Toronto · intersection · signal 767

Kipling & Birmingham

Kipling Ave & Birmingham St · Toronto, Ontario · New Toronto · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore

In New Toronto, Kipling & Birmingham is a mid-volume intersection. At the corner: a protected bikeway and a school within 250 m. Nearby: 7 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
15,942
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jul 21, 2026
703 pedestrians · 131 cyclists · #1215 busiest
Collisions
69
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
16 with an injury · 46 property damage · #1587 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
2
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 1 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #371 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
1 streetcar route · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings), Cycle Track
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 1,140 vehicles, about the citywide median. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 23 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 6.9 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 4.3 per 10,000 counted vehicles, in line with the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions rose 56%, from 27 in 2016–2020 to 42 in 2021–2025. About one in 35 of those collisions involved a death or serious injury.

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Kipling & Birmingham

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
507 nearest 281 m
TTC bus
44110 nearest 19 m
Express
944
Blue Night
301345337
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Kipling Ave at Birmingham St
Cycling
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Birmingham St installed 2007; Cycle Track on Birmingham St installed 2004
Bike Share
Lake Shore Blvd W / Seventeenth St 318 m · 11 docks · 4 stations, 79 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 (12)
  • Lakeshore Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 134 m
  • Twentieth Street Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 338 m
  • The Holy Trinity SchoolEnglish Separate · 376 m
  • Humber College School - Lakeshore CampusCollege · 449 m
  • Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 628 m
  • St Josaphat Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 738 m
  • and 6 more
Parks (19)
  • Don Russell Memorial Park323 m
  • Birmingham Street Parkette550 m
  • Lakeshore Village Park644 m
  • Laburnham Park808 m
  • Jordon Carter Memorial Park838 m
  • Colonel Samuel Smith Park905 m
  • and 13 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library New Toronto branch682 m
  • Toronto Public Library Long Branch branch1.2 km
Signal
0767, activated 1957 · SAP · 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 9 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 67. The nearest is Lakeshore Collegiate Institute, 135 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in October 2025.

Restaurants & cafés9 within 300 m · 67 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 10 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Lakeshore Collegiate Institute · 350 Kipling Ave135 mPassed, Oct 2025
Lakeshore Collegiate Institute · 350 Kipling Ave135 mPassed, Apr 2026
Artemis Cafe and Eatery · 3180 Lake Shore Blvd W Unit-1290 mPassed, Sep 2026
Chai Stop · 3180 Lake Shore Blvd W Unit-3290 mPassed, Sep 2026 · 1 infraction
Coco Fresh Tea and Juice · 3180 Lake Shore Blvd W Bldg-6290 mPassed, Jul 2026
Ghazale · 3180 Lake Shore Blvd W290 mPassed, Sep 2026
Pizzaiolo · 3180 Lake Shore Blvd W Unit-2290 mPassed, Aug 2026
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen · 3180 Lake Shore Blvd W290 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions

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 Gus Ryder Pool and Health Club Washroom, 321 m away, View centre hours.

  • Gus Ryder Pool and Health Club Washroom · 1 Faustina Dr
    View centre hours
    321 m
  • Ken Cox Community Centre Washroom · 28 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr
    View centre hours
    632 m
  • Power House Recreation Centre Washroom · 65 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr
    View outdoor rink hours
    825 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

Five licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 294 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Plasp Twentieth Street Junior School (338 m, 28 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km5 centres · 294 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 5
  • Plasp Twentieth Street Junior School · 3190 Lake Shore Blvd W
    28 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    338 m
  • Marguerite Butt Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 3197 Lake Shore Blvd W
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    374 m
  • Holy Trinity YMCA · 6 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr
    127 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    376 m
  • Le Jardin de Moliere Inc · 3029 Lake Shore Blvd W
    15 spaces · toddler · $10-a-day
    745 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 435 (891 m), the nearest police station 22 Division (4.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 729 m away.

FireFire Station 435 · 891 m130 Eighth St
Police22 Division · 4.8 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 38 · 729 m259 Horner 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

Within a kilometre there are 29 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 965 rental units — one social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 359 Kipling Ave (35 m, 12 units, 3 storeys, built 1967), which scored 94 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 53 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings29 · 965 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202653 across the 29
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest14 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
359 Kipling Ave · Mars Investments Co.123196794 · Nov 2025035 m
272 Birmingham St · 272 Birmingham Ltd103196590 · Aug 2026042 m
250 Birmingham St233195081 · Aug 20260228 m
60 Fifteenth St · Alto Properties Inc.113195897 · Jul 20251233 m
66 Fifteenth St · Orchard Park Property Management233195793 · Jul 20250233 m
104 Sixteenth St · Self123195294 · Jul 20250235 m
68 Fifteenth St · Orchard Park Property Management233195792 · Aug 20242238 m
70 Fifteenth St · Pace Property Management253195597 · Jul 20254244 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 lots693 lots · ≈56,990 spaces · 171 ha
Within 500 m84 lots · ≈2,610 spaces
Green P (public)9 car parks · about 511 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking4 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
5 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive · Surface399 m52 *
3239-3243 Lake Shore Blvd W · Surface507 m2451% (Q1 2026)
65 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive · Surface780 m210 *
128 Eight St · Surface907 m5821% (Q1 2026)
139 ISLINGTON AVE. · Surface1 km11 *

Nearest lots: 38 m away, ≈9 spaces; 46 m away, ≈13 spaces; 46 m away, ≈5 spaces; 54 m away, ≈11 spaces; 65 m away, ≈18 spaces; 72 m away, ≈2 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 — 14-hour, Jul 21, 2026

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 5,846 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 37% of the total, against 2,422 from the west. Most cyclists arrived from the west (55 of 131). Evening rush dominates here: 1,558 vehicles in the peak hour from 3:45 p.m., against 1,407 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north5,846southbound · 20 bikes · 4.4% heavy
From the west2,422eastbound · 55 bikes · 1.4% heavy
Total vehicles15,942703 pedestrians · 131 cyclists · 4.1% heavy
From the east4,156westbound · 42 bikes · 1.6% heavy
From the south3,518northbound · 14 bikes · 8.3% heavy
AM peak hour1,407 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,558 vehicles from 3:45 p.m.
Count14-hour · Jul 21, 2026

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 Birmingham St and New Toronto St, 190 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2026 put the average speed at 51 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 58 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 63 km/h or more. That segment carries about 16,800 vehicles a day. Birmingham St between Fifteenth St and Sixteenth St measured slower: 46 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 53 km/h (Apr 2026). At the school-zone speed sign on Lake Shore Blvd W (316 m away, 50 km/h limit), 3.5% of the 179,150 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 60 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Kipling Ave · Birmingham St – New Toronto St · 190 mMay 2026 · 3 days16,79351 km/h58 km/h63 km/h
Birmingham St · Fifteenth St – Sixteenth St · 209 mApr 2026 · 3 days9,14346 km/h53 km/h58 km/h

School-zone speed sign 316 m

Posted limit50 km/h
Median · 85th pct45 · 53 km/h
Over the limit11%
60 km/h or more3.5%

Lake Shore Blvd W (eastbound), 3182 Lake Shore Boulevard West · 179,150 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 2022, with 10 collisions; 2025 recorded 9. 16 collisions (23%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 8 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 12% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 8 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (12%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 23, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 4.3 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions69#1587 of 5,508
With an injury16#1118 of 4,660
Property damage only46
Fail to remain8
Involving a pedestrian6#584 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist2#1212 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified7
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201483latest Apr 23, 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

Neither of the two serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025 was fatal. 1 pedestrian was among those hurt; one collision involved vehicle occupants only. One of the two happened in darkness. The most recent was on Sep 3, 2023.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions2#371 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian1#618 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness1
All KSI since 20062latest Sep 3, 2023

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

One theft from a vehicle and three bike thefts were reported around this corner 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 vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft310other (1), apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 22, 2023. 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 New Toronto.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Kipling & Birmingham a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 2 serious-injury collisions were recorded in 2016–2025 (#371 of 1,505), out of 69 reported collisions of any severity. 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 & Birmingham?

A mid-volume intersection. It ranks #1215 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kipling & Birmingham?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Kipling Ave between Birmingham St and New Toronto St (May 2026), found an average of 51 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 58 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 316 m away (50 km/h), 3.5% of vehicles were doing 60 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Kipling & Birmingham?

The nearest Green P car park is 5 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive (399 m away, 52 spaces). The City's mapping shows 693 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 56,990 spaces — 84 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Kipling & Birmingham by transit?

Streetcar route 507 stop within 1 km, the nearest 281 m away; bus routes 44, 110, 944 within 1 km (nearest stop: Kipling Ave at Birmingham St, 19 m).

What restaurants are near Kipling & Birmingham?

9 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 67 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Lakeshore Collegiate Institute (135 m), Lakeshore Collegiate Institute (135 m), Artemis Cafe and Eatery (290 m), Chai Stop (290 m) and Coco Fresh Tea and Juice (290 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 Kipling & Birmingham?

The nearest is Gus Ryder Pool and Health Club Washroom, 1 Faustina Dr, 321 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Ken Cox Community Centre Washroom (632 m); Power House Recreation Centre Washroom (825 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 Kipling & Birmingham?

Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 294 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Plasp Twentieth Street Junior School (338 m, 28 spaces), Marguerite Butt Early Learning & Child Care Centre (374 m, 62 spaces) and Holy Trinity YMCA (376 m, 127 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Kipling & Birmingham?

29 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 965 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 359 Kipling Ave (35 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 272 Birmingham St (42 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 250 Birmingham St (228 m, 23 units, RentSafeTO score 81) and 60 Fifteenth St (233 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 29 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 & Birmingham?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and three 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 New Toronto page.

What neighbourhood is Kipling & Birmingham in?

Kipling & Birmingham is in New Toronto (City of Toronto neighbourhood 018). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley.

Sources

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