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Benbow & The Westway

Benbow Rd & The Westway · Toronto, Ontario · Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview · Ward 2, Etobicoke Centre

Benbow & The Westway is a busier-than-typical intersection. It sits in Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview. It has a school within 250 m at the corner. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
9,288
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 27, 2003
121 pedestrians · 2 cyclists
Collisions
5
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 3 property damage · #4970 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 1,160 vehicles an hour, about the citywide median. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 77 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 0.5 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Benbow & The Westway

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
523740573 nearest 143 m
Express
937952
Blue Night
337373352
Nearest stops
4 surface stops 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 (14)
  • St Eugene Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 249 m
  • Hilltop Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 392 m
  • Valleyfield Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 438 m
  • Father Serra Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 497 m
  • Acacia International High SchoolPrivate · 856 m
  • Westway Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 903 m
  • and 8 more
Parks (11)
  • Westway Park418 m
  • Green Meadows Park - Etobicoke York584 m
  • Valleyfield Park595 m
  • Alex Marchetti Park612 m
  • Douglas B. Ford Park701 m
  • Dixington Parkette773 m
  • and 5 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Richview branch818 m

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; 17 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Lan Sushi, 497 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2025.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 17 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 10 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Dee's Bake Shop · 1500 Royal York Rd, Unit-14grocery497 mPassed, Jun 2025
Lan Sushi · 1500 Royal York Rd497 mPassed, May 2025
Amalfi Bread and Pastry · 1500 Royal York Rd 14497 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Krispy Bites · 1500 Royal York Rd 34497 mPassed, Mar 2026
Baskin Robbins · 1500 Royal York Rd Unit-5497 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Mayflower Chinese Food · 1500 Royal York Rdgrocery497 mPassed, Dec 2025
Metro · 1500 Royal York Rdgrocery497 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Pizza Nova · 1500 Royal York Rd Unit-36497 mPassed, Apr 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

The nearest public washroom is Westway Outdoor Rink Washroom, 411 m away, View outdoor rink hours. A drinking fountain is 478 m away at Westway Park.

  • Westway Outdoor Rink Washroom · 175 The Westway
    View outdoor rink hours
    411 m
  • Valleyfield Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 35 The Westway
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    549 m
Drinking water
Westway Park drinking fountain · 478 m

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

Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 613 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Plasp St Eugene Catholic School (249 m, 116 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km9 centres · 613 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 9
  • Plasp St Eugene Catholic School · 30 Westroyal Rd
    116 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    249 m
  • Macaulay - Valleyfield Child Care Centre · 35 Saskatoon Dr
    56 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    438 m
  • Jolly Juniors · 1500 Royal York Rd
    74 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    497 m
  • Plasp Father Serra Catholic School · 111 Sun Row Dr
    86 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    497 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 443 (1.4 km), the nearest police station 12 Division (4.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.3 km away.

FireFire Station 443 · 1.4 km1724 Islington Ave
Police12 Division · 4.1 km200 Trethewey Drive
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 10 · 2.3 km2015 Lawrence Ave W

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

Six registered apartment buildings with 568 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, one of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 23. The nearest is 38 Dixington Cres (722 m, 111 units, 10 storeys, built 1963), which scored 79 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 24 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 13 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings6 · 568 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202624 across the 6
Open fire-code violations13
Tallest15 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
38 Dixington Cres · Drake Property Management11110196379 · Aug 202615722 m
34 Dixington Cres · Equity Builders605197088 · Nov 20256749 m
40 Dixington Cres · H&r Property Management556196492 · Aug 20262778 m
24 Dixington Cres636196294 · Sep 20260791 m
1447 Royal York Rdsocial housing1084199596 · Aug 20260 · 1 fire921 m
263 Dixon Rd · Akelius17115196495 · Nov 20251 · 12 fire1 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 lots245 lots · ≈23,300 spaces · 69.9 ha
Within 500 m7 lots · ≈480 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)2000 Weston Rd · 1.9 km · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 191 m away, ≈71 spaces; 330 m away, ≈72 spaces; 337 m away, ≈61 spaces; 382 m away, ≈50 spaces; 408 m away, ≈33 spaces; 463 m away, ≈134 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, Nov 27, 2003

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The west leg carries the load — 4,588 eastbound vehicles, or 49% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 226. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,783 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 14% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (1,560). Heavy vehicles made up 3.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 23 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2003, 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 north226southbound · 2 bikes · 10.2% heavy
From the west4,588eastbound · 0 bikes · 3.9% heavy
Total vehicles9,288121 pedestrians · 2 cyclists · 3.7% heavy
From the east4,474westbound · 0 bikes · 3.2% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour1,560 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,783 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 27, 2003

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

The City's counter on The Westway between Trio Ave and Trehorne Dr (313 m away) recorded an average of 65 km/h in its 3-day count in December 2021; 85% of drivers were at or under 72 km/h. That segment carries about 10,400 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Trehorne Dr (208 m away, 40 km/h limit), 2.9% of the 32,721 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
The Westway · Trio Ave – Trehorne Dr · 313 mDec 2021 · 3 days10,41765 km/h72 km/h78 km/h

School-zone speed sign 208 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct37 · 44 km/h
Over the limit14%
50 km/h or more2.9%

Trehorne Dr (eastbound), 59 Trehorne Drive · 32,721 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

2024 was the peak year (1 collision), and 2025 closed with 0. 20% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Jun 14, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions5#4970 of 5,508
With an injury1#4101 of 4,660
Property damage only3
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 20146latest Jun 14, 2024

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

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 86% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle740house driveway/garage (6), commercial premises (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Mar 24, 2024. 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 Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Benbow & The Westway a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 5 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 Benbow & The Westway?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from Nov 27, 2003, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Benbow & The Westway?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on The Westway between Trio Ave and Trehorne Dr (December 2021), found an average of 65 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 72 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 208 m away (40 km/h), 2.9% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Benbow & The Westway?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 245 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,300 spaces — 7 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2000 Weston Rd (1.9 km).

How do I get to Benbow & The Westway by transit?

Bus routes 52, 37, 405, 73, 937, 952 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Benbow & The Westway?

None within 300 m, and 17 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Lan Sushi (497 m), Amalfi Bread and Pastry (497 m), Krispy Bites (497 m), Baskin Robbins (497 m) and Pizza Nova (497 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Benbow & The Westway?

The nearest is Westway Outdoor Rink Washroom, 175 The Westway, 411 m away (View outdoor rink hours). Next nearest: Valleyfield Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (549 m). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Benbow & The Westway?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 613 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Plasp St Eugene Catholic School (249 m, 116 spaces), Macaulay - Valleyfield Child Care Centre (438 m, 56 spaces) and Jolly Juniors (497 m, 74 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Benbow & The Westway?

Six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 568 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 38 Dixington Cres (722 m, 111 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 34 Dixington Cres (749 m, 60 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 40 Dixington Cres (778 m, 55 units, RentSafeTO score 92) and 24 Dixington Cres (791 m, 63 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 6 is 91 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.

How many thefts are reported at Benbow & The Westway?

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview page.

What neighbourhood is Benbow & The Westway in?

Benbow & The Westway is in Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview (City of Toronto neighbourhood 007). It is in Ward 2, Etobicoke Centre, represented by Councillor Stephen Holyday.

Sources

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