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Birchmount & Sanwood

Birchmount Rd & Sanwood Blvd · Toronto, Ontario · Steeles · Ward 22, Scarborough-Agincourt

Birchmount & Sanwood is a moderately travelled crossing. It sits in Steeles. Nearby is 10 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
14,088
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 19, 2024
542 pedestrians · 273 cyclists · #1372 busiest
Collisions
45
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
11 with an injury · 32 property damage · #2210 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 2 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
3
TTC stops within 100 m
5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 1,010 vehicles, about the citywide median. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 26 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 4.5 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 3.2 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Collisions fell 27%, from 26 in 2016–2020 to 19 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Birchmount & Sanwood

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
1753684342 nearest 18 m
Express
953968
Blue Night
353324343
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 Gate753 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 (9)
  • Terry Fox Public SchoolEnglish Public · 334 m
  • Kennedy Public SchoolEnglish Public · 588 m
  • Dr Norman Bethune Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 597 m
  • TCDSB Program and Specials Services - East BuildingEnglish Separate · 781 m
  • David Lewis Public SchoolEnglish Public · 825 m
  • Mary Ward Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 852 m
  • and 3 more
Community centres
Parks (9)
  • Sanwood Park390 m
  • Terry Fox Park481 m
  • Fundy Bay Park665 m
  • L'amoreaux North Park710 m
  • Shepton Way Park712 m
  • Bamburgh Park1.1 km
  • and 3 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Steeles branch637 m
Signal
1504, activated 1986 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

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; 30 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Kreative Kids Terry Fox, 334 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 30 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 4 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Kreative Kids Terry Fox · 185 Wintermute Blvd334 mPassed, Sep 2026
Dr. Norman Bethune C.i. - Snp · 200 Fundy Bay Blvd596 mPassed, Apr 2026
Blooming Spice Fish House · 325 Bamburgh Crcl Unit-A106grocery600 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Crown Jewel Fine Dining · 325 Bamburgh Crcl -10859909600 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
D & R Wings Restaurant · 325 Bamburgh Crcl 104600 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Good Taste Casserole Rice · 325 Bamburgh Crcl Unit-A109600 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Kin Kin O-Ka-NE · 325 Bamburgh Crcl Unit-A103600 mPassed, Jul 2026
Pho 88 · 325 Bamburgh Crcl600 mPassed, Mar 2026

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 L'amoreaux Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 860 m away, View centre hours.

  • L'amoreaux Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 2000 Mcnicoll Ave
    View centre hours
    860 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 429 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Kreative Kids Terry Fox (334 m, 99 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km7 centres · 429 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 7
  • Kreative Kids Terry Fox · 185 Wintermute Blvd
    99 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    334 m
  • Family Day Kennedy Extended Day & School Age Program · 20 Elmfield Cres
    43 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    588 m
  • Agile Innovators Montessori · 390 Bamburgh Cir
    59 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    745 m
  • Cheer Day Care Centre · 3300 Kennedy Rd
    47 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    792 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 241 (781 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.6 km away.

FireFire Station 241 · 781 m3325 Warden Ave
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 24 · 1.6 km3061 Birchmount Rd

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

Within a kilometre there is one RentSafeTO-registered apartment building — 332 rental units. The nearest is 125 Bamburgh Crcl (1.0 km, 332 units, 20 storeys, built 1978), which scored 90 out of 100 at its October 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation.

Registered buildings1 · 332 units
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20260 across the 1
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
125 Bamburgh Crcl · Sterling Karamar Property Management33220197890 · Oct 202401 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 lots178 lots · ≈44,140 spaces · 132.4 ha
Within 500 m1 lot · ≈50 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingno post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 16 bikes within 600 m

Nearest lots: 308 m away, ≈46 spaces; 509 m away, ≈2 spaces; 565 m away, ≈2 spaces; 596 m away, ≈13 spaces; 613 m away, ≈83 spaces; 623 m away, ≈2 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 — 14-hour, Oct 19, 2024 (a weekend day)

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 16,183 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 23 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north5,925southbound · 65 bikes · 1.2% heavy
From the west1,027eastbound · 83 bikes · 0.3% heavy
Total vehicles14,088542 pedestrians · 273 cyclists · 1.1% heavy
From the east1,450westbound · 69 bikes · 0.6% heavy
From the south5,686northbound · 56 bikes · 1.1% heavy
AM peak hour982 vehicles from 9:30 a.m.
PM peak hour1,325 vehicles from 2:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Oct 19, 2024 · weekend

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

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. 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). The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Wintermute Blvd (193 m away, 30 km/h limit), 9.7% of the 55,108 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Birchmount Rd · Walkway S of Wintermute and W of Birchmount – Wintermute Blvd · 53 mNov 2020 · 3 days11,05463 km/h71 km/h77 km/h
Wintermute Blvd · Walkway S of Wintermute and E of Belinda – Triangle Villas Dr · 283 mSep 2024 · 3 days2,51238 km/h44 km/h49 km/h
Sanwood Blvd · Tom Wells Cres – Burnt Bark Dr · 302 mSep 2021 · 3 days2,18935 km/h43 km/h47 km/h

School-zone speed sign 193 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct27 · 38 km/h
Over the limit27%
40 km/h or more9.7%

Wintermute Blvd (northbound), 194 Wintermute Boulevard · 55,108 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

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, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jan 13, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 3.2 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions45#2210 of 5,508
With an injury11#1549 of 4,660
Property damage only32
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian1#2236 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201460latest Jan 13, 2026

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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Dec 8, 2010.

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

Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 10, 2015. 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. It ranks #1372 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, about the median for a counted intersection.

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), 9.7% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Birchmount & Sanwood?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 178 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 44,140 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, 68, 43, 42, 953, 968 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 30 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Kreative Kids Terry Fox (334 m), Dr. Norman Bethune C.i. - Snp (596 m), Crown Jewel Fine Dining (600 m), D & R Wings Restaurant (600 m) and Good Taste Casserole Rice (600 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 Birchmount & Sanwood?

The nearest is L'amoreaux Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 2000 Mcnicoll Ave, 860 m away (View centre hours). 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 Birchmount & Sanwood?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 429 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Kreative Kids Terry Fox (334 m, 99 spaces), Family Day Kennedy Extended Day & School Age Program (588 m, 43 spaces) and Agile Innovators Montessori (745 m, 59 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Birchmount & Sanwood?

One RentSafeTO-registered apartment building with 332 rental units is within 1 km. The nearest is 125 Bamburgh Crcl (1.0 km, 332 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 1 is 90 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.

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

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