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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · Apr 18, 2023
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 337 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 41 from the west. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 123 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 38% above the afternoon peak from 2:00 p.m. (89). Heavy vehicles made up 2.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 4 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.
Peak hours: 123 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 89 from 2:00 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 1 collision; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Dec 14, 2024.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 2 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 2 | |
| Fail to remain | 0 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
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 Cathedral Bluffs Dr between Purley Cres and Earl Rd, 98 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2024 put the average speed at 35 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 2,000 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Sloley Rd (218 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.5% of the 15,567 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cathedral Bluffs Dr · Purley Cres – Earl Rd · 98 m | May 2024 · 3 days | 1,996 | 35 km/h | 43 km/h | 47 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Sloley Rd (westbound), 218 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 31 km/h, 85th percentile 39 km/h; 0.5% at 50 km/h or more. 15,567 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
- 12 86 102 9 69 nearest 378 m · 5 min
- Express
- 902
- Nearest stops
- no surface stop within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Brooklawn Ave / Kingston Rd 813 m · 10 min · 11 docks · 2 stations, 26 docks 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
- 6 mapped lots within 500 m, 87 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 within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Michael's No Frills, 375 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 28 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 562 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Shoppers Drug Mart, 414 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Tim Hortons · 3090 Kingston Rd562 m · 7 min
- Osmow's Shawarma · 3025 Kingston Rd596 m · 7 min
- Sushi & Tea · 3027 Kingston Rd603 m · 7 min
- Subway · 3009 Kingston Rd615 m · 7 min
- The Korner Pub · 3045 Kingston Rd622 m · 7 min
- Grocery
- Michael's No Frills 375 m · 4 min
- Food shops
- Cliffside Hearth Bread Company 620 m · 7 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Shoppers Drug Mart 414 m · 5 min
- Child care
- St Agatha Catholic Before & After School Program · 86 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day167 m
- Fairmount Sunshine Child Care · 110 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day524 m · 6 min
- Heart Beatz - Halbert Child Care Site · 71 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day754 m · 9 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 (6)
- Balcarra Park1 km · 12 min
- Cudia Park1.1 km · 13 min
- Barkdene Park1.1 km · 13 min
- Halbert Park1.1 km · 14 min
- Cathedral Bluffs Park1.2 km · 14 min
- Schools
- St Agatha Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 167 m
- Fairmount Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 524 m · 6 min
- H A Halbert Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 754 m · 9 min
- R H King AcademyEnglish Public · 1 km · 11 min
- Anson Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.3 km · 15 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Cliffcrest branch613 m · 7 min
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 community centre, a public washroom or a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
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 is one RentSafeTO-registered apartment building — 18 rental units. The nearest is 3171 Kingston Rd (921 m, 18 units, 4 storeys, built 1960), which scored 92 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3171 Kingston Rd | 18 | 4 | 1960 | 92 · Jul 2026 | 921 m · 11 min |
1 registered building · 18 units · tallest 4 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
Two thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 2 | 1 | 0 | house driveway/garage (1), other (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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 Cliffcrest.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North) a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 2 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 Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North)?
A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Apr 18, 2023, 7% of the median for a counted intersection.
Is Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North) a walkable intersection?
Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North) scores 25 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: 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; library 613 m away; 1 grocery store within 1 km · 28 within 1 km.
How fast do cars go at Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North)?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Cathedral Bluffs Dr between Purley Cres and Earl Rd (May 2024), found an average of 35 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 218 m away (40 km/h), 0.5% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North)?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 87 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,420 spaces — 6 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North) by transit?
Bus routes 12, 86, 102, 9, 69, 902 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North)?
None within 300 m, and 28 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Tim Hortons (562 m), Osmow's Shawarma (596 m), Sushi & Tea (603 m), Subway (615 m) and The Korner Pub (622 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there child care near Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North)?
Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 293 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are St Agatha Catholic Before & After School Program (167 m, 86 spaces), Fairmount Sunshine Child Care (524 m, 110 spaces) and Heart Beatz - Halbert Child Care Site (754 m, 71 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North)?
One RentSafeTO-registered apartment building with 18 rental units is within 1 km. The nearest is 3171 Kingston Rd (921 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 1 is 92 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North)?
Toronto Police place two 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 Cliffcrest page.
What neighbourhood is Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North) in?
Cathedral Bluffs & Purley (North) is in Cliffcrest (City of Toronto neighbourhood 123). It is in Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest, represented by Councillor Parthi Kandavel.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Apr 18, 2023.
- 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).
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; 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 20 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: 43.72248, -79.22954 · centreline node 13454263.