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Willowdale & Abitibi

Willowdale Ave & Abitibi Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Newtonbrook East · Ward 18, Willowdale

In Newtonbrook East, Willowdale & Abitibi is a mid-volume intersection. At the corner: an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 8 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
6,104
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 7, 2021
77 pedestrians · 5 cyclists
Collisions
17
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 13 property damage · #3664 of 5,508
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 0 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #1458 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 760 vehicles, 66% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 79 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 1.7 reported collisions a year, 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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Willowdale & Abitibi

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
GO bus 32 Brampton Trinity Common / North York at Yonge St. @ Steeles Ave. W.519 m
TTC bus
98539760 nearest 16 m
Express
953960
Blue Night
353320
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — Willowdale Ave at Abitibi Ave; Willowdale Ave at Abitibi Ave North Side
Regional
York Region Transit 002 Milliken005 Clark023 Thornhill Woods077 Highway 7088 Bathurst091 Bayview098|099 Yonge (Late Night)099 Yonge360 Vaughan Mills / Wonderlandblue B Viva Blue Bblue Viva Blue at Steeles Av / Willowdale Av184 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
no station 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 (12)
  • Lillian Public SchoolEnglish Public · 273 m
  • Centrepoint LINCEnglish Public · 717 m
  • Alpha Quality Education SchoolPrivate · 782 m
  • St Agnes Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 904 m
  • Brebeuf College SchoolEnglish Separate · 942 m
  • Alborz Education CentrePrivate · 1 km
  • and 6 more
Community centres
Parks (12)
  • Lillian Park469 m
  • Centre Park734 m
  • Aneta Circle Parkette821 m
  • Caswell Park925 m
  • Wedgewood Park - North York1 km
  • Goulding Park1 km
  • and 6 more
Signal
2164, activated 2009 · SA2 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

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; 67 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Bamaze, 446 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2025.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 67 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 11 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bamaze · 6353 Yonge St446 mPassed, May 2025
Starbucks · 6355 Yonge St460 mPassed, Oct 2025 · 1 infraction
Gwangjang Market · 6347 Yonge Stgrocery460 mPassed, Jun 2026
Tazza · 6347 Yonge St460 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
Starbucks · 6355 Yonge St461 mPassed, Aug 2026
Pizzaville · 6369 Yonge St464 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 1 infraction
Apkujung Restaurant · 6309 Yonge St472 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions
The Laterna Restaurant · 6301 Yonge St477 mPassed, May 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

No City washroom within 1 km.

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

Three licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 132 spaces; one accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is The Munchkin Manor Daycare & Early Learning Centre (288 m, 74 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km3 centres · 132 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 3
  • The Munchkin Manor Daycare & Early Learning Centre · 1087 Lillian St
    74 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    288 m
  • Forest Grove Montessori Preschool · 53 Madawaska Ave
    30 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    370 m
  • Plasp St. Agnes - Toronto · 280 Otonabee Ave
    28 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    904 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 111 (1.8 km), the nearest police station 32 Division (2.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.8 km away.

FireFire Station 111 · 1.8 km3300 Bayview Ave
Police32 Division · 2.9 km30 Ellerslie Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 56 · 1.8 km3300 Bayview Ave

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

Within a kilometre there are five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 882 rental units. The nearest is 6210 Yonge St (630 m, 83 units, 7 storeys, built 1968), which scored 88 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 23 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 15 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings5 · 882 units
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202623 across the 5
Open fire-code violations15
Tallest19 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
6210 Yonge St · Better Living Homes Inc.837196888 · Aug 20252 · 15 fire630 m
1 Homewood Ave · North 44 Property Management Inc674194091 · Jul 20262848 m
6061 Yonge St · M&r Property Management30419196892 · Jun 20240876 m
5 Tangreen Crt · CAPREIT21418196887 · Jun 202414935 m
15 Tangreen Crt · CAPREIT21418196890 · Jun 202451 km

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 lots175 lots · ≈28,900 spaces · 86.7 ha
Within 500 m18 lots · ≈530 spaces
Green P (public)3 car parks · about 2,475 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Finch East - 814 Willowdale Ave - partial closure, reduced spaces · Surface1.7 km900 *
Finch West Lot - 18 Hendon Ave · Surface1.7 km1,552 *
5667 Yonge Street · Surface1.8 km23 *

Nearest lots: 267 m away, ≈53 spaces; 273 m away, ≈13 spaces; 284 m away, ≈45 spaces; 325 m away, ≈28 spaces; 385 m away, ≈25 spaces; 406 m away, ≈17 spaces.

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, Dec 7, 2021

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 2,914 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 48% of the total, against 170 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 1,065 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 969 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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 north2,914southbound · 1 bikes · 1.9% heavy
From the west298eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.3% heavy
Total vehicles6,10477 pedestrians · 5 cyclists · 1.7% heavy
From the east170westbound · 1 bikes · 2.4% heavy
From the south2,722northbound · 3 bikes · 1.7% heavy
AM peak hour969 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,065 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 7, 2021

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

On Willowdale Ave between Athabaska Ave and Abitibi Ave, 47 m from the corner, a 3-day count in February 2020 put the average speed at 50 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 60 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 68 km/h or more. That segment carries about 9,500 vehicles a day. The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Lillian St (216 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 322 vehicles logged in June 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Willowdale Ave · Athabaska Ave – Abitibi Ave · 47 mFeb 2020 · 3 days9,49850 km/h60 km/h68 km/h
Abitibi Ave · Dumont St – Willowdale Ave · 110 mOct 2006 · 7 days890

School-zone speed sign 216 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct0 · 0 km/h
Over the limit0.0%
40 km/h or more0.0%

Lillian St (southbound) · 322 vehicles logged in June 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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

The worst year was 2018, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 4 collisions (24%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 6% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Jul 28, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions17#3664 of 5,508
With an injury4#3132 of 4,660
Property damage only13
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
All since 201420latest Jul 28, 2025

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 motorcyclist was among those hurt. It happened in daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Nov 12, 2016.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1458 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
In darkness0
All KSI since 20061latest Nov 12, 2016

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

Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 18, 2015. 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 Newtonbrook East.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Willowdale & Abitibi a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1458 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 Willowdale & Abitibi?

A mid-volume intersection. Its latest count is from Dec 7, 2021, 66% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Willowdale & Abitibi?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Willowdale Ave between Athabaska Ave and Abitibi Ave (February 2020), found an average of 50 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 60 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 216 m away (30 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in June 2026.

Where can I park near Willowdale & Abitibi?

The nearest Green P car park is Finch East - 814 Willowdale Ave - partial closure, reduced spaces (1.7 km away, 900 spaces). The City's mapping shows 175 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 28,900 spaces — 18 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Willowdale & Abitibi by transit?

Bus routes 98, 53, 97, 60, 953, 960 within 1 km (nearest stop: Willowdale Ave at Abitibi Ave, 16 m); York Region Transit routes 002 Milliken, 005 Clark, 023 Thornhill Woods, 077 Highway 7 at Steeles Av / Willowdale Av.

What restaurants are near Willowdale & Abitibi?

None within 300 m, and 67 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Bamaze (446 m), Starbucks (460 m), Tazza (460 m), Starbucks (461 m) and Pizzaville (464 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there child care near Willowdale & Abitibi?

Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 132 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Munchkin Manor Daycare & Early Learning Centre (288 m, 74 spaces), Forest Grove Montessori Preschool (370 m, 30 spaces) and Plasp St. Agnes - Toronto (904 m, 28 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Willowdale & Abitibi?

Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 882 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 6210 Yonge St (630 m, 83 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 1 Homewood Ave (848 m, 67 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 6061 Yonge St (876 m, 304 units, RentSafeTO score 92) and 5 Tangreen Crt (935 m, 214 units, RentSafeTO score 87). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 is 90 out of 100. 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 Willowdale & Abitibi in?

Willowdale & Abitibi is in Newtonbrook East (City of Toronto neighbourhood 050). It is in Ward 18, Willowdale, represented by Councillor Lily Cheng.

Sources

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