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Kalmar & Hollis

Kalmar Ave & Hollis Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Birchcliffe-Cliffside · Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest

Kalmar & Hollis, in Birchcliffe-Cliffside, is a low-volume local intersection. It has parks at the corner. Nearby: 11 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
4,858
vehicles · 14-hour count, Apr 1, 2026
211 pedestrians · 36 cyclists · #2028 busiest
Collisions
12
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 6 property damage · #4070 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
9 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 350 vehicles an hour, 30% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 23 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. On average 1.2 collisions a year were reported here in 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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Kalmar & Hollis

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
206913568121171131617 nearest 192 m
Blue Night
300316
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Danforth Ave / Warden Ave 223 m · 15 docks · 5 stations, 75 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 (10)
  • Birch Cliff Public SchoolEnglish Public · 391 m
  • Toronto Islamic Academy SchoolPrivate · 660 m
  • Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 667 m
  • Taylor Creek Public SchoolEnglish Public · 934 m
  • Oakridge Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Birchmount Park Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 4 more
Parks (26)
  • Hollis Kalmar Park145 m
  • Scotia Parkette230 m
  • Danforth - Birchmount Parkette327 m
  • Avalon Parkette528 m
  • Oakridge Park723 m
  • Harding Parkette736 m
  • and 20 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Taylor Memorial branch638 m
Places of interest
  • Rosetta McClain GardensNature/ Park · 1.2 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; 35 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Chester Village, 388 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 35 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 12 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Chester Village · 3555 Danforth Ave388 mPassed, May 2026
Bd Fusion Restaurant · 3478 Danforth Ave391 mConditional pass, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Mon Petit Univers · 1578 Kingston Rd410 mPassed, Sep 2026
Bd Supermarket · 3470 Danforth Avegrocery412 mConditional pass, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Rahmi Grocery N' Fruit · 3468 Danforth Avegrocery417 mPassed, Apr 2026
Kausar Fresh Foods · 3466 Danforth Avegrocery422 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Madinah Premium Grill · 3460 Danforth Ave436 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Kasturi Street Food & Sweets · 3450-3452 Danforth Avegrocery458 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

The nearest public washroom is Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom, 652 m away; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 527 m away at Avalon Parkette.

  • Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom · 75 Birchmount Rd.
    hours not listed · accessible
    652 m
  • Birchmount Community Centre Washroom · 93 Birchmount Rd
    View centre hours · accessible
    660 m
Drinking water
Avalon Parkette drinking fountain · 527 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 334 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Scarborough Day Nursery School (258 m, 71 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km7 centres · 334 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 7
  • Scarborough Day Nursery School · 51 Eastwood Ave
    71 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    258 m
  • Mon Petit Univers · 1578 Kingston Rd
    30 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    411 m
  • Little Bugs Nursery Corporation · 1448 Kingston Rd
    28 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    606 m
  • Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre Community Nursery School · 93 Birchmount Rd
    20 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    646 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 225 (289 m), the nearest police station 41 Division (4.2 km) and the nearest ambulance station 520 m away.

FireFire Station 225 · 289 m3600 Danforth Ave
Police41 Division · 4.2 km2222 Eglinton Avenue East
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 42 · 520 m1535 Kingston Rd

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

18 registered apartment buildings with 895 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, one of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (472 m, 10 units, 3 storeys, built 1950). One building of the 18 scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 18 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings18 · 895 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score87 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202618 across the 18
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest24 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis10319500472 m
1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis11319500472 m
1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis11319500472 m
25 Parkette Pl · Parkette Place Apts Inc.615195993 · Oct 20250512 m
1481 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd153194074 · Aug 20261570 m
1711 Kingston Rd · Cogir Real Estate183196089 · Aug 20251574 m
1469 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd153194086 · Aug 20260591 m
1475 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd143194088 · Aug 20255598 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 lots322 lots · ≈23,570 spaces · 70.7 ha
Within 500 m30 lots · ≈1,140 spaces
Green P (public)3 car parks · about 407 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingno post-and-rings within 300 m · Indoor bike station, 777 Victoria Park Ave (1.6 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Victoria Main Lot - 777 Victoria Park Avenue · Surface1.5 km173 *
197 Blantyre Ave · Surface1.6 km8329% (Q1 2026)
Warden South Lot - 701 Warden Ave · Surface2 km151 *

Nearest lots: 230 m away, ≈21 spaces; 247 m away, ≈17 spaces; 254 m away, ≈11 spaces; 261 m away, ≈48 spaces; 302 m away, ≈48 spaces; 307 m away, ≈11 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, Apr 1, 2026

The west leg carries the load — 2,800 eastbound vehicles, or 58% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 93. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 576 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 9% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (529). Heavy vehicles made up 1.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north93southbound · 5 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west2,800eastbound · 15 bikes · 1.1% heavy
Total vehicles4,858211 pedestrians · 36 cyclists · 1.0% heavy
From the east1,834westbound · 13 bikes · 0.9% heavy
From the south131northbound · 3 bikes · 2.3% heavy
AM peak hour529 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour576 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count14-hour · Apr 1, 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 counter on Hollis Ave between Phenix Dr and Birchcliff Ave (267 m away) recorded an average of 36 km/h in its 3-day count in June 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 42 km/h. That segment carries about 3,900 vehicles a day. Kalmar Ave between Hollis Ave and Hollis Kalmar Park Trl measured slower: 34 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 42 km/h (Jun 2024). 3 speed humps slow traffic on Kalmar Avenue between Danforth Ave and Hollis Ave (installed 2025).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Kalmar Ave · Hollis Ave – Hollis Kalmar Park Trl · 54 mJun 2024 · 3 days1,02134 km/h42 km/h45 km/h
Hollis Ave · Phenix Dr – Birchcliff Ave · 267 mJun 2025 · 3 days3,90336 km/h42 km/h45 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Kalmar Avenue · Danforth Ave – Hollis Ave
    3 speed humps
    installed 2025

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

2023 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 17% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Dec 19, 2023.

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 collisions12#4070 of 5,508
With an injury2#3766 of 4,660
Property damage only6
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 201413latest Dec 19, 2023

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. Since January 2026, 2 more have been reported, the latest on May 21, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle212house driveway/garage (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 21, 2026. 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 Birchcliffe-Cliffside.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Kalmar & Hollis a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 12 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 Kalmar & Hollis?

A low-volume local intersection. It ranks #2028 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 30% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kalmar & Hollis?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Hollis Ave between Phenix Dr and Birchcliff Ave (June 2025), found an average of 36 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Kalmar & Hollis?

The nearest Green P car park is Victoria Main Lot - 777 Victoria Park Avenue (1.5 km away, 173 spaces). The City's mapping shows 322 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,570 spaces — 30 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Kalmar & Hollis by transit?

Bus routes 20, 69, 135, 68, 12, 117, 113, 16 and 1 more within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Kalmar & Hollis?

None within 300 m, and 35 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Chester Village (388 m), Bd Fusion Restaurant (391 m), Mon Petit Univers (410 m) and Madinah Premium Grill (436 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 Kalmar & Hollis?

The nearest is Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom, 75 Birchmount Rd., 652 m away, with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Birchmount Community Centre Washroom (660 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 Kalmar & Hollis?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 334 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Scarborough Day Nursery School (258 m, 71 spaces), Mon Petit Univers (411 m, 30 spaces) and Little Bugs Nursery Corporation (606 m, 28 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Kalmar & Hollis?

18 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 895 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (472 m, 10 units), 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (472 m, 11 units), 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (472 m, 11 units) and 25 Parkette Pl (512 m, 61 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 18 is 87 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.

How many thefts are reported at Kalmar & Hollis?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 2 since January 2026. 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 Birchcliffe-Cliffside page.

What neighbourhood is Kalmar & Hollis in?

Kalmar & Hollis is in Birchcliffe-Cliffside (City of Toronto neighbourhood 122). It is in Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest, represented by Councillor Parthi Kandavel.

Sources

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