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Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt

Toronto, Ontario · York University Heights · Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek

Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt, in York University Heights, is a low-volume local intersection. It has Finch West Station and a school within 250 m at the corner. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
2,080
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 29, 2020
103 pedestrians · 18 cyclists
Collisions
27
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 16 property damage · #2961 of 5,508
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
Finch West Station
subway station within 250 m
5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 260 vehicles an hour, 22% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 20 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. On average 2.7 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions edged up 8%, from 13 in 2016–2020 to 14 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Finch West Station (Line 1, Line 6)211 m; Sentinel Station (Line 6)680 m
TTC bus
4110136107106 nearest 119 m
Express
941939
Blue Night
341336335
Nearest stops
14 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
The Pond Rd / Ian Macdonald Blvd 718 m · 15 docks · 3 stations, 57 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 (9)
  • James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High SchoolEnglish Separate · 221 m
  • Derrydown Public SchoolEnglish Public · 732 m
  • Seneca College (Seneca at York Campus)College · 786 m
  • St Wilfrid Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 922 m
  • C W Jefferys Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 925 m
  • York U - Keele CampusUniversity · 1.1 km
  • and 3 more
Parks (9)
  • Jack Evelyn Wiggins Park369 m
  • Fountainhead Park563 m
  • Bratty Park900 m
  • Fred Young Park1 km
  • Dan Iannuzzi Park1 km
  • Black Creek Parkland1.1 km
  • and 3 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

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 85 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Caribbean Heat, 309 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026 with 4 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 85 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 17 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Caribbean Heat · 1300 Finch Ave W Unit-15309 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 4 infractions
Inside Lagos Kitchen · 1300 Finch Ave W Unit-30 - 31309 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 3 infractions
Mithas · 1300 Finch Ave W Bldg-33309 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 3 infractions
Naija Jollof · 1300 Finch Ave W Unit-23309 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 6 infractions
Pho Lien Hung · 1300 Finch Ave W Unit-7309 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 4 infractions
Pizza Pizza · 1300 Finch Ave W309 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 2 infractions
Quisqueya La Bella · 1300 Finch Ave W Unit-37309 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Regino's Pizza · 1300 Finch Ave W309 mPassed, Jun 2026

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 491 m away at Fountainhead Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Fountainhead Park bottle filling station · 491 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 479 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is University City Jr YMCA (552 m, 90 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km5 centres · 479 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 5
  • University City Jr YMCA · 453 Sentinel Rd
    90 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    552 m
  • Derrydown School Age YMCA · 120 Derrydown Rd
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    732 m
  • Finch Business Park Child Care · 1183a Finch Ave W
    98 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    866 m
  • St. Wilfred YMCA · 1685 Finch Ave W
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    922 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 141 (189 m), the nearest police station 31 Division (2.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.2 km away.

FireFire Station 141 · 189 m4100 Keele St
Police31 Division · 2.9 km40 Norfinch Drive
AmbulanceEMS Headquarters/EMS 53 Stn/Fire Headquarters · 2.2 km4330 Dufferin 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

11 registered apartment buildings with 2,533 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner. The nearest is 391 Sentinel Rd (708 m, 44 units, 4 storeys, built 1966), which scored 86 out of 100 at its July 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 58 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 14 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings11 · 2,533 units
RentSafeTO score89 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202658 across the 11
Open fire-code violations14
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
391 Sentinel Rd · Rona Property Management444196686 · Jul 20241708 m
470 Sentinel Rd · Ranee Management37022197095 · Oct 202514 · 1 fire720 m
11 Catford Rd · N.h.d. Developments Limited2189196882 · Oct 20252 · 5 fire754 m
1 Fountainhead Rd · Ranee Management37022196883 · Jul 202410755 m
390 Sentinel Rd · Model Building Maintenance Inc534197090 · Aug 20254766 m
20 Broadoaks Dr · N.h.d. Developments Limited1779196975 · Oct 20250 · 1 fire870 m
40 Fountainhead Rd · Ranee Management37022197288 · Oct 20259 · 1 fire900 m
35 Fountainhead Rd · Ranee Management37022197396 · Oct 202514 · 1 fire932 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 lots462 lots · ≈92,050 spaces · 276.1 ha
Within 500 m25 lots · ≈3,560 spaces
Green P (public)2 car parks · about 2,216 spaces
EV charging (City)320 DRIFTWOOD AVE · 1.4 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingno post-and-rings within 300 m · Indoor bike station, 3955 Keele St (225 m)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
3950 Keele Street · Surface157 m335 *
2800 Steeles Ave W. · Surface2 km1,881 *

Nearest lots: 63 m away, ≈20 spaces; 67 m away, ≈8 spaces; 68 m away, ≈19 spaces; 79 m away, ≈89 spaces; 90 m away, ≈56 spaces; 148 m away, ≈60 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, Oct 29, 2020

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The west leg carries the load — 895 eastbound vehicles, or 43% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 578. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 454 vehicles in the hour from 4:30 p.m., 120% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (206). Trucks and buses were 6.5% 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 6 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2020, 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 north578southbound · 5 bikes · 5.2% heavy
From the west895eastbound · 9 bikes · 6.9% heavy
Total vehicles2,080103 pedestrians · 18 cyclists · 6.5% heavy
From the east607westbound · 4 bikes · 7.2% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour206 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour454 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 29, 2020

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.

All police-reported collisions

Every collision reported to Toronto Police within 65 m, any severity, 2016–2025

2024 was the peak year (6 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 15% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 7 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 26% 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%). The most recent report on file is from Sep 15, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions27#2961 of 5,508
With an injury4#2956 of 4,660
Property damage only16
Fail to remain7
Involving a pedestrian1#2500 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified7
All since 201434latest Sep 15, 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

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 36 thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 6.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 5 in 2023–2025, about 1.7 a year, against 4.7 a year before that. 67% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle3630street/outdoor (24), apartment parking (10)
Bicycle theft220apartment parking (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 10, 2024. 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 York University Heights.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 27 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 Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 29, 2020, 22% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt?

The nearest Green P car park is 3950 Keele Street (157 m away, 335 spaces). The City's mapping shows 462 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 92,050 spaces — 25 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 Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt by transit?

Finch West Station (Line 1, Line 6) is 211 m away; bus routes 41, 101, 36, 107, 106, 941, 939 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt?

None within 300 m, and 85 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Caribbean Heat (309 m), Inside Lagos Kitchen (309 m), Mithas (309 m), Naija Jollof (309 m) and Pho Lien Hung (309 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 Four Winds Dr & Columbia 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 491 m away at Fountainhead Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt?

Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 479 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are University City Jr YMCA (552 m, 90 spaces), Derrydown School Age YMCA (732 m, 71 spaces) and Finch Business Park Child Care (866 m, 98 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt?

11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,533 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 391 Sentinel Rd (708 m, 44 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 470 Sentinel Rd (720 m, 370 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 11 Catford Rd (754 m, 218 units, RentSafeTO score 82) and 1 Fountainhead Rd (755 m, 370 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 11 is 89 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 Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt?

Toronto Police place 36 thefts from vehicles and two 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 York University Heights page.

What neighbourhood is Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt in?

Four Winds Dr & Columbia Gt is in York University Heights (City of Toronto neighbourhood 027), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek, represented by Councillor Anthony Perruzza.

Sources

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