Why it exists
The City publishes remarkable data about its streets — turning-movement counts, every reported collision, red-light camera locations and the tickets they issue, live camera feeds, speed counts, signal timings, bikeways, transit schedules, restaurant inspections, washrooms, child care, apartment-building evaluations — but as dozens of separate downloads that almost nobody opens. This site joins them at the one place people actually think about: the corner. Search "Jane and Finch" and you get the count, the collision record, the camera, how to get there, where to park, what's around and who lives nearby, on one page, with every number linked to the dataset it came from.
What an intersection page carries
- Traffic — the City's latest turning-movement count by mode and by approach, with the morning and afternoon peaks and how the volume compares with the citywide median; measured speeds on the approach streets, the nearest school-zone speed sign and any traffic calming.
- Collisions — every police-reported collision within 65 m by year and severity, every killed-or-seriously-injured collision since 2006, and anything recorded after the ranking window closed.
- Cameras — whether a red-light camera operates there and how many tickets it issued each year, and the City's live traffic camera image where one is mounted.
- Getting there — subway, streetcar, bus, GO, UP Express, VIA and regional transit within 1 km, bikeways and Bike Share; schools, parks, community centres, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km.
- Around the corner — restaurants and food premises with their latest DineSafe inspection, public washrooms and drinking fountains, licensed child care, and the nearest fire hall, police division and ambulance station.
- Apartment buildings — every RentSafeTO-registered rental building within 1 km with its City evaluation score, Landlord and Tenant Board orders and open fire-code violations, each linked to its full record on LandlordReport, our sister site.
- Parking — every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P car parks with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking.
- Thefts — thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts the police place at the corner, by year and premises type.
Each of the 158 City neighbourhoods has its own page too, with its intersections, its crime rate in nine offence categories against the citywide figure, and its 2021 Census profile. Citywide rankings cover the busiest intersections, the most collisions, the most serious-injury collisions and the 301 red-light cameras.
How it is made
The site is rebuilt from the source every night. A script downloads each dataset, snaps collisions to the nearest intersection, measures everything else from the node, computes the rankings over the last ten complete years (2016–2025) and writes 5,825 intersection pages. Nothing is typed in by hand and nothing is estimated except where the page says so — parking-lot spaces, for example. The methodology sets out every rule; the data page lists every source with its licence and refresh date. This build: Sep 10, 2026.
What it does not do
It does not assign fault, rate street design or offer legal, insurance or engineering advice. A high collision count almost always reflects high traffic volume, which is why volume is always shown beside it. Collision records can lag a year or more; a "killed or seriously injured" figure describes police classifications, not outcomes the site has verified; crime rates are per resident, which flatters residential neighbourhoods and penalises places with big daytime crowds.
Who runs it
CornerFacts is an independent project based in the Greater Toronto Area, with no funding from the City, the police, insurers or advertisers. It started with Toronto and is built so other Canadian cities can follow the same method.