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Weston & Dora Spencer

Weston Rd & Dora Spencer Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Mount Dennis · Ward 5, York South-Weston

Weston & Dora Spencer is an intersection of typical volume. It sits in Mount Dennis. Nearby is 14 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
7,093
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 19, 2019
294 pedestrians · 60 cyclists
Collisions
17
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
7 with an injury · 9 property damage · #3663 of 5,508 · +4 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 1 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #1450 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
10 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 890 vehicles an hour, 77% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 24 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. On average 1.7 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Just one of those 17 collisions left someone killed or seriously injured.

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Weston & Dora Spencer

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
89357340571158171322779 nearest 35 m
Express
989935
Blue Night
335334
Nearest stops
12 surface stops within 300 m — Weston Rd at Dora Spencer Rd North Side; Weston Rd at Dora Spencer Rd
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Jane St / Weston Rd 120 m · 15 docks · 3 stations, 53 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 (11)
  • Bala Avenue Community SchoolEnglish Public · 418 m
  • York Humber High SchoolEnglish Public · 474 m
  • Portage Trail CommunityschoolEnglish Public · 563 m
  • Darul Arqam Islamic Academy SchoolPrivate · 948 m
  • St Bernard Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.2 km
  • Roselands Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • and 5 more
Community centres
Parks (22)
  • Portage Gardens Park502 m
  • Trethewey Park West657 m
  • Fergy Brown Park734 m
  • Denison Park753 m
  • Canadian Ukrainian Memorial Park786 m
  • James Trimbee Park820 m
  • and 16 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Mount Dennis branch1.3 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner, though there is 1 grocery or convenience store; 37 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Top Chef Ja Cuisine, 305 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 37 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 12 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
7-Eleven · 1390 Weston Rdgrocery163 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Jola African Food Market · 1366 Weston Rd Unit-2grocery305 mPassed, May 2026
Top Chef Ja Cuisine · 1366 Weston Rd Unit-1305 mPassed, Feb 2026
Pistacchio · 1362 Weston Rd B315 mPassed, Dec 2025
Irving Tissue · 1551 Weston Rd324 mPassed, May 2025
Irving Tissue · 1551 Weston Rd324 mPassed, Jul 2026
Jerk Jerks · 1356 Weston Rd336 mPassed, Jun 2024 · 9 infractions
Simply Chops - Suya City · 1354 Weston Rd362 mPassed, Mar 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 Fergy Brown Park Washroom, 700 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible.

  • Fergy Brown Park Washroom · 3700 Eglinton Ave W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    700 m
  • Eglinton Flats Northwest Service Building Washroom · 101 Emmett Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    718 m
  • Eglinton Flats Northwest Sports Pavilion Washroom · 101 Emmett Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    720 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

Eight licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 507 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Jubilee Child Care Centre (383 m, 62 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km8 centres · 507 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 8
  • Jubilee Child Care Centre · 55 Emmett Ave
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    383 m
  • York Humber Child Care · 100 Emmett Ave
    41 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    474 m
  • Learning Jungle Buttonwood · 100 Sidney Belsey Cres
    88 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    563 m
  • Kiiwednong Aborginal Head Start · 1288 Weston Rd
    16 spaces · preschool
    666 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 442 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 12 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.2 km away.

FireFire Station 442 · 1.2 km2015 Lawrence Ave W
Police12 Division · 1.3 km200 Trethewey Drive
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 10 · 1.2 km2015 Lawrence Ave W

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

23 registered apartment buildings with 2,993 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, seven of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 12 Buttonwood Ave (115 m, 40 units, 4 storeys, built 1977), which scored 92 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 23 scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 117 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 18 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings23 · 2,993 units · 7 social housing
RentSafeTO score85 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026117 across the 23
Open fire-code violations18
Tallest24 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
12 Buttonwood Ave · Hannah Property Management Ltd.404197792 · Nov 20250115 m
200 Dora Spencer Rdsocial housing1259199293 · Aug 20262187 m
7 Edmund Ave · Trivest Developments Corporation686192890 · Nov 20251342 m
55 Emmett Ave · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.26723196879 · Nov 202524383 m
24 Pinehill Cres · La Valette Property Management294196972 · Jul 20265422 m
65 Emmett Ave · State Building Group41924197180 · Nov 202521490 m
333 Sidney Belsey Cres · Akelius Canada Ltd26412200892 · Aug 202414 · 12 fire499 m
80 Clouston Ave · Qhn Corporation173196888 · Aug 20264532 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 lots434 lots · ≈33,800 spaces · 101.4 ha
Within 500 m29 lots · ≈1,790 spaces
Green P (public)4 car parks · about 119 spaces
EV charging (City)1812 Weston Rd · 1.2 km · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1169 Weston Rd · Surface1.1 km3658% (Q1 2026)
4 Rosemount Avenue · Surface1.4 km34 *
271A Scarlett Rd · Surface1.6 km1117% (Q1 2026)
2700 Eglinton Avenue West · Surface1.9 km38 *

Nearest lots: 88 m away, ≈76 spaces; 116 m away, ≈25 spaces; 119 m away, ≈10 spaces; 156 m away, ≈15 spaces; 165 m away, ≈39 spaces; 188 m away, ≈6 spaces. More EV charging: 2000 Weston Rd (1.7 km, 1 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, Jun 19, 2019

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The north leg carries the load — 3,209 southbound vehicles, or 45% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 800. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,032 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m. and 1,065 from 5:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 13.3% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 7 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2019, 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 north3,209southbound · 29 bikes · 13.5% heavy
From the west800eastbound · 3 bikes · 8.1% heavy
Total vehicles7,093294 pedestrians · 60 cyclists · 13.3% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south3,084northbound · 28 bikes · 14.4% heavy
AM peak hour1,032 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour1,065 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jun 19, 2019

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 Weston Rd between Dora Spencer Rd and Sidney Belsey Cres (100 m away) recorded an average of 46 km/h in its 3-day count in February 2020; 85% of drivers were at or under 55 km/h. That segment carries about 15,300 vehicles a day. The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Weston Rd · Dora Spencer Rd – Sidney Belsey Cres · 100 mFeb 2020 · 3 days15,33746 km/h55 km/h61 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

2024 was the peak year (4 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 41% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 12% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 24% of collisions here. Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Mar 19, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions17#3663 of 5,508
With an injury7#2340 of 4,660
Property damage only9
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian4#1070 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)4
All since 201427latest Mar 19, 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

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. 1 pedestrian was among those hurt. It happened in darkness. The most recent was on Jan 11, 2020. Going back to 2006, the total is 2.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1450 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian1#843 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness1
All KSI since 20062latest Jan 11, 2020

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Weston & Dora Spencer a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1450 of 1,505), out of 17 reported collisions of any severity. 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 Weston & Dora Spencer?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Jun 19, 2019, 77% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Weston & Dora Spencer?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Weston Rd between Dora Spencer Rd and Sidney Belsey Cres (February 2020), found an average of 46 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 55 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Weston & Dora Spencer?

The nearest Green P car park is 1169 Weston Rd (1.1 km away, 36 spaces, 58% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 434 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 33,800 spaces — 29 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1812 Weston Rd (1.2 km).

How do I get to Weston & Dora Spencer by transit?

Bus routes 89, 35, 73, 405, 71, 158, 171, 32 and 4 more within 1 km (nearest stop: Weston Rd at Dora Spencer Rd North Side, 35 m).

What restaurants are near Weston & Dora Spencer?

None within 300 m, and 37 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Top Chef Ja Cuisine (305 m), Pistacchio (315 m), Irving Tissue (324 m), Irving Tissue (324 m) and Jerk Jerks (336 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 Weston & Dora Spencer?

The nearest is Fergy Brown Park Washroom, 3700 Eglinton Ave W, 700 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Eglinton Flats Northwest Service Building Washroom (718 m); Eglinton Flats Northwest Sports Pavilion Washroom (720 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 Weston & Dora Spencer?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 507 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Jubilee Child Care Centre (383 m, 62 spaces), York Humber Child Care (474 m, 41 spaces) and Learning Jungle Buttonwood (563 m, 88 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Weston & Dora Spencer?

23 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,993 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 12 Buttonwood Ave (115 m, 40 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 200 Dora Spencer Rd (187 m, 125 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 7 Edmund Ave (342 m, 68 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 55 Emmett Ave (383 m, 267 units, RentSafeTO score 79). The average RentSafeTO score across the 23 is 85 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.

What neighbourhood is Weston & Dora Spencer in?

Weston & Dora Spencer is in Mount Dennis (City of Toronto neighbourhood 115), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 5, York South-Weston, represented by Councillor Frances Nunziata.

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