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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 · 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 16,177 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.
Peak hours: 645 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 237 from 4:00 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
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.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 2 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 2 | |
| Fail to remain | 0 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
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
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. The reading is 14 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 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) — a much more recent reading than the one above. At the school-zone speed sign on Banbury Rd (130 m away, 30 km/h limit), 30% of the 16,416 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a high share for a school zone.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banbury Rd · Portsmith Rd – Heathcote Ave · 48 m | Feb 2024 · 3 days | 2,333 | 37 km/h | 44 km/h | 49 km/h |
| Heathcote Ave · Dempsey Cres – Farrington Dr · 286 m | Nov 2012 · 24 h | 2,006 | 43 km/h | 52 km/h | 55 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Banbury Rd (southbound), 130 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 35 km/h, 85th percentile 42 km/h; 30% at 40 km/h or more. 16,416 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
- TTC bus
- 95 115 122 nearest 395 m · 5 min
- Express
- 995 996
- 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.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- none within 2 km
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 2 mapped lots within 500 m, 58 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often 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; 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
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 (9)
- Vyner Greenbelt719 m · 9 min
- Ames Park769 m · 9 min
- Mossgrove Park802 m · 10 min
- Harrison Park1.3 km · 15 min
- Kirkwood Park1.3 km · 15 min
- Schools
- Windfields Middle SchoolEnglish Public · 156 m
- Ecole Secondaire Etienne BruleFrench Public · 395 m · 5 min
- York Mills Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 711 m · 8 min
- Harrison Public SchoolEnglish Public · 832 m · 10 min
- Dunlace Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.4 km · 17 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 restaurant or café, a grocery store, a pharmacy, a community centre, licensed child care, a library or a public washroom.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
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.
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 at the City's last count here, in 2021. Its latest count is from Oct 6, 2021, 21% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Banbury & Heathcote a walkable intersection?
Banbury & Heathcote scores 10 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; 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: 2 schools within 500 m; nearest park 0.7 km; 6 routes within 1 km.
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), 30% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Banbury & Heathcote?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 58 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 8,920 spaces — 2 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Banbury & Heathcote by transit?
Bus routes 95, 115, 122, 995, 996 within 1 km.
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
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Oct 6, 2021.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 15 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.75503, -79.37109 · centreline node 13449530.