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Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W

Toronto, Ontario · Rustic · Ward 5, York South-Weston

In Rustic, Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W is one of the ten busiest intersections in Toronto. It has a live City traffic camera at the corner. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. It is among the hundred Toronto intersections with the most reported collisions.

Traffic volume
61,073
vehicles · 14-hour count, May 26, 2026
229 pedestrians · 92 cyclists · #6 busiest
Collisions
628
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
79 with an injury · 505 property damage · #66 of 5,508 · +37 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
2
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 0 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #285 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
0
TTC stops within 100 m
5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 4,360 vehicles an hour, 3.8× the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 267 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 63 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 10.3 per 10,000 counted vehicles, 2.1× the median rate for counted intersections. The pace has been steady: 310 collisions in 2016–2020 and 318 in 2021–2025. About one in 314 of those collisions involved a death or serious injury.

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Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W

Live traffic camera

The City's RESCU camera at Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W — a 320 × 240 still the City replaces every few minutes, with the frame's age and its four fixed reference views

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Live camera RESCU 8110 · Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W
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Fixed views the City's reference still for each direction

The City's own feed for Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W, published as a 320 × 240 still that its server replaces every few minutes — the card checks for a new frame every 45 seconds while you are on the page (Reload checks now) and says whether the frame changed. The fixed views are the City's reference stills showing where the camera points in each direction.

Live camera · RESCU 8110 · Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W
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Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
52593579158 nearest 232 m
Express
952935
Blue Night
352335
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Lawrence Ave W / Renfield St 394 m · 11 docks · 4 stations, 59 docks 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 (11)
  • Brookhaven Public SchoolEnglish Public · 301 m
  • Amesbury Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 384 m
  • Gracefield Public SchoolEnglish Public · 501 m
  • St Bernard Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 551 m
  • Chaminade College SchoolEnglish Separate · 593 m
  • P T Montessori SchoolPrivate · 1 km
  • and 5 more
Community centres
  • Amesbury Sports Complex600 m
  • Amesbury Community Centre0.9 km
Parks (17)
  • Olympia Park335 m
  • Gracefield Park411 m
  • Upwood Greenbelt445 m
  • Westview Greenbelt645 m
  • Harding Park694 m
  • Hearst Circle Parkette754 m
  • and 11 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Amesbury Park branch686 m
Signal
1348, activated 1981 · SA2

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

There are 7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores, and 44 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Red & White Mediterranean Cuisine, 153 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2025 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés7 within 300 m · 44 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 16 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Red & White Mediterranean Cuisine · 1635 Lawrence Ave W, Unit-10153 mPassed, Mar 2025 · 2 infractions
Duhok Shawarma · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-10154 mPassed, Aug 2026
Dulce Aroma · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Bldg-17154 mPassed, Apr 2026
Dynasty House Seafood Restaurant · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-12grocery154 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions
Heart Broken Cantina · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-8154 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Mama's Tofu · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-3a154 mPassed, Jun 2026
Pho Bo To · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-4154 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Superking Supermarket · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-1grocery154 mPassed, Sep 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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 534 m away at Upwood Greenbelt.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Upwood Greenbelt drinking fountain · 534 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

Three licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 256 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Brookhaven Child Care (301 m, 151 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km3 centres · 256 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 3
  • Brookhaven Child Care · 70 Brookhaven Dr
    151 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    301 m
  • Brookhaven Child Care - St. Bernard Site · 12 Duckworth St
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    551 m
  • Prodigy Learning Centre Inc. · 1545 Jane St
    34 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    1 km

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 133 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 12 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.5 km away.

FireFire Station 133 · 1 km1505 Lawrence Ave W
Police12 Division · 1.3 km200 Trethewey Drive
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 10 · 1.5 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

29 registered apartment buildings with 3,355 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, seven of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1640 Lawrence Ave W (133 m, 92 units, 9 storeys, built 1965), which scored 73 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 85 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings29 · 3,355 units · 7 social housing
RentSafeTO score85 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202685 across the 29
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest23 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1640 Lawrence Ave W · Drake Property Management929196573 · Jul 20262133 m
101 Brookhaven Dr193196595 · Oct 20250183 m
1619 Lawrence Ave W244196282 · Sep 20250237 m
1630 Lawrence Ave Wsocial housing · Affordable Property Management1008199476 · Nov 20251253 m
1724 Lawrence Ave W · 354256 Ontario Ltd303195978 · Jul 20261261 m
1728 Lawrence Ave W · 2143753 Ontario Inc344196090 · Oct 20250288 m
1750 Lawrence Ave W704197996 · Oct 20250353 m
1622 Lawrence Ave WToronto Community Housing · Del Managment203195584 · Nov 20251372 m

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 lots368 lots · ≈37,970 spaces · 113.9 ha
Within 500 m18 lots · ≈1,320 spaces
Green P (public)2 car parks · about 70 spaces
EV charging (City)1812 Weston Rd · 1.7 km · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
4 Rosemount Avenue · Surface1.6 km34 *
1169 Weston Rd · Surface2 km3658% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 138 m away, ≈96 spaces; 153 m away, ≈288 spaces; 181 m away, ≈32 spaces; 190 m away, ≈18 spaces; 234 m away, ≈21 spaces; 264 m away, ≈80 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, May 26, 2026

The north leg carries the load — 20,562 southbound vehicles, or 34% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 10,459. Most cyclists arrived from the west (59 of 92). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 4,918 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 5,284 from 5:15 p.m. Trucks and buses were 5.5% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north20,562southbound · 2 bikes · 5.5% heavy
From the west10,459eastbound · 59 bikes · 4.7% heavy
Total vehicles61,073229 pedestrians · 92 cyclists · 5.5% heavy
From the east15,987westbound · 25 bikes · 5.2% heavy
From the south14,065northbound · 6 bikes · 6.5% heavy
AM peak hour4,918 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour5,284 vehicles from 5:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · May 26, 2026

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 Lawrence Ave W between Chiswick Ave and Renfield St (351 m away) recorded an average of 47 km/h in its 3-day count in April 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 58 km/h. That segment carries about 22,700 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Lawrence Ave W · Chiswick Ave – Renfield St · 351 mApr 2024 · 3 days22,73247 km/h58 km/h63 km/h

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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 81 collisions. 13% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 53 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 8% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 1% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 37 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 26, 2026.

By year

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Exposure-adjusted: 10.3 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions628#66 of 5,508
With an injury79#98 of 4,660
Property damage only505
Fail to remain53
Involving a pedestrian1#2237 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist3#729 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist2
With a fatality0
Severity not classified44
Since January 2026 (outside the window)37
All since 2014834latest Jun 26, 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

Neither of the two serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025 was fatal. 1 motorcyclist was among those hurt; one collision involved vehicle occupants only. One of the two happened in darkness. The most recent was on Jul 8, 2019. Going back to 2006, the total is 3.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions2#285 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
In darkness1
All KSI since 20063latest Jul 8, 2019

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W a dangerous intersection?

By collision count, yes: it ranks #66 of 5,508 Toronto intersections for police-reported collisions in 2016–2025, and 2 of those left someone killed or seriously injured. 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 Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W?

One of the ten busiest intersections in Toronto. It ranks #6 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 3.8× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Lawrence Ave W between Chiswick Ave and Renfield St (April 2024), found an average of 47 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 58 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W?

The nearest Green P car park is 4 Rosemount Avenue (1.6 km away, 34 spaces). The City's mapping shows 368 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 37,970 spaces — 18 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1812 Weston Rd (1.7 km).

How do I get to Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W by transit?

Bus routes 52, 59, 35, 79, 158, 952, 935 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W?

7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 44 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Red & White Mediterranean Cuisine (153 m), Duhok Shawarma (154 m), Dulce Aroma (154 m), Heart Broken Cantina (154 m) and Mama's Tofu (154 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 Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 534 m away at Upwood Greenbelt. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W?

Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 256 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Brookhaven Child Care (301 m, 151 spaces), Brookhaven Child Care - St. Bernard Site (551 m, 71 spaces) and Prodigy Learning Centre Inc. (1.0 km, 34 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W?

29 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,355 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1640 Lawrence Ave W (133 m, 92 units, RentSafeTO score 73), 101 Brookhaven Dr (183 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 1619 Lawrence Ave W (237 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 82) and 1630 Lawrence Ave W (253 m, 100 units, RentSafeTO score 76). The average RentSafeTO score across the 29 is 85 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 Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W in?

Black Creek Dr & Lawrence Ave W is in Rustic (City of Toronto neighbourhood 028), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 5, York South-Weston, represented by Councillor Frances Nunziata.

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