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Kingston & Rainsford

Kingston Rd & Rainsford Rd · Toronto, Ontario · The Beaches · Ward 19, Beaches-East York

Kingston & Rainsford, in The Beaches, is a busier-than-typical intersection. Nearby is 10 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
11,787
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 1, 1999
162 pedestrians · 26 cyclists
Collisions
23
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 16 property damage · #3219 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
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
3 streetcar routes · 4 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 1,470 vehicles an hour, 1.27× the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 73 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 2.3 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 23%, from 13 in 2016–2020 to 10 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Kingston & Rainsford

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
503501506 nearest 120 m
TTC bus
92312264 nearest 149 m
Blue Night
301306322
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Heyworth Cres / Kingston Rd 304 m · 19 docks · 11 stations, 285 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 (16)
  • Norway Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 453 m
  • Bowmore Road Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 561 m
  • Academy of Thought and Industry TorontoPrivate · 564 m
  • Kew Beach Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 708 m
  • Boardwalk Montessori SchoolPrivate · 777 m
  • Glen Ames Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 868 m
  • and 10 more
Parks (33)
  • Jeff Sloan Playground268 m
  • Edgewood Parkette464 m
  • Cairns Avenue Parkette531 m
  • Orchard Park614 m
  • Fairmount Park631 m
  • Maughan Crescent Parkette665 m
  • and 27 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Beaches branch907 m
  • Toronto Public Library Gerrard/Ashdale branch1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Main Street branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • Kew Gardens ParkNature/ Park · 1 km
  • Woodbine BeachNature/ Park · 1.2 km
  • Ashbridges Bay ParkNature/ Park · 1.4 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; 125 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Edgewood Villa, 406 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 125 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 18 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Edgewood Villa · 17 Edgewood Ave406 mPassed, May 2026
Toby's Food Mart · 86 Kingston Rdgrocery417 mPassed, Mar 2025
Sid's Gourmet Pizza · 66 Kingston Rd484 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Sauvignon · 1862 Queen St E492 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Sauvignon · 1862 Queen St E492 mPassed, Jul 2025 · 1 infraction
Ichiban Sushi · 1864 Queen St E493 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 2 infractions
Bruno's Fine Foods · 1880 Queen St Egrocery499 mPassed, Aug 2025 · 3 infractions
Jugo Juice · 1886b Queen St E None523 mPassed, Jan 2025

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 Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom, 634 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 577 m away at Orchard Park.

  • Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom · 1725 Gerrard St E
    View centre hours
    634 m
  • Kew Gardens Playground Washroom · 2075 Queen St E
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    836 m
  • Beaches Recreation Centre Washroom · 6 Williamson Rd
    View centre hours
    838 m
Drinking water
Orchard Park drinking fountain · 577 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

Ten licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 859 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Norway School Age YMCA (453 m, 99 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km10 centres · 859 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 10
  • Norway School Age YMCA · 390 Kingston Rd
    99 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    453 m
  • Bowmore · 80 Bowmore Rd
    89 spaces · preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    561 m
  • Brightpath Academy - the Beach Clubzone · 1921 Queen St E
    72 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · $10-a-day
    596 m
  • Brightpath Academy - the Beach · 1925 Queen St E
    111 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    596 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 227 (525 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (778 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.6 km away.

FireFire Station 227 · 525 m1904 Queen St E
Police55 Division · 778 m101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 46 · 1.6 km105 Cedarvale Ave

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

50 registered apartment buildings with 1,969 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, 16 of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 2.2× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 204 Kingston Rd (120 m, 15 units, 3 storeys, built 1934), which scored 92 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 67 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 11 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings50 · 1,969 units · 16 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202667 across the 50
Open fire-code violations11
Tallest9 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
204 Kingston Rd · 204 Kingston Birch Properties Inc153193492 · Jul 20250120 m
419 Woodbine Ave113196093 · Nov 20250186 m
158 Kingston Rd444196087 · Aug 20263248 m
320 Kingston RdToronto Community Housing · TCH363195495 · Jul 20251256 m
156 Kingston Rd · Firm Capital624195071 · Aug 20265269 m
140 Kingston Rd · Signet Group Inc.604195495 · Aug 20266289 m
136 Kingston Rdsocial housing · Aykler Real Estate Inc.944195975 · Aug 20265314 m
98 Elmer AveToronto Community Housing · TCH364195592 · Jun 20240322 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 lots429 lots · ≈16,640 spaces · 49.9 ha
Within 500 m25 lots · ≈3,270 spaces
Green P (public)20 car parks · about 1,157 spaces
EV charging (City)29 Bowmore Rd · 392 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking4 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
192 Boardwalk Dr · Surface558 m2445% (Q1 2026)
166 Woodbine Ave · Surface563 m2146% (Q1 2026)
116 Joseph Duggan Rd · Surface574 m2441% (Q1 2026)
118 Sarah Ashbridge Ave · Surface604 m2440% (Q1 2026)
116 Winners Crcl · Surface654 m1052% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 115 m away, ≈17 spaces; 165 m away, ≈2,723 spaces; 216 m away, ≈74 spaces; 235 m away, ≈2 spaces; 246 m away, ≈31 spaces; 250 m away, ≈7 spaces. More EV charging: 1856 Queen St E. (512 m, 2 ports); 1834 Queen St E (517 m, 2 ports); 166 Woodbine Ave (568 m, 6 ports).

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, Dec 1, 1999

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. The east leg carries the load — 6,225 westbound vehicles, or 53% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 134. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 2,160 vehicles in the hour from 4:30 p.m., 13% above the morning peak from 7:45 a.m. (1,913). Trucks and buses were 5.8% 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 27 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 1999, 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 north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west5,428eastbound · 6 bikes · 5.7% heavy
Total vehicles11,787162 pedestrians · 26 cyclists · 5.8% heavy
From the east6,225westbound · 19 bikes · 6.0% heavy
From the south134northbound · 1 bikes · 1.5% heavy
AM peak hour1,913 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour2,160 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 1, 1999

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 Rainsford Rd between Morrissey Lane and Kingston Rd (47 m away) recorded an average of 20 km/h in its 3-day count in September 2021; 85% of drivers were at or under 28 km/h. That segment carries about 500 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Kingston Rd (321 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.2% of the 18,270 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none. 4 speed humps slow traffic on Rainsford Road between Kingston Rd and Queen St E.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Rainsford Rd · Morrissey Lane – Kingston Rd · 47 mSep 2021 · 3 days49920 km/h28 km/h32 km/h
Kingston Rd · Rainsford Rd – Woodbine Ave · 75 mJun 2013 · 24 h20,476

School-zone speed sign 321 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct27 · 38 km/h
Over the limit1.6%
50 km/h or more0.2%

Kingston Rd (eastbound), 347 Kingston Rd · 18,270 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Rainsford Road · Kingston Rd – Queen St E
    4 speed humps

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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 5 collisions. 9% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. 5 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 22% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 2, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions23#3219 of 5,508
With an injury2#3784 of 4,660
Property damage only16
Fail to remain5
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified5
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201427latest Apr 2, 2026

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 three thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle300house driveway/garage (2), other (1)
Bicycle theft100house driveway/garage (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 13, 2018. 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 The Beaches.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Kingston & Rainsford a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 23 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 & Rainsford?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from Dec 1, 1999, 1.27× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kingston & Rainsford?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Rainsford Rd between Morrissey Lane and Kingston Rd (September 2021), found an average of 20 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 28 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 321 m away (40 km/h), 0.2% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Kingston & Rainsford?

The nearest Green P car park is 192 Boardwalk Dr (558 m away, 24 spaces, 45% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 429 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 16,640 spaces — 25 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 29 Bowmore Rd (392 m).

How do I get to Kingston & Rainsford by transit?

Streetcar routes 503, 501, 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 120 m away; bus routes 92, 31, 22, 64 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Kingston & Rainsford?

None within 300 m, and 125 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Edgewood Villa (406 m), Sid's Gourmet Pizza (484 m), Sauvignon (492 m), Sauvignon (492 m) and Ichiban Sushi (493 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 & Rainsford?

The nearest is Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom, 1725 Gerrard St E, 634 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Kew Gardens Playground Washroom (836 m); Beaches Recreation Centre Washroom (838 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 & Rainsford?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 859 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Norway School Age YMCA (453 m, 99 spaces), Bowmore (561 m, 89 spaces) and Brightpath Academy - the Beach Clubzone (596 m, 72 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Kingston & Rainsford?

50 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,969 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 204 Kingston Rd (120 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 419 Woodbine Ave (186 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 158 Kingston Rd (248 m, 44 units, RentSafeTO score 87) and 320 Kingston Rd (256 m, 36 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 50 is 91 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 Kingston & Rainsford?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft 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 The Beaches page.

What neighbourhood is Kingston & Rainsford in?

Kingston & Rainsford is in The Beaches (City of Toronto neighbourhood 063). 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