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Dufferin & Steeles

Dufferin St & Steeles Ave W · Toronto, Ontario · York University Heights · Ward 6, York Centre · DuKe Heights BIA

Dufferin & Steeles, in York University Heights, is a heavily travelled arterial crossing. At the corner: a red-light camera in place since 2018 that issued 132 tickets in 2025 and a live City traffic camera. Nearby: 6 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
32,083
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 10, 2022
1,676 pedestrians · 29 cyclists
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
KSI collisions
3
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 1 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #117 of 1,505
Red-light camera
132
tickets in 2025
since 2018 · 67 so far in 2026 · tickets by camera
Transit
4
TTC stops within 100 m
3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 4,010 vehicles an hour, 3.5× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 19 vehicles, close to the citywide median.

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Dufferin & Steeles

Live traffic camera

The City's RESCU camera at Steeles Ave W & Dufferin St — a 320 × 240 still the City replaces every few minutes, with the frame's age and its four fixed reference views

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Live camera RESCU 8118 · Steeles Ave W & Dufferin St · 30 m from the node
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Fixed views the City's reference still for each direction

The City's own feed for Dufferin & Steeles, published as a 320 × 240 still that its server replaces every few minutes — the card checks for a new frame every 45 seconds while you are on the page (Reload checks now) and says whether the frame changed. The fixed views are the City's reference stills showing where the camera points in each direction.

Live camera · RESCU 8118 · Steeles Ave W & Dufferin St
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Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
60105107 nearest 35 m
Express
960
Blue Night
329353
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Steeles Ave West at Dufferin St; Steeles Ave West at Dufferin St East Side
Regional
York Region Transit 003 Thornhill005 Clark105 Dufferin at Dufferin St / Steeles Av26 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
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.

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools
none within 1.5 km
Parks (3)
  • Festival Park873 m
  • Hidden Trail Park1 km
  • G. Ross Lord Park1.2 km
Signal
0619, activated 1968 · SA1

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 19 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 47. The nearest is Cora's Breakfast & Lunch, 39 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2025 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés19 within 300 m · 47 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 8 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Cora's Breakfast & Lunch · 1881 Steeles Ave W, Unit-1339 mPassed, Sep 2025 · 1 infraction
Raj Mahal Indian Cuisine · 1881 Steeles Ave W, Unit-1439 mPassed, Oct 2025
Fresh Burger · 1881 Steeles Ave W Unit-1239 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Kung Fu Tea · 1881 Steeles Ave W39 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Pho Non La · 1881 Steeles Ave W Unit-539 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
Pizza Nova · 1881 Steeles Ave W Unit-1539 mPassed, Feb 2026
Thairoomgrand Steeles · 1881 Steeles Ave W Unit-A1001b39 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Cora's Breakfast & Lunch · 1881 Steeles Ave W Unit-1339 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

Two licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 59 spaces; one accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Playland Ltd - Daycare Centre (452 m, 18 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km2 centres · 59 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 2
  • Playland Ltd - Daycare Centre · 5050 Dufferin St
    18 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    452 m
  • Sunburst Children's Centre · 4905 Dufferin St
    41 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    682 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 112 (2.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.4 km away.

FireFire Station 112 · 2.4 km5700 Bathurst St
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 55 · 2.4 km5700 Bathurst 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 — 120 rental units. The nearest is 1875 Steeles Ave W (194 m, 120 units, 4 storeys, built 1972), which scored 95 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation.

Registered buildings1 · 120 units
RentSafeTO score95 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20264 across the 1
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest4 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1875 Steeles Ave W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.1204197295 · Jul 20254194 m

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 lots169 lots · ≈53,500 spaces · 160.5 ha
Within 500 m8 lots · ≈3,410 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking4 post-and-rings within 300 m

Nearest lots: 74 m away, ≈99 spaces; 110 m away, ≈763 spaces; 181 m away, ≈108 spaces; 184 m away, ≈97 spaces; 245 m away, ≈1,305 spaces; 370 m away, ≈40 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 — 8-hour, Dec 10, 2022 (a weekend day)

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 9,467 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 30% of the total, against 6,088 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 4,688 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 3,008 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count was taken on a Saturday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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.

From the north9,467southbound · 7 bikes · 1.2% heavy
From the west6,088eastbound · 7 bikes · 2.9% heavy
Total vehicles32,0831,676 pedestrians · 29 cyclists · 1.8% heavy
From the east8,925westbound · 13 bikes · 1.9% heavy
From the south7,603northbound · 2 bikes · 1.4% heavy
AM peak hour3,008 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour4,688 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 10, 2022 · weekend

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 Dufferin St between Gerry Fitzgerald Dr and Steeles Ave W (0 m away, Jun 2016) recorded volume only — about 50,226 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Dufferin St · Gerry Fitzgerald Dr – Steeles Ave W · 0 mJun 2016 · 3 days50,226
Steeles Ave W · G Ross Lord Park Trl – Dufferin St · 69 mMay 2014 · 3 days24,679

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

Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.

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

None of the three serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025 was fatal. 1 pedestrian was among those hurt; 2 collisions involved vehicle occupants only. All of them happened in darkness (citywide, 39% of KSI collisions do). 2017 alone accounted for 2 of them. The most recent was on Feb 14, 2021. Going back to 2006, the total is 4.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions3#117 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian1#471 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness3100% here vs 39% citywide
All KSI since 20064latest Feb 14, 2021

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Dufferin & Steeles a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 3 serious-injury collisions were recorded in 2016–2025 (#117 of 1,505). 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 Dufferin & Steeles?

A heavily travelled arterial crossing. Its latest count is from Dec 10, 2022, 3.5× the median for a counted intersection.

Is there a red-light camera at Dufferin & Steeles?

Yes. A red-light camera has operated at Dufferin & Steeles since 2018, according to the City of Toronto's red-light camera list. It issued 132 tickets in 2025 (225 in 2024) and 67 in 2026 through Jun 30, 2026; 1,933 since it was switched on.

How many red-light camera tickets are issued at Dufferin & Steeles?

132 in 2025, according to the City's annual charges data — down from 225 in 2024, and 67 in 2026 through Jun 30, 2026. The camera has issued 1,933 tickets since 2018. A red-light camera ticket in Toronto is $325 and carries no demerit points because it is issued to the vehicle's owner.

Where can I park near Dufferin & Steeles?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 169 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 53,500 spaces — 8 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Dufferin & Steeles by transit?

Bus routes 60, 105, 107, 960 within 1 km (nearest stop: Steeles Ave West at Dufferin St, 35 m); York Region Transit routes 003 Thornhill, 005 Clark, 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St / Steeles Av.

What restaurants are near Dufferin & Steeles?

19 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 47 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Cora's Breakfast & Lunch (39 m), Raj Mahal Indian Cuisine (39 m), Fresh Burger (39 m), Kung Fu Tea (39 m) and Pho Non La (39 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 Dufferin & Steeles?

Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 59 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Playland Ltd - Daycare Centre (452 m, 18 spaces) and Sunburst Children's Centre (682 m, 41 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Dufferin & Steeles?

One RentSafeTO-registered apartment building with 120 rental units is within 1 km. The nearest is 1875 Steeles Ave W (194 m, 120 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 1 is 95 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.

What neighbourhood is Dufferin & Steeles in?

Dufferin & Steeles 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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