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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 · Oct 19, 2024 · weekend
Traffic is heaviest from the north: 5,925 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 42% of the total, against 1,027 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 1,325 vehicles in the peak hour from 2:15 p.m., against 982 in the morning peak from 9:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.1% 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 Saturday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. The count is 2 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.
Peak hours: 982 vehicles in the hour from 9:30 a.m. and 1,325 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 2017, with 9 collisions; 2025 recorded 6. 11 collisions (24%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 9% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (2%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jul 18, 2026.
No one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Dec 8, 2010.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 45 | #2210 of 5,519 |
| With an injury | 11 | #1549 of 4,669 |
| Property damage only | 32 | |
| Fail to remain | 4 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 1 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 2 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 2 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 2 | latest Dec 8, 2010 |
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 Walkway S of Wintermute and W of Birchmount and Wintermute Blvd, 53 m from the corner, a 3-day count in November 2020 put the average speed at 63 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 71 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 77 km/h or more. That segment carries about 11,100 vehicles a day. The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Wintermute Blvd between Walkway S of Wintermute and E of Belinda and Triangle Villas Dr measured slower: 38 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 44 km/h (Sep 2024). At the school-zone speed sign on Wintermute Blvd (193 m away, 30 km/h limit), 8.8% of the 52,084 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birchmount Rd · Walkway S of Wintermute and W of Birchmount – Wintermute Blvd · 53 m | Nov 2020 · 3 days | 11,054 | 63 km/h | 71 km/h | 77 km/h |
| Wintermute Blvd · Walkway S of Wintermute and E of Belinda – Triangle Villas Dr · 283 m | Sep 2024 · 3 days | 2,512 | 38 km/h | 44 km/h | 49 km/h |
| Sanwood Blvd · Tom Wells Cres – Burnt Bark Dr · 302 m | Sep 2021 · 3 days | 2,189 | 35 km/h | 43 km/h | 47 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Wintermute Blvd (northbound), 193 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 26 km/h, 85th percentile 37 km/h; 8.8% at 40 km/h or more. 52,084 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.
- The crossing
- Signal 1504, activated 1986 · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- TTC bus
- 17 53 43 42 68 nearest 18 m
- Express
- 953
- Blue Night
- 353 343 324
- Nearest stops
- 7 surface stops within 300 m — Birchmount Rd at Wintermute Blvd; Birchmount Rd at Sanwood Blvd
- Regional
- York Region Transit 008 Kennedy at Steeles Av / Putnam Gate1 km · 12 min
- 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
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 1 mapped lot within 500 m, 103 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
No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Foody Mart, 714 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 20 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Blooming Spice Fish House, 643 m away. The nearest pharmacy is A&W Pharmacy, 669 m away. The nearest hospital site is Birchmount Hospital, 1.7 km away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Blooming Spice Fish House · 325 Bamburgh Crcl Unit-A106643 m · 8 min
- Crown Jewel Fine Dining · 325 Bamburgh Crcl -10859909643 m · 8 min
- D & R Wings Restaurant · 325 Bamburgh Crcl 104643 m · 8 min
- Good Taste Casserole Rice · 325 Bamburgh Crcl Unit-A109643 m · 8 min
- Kin Kin O-Ka-Ne · 325 Bamburgh Crcl Unit-A103643 m · 8 min
- Grocery
- Foody Mart 714 m · 9 min
- Food shops
- Xuan Bakery 643 m · 8 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- A&W Pharmacy 669 m · 8 min
- Child care
- Kreative Kids Terry Fox · 99 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day369 m · 4 min
- Family Day Kennedy Extended Day & School Age Program · 43 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day848 m · 10 min
- Cheer Day Care Centre · 47 spaces, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day896 m · 11 min
- Washrooms
- L'amoreaux Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed1 km · 12 min
- Health and care
- Birchmount Hospital · hospital site1.7 km · 20 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 (7)
- Sanwood Park442 m · 5 min
- Terry Fox Park521 m · 6 min
- Shepton Way Park805 m · 10 min
- L'amoreaux North Park853 m · 10 min
- Fundy Bay Park1 km · 11 min
- Community centres
- L'amoreaux Community Recreation Centre1 km · 12 min
- L'amoreaux Tennis Centre1.4 km · 17 min
- Schools (7)
- Terry Fox Public SchoolEnglish Public · 369 m · 4 min
- Kennedy Public SchoolEnglish Public · 847 m · 10 min
- TCDSB Program and Specials Services - East BuildingEnglish Separate · 1.1 km · 13 min
- Dr Norman Bethune Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
- Mary Ward Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.2 km · 14 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Steeles branch755 m · 9 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. 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.
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 Steeles.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Birchmount & Sanwood a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 45 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 & Sanwood?
A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Oct 19, 2024, about the median for a counted intersection.
Is Birchmount & Sanwood a walkable intersection?
Birchmount & Sanwood scores 45 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; 7 stops within 300 m · 9 routes within 1 km; 1 park within 500 m · nearest centre 1 km. The crossing itself: traffic signal · head start for people walking.
How fast do cars go at Birchmount & Sanwood?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Birchmount Rd between Walkway S of Wintermute and W of Birchmount and Wintermute Blvd (November 2020), found an average of 63 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 71 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 193 m away (30 km/h), 8.8% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Birchmount & Sanwood?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 103 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,730 spaces — 1 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Birchmount & Sanwood by transit?
Bus routes 17, 53, 43, 42, 68, 953 within 1 km (nearest stop: Birchmount Rd at Wintermute Blvd, 18 m); York Region Transit route 008 Kennedy at Steeles Av / Putnam Gate.
What restaurants are near Birchmount & Sanwood?
None within 300 m, and 20 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Blooming Spice Fish House (643 m), Crown Jewel Fine Dining (643 m), D & R Wings Restaurant (643 m), Good Taste Casserole Rice (643 m) and Kin Kin O-Ka-Ne (643 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Birchmount & Sanwood?
The nearest is L'amoreaux Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 2000 Mcnicoll Ave, 1.0 km away.
Is there child care near Birchmount & Sanwood?
Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 248 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Kreative Kids Terry Fox (369 m, 99 spaces), Family Day Kennedy Extended Day & School Age Program (848 m, 43 spaces) and Cheer Day Care Centre (896 m, 47 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What neighbourhood is Birchmount & Sanwood in?
Birchmount & Sanwood is in Steeles (City of Toronto neighbourhood 116). It is in Ward 22, Scarborough-Agincourt, represented by Councillor Nick Mantas.
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 Oct 19, 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; 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.
- 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 22 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: 43.81621, -79.31454 · centreline node 13442139.