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Banbury & Heathcote

Banbury Rd & Heathcote Ave · Toronto, Ontario · St.Andrew-Windfields · Ward 15, Don Valley West

Banbury & Heathcote, in St.Andrew-Windfields, is a quiet local crossing, with heavy foot traffic. At the corner: a school within 250 m. Nearby: 7 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
1,910
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 6, 2021
912 pedestrians · 25 cyclists
Collisions
2
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 2 property damage · #5340 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
0
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

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 240 vehicles an hour, 21% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 2.1 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. On average 0.2 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Banbury & Heathcote

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
9511512251 nearest 382 m
Express
995996
Blue Night
395
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 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)
  • Windfields Middle SchoolEnglish Public · 127 m
  • Ecole Secondaire Etienne BruleFrench Public · 316 m
  • York Mills Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 436 m
  • Harrison Public SchoolEnglish Public · 563 m
  • Dunlace Public SchoolEnglish Public · 828 m
  • Central Montessori School - York MillsPrivate · 1 km
  • and 6 more
Community centres
  • York Mills Arena1.3 km
  • Banbury Community Centre1.4 km
Parks (19)
  • Vyner Greenbelt528 m
  • Ames Park532 m
  • Mossgrove Park553 m
  • Kirkwood Park759 m
  • Dunlace Park884 m
  • Harrison Park949 m
  • and 13 more

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; 13 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Ecole Secondarie Etienne-Brule - Student Nutrition Program, 315 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 13 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 1 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Ecole Secondarie Etienne-Brule - Student Nutrition Program · 300 Banbury Rd315 mPassed, Apr 2026
Dunlace Children's Centre · 20 Dunlace Dr829 mPassed, Apr 2026
York Mills Gallery · 1885 Leslie St None876 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Tim Hortons · 1869 Leslie St885 mPassed, Apr 2026
Taste Culinary Inc · 1961 Leslie St898 mPassed, Jun 2026
Hamaru Sushi · 1865 Leslie St905 mPassed, Mar 2026
The Keg · 1977 Leslie St940 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions
Mama's Greek Cuisine · 1881 Leslie St Unit-B1 kmPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction

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

One licensed child care centre within a kilometre offers 106 spaces; it accepts City fee subsidy. The nearest is Dunlace Children's Centre (828 m, 106 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km1 centre · 106 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 1
  • Dunlace Children's Centre · 20 Dunlace Dr
    106 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    828 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 122 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 33 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 3.3 km away.

FireFire Station 122 · 1.2 km2545 Bayview Ave
Police33 Division · 1.7 km50 Upjohn Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 23 · 3.3 km115 Parkway Forest Dr

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 six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 770 rental units. The nearest is 740 York Mills Rd (744 m, 137 units, 19 storeys, built 1970), which scored 97 out of 100 at its October 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 96, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 24 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 7 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings6 · 770 units
RentSafeTO score96 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202624 across the 6
Open fire-code violations7
Tallest19 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
740 York Mills Rd · Minto Properties Inc13719197097 · Oct 20257 · 1 fire744 m
17 Farmstead Rd · Minto Properties Inc13619197094 · Aug 20266759 m
745 York Mills Rd · M&r Property Management13818197297 · Aug 20261796 m
750 York Mills Rd · Minto Properties Inc13719197095 · Aug 20267 · 6 fire835 m
755 York Mills Rd · M&r Property Management13818197096 · Aug 20261881 m
44 Stubbs Dr · CAPREIT847197498 · Oct 202521 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 lots249 lots · ≈34,880 spaces · 104.6 ha
Within 500 m2 lots · ≈690 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 102 spaces
EV charging (City)Bessarion CC · 1.5 km · 10 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Leslie Lot - 2760 Old Leslie Street · Surface1.7 km102 *

Nearest lots: 104 m away, ≈149 spaces; 341 m away, ≈537 spaces; 576 m away, ≈120 spaces; 589 m away, ≈52 spaces; 701 m away, ≈98 spaces; 771 m away, ≈12 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, Oct 6, 2021

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 695 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 36% of the total, against 548 from the north. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 645 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 172% above the afternoon peak from 4:00 p.m. (237). Heavy vehicles made up 1.9% 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 north548southbound · 11 bikes · 1.5% heavy
From the west695eastbound · 5 bikes · 1.6% heavy
Total vehicles1,910912 pedestrians · 25 cyclists · 1.9% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south667northbound · 9 bikes · 2.7% heavy
AM peak hour645 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour237 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 6, 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 Heathcote Ave between Dempsey Cres and Farrington Dr, 286 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in November 2012 put the average speed at 43 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 52 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 55 km/h or more. That segment carries about 2,000 vehicles a day. Banbury Rd between Portsmith Rd and Heathcote Ave measured slower: 37 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 44 km/h (Feb 2024). The reading is 14 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Banbury Rd (130 m away, 30 km/h limit), 28% of the 16,716 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a high share for a school zone.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Banbury Rd · Portsmith Rd – Heathcote Ave · 48 mFeb 2024 · 3 days2,33337 km/h44 km/h49 km/h
Heathcote Ave · Dempsey Cres – Farrington Dr · 286 mNov 2012 · 24 h2,00643 km/h52 km/h55 km/h

School-zone speed sign 130 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct34 · 42 km/h
Over the limit59%
40 km/h or more28%

Banbury Rd (southbound), 378 Banbury Road · 16,716 vehicles logged in July 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 1 collision. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Sep 17, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions2#5340 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only2
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
All since 20142latest Sep 17, 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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

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 Banbury & Heathcote 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 Banbury & Heathcote?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Oct 6, 2021, 21% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Banbury & Heathcote?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Heathcote Ave between Dempsey Cres and Farrington Dr (November 2012), found an average of 43 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 52 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 130 m away (30 km/h), 28% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Banbury & Heathcote?

The nearest Green P car park is Leslie Lot - 2760 Old Leslie Street (1.7 km away, 102 spaces). The City's mapping shows 249 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 34,880 spaces — 2 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at Bessarion CC (1.5 km).

How do I get to Banbury & Heathcote by transit?

Bus routes 95, 115, 122, 51, 995, 996 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Banbury & Heathcote?

None within 300 m, and 13 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Ecole Secondarie Etienne-Brule - Student Nutrition Program (315 m), Dunlace Children's Centre (829 m), York Mills Gallery (876 m), Tim Hortons (885 m) and Taste Culinary Inc (898 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 Banbury & Heathcote?

One licensed child care centre within 1 km, with 106 spaces in total; it accepts City fee subsidy and it is in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest is Dunlace Children's Centre (828 m, 106 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Banbury & Heathcote?

Six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 770 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 740 York Mills Rd (744 m, 137 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 17 Farmstead Rd (759 m, 136 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 745 York Mills Rd (796 m, 138 units, RentSafeTO score 97) and 750 York Mills Rd (835 m, 137 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 6 is 96 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 Banbury & Heathcote in?

Banbury & Heathcote is in St.Andrew-Windfields (City of Toronto neighbourhood 040). It is in Ward 15, Don Valley West, represented by Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin.

Sources

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