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Kingston & Avalon

Kingston Rd & Avalon Blvd · Toronto, Ontario · Birchcliffe-Cliffside · Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest

In Birchcliffe-Cliffside, Kingston & Avalon is an above-average intersection for traffic. At the corner: a school within 250 m and a park. Nearby: 8 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
13,079
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 25, 2006
261 pedestrians · 74 cyclists
Collisions
17
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
6 with an injury · 7 property damage · #3619 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
1
TTC stop within 100 m
6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 1,630 vehicles an hour, 1.41× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 50 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). On average 1.7 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Kingston & Avalon

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
12691172013568 nearest 92 m
Blue Night
316300
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Kingston Rd at Birchcliff Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Birchcliff Ave / Kingston Rd 114 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 (7)
  • Birch Cliff Public SchoolEnglish Public · 150 m
  • Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 464 m
  • Birchmount Park Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 719 m
  • Birch Cliff Heights Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • Toronto Islamic Academy SchoolPrivate · 1.2 km
  • Taylor Creek Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.4 km
  • and 1 more
Parks (16)
  • Avalon Parkette47 m
  • Harding Parkette276 m
  • Danforth - Birchmount Parkette462 m
  • Harrison Properties489 m
  • Birchmount Park501 m
  • Birchcliff Woods661 m
  • and 10 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Taylor Memorial branch767 m
Places of interest
  • Rosetta McClain GardensNature/ Park · 829 m

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 4 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 15 — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Bodega By City Cottage, 33 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés4 within 300 m · 15 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 6 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bodega By City Cottage · 1680 Kingston Rd33 mPassed, Apr 2026
Grayson's Rustic Bakery · 1672 Kingston Rdgrocery56 mPassed, Jun 2026
City Cottage Market · 1666 Kingston Rdgrocery72 mPassed, Jun 2026
Andrew's Place Bar & Restaurant · 1728 Kingston Rd130 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Ume Fashion Sushi · 1732 Kingston Rd138 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
Big Brothers Gourmet Pizza · 1736 Kingston Rd Bldg-1148 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
Mon Petit Univers · 1578 Kingston Rd311 mPassed, Sep 2026
Abbeyfield House · 38 Lakeside Ave448 mPassed, Sep 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

The nearest public washroom is Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom, 320 m away; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 27 m away at Avalon Parkette.

  • Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom · 75 Birchmount Rd.
    hours not listed · accessible
    320 m
  • Birchmount Community Centre Washroom · 93 Birchmount Rd
    View centre hours · accessible
    400 m
  • Rosetta McClain Gardens Washroom · 5 Glen Everest Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    799 m
Drinking water
Avalon Parkette drinking fountain · 27 m; Birchmount Park bottle filling station · 418 m · off

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

Four licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 149 spaces; one accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Scarborough Day Nursery School (308 m, 71 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km4 centres · 149 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 4
  • Scarborough Day Nursery School · 51 Eastwood Ave
    71 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    308 m
  • Mon Petit Univers · 1578 Kingston Rd
    30 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    311 m
  • Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre Community Nursery School · 93 Birchmount Rd
    20 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    389 m
  • Little Bugs Nursery Corporation · 1448 Kingston Rd
    28 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    719 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 225 (575 m), the nearest police station 41 Division (4.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 520 m away.

FireFire Station 225 · 575 m3600 Danforth Ave
Police41 Division · 4.4 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

Within a kilometre there are 13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 248 rental units. The nearest is 1711 Kingston Rd (65 m, 18 units, 3 storeys, built 1960), which scored 89 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 13 scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 12 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings13 · 248 units
RentSafeTO score85 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202612 across the 13
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest5 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1711 Kingston Rd · Cogir Real Estate183196089 · Aug 2025165 m
1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis10319500193 m
1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis11319500193 m
1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis11319500193 m
25 Parkette Pl · Parkette Place Apts Inc.615195993 · Oct 20250450 m
1481 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd153194074 · Aug 20261617 m
1475 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd143194088 · Aug 20255632 m
1469 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd153194086 · Aug 20260651 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 lots286 lots · ≈19,250 spaces · 57.7 ha
Within 500 m23 lots · ≈1,060 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 83 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking2 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
197 Blantyre Ave · Surface1.8 km8329% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 58 m away, ≈10 spaces; 78 m away, ≈8 spaces; 84 m away, ≈6 spaces; 111 m away, ≈12 spaces; 120 m away, ≈12 spaces; 137 m away, ≈10 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, May 25, 2006

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 6,802 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 52% of the total, against 77 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the east (43 of 74). Evening rush dominates here: 2,387 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:30 p.m., against 2,157 in the morning peak from 7:30 a.m. Trucks and buses were 5.0% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 20 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2006, 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 north90southbound · 1 bikes · 4.4% heavy
From the west6,802eastbound · 29 bikes · 5.2% heavy
Total vehicles13,079261 pedestrians · 74 cyclists · 5.0% heavy
From the east6,110westbound · 43 bikes · 4.9% heavy
From the south77northbound · 1 bikes · 2.6% heavy
AM peak hour2,157 vehicles from 7:30 a.m.
PM peak hour2,387 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 25, 2006

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

On Kingston Rd between Lakeside Ave and Birchcliff Ave, 175 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in September 2015 put the average speed at 51 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 60 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 65 km/h or more. That segment carries about 20,100 vehicles a day. The reading is 11 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Kingston Rd (294 m away, 40 km/h limit), 13% of the 62,837 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Kingston Rd · Lakeside Ave – Birchcliff Ave · 175 mSep 2015 · 24 h20,13251 km/h60 km/h65 km/h

School-zone speed sign 294 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct44 · 49 km/h
Over the limit45%
50 km/h or more13%

Kingston Rd (eastbound), South Side of Kingston Rd, Fronting No.1583/1597 · 62,837 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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

The worst year was 2023, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 6 collisions (35%) involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 24% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Jan 25, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions17#3619 of 5,508
With an injury6#2473 of 4,660
Property damage only7
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 201422latest Jan 25, 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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 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

Two thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle210street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 16, 2025. 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 Kingston & Avalon a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 17 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 Kingston & Avalon?

An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from May 25, 2006, 1.41× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kingston & Avalon?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Kingston Rd between Lakeside Ave and Birchcliff Ave (September 2015), found an average of 51 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 60 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 294 m away (40 km/h), 13% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Kingston & Avalon?

The nearest Green P car park is 197 Blantyre Ave (1.8 km away, 83 spaces, 29% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 286 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 19,250 spaces — 23 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Kingston & Avalon by transit?

Bus routes 12, 69, 117, 20, 135, 68 within 1 km (nearest stop: Kingston Rd at Birchcliff Ave, 92 m).

What restaurants are near Kingston & Avalon?

4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 15 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Bodega By City Cottage (33 m), Andrew's Place Bar & Restaurant (130 m), Ume Fashion Sushi (138 m), Big Brothers Gourmet Pizza (148 m) and Mon Petit Univers (311 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 Kingston & Avalon?

The nearest is Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom, 75 Birchmount Rd., 320 m away, with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Birchmount Community Centre Washroom (400 m); Rosetta McClain Gardens Washroom (799 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 Kingston & Avalon?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 149 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Scarborough Day Nursery School (308 m, 71 spaces), Mon Petit Univers (311 m, 30 spaces) and Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre Community Nursery School (389 m, 20 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Kingston & Avalon?

13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 248 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1711 Kingston Rd (65 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (193 m, 10 units), 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (193 m, 11 units) and 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (193 m, 11 units). The average RentSafeTO score across the 13 is 85 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 Kingston & Avalon?

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 Birchcliffe-Cliffside page.

What neighbourhood is Kingston & Avalon in?

Kingston & Avalon 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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