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Brian & Van Horne

Brian Dr & Van Horne Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Pleasant View · Ward 17, Don Valley North

Brian & Van Horne, in Pleasant View, is a low-volume local intersection. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: 8 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
7,206
vehicles · 14-hour count, Sep 24, 2024
411 pedestrians · 60 cyclists
Collisions
14
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
2
TTC stops within 100 m
8 routes within 1 km · bikeway
Within a walk
40/100
city median 48
12 places to eat within 1 km

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Brian & Van Horne

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 · Sep 24, 2024

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 3,160 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 44% of the total, against 1,082 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the west (38 of 60). Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 892 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 12% above the afternoon peak from 3:00 p.m. (794). Heavy vehicles made up 2.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 2 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west3,160eastbound · 38 bikes · 2.6% heavy
Total vehicles7,206411 pedestrians · 60 cyclists · 2.6% heavy
From the east2,964westbound · 16 bikes · 1.9% heavy
From the south1,082northbound · 6 bikes · 4.7% heavy

Peak hours: 892 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 794 from 3:00 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 2024, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 3 collisions (21%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 7% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (7%). Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Aug 6, 2026.

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

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions141.9 a year per 10,000 daily vehicles
With an injury3
Property damage only10
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

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 Van Horne Ave between Bickerton Cres and Taverly Rd, 184 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2026 put the average speed at 37 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 43 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 47 km/h or more. That segment carries about 6,300 vehicles a day. Brian Dr between Margaret Ave and Van Horne Ave measured slower: 35 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 40 km/h (Jun 2025). At the school-zone speed sign on Brian Dr (97 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.5% of the 37,969 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Brian Dr · Margaret Ave – Van Horne Ave · 82 mJun 2025 · 3 days2,61735 km/h40 km/h44 km/h
Van Horne Ave · Bickerton Cres – Taverly Rd · 184 mApr 2026 · 3 days6,30737 km/h43 km/h47 km/h
Speed sign
Brian Dr (southbound), 97 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 29 km/h, 85th percentile 39 km/h; 0.5% at 50 km/h or more. 37,969 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.

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

TTC bus
10 169 24 39 167 nearest 36 m
Express
924 939
Blue Night
339
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Brian Ave at Van Horne Ave; Van Horne Ave at Bickerton Cres
Regional
York Region Transit 024 Woodbine at Victoria Park Av / Van Horne Av462 m · 6 min
Cycling
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Van Horne Ave installed 2006
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
10 mapped lots within 500 m, 150 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 listed within a kilometre of this corner. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 12 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is 241 Pizza, 458 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Pleasant View Pharmacy, 644 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.

Restaurants & cafés
  • 241 Pizza · Victoria Park None458 m · 5 min
  • Flamin' Frost · 2830 Victoria Park Ave557 m · 7 min
  • Aoyama Vip · 2770 Victoria Park Ave592 m · 7 min
  • Family Shawarma and Falafel · 2778 Victoria Park Ave610 m · 7 min
  • John Anderson Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers · 2832 Victoria Park Ave610 m · 7 min
0 within 300 m · 12 within 1 km
Food shops
Marjo Bakery 610 m · 7 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Pharmacy
Pleasant View Pharmacy 644 m · 8 min
Child care
  • Kateri Kids Child Care Centre · 46 spaces, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day472 m · 6 min
  • Brian Drive School Age Program (YMCA) · 75 spaces, school age · fee subsidy707 m · 8 min
  • Brian's Petit Amis · 86 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day707 m · 8 min
4 licensed centres · 264 spaces within 1 km · 3 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Pleasantview Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed359 m · 4 min
  • Clydesdale Park Tennis Clubhouse Universal Washroom · 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.933 m · 11 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 (10)
  • Van Horne Park309 m · 4 min
  • Pleasantview Park697 m · 8 min
  • Fairglen Park862 m · 10 min
  • Clydesdale Park946 m · 11 min
  • Pinto Park1 km · 12 min
and 5 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (12)
  • Pleasant View Jr High SchoolEnglish Public · 152 m
  • St Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 472 m · 6 min
  • Pure Degree Mandarin SchoolPrivate · 597 m · 7 min
  • Brian Public SchoolEnglish Public · 707 m · 8 min
  • Ernest Public SchoolEnglish Public · 893 m · 11 min
and 7 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Pleasant View branch58 m

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 or a care or retirement home.

40of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food3/30

    12 within 1 km

  • Transit15/28

    6 stops within 300 m · 8 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go7/14

    library 58 m away

  • Parks and recreation8/10

    1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care7/8

    2 schools within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

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 three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 640 rental units. The nearest is 70 Clipper Rd (306 m, 206 units, 14 storeys, built 1970), which scored 95 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
70 Clipper Rd · Schickedanz Bros. Properties20614197095 · Jul 2025306 m · 4 min
60 Clipper Rd · Schickedanz Bros. Properties20614197289 · Jul 2025485 m · 6 min
3000 Victoria Park Ave · Ranee Management2286197280 · Jun 2024921 m · 11 min

3 registered buildings · 640 units · tallest 14 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

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

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle400house driveway/garage (2), other (2)
Bicycle theft000—

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 Pleasant View.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Brian & Van Horne a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 14 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 Brian & Van Horne?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Sep 24, 2024, 45% of the median for a counted intersection.

Is Brian & Van Horne a walkable intersection?

Brian & Van Horne scores 40 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: 2 schools within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; 6 stops within 300 m · 8 routes within 1 km.

How fast do cars go at Brian & Van Horne?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Van Horne Ave between Bickerton Cres and Taverly Rd (April 2026), found an average of 37 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 97 m away (40 km/h), 0.5% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Brian & Van Horne?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 150 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,220 spaces — 10 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Brian & Van Horne by transit?

Bus routes 10, 169, 24, 39, 167, 924, 939 within 1 km (nearest stop: Brian Ave at Van Horne Ave, 36 m); York Region Transit route 024 Woodbine at Victoria Park Av / Van Horne Av.

What restaurants are near Brian & Van Horne?

None within 300 m, and 12 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are 241 Pizza (458 m), Flamin' Frost (557 m), Aoyama Vip (592 m), Family Shawarma and Falafel (610 m) and John Anderson Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers (610 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Brian & Van Horne?

The nearest is Pleasantview Community Centre Washroom, 545 Van Horne Ave, 359 m away. Next nearest: Clydesdale Park Tennis Clubhouse Universal Washroom (933 m).

Is there child care near Brian & Van Horne?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 264 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Kateri Kids Child Care Centre (472 m, 46 spaces), Brian Drive School Age Program (YMCA) (707 m, 75 spaces) and Brian's Petit Amis (707 m, 86 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Brian & Van Horne?

Three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 640 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 70 Clipper Rd (306 m, 206 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 60 Clipper Rd (485 m, 206 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 3000 Victoria Park Ave (921 m, 228 units, RentSafeTO score 80). The average RentSafeTO score across the 3 is 88 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Brian & Van Horne?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Pleasant View page.

What neighbourhood is Brian & Van Horne in?

Brian & Van Horne is in Pleasant View (City of Toronto neighbourhood 046). It is in Ward 17, Don Valley North, represented by Councillor Shelley Carroll.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined