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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 · Dec 14, 2021
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The north leg carries the load — 10,883 southbound vehicles, or 53% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 155. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 2,983 vehicles in the hour from 4:15 p.m., 43% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (2,086). Heavy vehicles made up 2.0% 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: 2,086 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 2,983 from 4:15 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
2016 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 8% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 8% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Dec 29, 2025.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 12 | |
| With an injury | 1 | |
| Property damage only | 10 | |
| Fail to remain | 1 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 1 | |
| 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
The City's most recent midblock count on Bayview Ave between Bayview Mews Lane and Meadow Larkway (316 m away, Nov 2013) recorded volume only — about 40,106 vehicles a day — with no speed data. At the school-zone speed sign on Estelle Ave (216 m away, 30 km/h limit), 2.4% of the 10,904 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a small minority.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayview Ave · Bayview Mews Lane – Meadow Larkway · 316 m | Nov 2013 · 7 days | 40,106 | — | — | — |
- Speed sign
- Estelle Ave (northbound), 216 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 15 km/h, 85th percentile 30 km/h; 2.4% at 40 km/h or more. 10,904 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
- Bayview Station (Line 4)792 m · 9 min
- TTC bus
- 11 185 nearest 18 m
- Blue Night
- 385
- Nearest stops
- 6 surface stops within 300 m — Bayview Ave at Hillcrest Ave
- 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
- Bessarion CC · 1.7 km · 10 Level 2 ports
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 6 mapped lots within 500 m, 202 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
The nearest grocery store is Loblaws, 553 m away; 2 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 20 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Aroma Espresso Bar, 399 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Loblaw Pharmacy, 566 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Aroma Espresso Bar · 2901 Bayview Ave399 m · 5 min
- Bloomer's · 2901 Bayview Ave Unit-107a399 m · 5 min
- Goa Indian Farm Kitchen · 2901 Bayview Ave Unit-102b399 m · 5 min
- Il Fornello · 2901 Bayview Ave Unit-107399 m · 5 min
- Ju-Raku Japanese Restaurant · 2901 Bayview Ave Unit-101399 m · 5 min
- Grocery
- Loblaws 553 m · 7 min · 2 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Bread & Roses 399 m · 5 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Loblaw Pharmacy 566 m · 7 min
- Child care
- Hollywood All-Stars Child Care · 201 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day399 m · 5 min
- St. Gabriel's Jr YMCA · 87 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day632 m · 8 min
- Toronto Woods Daycare · 35 spaces, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day736 m · 9 min
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 (13)
- Bayview Village Park194 m
- Empress Parkette207 m
- Parkview Park612 m · 7 min
- Bayview Parkette681 m · 8 min
- Hawksbury Park748 m · 9 min
- Schools (10)
- Hollywood Public SchoolEnglish Public · 400 m · 5 min
- St Gabriel Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 632 m · 8 min
- Bannockburn Montessori School & Beth Tikvah SynagoguePrivate · 813 m · 10 min
- Bayview Middle SchoolEnglish Public · 815 m · 10 min
- St George AcademyPrivate · 1.1 km · 13 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 community centre, a library, a public washroom or a care or retirement home.
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.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
Four registered apartment buildings with 578 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner — well below the median of 15. The nearest is 2911 Bayview Ave (504 m, 304 units, 3 storeys, built 1964), which scored 92 out of 100 at its September 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2911 Bayview Ave · Quadreal Property Group | 304 | 3 | 1964 | 92 · Sep 2024 | 504 m · 6 min |
| 2818 Bayview Ave · 2818 Avenue Property Management | 20 | 3 | 1968 | 72 · Sep 2024 | 799 m · 10 min |
| 644 Sheppard Ave E · GWLRA Residential | 128 | 18 | 1970 | 85 · Jul 2026 | 868 m · 10 min |
| 642 Sheppard Ave E · GWLRA Residential | 126 | 19 | 1970 | 86 · Jul 2026 | 1 km · 12 min |
4 registered buildings · 578 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.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Toronto Police place no thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0 | 0 | house driveway/garage (1) |
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 Bayview Village.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Bayview & Hillcrest a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 12 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 Bayview & Hillcrest?
A heavily travelled arterial crossing at the City's last count here, in 2021. Its latest count is from Dec 14, 2021, 2.2× today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Bayview & Hillcrest a walkable intersection?
Bayview & Hillcrest scores 39 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: 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; Bayview Station 0.8 km · 6 stops within 300 m · 4 routes within 1 km; 2 parks within 500 m.
Where can I park near Bayview & Hillcrest?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 202 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,830 spaces — 6 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at Bessarion CC (1.7 km).
How do I get to Bayview & Hillcrest by transit?
Bayview Station (Line 4) is 792 m away; bus routes 11, 185 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bayview Ave at Hillcrest Ave, 18 m).
What restaurants are near Bayview & Hillcrest?
None within 300 m, and 20 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Aroma Espresso Bar (399 m), Bloomer's (399 m), Goa Indian Farm Kitchen (399 m), Il Fornello (399 m) and Ju-Raku Japanese Restaurant (399 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Bayview & Hillcrest?
Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 50 m away at Bayview Village Park.
Is there child care near Bayview & Hillcrest?
Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 535 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Hollywood All-Stars Child Care (399 m, 201 spaces), St. Gabriel's Jr YMCA (632 m, 87 spaces) and Toronto Woods Daycare (736 m, 35 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Bayview & Hillcrest?
Four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 578 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2911 Bayview Ave (504 m, 304 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 2818 Bayview Ave (799 m, 20 units, RentSafeTO score 72), 644 Sheppard Ave E (868 m, 128 units, RentSafeTO score 85) and 642 Sheppard Ave E (1.0 km, 126 units, RentSafeTO score 86). The average RentSafeTO score across the 4 is 84 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Bayview & Hillcrest?
Toronto Police place no thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Bayview Village page.
What neighbourhood is Bayview & Hillcrest in?
Bayview & Hillcrest is in Bayview Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 052). It is in Ward 18, Willowdale, represented by Councillor Lily Cheng.
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 Dec 14, 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).
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- 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 18 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: 43.77255, -79.38939 · centreline node 13447057.