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Chesswood & Vanley (South)

Chesswood Dr & Vanley Cres (South) · Toronto, Ontario · York University Heights · Ward 6, York Centre · DuKe Heights BIA

Chesswood & Vanley (South) is a mid-volume intersection. It sits in York University Heights. At the corner: a protected bikeway and a school within 250 m. Nearby: Downsview Park Station (Line 1) 703 m away and Downsview Park GO 666 m away.

Traffic volume
11,017
vehicles · 14-hour count, Apr 14, 2026
231 pedestrians · 40 cyclists · #1635 busiest
Collisions
60
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
11 with an injury · 37 property damage · #1789 of 5,508 · +7 since Jan 2026
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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
Downsview Park Station 703 m · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 790 vehicles an hour over its 14-hour span, 68% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 48 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 6 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 5.5 per 10,000 counted vehicles, in line with the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions fell 42%, from 38 in 2016–2020 to 22 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Chesswood & Vanley (South)

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Downsview Park Station (Line 1)703 m
GO Transit
Downsview Park GO — Barrie666 m
TTC bus
107101841061083641 nearest 23 m
Express
984941
Blue Night
384336341
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Chesswood Dr at Vanley Cres (South); Chesswood Dr at Vanley Cres (South) South Side
Cycling
Cycle Track on Chesswood Dr installed 2023
Bike Share
Sheppard Ave W / Chesswood Dr 538 m · 19 docks · 3 stations, 54 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 (9)
  • Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary SchoolPrivate · 134 m
  • Nygh Outpatient and Community Services Centre/Urban InternationalPrivate · 889 m
  • Adelfiha's Christian AcademyPrivate · 1 km
  • Derrydown Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.3 km
  • James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.3 km
  • Centennial College - Downsview CampusCollege · 1.4 km
  • and 3 more
Parks (4)
  • Kennard Parkette1.2 km
  • Garthdale Parkette1.2 km
  • Grandravine Park1.4 km
  • Bratty Park1.5 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 2 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 80. The nearest is Ve'ahavta, 136 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2026.

Restaurants & cafés2 within 300 m · 80 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 15 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Ve'ahavta · 4100 Chesswood Dr Unit-1136 mPassed, Sep 2026
Cafe Saggio · 4069 Chesswood Dr204 mPassed, Jan 2026
Ec Cafe · 28 Vanley Cres337 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Dashmart · 4476 Chesswood Dr, Unit-5340 mPassed, Mar 2024 · 1 infraction
Fuel UP Smoothies & Shakes · 4000 Chesswood Dr356 mPassed, Jun 2026
Penalty Box Chesswood · 4000 Chesswood Dr Unit-2356 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions
Bakerberry's · 3958 Chesswood Dr366 mPassed, Mar 2024
Delicious Solutions · 3974 Chesswood Dr366 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction

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

One licensed child care centre within a kilometre offers 98 spaces; it accepts City fee subsidy. The nearest is Finch Business Park Child Care (646 m, 98 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km1 centre · 98 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 1
  • Finch Business Park Child Care · 1183a Finch Ave W
    98 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    646 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 141 (1.4 km), the nearest police station 31 Division (4.0 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.0 km away.

FireFire Station 141 · 1.4 km4100 Keele St
Police31 Division · 4 km40 Norfinch Drive
AmbulanceEMS Headquarters/EMS 53 Stn/Fire Headquarters · 1 km4330 Dufferin St

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 is one RentSafeTO-registered apartment building — 92 rental units. The nearest is 3710 Keele St (1.0 km, 92 units, 9 storeys, built 1972), which scored 84 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation.

Registered buildings1 · 92 units
RentSafeTO score84 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20260 across the 1
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest9 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
3710 Keele St · N.h.d. Developments Limited929197284 · Sep 202501 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 lots422 lots · ≈102,370 spaces · 307.1 ha
Within 500 m46 lots · ≈13,050 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 335 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingno post-and-rings within 300 m · Indoor bike station, 3955 Keele St (1.2 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
3950 Keele Street · Surface1.3 km335 *

Nearest lots: 43 m away, ≈24 spaces; 45 m away, ≈47 spaces; 59 m away, ≈352 spaces; 64 m away, ≈8 spaces; 70 m away, ≈126 spaces; 87 m away, ≈84 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, Apr 14, 2026

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 5,286 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 48% of the total, against 641 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 1,133 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:30 p.m., against 926 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Trucks and buses were 8.6% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north5,286southbound · 22 bikes · 9.3% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles11,017231 pedestrians · 40 cyclists · 8.6% heavy
From the east641westbound · 2 bikes · 5.6% heavy
From the south5,090northbound · 16 bikes · 8.2% heavy
AM peak hour926 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,133 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Apr 14, 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 most recent midblock count on Chesswood Dr between Steeprock Dr and Vanley Cres (190 m away, Apr 2013) recorded volume only — about 8,799 vehicles a day — with no speed data. At the school-zone speed sign on Chesswood Dr (70 m away, 50 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 1,090 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 60 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Chesswood Dr · Steeprock Dr – Vanley Cres · 190 mApr 2013 · 3 days8,799

School-zone speed sign 70 m

Posted limit50 km/h
Median · 85th pct0 · 29 km/h
Over the limit0.1%
60 km/h or more0.0%

Chesswood Dr (northbound), East Side of Chesswood Dr Fronting No.4361 · 1,090 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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 2019, with 10 collisions; 2025 recorded 5. 11 collisions (18%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 14 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 23% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (2%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 7 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 1, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 5.5 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions60#1789 of 5,508
With an injury11#1561 of 4,660
Property damage only37
Fail to remain14
Involving a pedestrian1#2318 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified12
Since January 2026 (outside the window)7
All since 201475latest Apr 1, 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

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

32 thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 5.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 5 in 2023–2025, about 1.7 a year, against 3.9 a year before that. 63% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Jun 22, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle3251street/outdoor (20), commercial premises (10)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 22, 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 York University Heights.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Chesswood & Vanley (South) a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 60 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 Chesswood & Vanley (South)?

A mid-volume intersection. It ranks #1635 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 68% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Chesswood & Vanley (South)?

The nearest Green P car park is 3950 Keele Street (1.3 km away, 335 spaces). The City's mapping shows 422 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 102,370 spaces — 46 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Chesswood & Vanley (South) by transit?

Downsview Park Station (Line 1) is 703 m away; Downsview Park GO is 666 m away; bus routes 107, 101, 84, 106, 108, 36, 41, 984 and 1 more within 1 km (nearest stop: Chesswood Dr at Vanley Cres (South), 23 m).

What restaurants are near Chesswood & Vanley (South)?

2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 80 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Ve'ahavta (136 m), Cafe Saggio (204 m), Ec Cafe (337 m), Dashmart (340 m) and Fuel UP Smoothies & Shakes (356 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 Chesswood & Vanley (South)?

One licensed child care centre within 1 km, with 98 spaces in total; it accepts City fee subsidy and it is in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest is Finch Business Park Child Care (646 m, 98 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Chesswood & Vanley (South)?

One RentSafeTO-registered apartment building with 92 rental units is within 1 km. The nearest is 3710 Keele St (1.0 km, 92 units, RentSafeTO score 84). The average RentSafeTO score across the 1 is 84 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 Chesswood & Vanley (South)?

Toronto Police place 32 thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. 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 York University Heights page.

What neighbourhood is Chesswood & Vanley (South) in?

Chesswood & Vanley (South) is in York University Heights (City of Toronto neighbourhood 027), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 6, York Centre, represented by Councillor James Pasternak. The corner falls inside the DuKe Heights Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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