Bedford & Pears

Traffic volume8-hour count · Dec 8, 2015

The south leg carries the load — 1,606 northbound vehicles, or 46% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 67. Most cyclists arrived from the south (50 of 100). Morning rush is the busier period: 573 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:30 a.m., compared with 516 from 5:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 5.3% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 11 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2015, 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: 573 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 516 from 5:00 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

2018 was the peak year (5 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 11% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 11% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 11% of collisions here. Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jul 2, 2026.

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 Bedford Rd between Elgin Ave and Boswell Ave (385 m away) recorded an average of 37 km/h in its 3-day count in February 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 44 km/h. That segment carries about 5,700 vehicles a day. Pears Ave between Lane W of Avenue and N of Pears and Bedford Rd measured slower: 33 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 43 km/h (Aug 2003).

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.

• Groceries and food16/30

  4 grocery stores within 1 km · 7 places to eat within 300 m

• Transit23/28

  Dupont Station 0.7 km · 9 stops within 300 m · 12 routes within 1 km

• Library and places to go5/14

  library 1.2 km away · 8 places of interest within 1.5 km

• Parks and recreation7/10

  4 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 1.4 km

• Schools and child care4/8

  nearest school 0.7 km · 1 licensed child care 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.

47 registered apartment buildings with 3,838 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 3.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 250 Davenport Rd (179 m, 460 units, 25 storeys, built 1968), which scored 90 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 47 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm.

47 registered buildings · 3,838 units · 2 social housing · tallest 25 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 no thefts from vehicles and 13 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 1 in 2023–2025, about 0.3 a year, against 1.7 a year before that. 46% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking.

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 Annex.

• Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Dec 8, 2015.
• 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.
• 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 11 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: 43.67496, -79.39990 · centreline node 13462688.