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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · Apr 19, 2006
The west leg carries the load — 9,798 eastbound vehicles, or 53% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 5. Most cyclists arrived from the east (56 of 98). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 3,101 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 12% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (2,757). Heavy vehicles made up 4.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 21 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.
Peak hours: 2,757 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 3,101 from 5:00 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
2024 was the peak year (5 collisions), and 2025 closed with 4. 10% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. 7 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 23% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 3% 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 Jun 16, 2026.
No one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Aug 17, 2014.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 30 | |
| With an injury | 3 | |
| Property damage only | 20 | |
| Fail to remain | 7 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 1 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| Severity not classified | 7 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 2 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 2 | latest Aug 17, 2014 |
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 Pickering St between Lyall Ave and Swanwick Ave (317 m away) recorded an average of 33 km/h in its 24-hour count in May 2010; 85% of drivers were at or under 40 km/h. That segment carries about 1,000 vehicles a day. The reading is 16 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Lyall Ave (328 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 42,583 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none. 6 speed humps slow traffic on Pickering Street between Gerrard St E and Kingston Rd.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pickering St · Lyall Ave – Swanwick Ave · 317 m | May 2010 · 24 h | 1,024 | 33 km/h | 40 km/h | 44 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Lyall Ave (eastbound), 328 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 9 km/h, 85th percentile 22 km/h; 0.0% at 40 km/h or more. 42,583 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
- Traffic calming
- Pickering Street (Gerrard St E – Kingston Rd): 6 speed humps
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
- Streetcar
- 503 501 nearest 51 m
- TTC bus
- 404 12 117 64 135 nearest 51 m
- Blue Night
- 301 322 316 324
- Nearest stops
- 5 surface stops within 300 m — Kingston Rd at Beech Ave
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Kingston Rd / Beech Ave 145 m · 15 docks · 4 stations, 62 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
- 5 car parks · about 381 spaces
- EV charging
- 912 Kingston Road · 72 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 2231 Gerrard Street East (1.1 km), 2219 Gerrard Street East (1.2 km)
- Bike parking
- 46 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 19 mapped lots within 500 m, 224 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 197 Blantyre Ave · Surface | 743 m | 83 | 29% (Q1 2026) |
| 117 Hammersmith Ave · Surface | 1.3 km | 29 | 47% (Q1 2026) |
| 136 Wineva Ave. · Surface | 1.4 km | 28 * | — |
| 85 Lee Ave · Surface | 1.6 km | 68 | 61% (Q1 2026) |
| Victoria Main Lot - 777 Victoria Park Avenue · Surface | 1.9 km | 173 * | — |
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: Mac's Market is 226 m away. A specialist food shop is closer still: Fearless Meat, 33 m away. There are 19 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 53 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is The Black Canary Espresso Bar, 33 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Beech Medical Pharmacy, 95 m away, one of three within 300 m. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: Main Street Terrace, a long-term care home 923 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- The Black Canary Espresso Bar · 900 Kingston Rd33 m
- Kibo Upper Beach · 906 Kingston Rd50 m
- Black Dog Cafe · 878 Kingston Rd60 m
- Wings Fuzion · 917 Kingston Rd83 m
- Cafe Parmesan · 918 Kingston Rd85 m
- Grocery
- Mac's Market 226 m · 2 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Fearless Meat 33 m · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 2 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- Beech Medical Pharmacy 95 m · 5 within 1 km
- Child care
- Beaches Montessori School Incorporated · 54 spaces, toddler, preschool179 m
- Beaches Montessori School South · 16 spaces, preschool376 m · 4 min
- Kids Club (Day Care Connection) · 118 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day418 m · 5 min
- Washrooms
- Adam Beck Community Centre Washroom · Mon 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Tue 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Wed 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Thu 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Fri 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.; Sat 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Sun Closed423 m · 5 min
- Blantyre Park Fieldhouse Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible833 m · 10 min
- Health and care
- Main Street Terrace · long-term care home923 m · 11 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 (9)
- Glen Stewart Park523 m · 6 min
- Neville Park Blvd Ravine729 m · 9 min
- Bob Acton Park872 m · 10 min
- Blantyre Park1.1 km · 13 min
- Ivan Forrest Gardens1.2 km · 15 min
- Community centres
- Adam Beck Community Centre478 m · 6 min
- Ted Reeve Community Arena1.2 km · 14 min
- Beaches Recreation Centre1.2 km · 15 min
- Schools (17)
- Beaches MontessoriPrivate · 179 m
- Notre Dame Catholic High SchoolEnglish Separate · 311 m · 4 min
- St John Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 418 m · 5 min
- Malvern Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 476 m · 6 min
- Balmy Beach Community SchoolEnglish Public · 538 m · 6 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Main Street branch1.2 km · 14 min
- Places of interest
- Balmy Beach ParkNature/ 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.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #1,559 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
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
29 registered apartment buildings with 1,358 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, six of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 828 Kingston Rd (205 m, 147 units, 7 storeys, built 1962), which scored 96 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 828 Kingston Rd Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation | 147 | 7 | 1962 | 96 · Jul 2025 | 205 m |
| 983 Kingston Rd · Ez Property Management Ltd | 14 | 3 | 1925 | 78 · Jun 2024 | 318 m · 4 min |
| 987 Kingston Rd · Ez Property Management | 15 | 3 | 1925 | 90 · Jul 2025 | 333 m · 4 min |
| 737 Kingston Rd · Jblue Enterprises | 24 | 4 | 1935 | 83 · Aug 2026 | 456 m · 5 min |
| 700 Kingston Rd · Greenwin Corp. | 38 | 7 | 1971 | 93 · Sep 2026 | 560 m · 7 min |
| 1080 Kingston Rd | 202 | 16 | 1970 | 95 · Jul 2024 | 622 m · 7 min |
29 registered buildings · 1,358 units · 6 social housing · tallest 16 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 four thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Apr 26, 2026.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 4 | 1 | 0 | street/outdoor (3), house driveway/garage (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 2 | 2 | 1 | apartment parking (1), street/outdoor (1) |
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 East End-Danforth.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Kingston & Pickering a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 30 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 & Pickering?
An above-average intersection for traffic at the City's last count here, in 2006. Its latest count is from Apr 19, 2006, 1.98× today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Kingston & Pickering a walkable intersection?
Kingston & Pickering scores 61 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,559 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: 4 schools within 500 m · 3 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 19 places to eat within 300 m; nearest park 0.5 km · 1 community centre within 800 m. The crossing itself: traffic calming.
How fast do cars go at Kingston & Pickering?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Pickering St between Lyall Ave and Swanwick Ave (May 2010), found an average of 33 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 40 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 328 m away (30 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Kingston & Pickering?
The nearest Green P car park is 197 Blantyre Ave (743 m away, 83 spaces, 29% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 224 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 12,950 spaces — 19 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 912 Kingston Road (72 m).
How do I get to Kingston & Pickering by transit?
Streetcar routes 503, 501 stop within 1 km, the nearest 51 m away; bus routes 404, 12, 117, 64, 135 within 1 km (nearest stop: Kingston Rd at Beech Ave, 51 m).
What restaurants are near Kingston & Pickering?
19 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 53 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are The Black Canary Espresso Bar (33 m), Kibo Upper Beach (50 m), Black Dog Cafe (60 m), Wings Fuzion (83 m) and Cafe Parmesan (85 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Kingston & Pickering?
The nearest is Adam Beck Community Centre Washroom, 79 Lawlor Ave, 423 m away (Mon 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Tue 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Wed 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Thu 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Fri 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.; Sat 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Sun Closed). Next nearest: Blantyre Park Fieldhouse Washroom (833 m).
Is there child care near Kingston & Pickering?
13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 906 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Beaches Montessori School Incorporated (179 m, 54 spaces), Beaches Montessori School South (376 m, 16 spaces) and Kids Club (Day Care Connection) (418 m, 118 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Kingston & Pickering?
29 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,358 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 828 Kingston Rd (205 m, 147 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 983 Kingston Rd (318 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 78), 987 Kingston Rd (333 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 737 Kingston Rd (456 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 29 is 90 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Kingston & Pickering?
Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the East End-Danforth page.
What neighbourhood is Kingston & Pickering in?
Kingston & Pickering is in East End-Danforth (City of Toronto neighbourhood 062). It is in Ward 19, Beaches-East York, represented by Councillor Brad Bradford.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Apr 19, 2006.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary); Traffic Calming Database.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 19 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.68030, -79.28995 · centreline node 13461458.