Banbury & Pinnacle

Traffic volume8-hour count · Oct 6, 2021

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The south leg carries the load — 818 northbound vehicles, or 42% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 380. Morning rush is the busier period: 644 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:15 a.m., compared with 258 from 4:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. 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: 644 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 258 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

2019 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 25% of collisions here involved an injury. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Dec 10, 2023.

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

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 Pinnacle Rd between Mossgrove Trl and Elkpath Ave (82 m away) recorded an average of 38 km/h in its 24-hour count in October 2007; 85% of drivers were at or under 49 km/h. That segment carries about 400 vehicles a day. The reading is 19 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 York Mills Rd (197 m away, 50 km/h limit), 3.7% of the 10,418 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 60 km/h or more — a small minority.

Speed sign

York Mills Rd (westbound), 197 m — 50 km/h zone. Median 41 km/h, 85th percentile 53 km/h; 3.7% at 60 km/h or more. 10,418 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.

Not within a walk: a restaurant or café, a grocery store, a pharmacy, licensed child care, a library or a public washroom.

• Groceries and food0/30

  no food premises on file

• Transit10/28

  2 stops within 300 m · 6 routes within 1 km

• Library and places to go0/14

  none within a walk

• Parks and recreation3/10

  nearest park 0.5 km · nearest centre 1.3 km

• Schools and child care4/8

  3 schools 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.

Three registered apartment buildings with 413 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner — well below the median of 15. The nearest is 740 York Mills Rd (894 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 97, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

3 registered buildings · 413 units · tallest 19 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.

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.

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 St.Andrew-Windfields.

• 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).
• Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
• Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
• 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: 43.75304, -79.37063 · centreline node 13449834.