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Kipling & Esther Lorrie

Kipling Ave & Esther Lorrie Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Rexdale-Kipling · Ward 1, Etobicoke North

In Rexdale-Kipling, Kipling & Esther Lorrie is an above-average intersection for traffic. Nearby is 8 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
10,427
vehicles · 8-hour count, Mar 2, 2017
128 pedestrians · 5 cyclists
Collisions
24
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
5 with an injury · 16 property damage · #3144 of 5,508 · +1 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,300 vehicles, about the citywide median. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 81 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. That comes with about 2.4 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 29%, from 14 in 2016–2020 to 10 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Kipling & Esther Lorrie

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
45967346 nearest 124 m
Express
945996
Blue Night
345396
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
John Garland Blvd / Jamestown Cres 824 m · 15 docks · 1 station, 15 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 (14)
  • Rivercrest Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 594 m
  • Greenholme Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 646 m
  • West Humber Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 833 m
  • West Humber Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 945 m
  • St Benedict Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
  • Thistletown Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • and 8 more
Parks (11)
  • Esther Lorrie Park479 m
  • Garland Park537 m
  • Thistletown Park840 m
  • Sunnydale Acres Park859 m
  • Beaumonde Heights Park926 m
  • Masseygrove Park943 m
  • and 5 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Rexdale branch665 m
  • Toronto Public Library Albion branch1.1 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; 7 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is 2-4-1 Pizza, 308 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 7 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 3 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
2-4-1 Pizza · 2291 Kipling Ave308 mPassed, Apr 2026
Shilvi Street Food · 2291 Kipling Ave Unit-111grocery308 mPassed, Jul 2026
Tim Hortons · 2281 Kipling Ave398 mPassed, Jan 2026
Jsa Convenience · 121 Kendleton Drgrocery750 mPassed, May 2024
Kipling Acres · 2233 Kipling Ave812 mPassed, Sep 2026
Kipling Acres Adult Day Program · 2233 Kipling Ave812 mPassed, Aug 2024
West Humber Collegiate Institute · 1675 Martin Grove Rd833 mPassed, Oct 2025
G. Prasad Caribbean & Oriental Speciality Foods Inc. · 1176 Albion Rdgrocery1 kmPassed, Aug 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

The nearest public washroom is Esther Lorrie Fieldhouse Washroom, 581 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 564 m away at West Humber Parkland.

  • Esther Lorrie Fieldhouse Washroom · 50 Westhumber Blvd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    581 m
  • West Acres Seniors Centre Washroom · 65 Hinton Rd
    View centre hours
    753 m
  • Sunnydale Acres Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 50 Amoro Dr
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    811 m
Drinking water
West Humber Parkland drinking fountain · 564 m; Esther Lorrie Park drinking fountain · 569 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

Four licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 253 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Sunny Faces Day Care Centre - Rivercrest (594 m, 100 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km4 centres · 253 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 4
  • Sunny Faces Day Care Centre - Rivercrest · 30 Harefield Dr
    100 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    594 m
  • Kipling Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 2233 Kipling Ave
    36 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    832 m
  • First Stage - West Humber · 1675 Martin Grove Rd
    41 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    833 m
  • Sunny Faces Day Care Centre - St. Benedict Site · 2202 Kipling Ave
    76 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    1 km

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 413 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 23 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.2 km away.

FireFire Station 413 · 1.3 km1549 Albion Rd
Police23 Division · 1.5 km5230 Finch Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 12 · 1.2 km1535 Albion Rd

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

12 registered apartment buildings with 1,126 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2329 Kipling Ave (39 m, 40 units, 5 storeys, built 1968), which scored 81 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 17 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 9 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings12 · 1,126 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score87 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202617 across the 12
Open fire-code violations9
Tallest13 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2329 Kipling Ave · Sunrise Property Management405196881 · Aug 2024039 m
35 Jansusie Rd · Metcap Living Management Inc.453196381 · Sep 2025069 m
70 Esther Lorrie Dr · Signet Group Inc.977196398 · Sep 20251124 m
25 Jansusie Rd · Metcap Living Management Inc.453196386 · Jul 20240158 m
60 Esther Lorrie Dr · Signet Group Inc.977196398 · Sep 20252 · 1 fire169 m
15 Jansusie Rd · Metcap Living Management Inc453196781 · Sep 20251264 m
5 Jansusie Rd · Metcap Living Management Inc.453196788 · Sep 20261361 m
20 Sanagan Rd · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.865196588 · Jun 20247761 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 lots280 lots · ≈40,830 spaces · 122.5 ha
Within 500 m7 lots · ≈1,490 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 23 spaces
EV charging (City)14 Barkwin Dr · 1.2 km · 4 Level 2 + 1 fast ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
14 Barkwin Dr · Surface1.2 km2320% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 58 m away, ≈15 spaces; 71 m away, ≈75 spaces; 124 m away, ≈241 spaces; 190 m away, ≈268 spaces; 224 m away, ≈70 spaces; 335 m away, ≈810 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, Mar 2, 2017

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The north leg carries the load — 5,296 southbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 444. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,872 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 12% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (1,668). Trucks and buses were 5.3% 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 10 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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 north5,296southbound · 0 bikes · 4.6% heavy
From the west444eastbound · 4 bikes · 1.6% heavy
Total vehicles10,427128 pedestrians · 5 cyclists · 5.3% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south4,687northbound · 1 bikes · 6.3% heavy
AM peak hour1,668 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,872 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Mar 2, 2017

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 Kipling Ave between Esther Lorrie Dr and Lakeland Dr (323 m away) recorded an average of 61 km/h in its 24-hour count in April 2017; 85% of drivers were at or under 69 km/h. That segment carries about 21,200 vehicles a day. Esther Lorrie Dr between Milmink St and Jansusie Rd measured slower: 43 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 53 km/h (Dec 2019). The reading is 9 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Esther Lorrie Dr · Milmink St – Jansusie Rd · 215 mDec 2019 · 3 days73843 km/h53 km/h58 km/h
Kipling Ave · Esther Lorrie Dr – Lakeland Dr · 323 mApr 2017 · 24 h21,22561 km/h69 km/h74 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

2021 was the peak year (5 collisions), and 2025 closed with 3. 21% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 25% 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 Feb 17, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions24#3144 of 5,508
With an injury5#2720 of 4,660
Property damage only16
Fail to remain6
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201428latest Feb 17, 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 Sep 22, 2013.

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 four 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 vehicle430apartment parking (3), street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft100commercial premises (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 10, 2024. 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 Rexdale-Kipling.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Kipling & Esther Lorrie a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 24 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 & Esther Lorrie?

An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from Mar 2, 2017, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kipling & Esther Lorrie?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Kipling Ave between Esther Lorrie Dr and Lakeland Dr (April 2017), found an average of 61 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 69 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Kipling & Esther Lorrie?

The nearest Green P car park is 14 Barkwin Dr (1.2 km away, 23 spaces, 20% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 280 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 40,830 spaces — 7 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 14 Barkwin Dr (1.2 km).

How do I get to Kipling & Esther Lorrie by transit?

Bus routes 45, 96, 73, 46, 945, 996 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Kipling & Esther Lorrie?

None within 300 m, and 7 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are 2-4-1 Pizza (308 m), Tim Hortons (398 m), Kipling Acres (812 m), Kipling Acres Adult Day Program (812 m) and West Humber Collegiate Institute (833 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 & Esther Lorrie?

The nearest is Esther Lorrie Fieldhouse Washroom, 50 Westhumber Blvd, 581 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: West Acres Seniors Centre Washroom (753 m); Sunnydale Acres Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (811 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 & Esther Lorrie?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 253 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Sunny Faces Day Care Centre - Rivercrest (594 m, 100 spaces), Kipling Early Learning & Child Care Centre (832 m, 36 spaces) and First Stage - West Humber (833 m, 41 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Kipling & Esther Lorrie?

12 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,126 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2329 Kipling Ave (39 m, 40 units, RentSafeTO score 81), 35 Jansusie Rd (69 m, 45 units, RentSafeTO score 81), 70 Esther Lorrie Dr (124 m, 97 units, RentSafeTO score 98) and 25 Jansusie Rd (158 m, 45 units, RentSafeTO score 86). The average RentSafeTO score across the 12 is 87 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 & Esther Lorrie?

Toronto Police place four 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 Rexdale-Kipling page.

What neighbourhood is Kipling & Esther Lorrie in?

Kipling & Esther Lorrie is in Rexdale-Kipling (City of Toronto neighbourhood 004). It is in Ward 1, Etobicoke North, represented by Councillor Vincent Crisanti.

Sources

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