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Boem & Ainsdale

Boem Ave & Ainsdale Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Wexford/Maryvale · Ward 21, Scarborough Centre

In Wexford/Maryvale, Boem & Ainsdale is a lightly travelled intersection. Nearby is 7 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
523
vehicles · 8-hour count, Mar 29, 2023
24 pedestrians · 5 cyclists
Collisions
4
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 3 property damage · #5109 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
1
TTC stop within 100 m
4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 70 vehicles an hour, 6% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 22 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 0.4 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Boem & Ainsdale

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
68541767 nearest 99 m
Express
954968
Blue Night
354
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m — Warden Ave at Boem Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Dulverton Rd / Birchmount Rd 805 m · 11 docks · 1 station, 11 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 (15)
  • Buchanan Public SchoolEnglish Public · 526 m
  • Manhattan Park Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 532 m
  • Bond Academy SchoolPrivate · 949 m
  • St Kevin Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
  • Wexford Collegiate School For the ArtsEnglish Public · 1 km
  • George Peck Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • and 9 more
Parks (6)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library McGregor Park branch1.1 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 8 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 79. The nearest is Boustan, 277 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2024.

Restaurants & cafés8 within 300 m · 79 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 23 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Boustan · 2072 Lawrence Ave E, Unit-A2277 mPassed, Mar 2024
Narcos Tacos · 2072 Lawrence Ave E278 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
Al Bassam · 2080 Lawrence Ave E A289 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 2 infractions
Shelby's Shawarma · 2072 Lawrence Ave E291 mPassed, May 2026
Lebanese Bakery · 2094 Lawrence Ave E Unit-2grocery291 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Potato Bar · 2068 Lawrence Ave E292 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
Farooj Abo Alabad · 2064 Lawrence Ave E Unit-2064293 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Habibz Corner · 2088a Lawrence Ave E294 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions

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 City washroom within 1 km.

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

Two licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 79 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Scarborough Citadel Child Care (394 m, 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km2 centres · 79 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 2
  • Scarborough Citadel Child Care · 2021 Lawrence Ave E
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    394 m
  • Buchanan Extended Day & School Age Program · 4 Bucannan Rd
    30 spaces · school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    526 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 245 (1.6 km), the nearest police station 41 Division (2.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.9 km away.

FireFire Station 245 · 1.6 km1600 Birchmount Rd
Police41 Division · 2.4 km2222 Eglinton Avenue East
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 20 · 1.9 km2430 Lawrence Ave E

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 are six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 923 rental units — three social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2015 Lawrence Ave E (405 m, 158 units, 11 storeys, built 1994), which scored 96 out of 100 at its September 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 93, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 14 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings6 · 923 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score93 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202614 across the 6
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest15 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2015 Lawrence Ave Esocial housing15811199496 · Sep 20260405 m
2155 Lawrence Ave Esocial housing · Aldebrain Attendant Care Services of Toronto24311199392 · Nov 20251761 m
1236 Birchmount Rd · Homes First Property Management Inc.2201520231 · 2 fire803 m
1860 Lawrence Ave Esocial housing908197898 · Sep 20240842 m
1255 Birchmount Rd · Signet Group Inc.706196089 · Aug 20269878 m
2185 Lawrence Ave E · Shelborne Property Management14212196890 · Dec 202531 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 lots424 lots · ≈67,340 spaces · 202 ha
Within 500 m29 lots · ≈3,240 spaces
Green P (public)2 car parks · about 115 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking2 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1940 Lawrence Avenue East · Surface584 m25 *
Lawrence East Lot - Near 2450 Lawrence Ave East · Surface2 km90 *

Nearest lots: 68 m away, ≈37 spaces; 188 m away, ≈36 spaces; 259 m away, ≈15 spaces; 289 m away, ≈476 spaces; 329 m away, ≈26 spaces; 336 m away, ≈23 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 — 8-hour, Mar 29, 2023

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 179 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 34% of the total, against 111 from the north. Evening rush dominates here: 80 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 73 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since. It was an 8-hour count, which is not directly comparable with the 14-hour counts the City has used since September 2023.

From the north111southbound · 3 bikes · 0.9% heavy
From the west179eastbound · 0 bikes · 4.5% heavy
Total vehicles52324 pedestrians · 5 cyclists · 2.9% heavy
From the east113westbound · 0 bikes · 4.4% heavy
From the south120northbound · 2 bikes · 0.8% heavy
AM peak hour73 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour80 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Mar 29, 2023

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 Boem Ave between Ainsdale Rd and Compton Dr, 96 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2023 put the average speed at 37 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 45 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 51 km/h or more. That segment carries about 400 vehicles a day. Ainsdale Rd between Lawrence Ave E and Guild Hall Dr measured slower: 26 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 37 km/h (Dec 2009).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Boem Ave · Ainsdale Rd – Compton Dr · 96 mMar 2023 · 3 days37937 km/h45 km/h51 km/h
Ainsdale Rd · Lawrence Ave E – Guild Hall Dr · 276 mDec 2009 · 24 h18326 km/h37 km/h43 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 worst year was 2023, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 25% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Jan 8, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions4#5109 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only3
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 20145latest Jan 8, 2025

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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

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

Three thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle300house driveway/garage (3)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Nov 14, 2019. 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 Wexford/Maryvale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Boem & Ainsdale a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 4 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 Boem & Ainsdale?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Mar 29, 2023, 6% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Boem & Ainsdale?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Boem Ave between Ainsdale Rd and Compton Dr (March 2023), found an average of 37 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 45 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Boem & Ainsdale?

The nearest Green P car park is 1940 Lawrence Avenue East (584 m away, 25 spaces). The City's mapping shows 424 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 67,340 spaces — 29 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Boem & Ainsdale by transit?

Bus routes 68, 54, 17, 67, 954, 968 within 1 km (nearest stop: Warden Ave at Boem Ave, 99 m).

What restaurants are near Boem & Ainsdale?

8 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 79 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Boustan (277 m), Narcos Tacos (278 m), Al Bassam (289 m), Shelby's Shawarma (291 m) and Potato Bar (292 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there child care near Boem & Ainsdale?

Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 79 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Scarborough Citadel Child Care (394 m, 49 spaces) and Buchanan Extended Day & School Age Program (526 m, 30 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Boem & Ainsdale?

Six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 923 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2015 Lawrence Ave E (405 m, 158 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 2155 Lawrence Ave E (761 m, 243 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 1236 Birchmount Rd (803 m, 220 units) and 1860 Lawrence Ave E (842 m, 90 units, RentSafeTO score 98). The average RentSafeTO score across the 6 is 93 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.

How many thefts are reported at Boem & Ainsdale?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Wexford/Maryvale page.

What neighbourhood is Boem & Ainsdale in?

Boem & Ainsdale is in Wexford/Maryvale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 119). It is in Ward 21, Scarborough Centre, represented by Councillor Michael Thompson.

Sources

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