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Ellesmere & Muirbank

Ellesmere Rd & Muirbank Blvd · Toronto, Ontario · Highland Creek · Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park

In Highland Creek, Ellesmere & Muirbank is a quiet local crossing. Nearby is 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
3,954
vehicles · 14-hour count, May 5, 2026
195 pedestrians · 10 cyclists · #2077 busiest
Collisions
10
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 4 property damage · #4291 of 5,508 · +1 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
5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 280 vehicles, 24% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 20 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 1 collision a year here over 2016–2025 — 2.5 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Ellesmere & Muirbank

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
95863885200 nearest 14 m
Express
986
Blue Night
395386385
Nearest stops
3 surface stops within 300 m — Ellesmere Rd at Muirbank Blvd
Regional
Durham Region Transit 900 Pulse 900N1 Route N1 at Ellesmere Westbound @ Meadowvale466 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 (8)
  • St Dominic Savio Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 510 m
  • Meadowvale Public SchoolEnglish Public · 539 m
  • Rouge Valley Public SchoolEnglish Public · 803 m
  • Centennial Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Chief Dan George Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • Cardinal Leger Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.4 km
  • and 2 more
Community centres
  • Tall Pines Community Centre687 m
Parks (13)
  • Lavery Trail Park567 m
  • Laura Ellis Park575 m
  • Tall Pines Park735 m
  • Bob Hunter Park796 m
  • Bramber Woods Park922 m
  • Tanis Cres Woodlot948 m
  • and 7 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Highland Creek branch1.5 km

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 15 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Jc Fastfood, 471 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 15 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 2 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Jc Fastfood · 111 Rylander Blvd471 mPassed, Jun 2026
Lucky Lin's E Press · 91 Rylander Blvd 1016a/B541 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Bass Lounge · 91 Rylander Blvd Unit-1001a598 mPassed, Apr 2026
Gino's Pizza · 91 Rylander Blvd Unit-12598 mPassed, Jun 2026
Stacked Pancake & Breackfast House · 91 Rylander Blvd Unit-1013598 mPassed, Aug 2026
Kong! Burgers · 91 Rylander Blvd Unit-1011598 mPassed, Aug 2026
Kong! Burgers · 91 Rylander Blvd, Unit-1011598 mPassed, Apr 2025
Nadi Halal Kebab House · 65 Rylander Blvd, Unit-0728 mPassed, Jun 2025

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

The nearest public washroom is Adams Park West Fieldhouse Washroom, 893 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 521 m away at Lavery Trail Park.

  • Adams Park West Fieldhouse Washroom · 2 Rozell Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    893 m
Drinking water
Lavery Trail Park drinking fountain · 521 m

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

Five licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 308 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Absorbent Minds Montessori East (246 m, 31 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km5 centres · 308 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 5
  • Absorbent Minds Montessori East · 6534 Kingston Rd
    31 spaces · toddler, preschool
    246 m
  • Meadowvale Daycare Centre · 761 Meadowvale Rd
    59 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    539 m
  • Rouge Valley Jr YMCA · 30 Durnford Rd
    82 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    803 m
  • Creative Minds Montessori Academy · 285 Lawson Rd
    79 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, school age · $10-a-day
    895 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 214 (471 m), the nearest police station 43 Division (2.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.8 km away.

FireFire Station 214 · 471 m745 Meadowvale Rd
Police43 Division · 2.9 km4331 Lawrence Avenue East
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 25 · 2.8 km8500 Sheppard Ave E

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

Seven registered apartment buildings with 140 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, all of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 23. The nearest is 17 Durnford Rd (822 m, 14 units, 3 storeys, built 1992), which scored 86 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 2 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings7 · 140 units · 7 social housing
RentSafeTO score86 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20262 across the 7
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest4 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
17 Durnford Rdsocial housing143199286 · Sep 20250822 m
19 Durnford Rdsocial housing284199283 · Aug 20260838 m
23 Durnford Rdsocial housing143199287 · Sep 20250852 m
37 Durnford Rdsocial housing284199286 · Oct 20251 · 2 fire869 m
21 Durnford Rdsocial housing214199286 · Sep 20250871 m
39 Durnford Rdsocial housing143199288 · Oct 20250890 m
35 Durnford Rdsocial housing214199284 · Oct 20251891 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 lots151 lots · ≈12,920 spaces · 38.8 ha
Within 500 m15 lots · ≈1,950 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 166 m away, ≈290 spaces; 216 m away, ≈335 spaces; 221 m away, ≈84 spaces; 245 m away, ≈26 spaces; 259 m away, ≈407 spaces; 286 m away, ≈37 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, May 5, 2026

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 1,875 westbound vehicles, or 47% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 360. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 397 vehicles in the hour from 3:15 p.m., 30% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (306). Trucks and buses were 7.8% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north360southbound · 2 bikes · 2.8% heavy
From the west1,719eastbound · 7 bikes · 8.6% heavy
Total vehicles3,954195 pedestrians · 10 cyclists · 7.8% heavy
From the east1,875westbound · 1 bikes · 8.1% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour306 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour397 vehicles from 3:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · May 5, 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 Ellesmere Rd between Meadowvale Rd and Muirbank Blvd (247 m away, Sep 2014) recorded volume only — about 2,410 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Ellesmere Rd · Meadowvale Rd – Muirbank Blvd · 247 mSep 2014 · 3 days2,410

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

2019 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 40% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Mar 1, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 2.5 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions10#4291 of 5,508
With an injury4#2944 of 4,660
Property damage only4
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201411latest Mar 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

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 3, 2018. 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 Highland Creek.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Ellesmere & Muirbank a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 10 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 Ellesmere & Muirbank?

A quiet local crossing. It ranks #2077 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 24% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Ellesmere & Muirbank?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 151 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 12,920 spaces — 15 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Ellesmere & Muirbank by transit?

Bus routes 95, 86, 38, 85, 200, 986 within 1 km (nearest stop: Ellesmere Rd at Muirbank Blvd, 14 m); Durham Region Transit routes 900 Pulse 900, N1 Route N1 at Ellesmere Westbound @ Meadowvale.

What restaurants are near Ellesmere & Muirbank?

None within 300 m, and 15 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Jc Fastfood (471 m), Lucky Lin's E Press (541 m), Bass Lounge (598 m), Gino's Pizza (598 m) and Stacked Pancake & Breackfast House (598 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Ellesmere & Muirbank?

The nearest is Adams Park West Fieldhouse Washroom, 2 Rozell Rd, 893 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Ellesmere & Muirbank?

Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 308 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Absorbent Minds Montessori East (246 m, 31 spaces), Meadowvale Daycare Centre (539 m, 59 spaces) and Rouge Valley Jr YMCA (803 m, 82 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Ellesmere & Muirbank?

Seven RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 140 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 17 Durnford Rd (822 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 19 Durnford Rd (838 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 83), 23 Durnford Rd (852 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 87) and 37 Durnford Rd (869 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 86). The average RentSafeTO score across the 7 is 86 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 Ellesmere & Muirbank?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. 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 Highland Creek page.

What neighbourhood is Ellesmere & Muirbank in?

Ellesmere & Muirbank is in Highland Creek (City of Toronto neighbourhood 134). It is in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park, represented by Councillor Neethan Shan.

Sources

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