Toronto · intersection · signal 1211

Kipling & Bethridge

Kipling Ave & Bethridge Rd · Toronto, Ontario · West Humber-Clairville · Ward 1, Etobicoke North

In West Humber-Clairville, Kipling & Bethridge is a busier-than-typical intersection. At the corner: an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: Etobicoke North GO 369 m away and 5 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
17,062
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 9, 2022
191 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
227
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
31 with an injury · 150 property damage · #429 of 5,508 · +13 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 2,130 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 1.85× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 89 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). On average 23 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 7.3× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. Collisions edged down 9%, from 119 in 2016–2020 to 108 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Kipling & Bethridge

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
Etobicoke North GO — Kitchener369 m
TTC bus
4537145 nearest 17 m
Express
945
Blue Night
345
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Kipling Ave at Bethridge Rd
Regional
MiWay 30 Rexdale at Rexdale Blvd at Kipling Ave285 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
no station 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 (8)
  • Kisomo Learning Centre SchoolPrivate · 283 m
  • Al Ikhlaas Foundation SchoolPrivate · 524 m
  • Al-Hidayah Academy SchoolPrivate · 593 m
  • Al Azhar Academy of Canada School & Ummah Nabawiah MosquePrivate · 702 m
  • Madresatul Banaat Almuslimaat SchoolPrivate · 1.1 km
  • Rexdale Learning Centre LINCEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • and 2 more
Parks (4)
  • Frost Park515 m
  • Rexlington Park1 km
  • Kingsview Park1.4 km
  • The Elms Park1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Northern Elms branch193 m
Signal
1211, activated 1977 · SA2 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

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 8 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 54. The nearest is Salaama Hut, 63 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés8 within 300 m · 54 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 12 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Salaama Halal Meat & Grocery · 1987 Kipling Ave Unit-2grocery63 mPassed, Apr 2026
Salaama Hut · 1987 Kipling Ave Unit-163 mPassed, Jun 2026
Infusion Bar & Grill · 5 Bethridge Rd103 mPassed, May 2026
Shell Select · 135 Rexdale Blvdgrocery248 mPassed, Oct 2025
Tim Hortons · 135 Rexdale Blvd248 mPassed, Jun 2025
Golden Asian Cuisine · 123 Rexdale Blvd Unit-7249 mPassed, Jul 2026
Wally's Grill · 123 Rexdale Blvd Unit-8249 mPassed, Aug 2026
Rexdale Bowlerama · 115 Rexdale Blvd282 mPassed, Jul 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

No City washroom within 1 km.

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

No licensed child care centre within 1 km.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 415 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 23 Division (4.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.6 km away.

FireFire Station 415 · 1 km2120 Kipling Ave
Police23 Division · 4.1 km5230 Finch Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 14 · 1.6 km321 Rexdale Blvd

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 four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 433 rental units. The nearest is 70 Rexdale Blvd (589 m, 100 units, 6 storeys, built 1969), which scored 98 out of 100 at its October 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 30 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings4 · 433 units
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202630 across the 4
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest7 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
70 Rexdale Blvd · Metcap Living Management Inc1006196998 · Oct 202513 · 1 fire589 m
9 Bergamot Ave · Pinedale Properties Ltd734196090 · Sep 20243818 m
11 Bergamot Ave · Pinedale Properties Ltd1307196086 · Jul 20255909 m
27 Bergamot Ave · Pinedale Properties Ltd1307196091 · Jul 202591 km

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 lots341 lots · ≈87,370 spaces · 262.1 ha
Within 500 m31 lots · ≈13,140 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 76 m away, ≈550 spaces; 76 m away, ≈218 spaces; 87 m away, ≈73 spaces; 153 m away, ≈584 spaces; 205 m away, ≈62 spaces; 225 m away, ≈774 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, Feb 9, 2022

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 8,159 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 48% of the total, against 955 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 2,522 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:45 p.m., against 2,069 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Trucks and buses were 12.6% 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 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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 north6,672southbound · 0 bikes · 11.3% heavy
From the west955eastbound · 0 bikes · 18.7% heavy
Total vehicles17,062191 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 12.6% heavy
From the east1,276westbound · 0 bikes · 12.9% heavy
From the south8,159northbound · 0 bikes · 12.8% heavy
AM peak hour2,069 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour2,522 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 9, 2022

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 Kipling Ave between Namco Rd and Bethridge Rd, 54 m from the corner, a 3-day count in August 2023 put the average speed at 50 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 60 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 66 km/h or more. That segment carries about 22,600 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Kipling Ave · Namco Rd – Bethridge Rd · 54 mAug 2023 · 3 days22,59950 km/h60 km/h66 km/h

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 2024, with 36 collisions; 2025 recorded 12. 31 collisions (14%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 52 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 23% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 4 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (2%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 13 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 3, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions227#429 of 5,508
With an injury31#485 of 4,660
Property damage only150
Fail to remain52
Involving a pedestrian3#1291 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist1#2021 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality1
Severity not classified45
Since January 2026 (outside the window)13
All since 2014272latest Jun 3, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Jun 14, 2006. The police all-collisions file records 1 fatal collision here in 2016–2025; the KSI file, which is compiled separately and geocoded to the nearest leg, places it just outside the 65 m radius.

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

17 thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.7 a year. 76% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1750street/outdoor (13), other (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 13, 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 West Humber-Clairville.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Kipling & Bethridge a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 227 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 Kipling & Bethridge?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from Feb 9, 2022, 1.85× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kipling & Bethridge?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Kipling Ave between Namco Rd and Bethridge Rd (August 2023), found an average of 50 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 60 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Kipling & Bethridge?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 341 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 87,370 spaces — 31 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Kipling & Bethridge by transit?

Etobicoke North GO is 369 m away; bus routes 45, 37, 145, 945 within 1 km (nearest stop: Kipling Ave at Bethridge Rd, 17 m); MiWay route 30 Rexdale at Rexdale Blvd at Kipling Ave.

What restaurants are near Kipling & Bethridge?

8 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 54 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Salaama Hut (63 m), Infusion Bar & Grill (103 m), Tim Hortons (248 m), Golden Asian Cuisine (249 m) and Wally's Grill (249 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

What apartment buildings are near Kipling & Bethridge?

Four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 433 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 70 Rexdale Blvd (589 m, 100 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 9 Bergamot Ave (818 m, 73 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 11 Bergamot Ave (909 m, 130 units, RentSafeTO score 86) and 27 Bergamot Ave (1.0 km, 130 units, RentSafeTO score 91). The average RentSafeTO score across the 4 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 Kipling & Bethridge?

Toronto Police place 17 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 West Humber-Clairville page.

What neighbourhood is Kipling & Bethridge in?

Kipling & Bethridge is in West Humber-Clairville (City of Toronto neighbourhood 001). It is in Ward 1, Etobicoke North, represented by Councillor Vincent Crisanti.

Sources

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