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Ulster & Brunswick

Ulster St & Brunswick Ave · Toronto, Ontario · University · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

Ulster & Brunswick is a quiet local crossing, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It sits in University, in central Toronto. It has a bike lane and a park at the corner. Nearby: Spadina Station (Line 1, Line 2) 712 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
915
vehicles · 8-hour count, Aug 22, 2006
443 pedestrians · 347 cyclists
Collisions
10
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 7 property damage · #4267 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
Spadina Station 712 m · 4 streetcar routes · 3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 110 vehicles an hour, 10% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 2.1 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 37.9% of vehicle volume, about 49× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 1 collision 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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Ulster & Brunswick

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Spadina Station (Line 1, Line 2)712 m; Bathurst Station (Line 2)735 m; St George Station (Line 1, Line 2)1 km
Streetcar
506511510505 nearest 302 m
TTC bus
941277 nearest 193 m
Blue Night
306310305307300
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Brunswick Ave installed 2021; Bike Lane - Contraflow on Ulster St installed 2020
Bike Share
Central Tech (Harbord St) 261 m · 11 docks · 42 stations, 840 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 (52)
  • King Edward Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Separate · 307 m
  • Lord Lansdowne Jr Sr & Da VinciEnglish Public · 326 m
  • Central Technical SchoolEnglish Public · 362 m
  • Kensington Community SchoolEnglish Public · 463 m
  • Westside Montessori Elementary SchoolPrivate · 471 m
  • City As School TorontoPrivate · 530 m
  • and 46 more
Parks (34)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Lillian H. Smith branch626 m
  • Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch793 m
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch872 m
Places of interest
  • Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 303 m
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 563 m
  • Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 661 m
  • Art Museum at the University of TorontoGallery · 819 m
  • Bata Shoe MuseumMuseum · 855 m
  • George Ignatieff TheatrePerforming Arts · 862 m
  • Hart House TheatrePerforming Arts · 1 km
  • Koerner Hall (at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning)Performing Arts · 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 27 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores, and 364 eating places within a kilometre — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Pedaal Inc, 190 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés27 within 300 m · 364 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 36 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Pedaal Inc · 168 Brunswick Ave190 mPassed, Jun 2026
Matha Roti - East Indian Cuisine · 141 Harbord St191 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 3 infractions
Blondies Pizza · 147 Harbord St192 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Emmer · 161 Harbord St206 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Kensington Hospice · 38 Major St Bldg-O211 mPassed, Sep 2026
Kensington Hospice · 45 Brunswick Ave212 mPassed, Sep 2026
The Original Pizza Gigi · 249 Lippincott St214 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
The Nice Slice · 196 Borden St218 mPassed, Jun 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 Bellevue Square Park Washroom, 815 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 283 m away at Sally Bird Park.

  • Bellevue Square Park Washroom · 5 Bellevue Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    815 m
Drinking water
Sally Bird Park drinking fountain · 283 m; The Doctors' Parkette bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 360 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

14 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,281 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is The Neighbourhood Group King Edward Child Care (307 m, 105 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km14 centres · 1,281 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 14
  • The Neighbourhood Group King Edward Child Care · 112 Lippincott St
    105 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    307 m
  • Kodomoen Childcare Centre · 630 Spadina Ave
    24 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    323 m
  • The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care · 33 Robert St
    142 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    326 m
  • Kensington Kids Early Learning Centre · 401 College St
    99 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    463 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 315 (417 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (1.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 880 m away.

FireFire Station 315 · 417 m132 Bellevue Ave
Police52 Division · 1.4 km255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 34 · 880 m674 Markham St

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

47 registered apartment buildings with 3,246 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, eight of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 153 Borden St (230 m, 45 units, 3 storeys, built 1987), which scored 74 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 47 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 45 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 27 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings47 · 3,246 units · 8 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202645 across the 47
Open fire-code violations27
Tallest24 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
153 Borden Stsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes453198774 · Sep 20252230 m
666 Spadina Ave · Cromwell Management Inc.33424197194 · Aug 20244424 m
686 Bathurst St · Stein & Regency Construction Management Co.244194793 · Dec 20250435 m
99 Bellevue Ave · Fv Property Management164198872 · Jul 20260444 m
484 Spadina Ave · Fitzrovia Real Estate Inc16616202199 · Jun 20240 · 1 fire445 m
378 Markham St · Berkley Property Management Inc174190095 · Jul 20260466 m
34 Oxford StToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1895197989 · Aug 20250495 m
87 Bellevue Avesocial housing · Homes First Society283188576 · Sep 20250505 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 lots1,025 lots · ≈24,460 spaces · 73.4 ha
Within 500 m70 lots · ≈980 spaces
Green P (public)32 car parks · about 4,923 spaces
EV charging (City)365 Lippincott St. · 639 m · 10 Level 2 ports
Bike parking48 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 78 bikes within 600 m · City Hall - Nathan Phillips Square bike station (1.9 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
292 Brunswick Avenue · Surface567 m19 *
365 Lippincott St · Surface611 m13654% (Q1 2026)
4 Spadina Road · Surface710 m51 *
35 Bellevue Avenue · Surface729 m91 *
9 Madison Ave. · Surface805 m38 *

Nearest lots: 188 m away, ≈5 spaces; 190 m away, ≈12 spaces; 191 m away, ≈7 spaces; 216 m away, ≈4 spaces; 231 m away, ≈2 spaces; 233 m away, ≈5 spaces. More EV charging: 19 Spadina Rd (816 m, 6 ports); 74 Clinton Street (888 m, 4 ports); 705 Shaw St (1.4 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, Aug 22, 2006

The east leg carries the load — 523 westbound vehicles, or 57% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 392. Morning rush is the busier period: 142 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:00 a.m., compared with 120 from 4:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 0.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 20 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2006, 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 north0southbound · 68 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west392eastbound · 119 bikes · 0.5% heavy
Total vehicles915443 pedestrians · 347 cyclists · 0.5% heavy
From the east523westbound · 88 bikes · 0.6% heavy
From the south0northbound · 72 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour142 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour120 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · Aug 22, 2006

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 Ulster St between Lane W of Bathurst and S of Ulster and Markham St (389 m away) recorded an average of 30 km/h in its 4-day count in November 2001; 85% of drivers were at or under 37 km/h. That segment carries about 1,600 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 Lippincott St (237 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.1% of the 23,363 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none. 6 speed humps slow traffic on Brunswick Avenue between College St and Ulster St.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Ulster St · Lane W of Bathurst and S of Ulster – Markham St · 389 mNov 2001 · 4 days1,58930 km/h37 km/h40 km/h

School-zone speed sign 237 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct19 · 27 km/h
Over the limit1.1%
40 km/h or more0.1%

Lippincott St (southbound), Opp 151, Lippincott Street · 23,363 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Brunswick Avenue · College St – Ulster St
    6 speed humps

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

2022 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 10% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 40% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 10% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Jun 25, 2022.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions10#4267 of 5,508
With an injury1#4134 of 4,660
Property damage only7
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian1#2291 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 201413latest Jun 25, 2022

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 seven thefts from vehicles and five bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 2 in 2023–2025, about 0.7 a year, against 1.4 a year before that. 86% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 40% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle720street/outdoor (6), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft500house driveway/garage (2), apartment parking (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 10, 2024. 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 University.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Ulster & Brunswick a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 10 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 Ulster & Brunswick?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Aug 22, 2006, 10% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Ulster & Brunswick?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Ulster St between Lane W of Bathurst and S of Ulster and Markham St (November 2001), found an average of 30 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 37 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 237 m away (30 km/h), 0.1% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Ulster & Brunswick?

The nearest Green P car park is 292 Brunswick Avenue (567 m away, 19 spaces). The City's mapping shows 1,025 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 24,460 spaces — 70 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 365 Lippincott St. (639 m).

How do I get to Ulster & Brunswick by transit?

Spadina Station (Line 1, Line 2) is 712 m away; streetcar routes 506, 511, 510, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 302 m away; bus routes 94, 127, 7 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Ulster & Brunswick?

27 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 364 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Pedaal Inc (190 m), Matha Roti - East Indian Cuisine (191 m), Blondies Pizza (192 m), Emmer (206 m) and Kensington Hospice (211 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 Ulster & Brunswick?

The nearest is Bellevue Square Park Washroom, 5 Bellevue Ave, 815 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.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 Ulster & Brunswick?

14 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,281 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Neighbourhood Group King Edward Child Care (307 m, 105 spaces), Kodomoen Childcare Centre (323 m, 24 spaces) and The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care (326 m, 142 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Ulster & Brunswick?

47 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,246 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 153 Borden St (230 m, 45 units, RentSafeTO score 74), 666 Spadina Ave (424 m, 334 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 686 Bathurst St (435 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 93) and 99 Bellevue Ave (444 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 72). The average RentSafeTO score across the 47 is 88 out of 100; 1 scored below 70. 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 Ulster & Brunswick?

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and five 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 University page.

What neighbourhood is Ulster & Brunswick in?

Ulster & Brunswick is in University (City of Toronto neighbourhood 079). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.

Sources

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