junior Middle School (113 m, 58 spaces), Thomas Berry Early Learning & Child Care Centre (132 m, 62 spaces) and Vincent Massey Academy - (521909 Ontario Ltd.) (300 m, 62 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Thirtieth & Lake Shore?

26 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,022 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 15 Birchlea Ave (327 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 78), 13 Birchlea Ave (328 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 80), 11 Birchlea Ave (329 m, 13 units, RentSafeTO score 85) and 9 Birchlea Ave (329 m, 13 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 26 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 Thirtieth & Lake Shore?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. 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 Long Branch page.

What neighbourhood is Thirtieth & Lake Shore in?

Thirtieth & Lake Shore is in Long Branch (City of Toronto neighbourhood 019). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley. The corner falls inside the Long Branch Business Improvement Area.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined