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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 volume14-hour count · Dec 8, 2024 · weekend
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 7,516 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 52% of the total, against 134 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 1,627 vehicles in the peak hour from 2:15 p.m., against 912 in the morning peak from 9:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 0.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count was taken on a Sunday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. The count is 23 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.
Peak hours: 912 vehicles in the hour from 9:30 a.m. and 1,627 from 2:15 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
The worst year was 2018, with 10 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 11 collisions (21%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 6% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (2%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 8 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Aug 17, 2026.
No one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Nov 12, 2009.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 52 | #1988 of 5,519 |
| With an injury | 11 | #1548 of 4,669 |
| Property damage only | 38 | |
| Fail to remain | 3 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 1 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 3 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 8 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 1 | latest Nov 12, 2009 |
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 Birchmount Rd between Florina Blvd and Rolark Dr, 46 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2023 put the average speed at 48 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 56 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 60 km/h or more. That segment carries about 20,300 vehicles a day. Rolark Dr between Ridgetop Rd and Birchmount Rd measured slower: 39 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 47 km/h (Oct 2025).
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birchmount Rd · Florina Blvd – Rolark Dr · 46 m | May 2023 · 3 days | 20,252 | 48 km/h | 56 km/h | 60 km/h |
| Rolark Dr · Ridgetop Rd – Birchmount Rd · 57 m | Oct 2025 · 24 h | 2,354 | 39 km/h | 47 km/h | 52 km/h |
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
- 17 95 nearest 21 m
- Express
- 995 996
- Blue Night
- 395
- Nearest stops
- 4 surface stops within 300 m — Birchmount Rd at Rolark Dr
- 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
- 1 car park · about 68 spaces
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 28 mapped lots within 500 m, 232 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellesmere Lot - Near 1050 Ellesmere Road - closed for construction until November 2019 · Surface | 1.6 km | 68 * | — |
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
No grocery store is listed within a kilometre of this corner. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 8 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 452 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Ellesmere Healthcare Pharmacy, 827 m away; 2 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: Alexis Lodge Retirement Residence, a retirement home 736 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Tim Hortons · 1621 Birchmount Rd452 m · 5 min
- Burger King · 1607 Birchmount Rd475 m · 6 min
- Pizza Hut · 592 Ellesmere Rd488 m · 6 min
- Subway · 1620 Birchmount Rd515 m · 6 min
- Mexitaco · 1601 Birchmount Rd Bldg-1528 m · 6 min
- Pharmacy
- Ellesmere Healthcare Pharmacy 827 m · 10 min · 2 within 1 km
- Child care
- Glamorgan School Age YMCA · 43 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day643 m · 8 min
- Kiddies Lodge Day Care Centre · 69 spaces, toddler, preschool, school age705 m · 8 min
- Health and care
- Alexis Lodge Retirement Residence · retirement home736 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
- Mondeo Park407 m · 5 min
- Ellesmere Park1.3 km · 15 min
- Dorset Park1.3 km · 16 min
- Inglewood Heights Park1.5 km · 18 min
- Lynngate Park1.5 km · 18 min
- Community centres
- Ellesmere Community Recreation Centre1.3 km · 15 min
- Schools (6)
- Glamorgan Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 643 m · 8 min
- Ellesmere Statton Public SchoolEnglish Public · 756 m · 9 min
- Alif Canada Elementary SchoolPrivate · 818 m · 10 min
- Sathya Sai Elementary SchoolPrivate · 1 km · 12 min
- Bond Academy SchoolPrivate · 1.4 km · 16 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 grocery store, a library or a public washroom.
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
Within a kilometre there are four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 172 rental units. The nearest is 1555 Birchmount Rd (857 m, 46 units, 6 storeys, built 1950), which scored 71 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 80, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1555 Birchmount Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc | 46 | 6 | 1950 | 71 · Sep 2025 | 857 m · 10 min |
| 1545 Birchmount Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc | 37 | 4 | 1960 | 76 · Jul 2026 | 914 m · 11 min |
| 1535 Birchmount Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc | 37 | 4 | 1960 | 83 · Jul 2026 | 1 km · 11 min |
| 1525 Birchmount Rd · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc. | 52 | 4 | 1956 | 89 · Sep 2025 | 1 km · 12 min |
4 registered buildings · 172 units · tallest 6 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
Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft 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 Dorset Park.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Birchmount & Rolark a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 52 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 Birchmount & Rolark?
An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Dec 8, 2024, about the median for a counted intersection.
Is Birchmount & Rolark a walkable intersection?
Birchmount & Rolark scores 21 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 park within 500 m · nearest centre 1.3 km; 4 stops within 300 m · 5 routes within 1 km; nearest school 0.6 km · 2 licensed child cares within 1 km.
How fast do cars go at Birchmount & Rolark?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Birchmount Rd between Florina Blvd and Rolark Dr (May 2023), found an average of 48 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 56 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Birchmount & Rolark?
The nearest Green P car park is Ellesmere Lot - Near 1050 Ellesmere Road - closed for construction until November 2019 (1.6 km away, 68 spaces). The City's mapping shows 232 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 34,340 spaces — 28 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Birchmount & Rolark by transit?
Bus routes 17, 95, 995, 996 within 1 km (nearest stop: Birchmount Rd at Rolark Dr, 21 m).
What restaurants are near Birchmount & Rolark?
None within 300 m, and 8 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Tim Hortons (452 m), Burger King (475 m), Pizza Hut (488 m), Subway (515 m) and Mexitaco (528 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Birchmount & Rolark?
Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 399 m away at Mondeo Park.
Is there child care near Birchmount & Rolark?
Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 112 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Glamorgan School Age YMCA (643 m, 43 spaces) and Kiddies Lodge Day Care Centre (705 m, 69 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Birchmount & Rolark?
Four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 172 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1555 Birchmount Rd (857 m, 46 units, RentSafeTO score 71), 1545 Birchmount Rd (914 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 76), 1535 Birchmount Rd (1.0 km, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 83) and 1525 Birchmount Rd (1.0 km, 52 units, RentSafeTO score 89). The average RentSafeTO score across the 4 is 80 out of 100.
What neighbourhood is Birchmount & Rolark in?
Birchmount & Rolark is in Dorset Park (City of Toronto neighbourhood 126). It is in Ward 21, Scarborough Centre, represented by Councillor Michael Thompson.
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 8, 2024.
- 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 21 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: 43.76763, -79.29225 · centreline node 13447577.