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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 · Nov 1, 2018
This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The south leg carries the load — 4,909 northbound vehicles, or 50% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 79. Morning rush is the busier period: 1,606 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:30 a.m., compared with 1,361 from 4:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 8 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2018, 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: 1,606 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 1,361 from 4:00 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
2024 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 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 May 28, 2026.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 2 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 2 | |
| Fail to remain | 0 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| 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 Verbena Ave between Armadale Ave and South Kingsway (92 m away) recorded an average of 32 km/h in its 3-day count in January 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 40 km/h. That segment carries about 300 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Jane St (389 m away, 30 km/h limit), 1.2% of the 7,769 vehicles logged in July 2025 were doing 40 km/h or more — a small minority.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verbena Ave · Armadale Ave – South Kingsway · 92 m | Jan 2025 · 3 days | 277 | 32 km/h | 40 km/h | 45 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Jane St (northbound), 389 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 23 km/h, 85th percentile 34 km/h; 1.2% at 40 km/h or more. 7,769 vehicles logged in July 2025; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
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
- Jane Station (Line 2)439 m · 5 min; Old Mill Station (Line 2)1 km · 11 min
- TTC bus
- 149 55 26 27 77 nearest 274 m · 3 min
- Express
- 935
- Blue Night
- 300 335
- Nearest stops
- 2 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- 16 Riverview Gardens 363 m · 4 min · 31 docks · 8 stations, 186 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
- 7 car parks · about 631 spaces
- EV charging
- 265 Armadale Ave · 613 m · 8 Level 2 + 1 fast ports; also 8 Kings Lynn Rd (1.8 km)
- Bike parking
- 2 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 24 mapped lots within 500 m, 189 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Riverview Gdns · Surface | 349 m | 95 | 52% (Q1 2026) |
| 16 Riverview Gdns · Surface | 356 m | 59 | 38% (Q1 2026) |
| 265 Armadale Ave · Surface | 528 m | 144 | 58% (Q1 2026) |
| 265 Willard Ave · Surface | 613 m | 90 | 53% (Q1 2026) |
| 265 Durie St · Surface | 830 m | 144 | 70% (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 Carload Food Market, 646 m away; 2 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. For everything else there is one convenience store or gas bar within 300 m. There is 1 restaurant, café or takeout within 300 m, and 46 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 221 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Action Pharmacy, 467 m away; 3 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. Ukrainian Canadian Social Services (Toronto Inc.) runs a seniors' active living programme 331 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Tim Hortons · 2485 Bloor St W221 m
- Bryden's · 2455 Bloor St W337 m · 4 min
- Pizza Pizza · 2449 Bloor St W345 m · 4 min
- Tahini's · 2434 Bloor St W425 m · 5 min
- The Creative Nest · 12 Jane St A433 m · 5 min
- Grocery
- Carload Food Market 646 m · 8 min · 2 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Veronika's Pastry Studio 309 m · 4 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- Action Pharmacy 467 m · 6 min · 3 within 1 km
- Child care
- Windermere Kids Inc. · 73 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool471 m · 6 min
- PLASP St. Pius X Catholic School · 43 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day623 m · 7 min
- Simplysmart Childcare Centre & Montessori · 142 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day833 m · 10 min
- Washrooms
- Swansea Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed820 m · 10 min
- Health and care
- Ukrainian Canadian Social Services (Toronto Inc.) · seniors' active living centre331 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 (22)
- Sunnybrook Parkette210 m
- Willard Gardens Parkette438 m · 5 min
- Traymore Park518 m · 6 min
- Waller Avenue Ravine Lands546 m · 7 min
- Rambert Crescent Parkette645 m · 8 min
- Community centres
- Swansea Community Recreation Centre820 m · 10 min
- Schools (6)
- Blyth Academy School - EtobicokePrivate · 358 m · 4 min
- St Pius X Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 623 m · 7 min
- Erudite Elementary SchoolPrivate · 661 m · 8 min
- Swansea Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 851 m · 10 min
- Humberside Montessori SchoolPrivate · 1.2 km · 14 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Swansea Memorial branch751 m · 9 min
- Toronto Public Library Runnymede branch1.2 km · 15 min
- Places of interest
- The Village PlayersPerforming Arts · 1.2 km · 14 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.
Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. 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
14 registered apartment buildings with 374 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2407 Bloor St W (442 m, 12 units, 3 storeys, built 1920), which scored 95 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2407 Bloor St W | 12 | 3 | 1920 | 95 · Nov 2025 | 442 m · 5 min |
| 23 Jane St | 18 | 3 | 1955 | 86 · Jul 2025 | 498 m · 6 min |
| 29 Jane St · Biddington Property Managment Corp | 18 | 3 | 1910 | 96 · Nov 2025 | 515 m · 6 min |
| 35 Jane St · Biddington Property Managment Corp | 18 | 3 | 1910 | 92 · Aug 2026 | 518 m · 6 min |
| 7 Brule Ter · 17a Properties | 15 | 3 | 1935 | 86 · Jul 2025 | 523 m · 6 min |
| 2526 Bloor St W · Nil | 19 | 4 | 1935 | 81 · Aug 2026 | 573 m · 7 min |
14 registered buildings · 374 units · 2 social housing · tallest 5 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 one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 1 | 0 | 0 | house driveway/garage (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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 High Park-Swansea.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Verbena Ave & South Kingsway a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 2 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 Verbena Ave & South Kingsway?
A moderately heavy crossing at the City's last count here, in 2018. Its latest count is from Nov 1, 2018, about today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Verbena Ave & South Kingsway a walkable intersection?
Verbena Ave & South Kingsway scores 47 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; 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: 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; Jane Station 0.4 km · 2 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km; 2 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 0.8 km.
How fast do cars go at Verbena Ave & South Kingsway?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Verbena Ave between Armadale Ave and South Kingsway (January 2025), found an average of 32 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 389 m away (30 km/h), 1.2% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2025.
Where can I park near Verbena Ave & South Kingsway?
The nearest Green P car park is 17 Riverview Gdns (349 m away, 95 spaces, 52% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 189 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 5,190 spaces — 24 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 265 Armadale Ave (613 m).
How do I get to Verbena Ave & South Kingsway by transit?
Jane Station (Line 2) is 439 m away; bus routes 149, 55, 26, 27, 77, 935 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Verbena Ave & South Kingsway?
1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 46 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Tim Hortons (221 m), Bryden's (337 m), Pizza Pizza (345 m), Tahini's (425 m) and The Creative Nest (433 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Verbena Ave & South Kingsway?
The nearest is Swansea Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 15 Waller Ave, 820 m away.
Is there child care near Verbena Ave & South Kingsway?
Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 531 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Windermere Kids Inc. (471 m, 73 spaces), PLASP St. Pius X Catholic School (623 m, 43 spaces) and Simplysmart Childcare Centre & Montessori (833 m, 142 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Verbena Ave & South Kingsway?
14 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 374 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2407 Bloor St W (442 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 23 Jane St (498 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 29 Jane St (515 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 35 Jane St (518 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 14 is 92 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Verbena Ave & South Kingsway?
Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the High Park-Swansea page.
What neighbourhood is Verbena Ave & South Kingsway in?
Verbena Ave & South Kingsway is in High Park-Swansea (City of Toronto neighbourhood 087). It is in Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, represented by Councillor Gord Perks.
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 Nov 1, 2018.
- 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).
- 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 4 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: 43.64669, -79.48398 · centreline node 13467510.