East Liberty & Western Battery

Traffic volume8-hour count · Apr 13, 2022

The east leg carries the load — 2,934 westbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 146. Most cyclists arrived from the east (196 of 367). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 975 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 39% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (699). Heavy vehicles made up 4.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 5 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.

Peak hours: 699 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 975 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

2024 was the peak year (12 collisions), and 2025 closed with 7. 4% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. 23 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 4% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 5 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 11, 2026.

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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

The City's counter on East Liberty St between Liberty Village Park Trl and Lynn Williams St (387 m away) recorded an average of 34 km/h in its 3-day count in April 2022; 85% of drivers were at or under 42 km/h. That segment carries about 6,500 vehicles a day. The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Western Battery Rd between Gateway Park Trl and Pirandello St measured slower: 24 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 33 km/h (Mar 2026). 3 speed humps slow traffic on Western Battery Road between East Liberty St and Pirandello St.

Traffic calming

Western Battery Road (East Liberty St – Pirandello St): 3 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 care or retirement home.

• Groceries and food19/30

  9 grocery stores within 1 km · 9 places to eat within 300 m

• Transit14/28

  3 stops within 300 m · 12 routes within 1 km

• Library and places to go5/14

  library 1.3 km away · 8 places of interest within 1.5 km

• Parks and recreation7/10

  5 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 0.9 km

• Schools and child care5/8

  nearest school 0.8 km · 3 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.

Eight registered apartment buildings with 1,826 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 15 Solidarity Way (34 m, 440 units, 26 storeys, built 2021), which scored 100 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 8 scored below 70; the average is 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

8 registered buildings · 1,826 units · 3 social housing · tallest 31 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.

Toronto Police place 23 thefts from vehicles and 28 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 8.5× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 21 in 2023–2025, about 7.0 a year, against 4.3 a year before that. 61% of the vehicle thefts were from apartment-building parking; 57% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking.

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 Fort York-Liberty Village.

• Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Apr 13, 2022.
• 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; 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 10 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: 43.63917, -79.41142 · centreline node 14254034.