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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 · Apr 20, 2005
Traffic is heaviest from the south: 484 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 66% of the total, against 251 from the north. Evening rush dominates here: 115 vehicles in the peak hour from 2:00 p.m., against 75 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 22 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2005, 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: 75 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 115 from 2:00 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
The worst year was 2023, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 1 collision (17%) involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 50% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (17%). The most recent report on file is from Dec 23, 2024.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 6 | |
| With an injury | 1 | |
| Property damage only | 4 | |
| Fail to remain | 3 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 1 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 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
On Major St between Louie Laki Lane and Ulster St, 25 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2014 put the average speed at 34 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 40 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 44 km/h or more. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. The reading is 12 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Robert St (300 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.4% of the 14,121 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none. 5 speed humps slow traffic on Major Street between College St and Ulster St.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major St · Louie Laki Lane – Ulster St · 25 m | Apr 2014 · 3 days | 552 | 34 km/h | 40 km/h | 44 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Robert St (northbound), 300 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 16 km/h, 85th percentile 27 km/h; 0.4% at 40 km/h or more. 14,121 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
- Traffic calming
- Major Street (College St – Ulster St): 5 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)781 m · 9 min
- Streetcar
- 506 511 510 nearest 396 m · 5 min
- TTC bus
- 94 127 nearest 293 m · 3 min
- Blue Night
- 306 310 307 300
- Nearest stops
- 1 surface stop within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- College St / Major St 385 m · 5 min · 15 docks · 26 stations, 497 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
- 22 car parks · about 2,208 spaces
- EV charging
- 365 Lippincott St. · 917 m · 10 Level 2 ports; also 19 Spadina Rd (1 km), 74 Clinton Street (1.2 km)
- Bike parking
- 19 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 28 bikes within 600 m
- Other lots
- 31 mapped lots within 500 m, 679 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 | 694 m | 19 * | — |
| 4 Spadina Road · Surface | 837 m | 51 * | — |
| 35 Bellevue Avenue · Surface | 875 m | 91 * | — |
| 365 Lippincott St · Surface | 896 m | 136 | 54% (Q1 2026) |
| 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
No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is T&t Supermarket, 523 m away. A specialist food shop is closer still: Harbord Bakery, 209 m away. Toronto Public Health inspects 9 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 361 — 8.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Alebrije, 204 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Raxlen Pharmacy, 443 m away; 12 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Kensington Eye Institute, 433 m away, then Toronto Western Hospital at 1.1 km. For seniors' housing: The Kensington Gardens, a long-term care home 318 m away. Second Mile Club - Kensington Gardens Senior Recreation Centre runs a seniors' active living programme 318 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Alebrije · 119 Harbord St204 m
- Musoshin Harbord · 130 Harbord St229 m
- The Harbord House · 124 Harbord St243 m
- Haku Izakaya · 168 Major St265 m · 3 min
- Parquet · 97 Harbord St280 m · 3 min
- Grocery
- T&t Supermarket 523 m · 6 min · 6 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Harbord Bakery 209 m · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 2 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- Raxlen Pharmacy 443 m · 5 min · 12 within 1 km
- Child care
- Kodomoen Childcare Centre · 24 spaces, preschool · $10-a-day423 m · 5 min
- The Neighbourhood Group King Edward Child Care · 105 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day525 m · 6 min
- The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care · 142 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day572 m · 7 min
- Washrooms
- Bellevue Square Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.867 m · 10 min
- Health and care
- Kensington Eye Institute · hospital site433 m · 5 min
- Toronto Western Hospital · hospital site1.1 km · 14 min
- The Kensington Gardens · long-term care home318 m · 4 min
- Second Mile Club - Kensington Gardens Senior Recreation Centre · seniors' active living centre318 m · 4 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 Park155 m
- Sally Bird Park405 m · 5 min
- The Doctors' Parkette459 m · 5 min
- Sonya's Park636 m · 8 min
- Joseph Burr Tyrrell Park756 m · 9 min
- Community centres
- Scadding Court Community Centre1.2 km · 14 min
- Native Youth Resource Centre1.4 km · 17 min
- Schools (36)
- King Edward Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Separate · 525 m · 6 min
- Lord Lansdowne Jr Sr & Da VinciEnglish Public · 572 m · 7 min
- Westside Montessori Elementary SchoolPrivate · 584 m · 7 min
- Central Technical SchoolEnglish Public · 587 m · 7 min
- Kensington Community SchoolEnglish Public · 682 m · 8 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Lillian H. Smith branch773 m · 9 min
- Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch1 km · 11 min
- Places of interest
- Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 411 m · 5 min
- Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 832 m · 10 min
- Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 878 m · 10 min
- George Ignatieff TheatrePerforming Arts · 1 km · 12 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 #1,943 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
Within a kilometre there are 28 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,011 rental units — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 153 Borden St (374 m, 45 units, 3 storeys, built 1987), which scored 74 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 28 scored below 70; the average is 87, 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 | 374 m · 4 min |
| 99 Bellevue Ave · Fv Property Management | 16 | 4 | 1988 | 72 · Jul 2026 | 540 m · 6 min |
| 666 Spadina Ave · Cromwell Management Inc. | 334 | 24 | 1971 | 94 · Aug 2024 | 568 m · 7 min |
| 484 Spadina Ave · Fitzrovia Real Estate Inc | 166 | 16 | 2021 | 99 · Jun 2024 | 602 m · 7 min |
| 710 Spadina Ave · Camden Property Management | 62 | 7 | 1959 | 87 · Aug 2025 | 622 m · 7 min |
| 87 Bellevue Ave social housing · Homes First Society | 28 | 3 | 1885 | 76 · Sep 2025 | 654 m · 8 min |
28 registered buildings · 2,011 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
Three thefts from vehicles and 14 bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 3 in 2023–2025, about 1.0 a year, against 2.0 a year before that. 64% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Jun 14, 2026.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 3 | 1 | 0 | house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 14 | 2 | 1 | house driveway/garage (9), other (3) |
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 & Major a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 6 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 & Major?
A lightly travelled intersection at the City's last count here, in 2005. Its latest count is from Apr 20, 2005, 8% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Ulster & Major a walkable intersection?
Ulster & Major scores 57 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,943 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: library 773 m away · 1 place of interest within 500 m; 3 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 1.2 km; 6 grocery stores within 1 km · 9 places to eat within 300 m. The crossing itself: traffic calming.
How fast do cars go at Ulster & Major?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Major St between Louie Laki Lane and Ulster St (April 2014), found an average of 34 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 40 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 300 m away (30 km/h), 0.4% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Ulster & Major?
The nearest Green P car park is 292 Brunswick Avenue (694 m away, 19 spaces). The City's mapping shows 679 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 14,280 spaces — 31 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 365 Lippincott St. (917 m).
How do I get to Ulster & Major by transit?
Spadina Station (Line 2) is 781 m away; streetcar routes 506, 511, 510 stop within 1 km, the nearest 396 m away; bus routes 94, 127 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Ulster & Major?
9 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 361 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Alebrije (204 m), Musoshin Harbord (229 m), The Harbord House (243 m), Haku Izakaya (265 m) and Parquet (280 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Ulster & Major?
The nearest is Bellevue Square Park Washroom, 5 Bellevue Ave, 867 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.).
Is there child care near Ulster & Major?
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 Kodomoen Childcare Centre (423 m, 24 spaces), The Neighbourhood Group King Edward Child Care (525 m, 105 spaces) and The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care (572 m, 142 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Ulster & Major?
28 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,011 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 153 Borden St (374 m, 45 units, RentSafeTO score 74), 99 Bellevue Ave (540 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 72), 666 Spadina Ave (568 m, 334 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 484 Spadina Ave (602 m, 166 units, RentSafeTO score 99). The average RentSafeTO score across the 28 is 87 out of 100; 1 scored below 70.
How many thefts are reported at Ulster & Major?
Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and 14 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the University page.
What neighbourhood is Ulster & Major in?
Ulster & Major 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 Apr 20, 2005.
- 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: 43.66078, -79.40415 · centreline node 13465047.