Brookside & Corley

Traffic volume8-hour count · Jan 29, 2001

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 803 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 52% of the total, against 2 from the west. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 352 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 38% above the afternoon peak from 5:00 p.m. (256). Heavy vehicles made up 2.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 26 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2001, not today's volume. It was an 8-hour count, which is not directly comparable with the 14-hour counts the City has used since September 2023.

Peak hours: 352 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 256 from 5:00 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 2018, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Aug 1, 2023.

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

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 Corley Ave between Brookside Dr and Glenmount Park Rd, 37 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in March 2020 put the average speed at 29 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 44 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 49 km/h or more. That segment carries about 800 vehicles a day. The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Brookside Dr between Burgess Ave and Beachview Cres measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 36 km/h (Mar 2020). At the school-zone speed sign on Kingston Rd (168 m away, 40 km/h limit), 11% of the 182,634 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem. 4 speed humps slow traffic on Brookside Drive between Gerrard St E and Corley Ave (installed 2005), and 1 more calmed segment ends here.

Speed sign

Kingston Rd (westbound), 168 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 39 km/h, 85th percentile 48 km/h; 11% at 50 km/h or more. 182,634 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

Brookside Drive (Gerrard St E – Corley Ave): 4 speed humps (installed 2005); Corley Avenue (Woodbine Ave – Brookside Dr): 4 speed humps

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.

Not within a walk: a grocery store.

• Groceries and food7/30

  2 places to eat within 300 m

• Transit12/28

  4 stops within 300 m · 7 routes within 1 km

• Library and places to go3/14

  library 1.1 km away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km

• Parks and recreation6/10

  2 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 0.8 km

• Schools and child care6/8

  1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m

• Crossing on foot2/10

  traffic calming

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.

Within a kilometre there are 34 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,595 rental units, 2.3× the median for a Toronto intersection — ten social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 441 Kingston Rd (104 m, 15 units, 3 storeys, built 1920), which scored 89 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm.

34 registered buildings · 1,595 units · 10 social housing · tallest 9 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.

Three thefts from vehicles and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. Since January 2026, 3 more have been reported, the latest on Apr 7, 2026.

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 East End-Danforth.

• Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Jan 29, 2001.
• 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); Traffic Calming Database.
• 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.
• Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
• 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 19 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: 43.67742, -79.30475 · centreline node 13462000.