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Driftwood & Yewtree

Driftwood Ave & Yewtree Blvd · Toronto, Ontario · Glenfield-Jane Heights · Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek

Driftwood & Yewtree, in Glenfield-Jane Heights, is a quiet local crossing, with a strong pedestrian presence. It has a park at the corner. Nearby: Driftwood Station (Line 6) 325 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic
7,255
vehicles · 14-hour count, Apr 23, 2025
2,294 pedestrians · 59 cyclists
Collisions
21
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
2
TTC stops within 100 m
Driftwood Station 325 m · 9 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
49/100
city median 48 · #2,816 of 5,672
1 place to eat within 300 m · grocery 443 m

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Driftwood & Yewtree

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 · Apr 23, 2025

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The north leg carries the load — 2,783 southbound vehicles, or 38% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 1,922. Most cyclists arrived from the north (36 of 59). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 697 vehicles in the hour from 3:15 p.m., 19% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (588). Heavy vehicles made up 4.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 18 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north2,783southbound · 36 bikes · 5.4% heavy
From the west1,922eastbound · 4 bikes · 2.9% heavy
Total vehicles7,2552,294 pedestrians · 59 cyclists · 4.9% heavy
From the east0westbound · 8 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south2,550northbound · 11 bikes · 6.0% heavy

Peak hours: 588 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 697 from 3:15 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

2023 was the peak year (5 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 38% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 19% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 24% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). The most recent report on file is from Oct 15, 2025.

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions212.9 a year per 10,000 daily vehicles
With an injury8#2152 of 4,669
Property damage only10
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian4#1081 of 3,196
Involving a cyclist1
Severity not classified3
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

The City's counter on Driftwood Ave between Langdale Court Greenbelt Trl and Yewtree Blvd (30 m away) recorded an average of 45 km/h in its 24-hour count in March 2011; 85% of drivers were at or under 52 km/h. That segment carries about 5,700 vehicles a day. The reading is 15 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Topcliff Ave (166 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.1% of the 17,919 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Driftwood Ave · Langdale Court Greenbelt Trl – Yewtree Blvd · 30 mMar 2011 · 24 h5,67745 km/h52 km/h57 km/h
Speed sign
Topcliff Ave (eastbound), 166 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 30 km/h, 85th percentile 37 km/h; 0.1% at 50 km/h or more. 17,919 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

Subway
Driftwood Station (Line 6)325 m · 4 min; Jane and Finch Station (Line 6)535 m · 6 min; Tobermory Station (Line 6)777 m · 9 min
TTC bus
108 35 99 nearest 12 m
Express
935
Blue Night
335 336
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Driftwood Ave at Yewtree Blvd
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Driftwood Ave / Finch Corridor Trail 698 m · 8 min · 19 docks · 3 stations, 53 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
320 DRIFTWOOD AVE · 1.5 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking
none recorded nearby
Other lots
18 mapped lots within 500 m, 197 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

The nearest grocery store is Starfish Caribbean Market, 443 m away; 6 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. There is 1 restaurant, café or takeout within 300 m, and 39 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is McDonald's, 278 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Shoppers Drug Mart, 216 m away; 5 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Humber River Health, York-Finch site, 1.2 km away. For seniors' housing: Hawthorne Place Care Centre, a long-term care home 845 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • McDonald's · 1831 Finch Ave W278 m · 3 min
  • Pizza Pizza · 1837 Finch Ave W320 m · 4 min
  • Pita Land · 1841 Finch Ave W404 m · 5 min
  • Roti Palace · 1845 Finch Ave W405 m · 5 min
  • Mona's Jerk · 3943 Jane St443 m · 5 min
1 within 300 m · 39 within 1 km
Grocery
Starfish Caribbean Market 443 m · 5 min · 6 within 1 km
Food shops
Al Marwa Sunrise Meats 444 m · 5 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Pharmacy
Shoppers Drug Mart 216 m · 5 within 1 km
Child care
  • Topcliff Community Child Care · 95 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day399 m · 5 min
  • St. Francis de Sales Jr Y · 69 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day432 m · 5 min
  • Sandalwood Centre For Early Learning (Centres For Early Learning Inc.) · 145 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day451 m · 5 min
7 licensed centres · 610 spaces within 1 km · 6 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Derrydowns Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible1 km · 12 min
Drinking water: Topcliff Park 549 m · 7 min (off)
Health and care
  • Humber River Health, York-Finch site · hospital site1.2 km · 15 min
  • Hawthorne Place Care Centre · long-term care home845 m · 10 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 (11)
  • Langdale Court Greenbelt169 m
  • Topcliff Park554 m · 7 min
  • Yorkwoods Park610 m · 7 min
  • Derrydowns Park918 m · 11 min
  • Firgrove Park931 m · 11 min
and 6 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (11)
  • Topcliff Public SchoolEnglish Public · 399 m · 5 min
  • St Francis de Sales Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 432 m · 5 min
  • Yorkwoods Public SchoolEnglish Public · 621 m · 7 min
  • Firgrove Public SchoolEnglish Public · 693 m · 8 min
  • Seneca College (Yorkgate Campus)College · 799 m · 10 min
and 6 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library York Woods branch840 m · 10 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.

49of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,816 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food11/30

    6 grocery stores within 1 km · 1 place to eat within 300 m

  • Transit20/28

    Driftwood Station 0.3 km · 4 stops within 300 m · 9 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go5/14

    library 840 m away

  • Parks and recreation5/10

    1 park within 500 m · nearest centre 1.1 km

  • Schools and child care8/8

    2 schools within 500 m · 3 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

17 registered apartment buildings with 3,026 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 101 Driftwood Ave (147 m, 32 units, 4 storeys, built 1971), which scored 88 out of 100 at its September 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
101 Driftwood Ave · 101 Driftwood Apts Ltd324197188 · Sep 2026147 m
2999 Jane St Toronto Community Housing · TCH18815197192 · Oct 2025269 m · 3 min
2970 Jane St · 1597180 Ontario Inc16414197094 · Aug 2024361 m · 4 min
50 Driftwood Ave · Hazelview Property Services Inc10914197092 · Oct 2025423 m · 5 min
2940 Jane St · 1597180 Ontario Inc15313197098 · Aug 2024432 m · 5 min
1825 Finch Ave W · Kings College Management Limited17116197191 · Sep 2026451 m · 5 min

17 registered buildings · 3,026 units · 3 social housing · tallest 34 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

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle310house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (1)
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 Glenfield-Jane Heights.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Driftwood & Yewtree a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 21 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 Driftwood & Yewtree?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Apr 23, 2025, 45% of the median for a counted intersection.

Is Driftwood & Yewtree a walkable intersection?

Driftwood & Yewtree scores 49 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,816 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; 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 · 3 licensed child care within 500 m; Driftwood Station 0.3 km · 4 stops within 300 m · 9 routes within 1 km; 1 park within 500 m · nearest centre 1.1 km.

How fast do cars go at Driftwood & Yewtree?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Driftwood Ave between Langdale Court Greenbelt Trl and Yewtree Blvd (March 2011), found an average of 45 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 52 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 166 m away (40 km/h), 0.1% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Driftwood & Yewtree?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 197 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 27,020 spaces — 18 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 320 DRIFTWOOD AVE (1.5 km).

How do I get to Driftwood & Yewtree by transit?

Driftwood Station (Line 6) is 325 m away; bus routes 108, 35, 99, 935 within 1 km (nearest stop: Driftwood Ave at Yewtree Blvd, 12 m).

What restaurants are near Driftwood & Yewtree?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 39 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are McDonald's (278 m), Pizza Pizza (320 m), Pita Land (404 m), Roti Palace (405 m) and Mona's Jerk (443 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Driftwood & Yewtree?

The nearest is Derrydowns Park Washroom, 271 Derrydown Rd, 1.0 km away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom.

Is there child care near Driftwood & Yewtree?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 610 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Topcliff Community Child Care (399 m, 95 spaces), St. Francis de Sales Jr Y (432 m, 69 spaces) and Sandalwood Centre For Early Learning (Centres For Early Learning Inc.) (451 m, 145 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Driftwood & Yewtree?

17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,026 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 101 Driftwood Ave (147 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 2999 Jane St (269 m, 188 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 2970 Jane St (361 m, 164 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 50 Driftwood Ave (423 m, 109 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 17 is 90 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Driftwood & Yewtree?

Toronto Police place three 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 Glenfield-Jane Heights page.

What neighbourhood is Driftwood & Yewtree in?

Driftwood & Yewtree is in Glenfield-Jane Heights (City of Toronto neighbourhood 025), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek, represented by Councillor Anthony Perruzza.

Sources

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