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Windermere & Waller

Windermere Ave & Waller Ave · Toronto, Ontario · High Park-Swansea · Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park

Windermere & Waller sits in High Park-Swansea. At the City's last count here, in 2010, it was an intersection of typical volume. It has a school within 250 m and parks at the corner. Nearby: Jane Station (Line 2) 935 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic
6,124
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 26, 2010
507 pedestrians · 57 cyclists
Collisions
14
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
1
TTC stop within 100 m
Jane Station 935 m · 6 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
51/100
city median 48 · #2,596 of 5,672
36 places to eat within 1 km · grocery 759 m

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Windermere & Waller

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 26, 2010

The north leg carries the load — 3,103 southbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 45. Morning rush is the busier period: 1,146 vehicles in the peak hour from 7:45 a.m., compared with 922 from 4:30 p.m. Trucks and buses were 8.5% 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 16,177 vehicles. The count is 17 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2010, 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 north3,103southbound · 26 bikes · 8.1% heavy
From the west45eastbound · 0 bikes · 15.6% heavy
Total vehicles6,124507 pedestrians · 57 cyclists · 8.5% heavy
From the east230westbound · 7 bikes · 6.1% heavy
From the south2,746northbound · 24 bikes · 9.1% heavy

Peak hours: 1,146 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m. and 922 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

2018 was the peak year (4 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 21% of collisions. 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 Mar 28, 2026.

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions14
With an injury0
Property damage only11
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Severity not classified3
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

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 Windermere Ave between Yule Ave and Briarcroft Rd (315 m away) recorded an average of 38 km/h in its 3-day count in September 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 44 km/h. That segment carries about 6,900 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Windermere Ave (14 m away, 30 km/h limit), 5.4% of the 126,189 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Windermere Ave · Yule Ave – Briarcroft Rd · 315 mSep 2024 · 3 days6,89438 km/h44 km/h48 km/h
Speed sign
Windermere Ave (southbound), 14 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 28 km/h, 85th percentile 36 km/h; 5.4% at 40 km/h or more. 126,189 vehicles logged in August 2026; 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)935 m · 11 min
TTC bus
77 27 nearest 84 m
Express
935
Blue Night
300 335
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m — Windermere Ave at Morningside Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Swansea Community Centre 102 m · 15 docks · 4 stations, 98 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
8 car parks · about 960 spaces
EV charging
265 Armadale Ave · 880 m · 8 Level 2 + 1 fast ports
Bike parking
2 post-and-rings within 300 m
Other lots
5 mapped lots within 500 m, 172 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
265 Willard Ave · Surface875 m9053% (Q1 2026)
265 Durie St · Surface880 m14470% (Q1 2026)
265 Armadale Ave · Surface1 km14458% (Q1 2026)
17 Riverview Gdns · Surface1.1 km9552% (Q1 2026)
16 Riverview Gdns · Surface1.1 km5938% (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, 759 m away; 2 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 36 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Capybara, 710 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Swansea Village Pharmacy, 890 m away; 4 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Capybara · 2323 Bloor St W Unit-105710 m · 8 min
  • Prime Sushi · 2323 Bloor St W Bldg-103710 m · 8 min
  • Second Cup Café · 2340 Bloor St W775 m · 9 min
  • McDonald's · 2299 Bloor St W784 m · 9 min
  • Gatto Bistro · 2312 Bloor St W804 m · 10 min
0 within 300 m · 36 within 1 km
Grocery
Carload Food Market 759 m · 9 min · 2 within 1 km
Food shops
Kingsway Meat Products 753 m · 9 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Pharmacy
Swansea Village Pharmacy 890 m · 11 min · 4 within 1 km
Child care
  • Swansea Kids Place · 273 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day114 m
  • Windermere Kids Inc. · 73 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool580 m · 7 min
  • Simplysmart Childcare Centre & Montessori · 142 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day883 m · 11 min
3 licensed centres · 488 spaces within 1 km · 1 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Swansea Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed83 m
  • Rennie Park David H. Williams Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.389 m · 5 min
Drinking water: Rennie Park 352 m · 4 min (off)

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 (14)
  • Waller Avenue Ravine Lands178 m
  • Rambert Crescent Parkette331 m · 4 min
  • Coe Hill Drive Parkette463 m · 6 min
  • Windermere Avenue Parkette482 m · 6 min
  • Ormskirk Park503 m · 6 min
and 9 more within 1.5 km
Schools
  • Swansea Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 114 m
  • Erudite Elementary SchoolPrivate · 709 m · 8 min
  • Blyth Academy School - EtobicokePrivate · 1.1 km · 13 min
  • Humberside Montessori SchoolPrivate · 1.1 km · 13 min
  • St Pius X Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.3 km · 15 min
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Swansea Memorial branch487 m · 6 min
  • Toronto Public Library Runnymede branch1.3 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.

51of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,596 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food9/30

    2 grocery stores within 1 km · 36 within 1 km

  • Transit18/28

    Jane Station 0.9 km · 5 stops within 300 m · 6 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go8/14

    library 487 m away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation10/10

    4 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care6/8

    1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

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

11 registered apartment buildings with 495 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, one of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 93 Lavinia Ave (456 m, 68 units, 5 storeys, built 1993), which scored 95 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 93, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
93 Lavinia Ave social housing · Community First Developments Inc685199395 · Aug 2026456 m · 5 min
1 Runnymede Rd284196790 · Jul 2025480 m · 6 min
101 Coe Hill Dr473195594 · Jul 2026499 m · 6 min
9 Morningside Ave · Westside Storeys Limited364195793 · Aug 2024524 m · 6 min
2 Kennedy Ave254196792 · Jul 2025529 m · 6 min
99 Coe Hill Dr · Trivest Developments Corporation864195794 · Jul 2025588 m · 7 min

11 registered buildings · 495 units · 1 social housing · tallest 6 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 three thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle310house driveway/garage (2), other (1)
Bicycle theft000—

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 Windermere & Waller a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 14 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 Windermere & Waller?

An intersection of typical volume at the City's last count here, in 2010. Its latest count is from Apr 26, 2010, 66% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Windermere & Waller a walkable intersection?

Windermere & Waller scores 51 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,596 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: 4 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; Jane Station 0.9 km · 5 stops within 300 m · 6 routes within 1 km.

How fast do cars go at Windermere & Waller?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Windermere Ave between Yule Ave and Briarcroft Rd (September 2024), found an average of 38 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 44 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 14 m away (30 km/h), 5.4% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Windermere & Waller?

The nearest Green P car park is 265 Willard Ave (875 m away, 90 spaces, 53% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 172 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 5,540 spaces — 5 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 265 Armadale Ave (880 m).

How do I get to Windermere & Waller by transit?

Jane Station (Line 2) is 935 m away; bus routes 77, 27, 935 within 1 km (nearest stop: Windermere Ave at Morningside Ave, 84 m).

What restaurants are near Windermere & Waller?

None within 300 m, and 36 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Capybara (710 m), Prime Sushi (710 m), Second Cup Café (775 m), McDonald's (784 m) and Gatto Bistro (804 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Windermere & Waller?

The nearest is Swansea Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 15 Waller Ave, 83 m away. Next nearest: Rennie Park David H. Williams Washroom (389 m).

Is there child care near Windermere & Waller?

Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 488 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Swansea Kids Place (114 m, 273 spaces), Windermere Kids Inc. (580 m, 73 spaces) and Simplysmart Childcare Centre & Montessori (883 m, 142 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Windermere & Waller?

11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 495 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 93 Lavinia Ave (456 m, 68 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 1 Runnymede Rd (480 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 101 Coe Hill Dr (499 m, 47 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 9 Morningside Ave (524 m, 36 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 11 is 93 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Windermere & Waller?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles 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 Windermere & Waller in?

Windermere & Waller 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