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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 · Feb 9, 2023
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 215 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 37% of the total, against 159 from the north. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 146 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 139 from 2:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2023, 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: 146 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 139 from 2:45 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 worst year was 2023, with 1 collision; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 20, 2026.
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 | 3 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 3 | |
| Fail to remain | 0 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 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
On Birchcliff Ave between Kingston Rd and Freeman St, 81 m from the corner, a 3-day count in October 2018 put the average speed at 34 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 43 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 49 km/h or more. That segment carries about 800 vehicles a day. The reading is 8 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Freeman St between Phenix Dr and Birchcliff Ave measured slower: 29 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 38 km/h (Jun 2019). At the school-zone speed sign on Kingston Rd (288 m away, 40 km/h limit), 13% of the 59,528 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freeman St · Phenix Dr – Birchcliff Ave · 59 m | Jun 2019 · 24 h | 687 | 29 km/h | 38 km/h | 43 km/h |
| Birchcliff Ave · Kingston Rd – Freeman St · 81 m | Oct 2018 · 3 days | 764 | 34 km/h | 43 km/h | 49 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Kingston Rd (eastbound), 288 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 44 km/h, 85th percentile 49 km/h; 13% at 50 km/h or more. 59,528 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
- 12 69 117 20 135 nearest 160 m
- Blue Night
- 316 300
- Nearest stops
- 2 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Birchcliff Ave / Kingston Rd 144 m · 15 docks · 4 stations, 60 docks 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
- 1 car park · about 83 spaces
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- 2 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 17 mapped lots within 500 m, 209 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 197 Blantyre Ave · Surface | 1.9 km | 83 | 29% (Q1 2026) |
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
A grocery store is within 300 m of the corner — the nearest is City Cottage Market, 159 m away. There is also a specialist food shop, Grayson's Rustic Bakery, 168 m away. Toronto Public Health inspects 1 eating place within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 9 — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Bodega By City Cottage, 256 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Danforth Pharmacy, 1.0 km away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Bodega By City Cottage · 1680 Kingston Rd256 m · 3 min
- Andrew's Place Bar & Restaurant · 1728 Kingston Rd423 m · 5 min
- Big Brothers Gourmet Pizza · 1736 Kingston Rd Bldg-1432 m · 5 min
- Buster's By the Bluffs · 1539 Kingston Rd516 m · 6 min
- Abbeyfield House · 38 Lakeside Ave589 m · 7 min
- Grocery
- City Cottage Market 159 m
- Food shops
- Grayson's Rustic Bakery 168 m · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Danforth Pharmacy 1 km · 12 min
- Child care
- Scarborough Day Nursery School · 71 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day212 m
- Mon Petit Univers · 30 spaces, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day387 m · 5 min
- Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre Community Nursery School · 20 spaces, preschool · $10-a-day508 m · 6 min
- Washrooms
- Birchmount Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed · accessible522 m · 6 min
- Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom · hours not listed · accessible534 m · 6 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 (11)
- Avalon Parkette323 m · 4 min
- Danforth - Birchmount Parkette352 m · 4 min
- Harding Parkette542 m · 6 min
- Hollis Kalmar Park749 m · 9 min
- Scotia Parkette821 m · 10 min
- Community centres
- Birchmount Community Centre522 m · 6 min
- Scarborough Arena Gardens537 m · 6 min
- Birchmount Stadium1 km · 12 min
- Schools
- Birch Cliff Public SchoolEnglish Public · 128 m
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 598 m · 7 min
- Birchmount Park Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
- Toronto Islamic Academy SchoolPrivate · 1.3 km · 16 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Taylor Memorial branch840 m · 10 min
- Places of interest
- Rosetta McClain GardensNature/ Park · 1.2 km · 14 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 care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,610 of 5,672. 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
Within a kilometre there are 13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 248 rental units. The nearest is 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (270 m, 10 units, 3 storeys, built 1950). One building of the 13 scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis | 10 | 3 | 1950 | — | 270 m · 3 min |
| 1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis | 11 | 3 | 1950 | — | 270 m · 3 min |
| 1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis | 11 | 3 | 1950 | — | 270 m · 3 min |
| 1711 Kingston Rd · Cogir Real Estate | 18 | 3 | 1960 | 89 · Aug 2025 | 339 m · 4 min |
| 1481 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd | 15 | 3 | 1940 | 74 · Aug 2026 | 677 m · 8 min |
| 25 Parkette Pl · Parkette Place Apts Inc. | 61 | 5 | 1959 | 93 · Oct 2025 | 684 m · 8 min |
13 registered buildings · 248 units · tallest 5 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
Five thefts from vehicles and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 80% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 5 | 0 | 0 | house driveway/garage (4), other (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0 | 0 | other (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 Birchcliffe-Cliffside.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Birchcliff & Freeman a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 3 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 Birchcliff & Freeman?
A low-volume local intersection at the City's last count here, in 2023. Its latest count is from Feb 9, 2023, 6% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Birchcliff & Freeman a walkable intersection?
Birchcliff & Freeman scores 50 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,610 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; 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 parks within 500 m · 2 community centres within 800 m; 1 school within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 1 place to eat within 300 m.
How fast do cars go at Birchcliff & Freeman?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Birchcliff Ave between Kingston Rd and Freeman St (October 2018), found an average of 34 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 288 m away (40 km/h), 13% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Birchcliff & Freeman?
The nearest Green P car park is 197 Blantyre Ave (1.9 km away, 83 spaces, 29% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 209 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 12,970 spaces — 17 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Birchcliff & Freeman by transit?
Bus routes 12, 69, 117, 20, 135 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Birchcliff & Freeman?
1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 9 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Bodega By City Cottage (256 m), Andrew's Place Bar & Restaurant (423 m), Big Brothers Gourmet Pizza (432 m), Buster's By the Bluffs (516 m) and Abbeyfield House (589 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Birchcliff & Freeman?
The nearest is Birchmount Community Centre Washroom, 93 Birchmount Rd, 522 m away, with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom (534 m).
Is there child care near Birchcliff & Freeman?
Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 149 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Scarborough Day Nursery School (212 m, 71 spaces), Mon Petit Univers (387 m, 30 spaces) and Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre Community Nursery School (508 m, 20 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Birchcliff & Freeman?
13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 248 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (270 m, 10 units), 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (270 m, 11 units), 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (270 m, 11 units) and 1711 Kingston Rd (339 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 89). The average RentSafeTO score across the 13 is 85 out of 100; 1 scored below 70.
How many thefts are reported at Birchcliff & Freeman?
Toronto Police place five 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 Birchcliffe-Cliffside page.
What neighbourhood is Birchcliff & Freeman in?
Birchcliff & Freeman is in Birchcliffe-Cliffside (City of Toronto neighbourhood 122). It is in Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest, represented by Councillor Parthi Kandavel.
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 Feb 9, 2023.
- 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 20 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: 43.69283, -79.26540 · centreline node 13459074.