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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · 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 16,177 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.
Peak hours: 142 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 120 from 4:30 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).
Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m
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. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jul 21, 2026.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 10 | |
| With an injury | 1 | |
| Property damage only | 7 | |
| Fail to remain | 4 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 1 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 2 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 1 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.
How fast traffic moves here
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 22,103 vehicles logged in August 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 segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulster St · Lane W of Bathurst and S of Ulster – Markham St · 389 m | Nov 2001 · 4 days | 1,589 | 30 km/h | 37 km/h | 40 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Lippincott St (southbound), 237 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 19 km/h, 85th percentile 26 km/h; 0.1% at 40 km/h or more. 22,103 vehicles logged in August 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; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Subway
- Spadina Station (Line 2)878 m · 10 min; Bathurst Station (Line 2)919 m · 11 min
- Streetcar
- 511 506 510 nearest 317 m · 4 min
- TTC bus
- 94 7 nearest 205 m
- Blue Night
- 306 310 307 300
- 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
- Ulster St / Bathurst St 311 m · 4 min · 11 docks · 23 stations, 436 docks within 1 km
Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- 19 car parks · about 1,997 spaces
- EV charging
- 365 Lippincott St. · 820 m · 10 Level 2 ports; also 19 Spadina Rd (1.1 km), 74 Clinton Street (1.2 km)
- Bike parking
- 24 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 34 mapped lots within 500 m, 665 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 292 Brunswick Avenue · Surface | 597 m | 19 * | — |
| 35 Bellevue Avenue · Surface | 778 m | 91 * | — |
| 365 Lippincott St · Surface | 799 m | 136 | 54% (Q1 2026) |
| 4 Spadina Road · Surface | 934 m | 51 * | — |
| 20 St Andrew St · Garage | 1 km | 417 | 27% (Q1 2026) |
Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.
Within a walk
What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.
Food, shops and services
The nearest grocery store is T&t Supermarket, 620 m away; 5 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. There are 7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 360 eating places within a kilometre — 8.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Matha Roti - East Indian Cuisine, 216 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Augusta Central Pharmacy, 391 m away; 12 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Kensington Eye Institute, 447 m away, then Toronto Western Hospital at 1.1 km. For seniors' housing: The Kensington Gardens, a long-term care home 415 m away. Second Mile Club - Kensington Gardens Senior Recreation Centre runs a seniors' active living programme 415 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Matha Roti - East Indian Cuisine · 141 Harbord St216 m
- Blondies Pizza · 147 Harbord St232 m
- Emmer · 161 Harbord St250 m · 3 min
- The Original Pizza Gigi · 249 Lippincott St251 m · 3 min
- The Nice Slice · 196 Borden St295 m · 4 min
- Grocery
- T&t Supermarket 620 m · 7 min · 5 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Harbord Bakery 306 m · 4 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Augusta Central Pharmacy 391 m · 5 min · 12 within 1 km
- Child care
- The Neighbourhood Group King Edward Child Care · 105 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day428 m · 5 min
- Kodomoen Childcare Centre · 24 spaces, preschool · $10-a-day520 m · 6 min
- Westside Montessori School · 73 spaces, toddler, preschool522 m · 6 min
- Washrooms
- Bellevue Square Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.905 m · 11 min
- Health and care
- Kensington Eye Institute · hospital site447 m · 5 min
- Toronto Western Hospital · hospital site1.1 km · 13 min
- The Kensington Gardens · long-term care home415 m · 5 min
- Second Mile Club - Kensington Gardens Senior Recreation Centre · seniors' active living centre415 m · 5 min
Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.
Parks, schools and places
- Parks (28)
- Margaret Fairley Park58 m
- Sally Bird Park308 m · 4 min
- The Doctors' Parkette362 m · 4 min
- Sonya's Park674 m · 8 min
- Healey Willan Park684 m · 8 min
- Community centres
- Scadding Court Community Centre1.2 km · 14 min
- Native Youth Resource Centre1.3 km · 16 min
- Schools (33)
- King Edward Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Separate · 428 m · 5 min
- Central Technical SchoolEnglish Public · 490 m · 6 min
- Westside Montessori Elementary SchoolPrivate · 522 m · 6 min
- Kensington Community SchoolEnglish Public · 585 m · 7 min
- Lord Lansdowne Jr Sr & Da VinciEnglish Public · 669 m · 8 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Lillian H. Smith branch870 m · 10 min
- Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch1.1 km · 13 min
- Places of interest
- Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 508 m · 6 min
- Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 781 m · 9 min
- Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 929 m · 11 min
- George Ignatieff TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.1 km · 13 min
Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #1,790 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
24 registered apartment buildings with 1,770 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 153 Borden St (277 m, 45 units, 3 storeys, built 1987), which scored 74 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 153 Borden St social housing · Neighbours Community Homes | 45 | 3 | 1987 | 74 · Sep 2025 | 277 m · 3 min |
| 99 Bellevue Ave · Fv Property Management | 16 | 4 | 1988 | 72 · Jul 2026 | 444 m · 5 min |
| 378 Markham St · Berkley Property Management Inc | 17 | 4 | 1900 | 95 · Jul 2026 | 571 m · 7 min |
| 87 Bellevue Ave social housing · Homes First Society | 28 | 3 | 1885 | 76 · Sep 2025 | 587 m · 7 min |
| 88 Oxford St · Turtledove Management | 11 | 4 | 1895 | 75 · Jul 2026 | 607 m · 7 min |
| 686 Bathurst St · Stein & Regency Construction Management Co. | 24 | 4 | 1947 | 93 · Dec 2025 | 608 m · 7 min |
24 registered buildings · 1,770 units · 4 social housing · tallest 24 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.
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
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 7 | 2 | 0 | street/outdoor (6), house driveway/garage (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 5 | 0 | 0 | house driveway/garage (2), apartment parking (2) |
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 at the City's last count here, in 2006. Its latest count is from Aug 22, 2006, 10% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Ulster & Brunswick a walkable intersection?
Ulster & Brunswick scores 58 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,790 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 2 schools within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 3 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 1.2 km; Spadina Station 0.9 km · 2 stops within 300 m · 11 routes within 1 km. The crossing itself: traffic calming.
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 August 2026.
Where can I park near Ulster & Brunswick?
The nearest Green P car park is 292 Brunswick Avenue (597 m away, 19 spaces). The City's mapping shows 665 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,820 spaces — 34 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 365 Lippincott St. (820 m).
How do I get to Ulster & Brunswick by transit?
Spadina Station (Line 2) is 878 m away; streetcar routes 511, 506, 510 stop within 1 km, the nearest 317 m away; bus routes 94, 7 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Ulster & Brunswick?
7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 360 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Matha Roti - East Indian Cuisine (216 m), Blondies Pizza (232 m), Emmer (250 m), The Original Pizza Gigi (251 m) and The Nice Slice (295 m). 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, 905 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.).
Is there child care near Ulster & Brunswick?
12 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,074 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 (428 m, 105 spaces), Kodomoen Childcare Centre (520 m, 24 spaces) and Westside Montessori School (522 m, 73 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Ulster & Brunswick?
24 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,770 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 153 Borden St (277 m, 45 units, RentSafeTO score 74), 99 Bellevue Ave (444 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 72), 378 Markham St (571 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 95) and 87 Bellevue Ave (587 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 76). The average RentSafeTO score across the 24 is 86 out of 100.
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. 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
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Aug 22, 2006.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary); Traffic Calming Database.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 11 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.66055, -79.40531 · centreline node 13465084.