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Kipling & Rathburn

Kipling Ave & Rathburn Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Islington · Ward 2, Etobicoke Centre

Kipling & Rathburn is an above-average intersection for traffic. It sits in Islington. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: 6 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
29,067
vehicles · 14-hour count, Sep 24, 2025
723 pedestrians · 95 cyclists · #373 busiest
Collisions
85
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
13 with an injury · 61 property damage · #1308 of 5,508 · +4 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
5
TTC stops within 100 m
4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 2,080 vehicles, 1.80× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 40 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 8.5 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 2.9 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Collisions fell 30%, from 50 in 2016–2020 to 35 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Kipling & Rathburn

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
451454648 nearest 17 m
Express
945
Blue Night
345
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — Kipling Ave at Rathburn Rd; Rathburn Rd at Kipling Ave
Cycling
Bike Lane on Rathburn Rd installed 2010
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)
  • St Gregory Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 162 m
  • Rosethorn Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 305 m
  • Olivet New Church Elementary SchoolPrivate · 1.1 km
  • John G Althouse Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 1.3 km
  • Mindwerx4kids Day SchoolPrivate · 1.3 km
  • St George's Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 1.4 km
  • and 2 more
Parks (14)
  • Rosethorn Park365 m
  • Chimney Swift Park651 m
  • Hampshire Heights Park732 m
  • Princess Margaret Park747 m
  • Ravenscrest Park805 m
  • Echo Valley Park826 m
  • and 8 more
Signal
0727, activated 1963 · SA1 · 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

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 4 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Java Joe's, 1.0 km away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in October 2025.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 4 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 1 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Java Joe's · 1500 Islington Ave1 kmPassed, Oct 2025
Pizzaiolo · 1500 Islington Ave, Unit-11 kmPassed, Oct 2025
Food Land · 1500 Islington Avegrocery1 kmPassed, Dec 2025 · 2 infractions
Java Joe's · 1500 Islington Ave1 kmPassed, Jul 2026 · 3 infractions
Pizzaiolo · 1500 Islington Ave Unit-11 kmPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction

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 public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 434 m away at Rosethorn Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Rosethorn Park drinking fountain · 434 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

Three licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 306 spaces; two accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is St. Gregory's Before & After School Club (162 m, 99 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km3 centres · 306 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 3
  • St. Gregory's Before & After School Club · 126 Rathburn Rd
    99 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    162 m
  • Rosethorn Before and After School Program · 2 Remington Dr
    129 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    305 m
  • Eco Kids-Child Care Centre Inc. · 1315 Kipling Ave
    78 spaces · toddler, preschool
    721 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 445 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 22 Division (2.2 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.5 km away.

FireFire Station 445 · 1.2 km280 Burnhamthorpe Rd
Police22 Division · 2.2 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 31 · 2.5 km4219 Dundas St W

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots166 lots · ≈10,700 spaces · 32.1 ha
Within 500 m4 lots · ≈250 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 59 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
16 Royalavon Cres · Surface1.8 km5938% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 62 m away, ≈82 spaces; 80 m away, ≈66 spaces; 159 m away, ≈45 spaces; 191 m away, ≈61 spaces; 631 m away, ≈7 spaces; 634 m away, ≈36 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, Sep 24, 2025

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 10,685 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 37% of the total, against 4,078 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 3,069 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:30 p.m., against 2,598 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.5% 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 north8,714southbound · 20 bikes · 3.9% heavy
From the west5,590eastbound · 20 bikes · 3.0% heavy
Total vehicles29,067723 pedestrians · 95 cyclists · 3.5% heavy
From the east4,078westbound · 34 bikes · 2.1% heavy
From the south10,685northbound · 21 bikes · 4.1% heavy
AM peak hour2,598 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour3,069 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Sep 24, 2025

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 Rathburn Rd between Lloyd Manor Rd and Shadowbrook Dr, 323 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2026 put the average speed at 44 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 53 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 57 km/h or more. That segment carries about 14,100 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Kipling Ave (82 m away, 50 km/h limit), 1.8% of the 46,951 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 60 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Kipling Ave · Great Oak Dr – Rathburn Rd · 42 mSep 2014 · 3 days12,807
Rathburn Rd · Lloyd Manor Rd – Shadowbrook Dr · 323 mApr 2026 · 3 days14,11344 km/h53 km/h57 km/h

School-zone speed sign 82 m

Posted limit50 km/h
Median · 85th pct43 · 51 km/h
Over the limit6.9%
60 km/h or more1.8%

Kipling Ave (northbound), 1239/1241 Kipling Ave · 46,951 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 2016, with 15 collisions; 2025 recorded 5. 13 collisions (15%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 11 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 13% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (1%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 25, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 2.9 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions85#1308 of 5,508
With an injury13#1380 of 4,660
Property damage only61
Fail to remain11
Involving a pedestrian1#2671 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified11
Since January 2026 (outside the window)4
All since 2014111latest Jun 25, 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 Feb 8, 2014.

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Kipling & Rathburn a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 85 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 & Rathburn?

An above-average intersection for traffic. It ranks #373 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.80× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kipling & Rathburn?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Rathburn Rd between Lloyd Manor Rd and Shadowbrook Dr (April 2026), found an average of 44 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 53 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 82 m away (50 km/h), 1.8% of vehicles were doing 60 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Kipling & Rathburn?

The nearest Green P car park is 16 Royalavon Cres (1.8 km away, 59 spaces, 38% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 166 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 10,700 spaces — 4 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Kipling & Rathburn by transit?

Bus routes 45, 145, 46, 48, 945 within 1 km (nearest stop: Kipling Ave at Rathburn Rd, 17 m).

What restaurants are near Kipling & Rathburn?

None within 300 m, and 4 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Java Joe's (1.0 km), Pizzaiolo (1.0 km), Java Joe's (1.0 km) and Pizzaiolo (1.0 km). 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 & Rathburn?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 434 m away at Rosethorn Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Kipling & Rathburn?

Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 306 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are St. Gregory's Before & After School Club (162 m, 99 spaces), Rosethorn Before and After School Program (305 m, 129 spaces) and Eco Kids-Child Care Centre Inc. (721 m, 78 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What neighbourhood is Kipling & Rathburn in?

Kipling & Rathburn is in Islington (City of Toronto neighbourhood 158). It is in Ward 2, Etobicoke Centre, represented by Councillor Stephen Holyday.

Sources

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