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Kingston & Eastwood

Kingston Rd & Eastwood Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Birchcliffe-Cliffside · Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest

In Birchcliffe-Cliffside, Kingston & Eastwood is an above-average intersection for traffic. Nearby are 7 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic
17,306
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jun 24, 2025
544 pedestrians · 277 cyclists · #1116 busiest
Collisions
17
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
2
TTC stops within 100 m
7 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
54/100
city median 48 · #2,208 of 5,672
1 place to eat within 300 m · grocery 291 m

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Kingston & Eastwood

Traffic and safety

The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets

Traffic volume14-hour count · Jun 24, 2025

The west leg carries the load — 8,918 eastbound vehicles, or 52% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 120. Most cyclists arrived from the west (154 of 277). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,766 vehicles in the hour from 4:00 p.m., 28% above the morning peak from 7:45 a.m. (1,376). Heavy vehicles made up 4.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 16 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north120southbound · 4 bikes · 2.5% heavy
From the west8,918eastbound · 154 bikes · 4.4% heavy
Total vehicles17,306544 pedestrians · 277 cyclists · 4.4% heavy
From the east8,087westbound · 113 bikes · 4.6% heavy
From the south181northbound · 6 bikes · 2.2% heavy

Peak hours: 1,376 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m. and 1,766 from 4:00 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).

Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m

2018 was the peak year (4 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 29% of collisions here involved an injury. People walking or cycling were involved in 18% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Aug 2, 2025.

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions171.0 a year per 10,000 daily vehicles
With an injury5
Property damage only12
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian2
Involving a cyclist1
Involving a motorcyclist1
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.

How fast traffic moves here

The City's counter on Kingston Rd between Lakeside Ave and Birchcliff Ave (180 m away) recorded an average of 51 km/h in its 24-hour count in September 2015; 85% of drivers were at or under 60 km/h. 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. Eastwood Ave between Freeman St and Hollis Ave measured slower: 38 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 48 km/h (Jul 2013). At the school-zone speed sign on Kingston Rd (62 m away, 40 km/h limit), 13% of the 59,528 vehicles logged in August 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 · 180 mSep 2015 · 24 h20,13251 km/h60 km/h65 km/h
Eastwood Ave · Freeman St – Hollis Ave · 324 mJul 2013 · 24 h39438 km/h48 km/h53 km/h
Speed sign
Kingston Rd (eastbound), 62 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 44 km/h, 85th percentile 49 km/h; 13% at 50 km/h or more. 59,528 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

TTC bus
12 69 117 20 135 nearest 20 m
Blue Night
316 300
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Kingston Rd at Kildonan Dr; Kingston Rd at Eastwood Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Birchcliff Ave / Kingston Rd 277 m · 3 min · 15 docks · 4 stations, 60 docks within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Parking within 2 km

Green P
1 car park · about 83 spaces
EV charging
no City charger within 2 km
Bike parking
5 post-and-rings within 300 m
Other lots
29 mapped lots within 500 m, 201 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
197 Blantyre Ave · Surface1.5 km8329% (Q1 2026)

Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.

Within a walk

What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.

Food, shops and services

You can do a shop on foot from here: City Cottage Market is 291 m away. There is 1 restaurant, café or takeout within 300 m, and 9 eating places within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Buster's By the Bluffs, 107 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Buster's By the Bluffs · 1539 Kingston Rd107 m
  • Sisaket Thai Kitchen · 1466 Kingston Rd313 m · 4 min
  • Abbeyfield House · 38 Lakeside Ave326 m · 4 min
  • Bodega By City Cottage · 1680 Kingston Rd345 m · 4 min
  • Pizzeria Rustico · 1430 Kingston Rd474 m · 6 min
1 within 300 m · 9 within 1 km
Grocery
City Cottage Market 291 m · 3 min
Food shops
Grayson's Rustic Bakery 323 m · 4 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Child care
  • Mon Petit Univers · 30 spaces, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day50 m
  • Scarborough Day Nursery School · 71 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day234 m
  • Little Bugs Nursery Corporation · 28 spaces, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day386 m · 5 min
5 licensed centres · 180 spaces within 1 km · 1 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom · hours not listed · accessible753 m · 9 min
  • Birchmount Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed · accessible835 m · 10 min
Drinking water: Avalon Parkette 392 m · 5 min

Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.

Parks, schools and places

Parks (13)
  • Avalon Parkette412 m · 5 min
  • Crescentwood Park521 m · 6 min
  • Harding Parkette631 m · 8 min
  • Danforth - Birchmount Parkette734 m · 9 min
  • Hollis Kalmar Park778 m · 9 min
and 8 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools
  • Birch Cliff Public SchoolEnglish Public · 368 m · 4 min
  • Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 916 m · 11 min
  • Toronto Islamic Academy SchoolPrivate · 1.4 km · 16 min
  • Birchmount Park Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.4 km · 17 min
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Taylor Memorial branch431 m · 5 min
Places of interest
  • Rosetta McClain GardensNature/ Park · 1.3 km · 15 min

Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.

Not within a walk: a pharmacy.

54of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,208 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food18/30

    1 grocery store within 300 m · 1 place to eat within 300 m

  • Transit13/28

    6 stops within 300 m · 7 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go8/14

    library 431 m away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation8/10

    1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care7/8

    1 school within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.

Apartment buildings nearby

RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score

13 registered apartment buildings with 224 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner. The nearest is 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (170 m, 10 units, 3 storeys, built 1950). One building of the 13 scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis1031950—170 m
1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis1131950—170 m
1625-1641 Kingston Rd · Icarus Properties: Angelika Kostidis1131950—170 m
1481 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd153194074 · Aug 2026268 m · 3 min
1469 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd153194086 · Aug 2026320 m · 4 min
1475 Kingston Rd · 1034523 Ontario Ltd143194088 · Aug 2025326 m · 4 min

13 registered buildings · 224 units · tallest 4 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle300house driveway/garage (1), other (1)
Bicycle theft000—

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 & Eastwood 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 & Eastwood?

An above-average intersection for traffic. It ranks #1116 of 2,438 counted intersections for vehicles, about the median for a counted intersection.

Is Kingston & Eastwood a walkable intersection?

Kingston & Eastwood scores 54 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,208 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 1 school within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 1 place to eat within 300 m.

How fast do cars go at Kingston & Eastwood?

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 62 m away (40 km/h), 13% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near Kingston & Eastwood?

The nearest Green P car park is 197 Blantyre Ave (1.5 km away, 83 spaces, 29% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 201 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,940 spaces — 29 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Kingston & Eastwood by transit?

Bus routes 12, 69, 117, 20, 135 within 1 km (nearest stop: Kingston Rd at Kildonan Dr, 20 m).

What restaurants are near Kingston & Eastwood?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 9 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Buster's By the Bluffs (107 m), Sisaket Thai Kitchen (313 m), Abbeyfield House (326 m), Bodega By City Cottage (345 m) and Pizzeria Rustico (474 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Kingston & Eastwood?

The nearest is Scarborough Arena Gardens Washroom, 75 Birchmount Rd., 753 m away, with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Birchmount Community Centre Washroom (835 m).

Is there child care near Kingston & Eastwood?

Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 180 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Mon Petit Univers (50 m, 30 spaces), Scarborough Day Nursery School (234 m, 71 spaces) and Little Bugs Nursery Corporation (386 m, 28 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Kingston & Eastwood?

13 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 224 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (170 m, 10 units), 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (170 m, 11 units), 1625-1641 Kingston Rd (170 m, 11 units) and 1481 Kingston Rd (268 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 74). The average RentSafeTO score across the 13 is 84 out of 100; 1 scored below 70.

How many thefts are reported at Kingston & Eastwood?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Birchcliffe-Cliffside page.

What neighbourhood is Kingston & Eastwood in?

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

Sources

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