Toronto · intersection

Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt

Toronto, Ontario · Black Creek · Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek

Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt is a heavily travelled arterial crossing. It sits in Black Creek. It has Norfinch Oakdale Station at the corner.

Traffic volume
27,987
vehicles · 8-hour count, Mar 6, 2017
573 pedestrians · 10 cyclists
Collisions
54
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
14 with an injury · 35 property damage · #1943 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
Norfinch Oakdale Station
subway station within 250 m
4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 3,500 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 3.0× the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 49 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. On average 5.4 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 88%, from 48 in 2016–2020 to 6 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Norfinch Oakdale Station (Line 6)128 m; Jane and Finch Station (Line 6)377 m; Driftwood Station (Line 6)745 m
TTC bus
998435108 nearest 138 m
Express
935
Blue Night
336335
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Driftwood Ave / Finch Corridor Trail 671 m · 19 docks · 2 stations, 34 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 (16)
  • Seneca College (Yorkgate Campus)College · 343 m
  • St Francis de Sales Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 367 m
  • Monsignor Fraser College - Norfinch CampusEnglish Separate · 399 m
  • Westview Centennial High SchoolEnglish Public · 486 m
  • Firgrove Public SchoolEnglish Public · 527 m
  • St Charles Garnier Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 756 m
  • and 10 more
Parks (13)
  • Remberto Navia Sport Fields364 m
  • Firgrove Park640 m
  • Langdale Court Greenbelt804 m
  • Yorkwoods Park853 m
  • Hullmar Park1 km
  • Edgeley Park1.1 km
  • and 7 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library York Woods branch1.3 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores, and 62 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Hawthorne Place Care Centre, 92 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés5 within 300 m · 62 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 34 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Hawthorne Place Care Centre · 2045 Finch Ave W92 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Taste and See · 2007 Finch Ave W Bldg-0256 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Pho Con Bo Inc. · 1991a Finch Ave W258 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Noon Moment · 1993 Finch Ave W276 mPassed, Jul 2026
Noon Moment · 1993 Finch Ave W276 mPassed, Oct 2025 · 1 infraction
Jian Hing Supermarket · 1989 Finch Ave W Unit-1grocery283 mPassed, Jun 2026
George's Tasty Foods · 22 Norfinch Drgrocery299 mPassed, Sep 2026
Care Focus Canada · 1977 Finch Ave W, Unit-208a310 mPassed, Oct 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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 512 m away at Firgrove Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Firgrove Park drinking fountain · 512 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

Eight licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 724 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is St. Francis de Sales Jr Y (367 m, 64 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km8 centres · 724 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 8
  • St. Francis de Sales Jr Y · 333 Firgrove Cres
    64 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    367 m
  • Firgrove Satellite Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 270 Firgrove Cres
    24 spaces · preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    527 m
  • San Romanoway Boys & Girls Club · 10 San Romanoway
    35 spaces · school age
    527 m
  • Palisades Centre For Early Learning · 15 San Romanoway
    137 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    608 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 142 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 31 Division (401 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 142 · 1.3 km2753 Jane St
Police31 Division · 401 m40 Norfinch Drive
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 15 · 1.3 km2753 Jane 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

15 registered apartment buildings with 2,352 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2970 Jane St (392 m, 164 units, 14 storeys, built 1970), which scored 94 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 15 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 182 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 6 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings15 · 2,352 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026182 across the 15
Open fire-code violations6
Tallest34 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2970 Jane St · 1597180 Ontario Inc16414197094 · Aug 20241392 m
2940 Jane St · 1597180 Ontario Inc15313197098 · Aug 20245479 m
5 Needle FirwayToronto Community Housing · TCH15212198092 · Nov 20250515 m
2900 Jane St · 1312251 Ontario Limited18314196090 · Jul 202411519 m
10 San Romanoway · RPMS42834197792 · Jun 202647 · 1 fire527 m
90 York Gate Blvd404196668 · Oct 20251536 m
2999 Jane StToronto Community Housing · TCH18815197192 · Oct 20252556 m
100 York Gate Blvd · Sterling Karamar Property Management13311196587 · Oct 202525 · 1 fire676 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 lots365 lots · ≈83,260 spaces · 249.8 ha
Within 500 m24 lots · ≈5,990 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)320 DRIFTWOOD AVE · 1.4 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 56 m away, ≈38 spaces; 75 m away, ≈258 spaces; 123 m away, ≈22 spaces; 139 m away, ≈793 spaces; 238 m away, ≈189 spaces; 296 m away, ≈51 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, Mar 6, 2017

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. The west leg carries the load — 13,947 eastbound vehicles, or 50% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 1,037. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 4,224 vehicles in the hour from 4:00 p.m., 23% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (3,432). Heavy vehicles made up 4.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 10 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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 north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west13,947eastbound · 6 bikes · 4.7% heavy
Total vehicles27,987573 pedestrians · 10 cyclists · 4.5% heavy
From the east13,003westbound · 3 bikes · 4.5% heavy
From the south1,037northbound · 1 bikes · 0.7% heavy
AM peak hour3,432 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour4,224 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Mar 6, 2017

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 Finch Ave W between Pelican Gt and Oakdale Rd (75 m away, Nov 2011) recorded volume only — about 31,430 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Finch Ave W · Pelican Gt – Oakdale Rd · 75 mNov 2011 · 3 days31,430

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

2017 was the peak year (14 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 26% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 11% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 6% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Feb 27, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions54#1943 of 5,508
With an injury14#1275 of 4,660
Property damage only35
Fail to remain6
Involving a pedestrian3#1238 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified5
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201468latest Feb 27, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Oct 19, 2015.

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 Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 54 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 Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt?

A heavily travelled arterial crossing. Its latest count is from Mar 6, 2017, 3.0× the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 365 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 83,260 spaces — 24 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 320 DRIFTWOOD AVE (1.4 km).

How do I get to Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt by transit?

Norfinch Oakdale Station (Line 6) is 128 m away; bus routes 99, 84, 35, 108, 935 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt?

5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 62 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Hawthorne Place Care Centre (92 m), Taste and See (256 m), Pho Con Bo Inc. (258 m), Noon Moment (276 m) and Noon Moment (276 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 Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 512 m away at Firgrove Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 724 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are St. Francis de Sales Jr Y (367 m, 64 spaces), Firgrove Satellite Early Learning & Child Care Centre (527 m, 24 spaces) and San Romanoway Boys & Girls Club (527 m, 35 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt?

15 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,352 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2970 Jane St (392 m, 164 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 2940 Jane St (479 m, 153 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 5 Needle Firway (515 m, 152 units, RentSafeTO score 92) and 2900 Jane St (519 m, 183 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 15 is 89 out of 100; 1 scored below 70. 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 Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt in?

Finch Ave W & Pelican Gt is in Black Creek (City of Toronto neighbourhood 024), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek, represented by Councillor Anthony Perruzza.

Sources

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