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Kipling & Taber

Kipling Ave & Taber Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Rexdale-Kipling · Ward 1, Etobicoke North

Kipling & Taber, in Rexdale-Kipling, is a busier-than-typical intersection. At the corner: a school within 250 m and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 10 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
10,673
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 8, 2022
1,470 pedestrians · 2 cyclists
Collisions
123
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
20 with an injury · 81 property damage · #890 of 5,508 · +5 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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,330 vehicles, 1.15× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 7 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. That comes with about 12 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 4.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. Collisions rose 51%, from 49 in 2016–2020 to 74 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Kipling & Taber

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
45963746 nearest 18 m
Express
945996937
Blue Night
345396337
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Kipling Ave at Taber Rd
Regional
MiWay 30 Rexdale at Rexdale Blvd West of Brydon Dr841 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 (12)
  • Monsignor Percy Johnson Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 193 m
  • Rexdale Learning Centre LINCEnglish Public · 309 m
  • St Benedict Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 467 m
  • Al Azhar Academy of Canada School & Ummah Nabawiah MosquePrivate · 513 m
  • Al Ikhlaas Foundation SchoolPrivate · 692 m
  • West Humber Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 6 more
Community centres
Parks (7)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Rexdale branch783 m
  • Toronto Public Library Northern Elms branch1 km
Signal
1174, activated 1978 · 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 11 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 45. The nearest is Caribbean Cuisine, 56 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés11 within 300 m · 45 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 7 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Caribbean Cuisine · 2140 Kipling Ave56 mPassed, Apr 2026
Gino's Pizza · 2140 Kipling Ave Unit-156 mPassed, Jul 2026
Lajawab Punjabi Chaap · 2140 Kipling Ave Unit-656 mPassed, Dec 2025
Shelby's · 2140 Kipling Ave Unit-3a56 mPassed, Jul 2026
Subway · 2140 Kipling Ave56 mPassed, Jul 2026
Giant Tiger · 2141 Kipling Ave70 mPassed, Jun 2026
Hakka Dynasty · 2141 Kipling Ave Bldg-10a70 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Pizzaville · 2141 Kipling Ave Unit-50070 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

The nearest public washroom is West Acres Seniors Centre Washroom, 712 m away, View centre hours.

  • West Acres Seniors Centre Washroom · 65 Hinton Rd
    View centre hours
    712 m
  • Sunnydale Acres Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 50 Amoro Dr
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    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

Three licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 184 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Mandi Day Care (309 m, 72 spaces, toddler, preschool, school age).

Within 1 km3 centres · 184 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 3
  • Mandi Day Care · 30 Barrhead Cres
    72 spaces · toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    309 m
  • Sunny Faces Day Care Centre - St. Benedict Site · 2202 Kipling Ave
    76 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    467 m
  • Kipling Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 2233 Kipling Ave
    36 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    633 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 415 (170 m), the nearest police station 23 Division (2.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 415 · 170 m2120 Kipling Ave
Police23 Division · 2.9 km5230 Finch Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 14 · 1.3 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 nine RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 236 rental units. The nearest is 14 Torbolton Dr (913 m, 16 units, 3 storeys, built 1950), which scored 91 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 16 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 8 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings9 · 236 units
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202616 across the 9
Open fire-code violations8
Tallest6 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
14 Torbolton Dr163195091 · Nov 20251913 m
20 Torbolton Dr173195981 · Aug 20240925 m
30 Torbolton Dr163196076 · Sep 20240939 m
40 Torbolton Dr173196298 · Sep 202501 km
3 Torbolton Dr · Torbolton Apts Ltd183196490 · Aug 202421 km
15 Torbolton Dr · Falcosta Investments193196098 · Nov 202501 km
70 Rexdale Blvd · Metcap Living Management Inc1006196998 · Oct 202513 · 1 fire1 km
21 Torbolton Dr · Steelhouse Properties Inc153196083 · Aug 20240 · 7 fire1 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 lots323 lots · ≈76,090 spaces · 228.3 ha
Within 500 m36 lots · ≈6,990 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 72 m away, ≈139 spaces; 80 m away, ≈276 spaces; 81 m away, ≈84 spaces; 106 m away, ≈49 spaces; 120 m away, ≈245 spaces; 137 m away, ≈65 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 8, 2022

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 4,797 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 45% of the total, against 523 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 1,651 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:45 p.m., against 1,374 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Trucks and buses were 9.2% 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 north4,410southbound · 1 bikes · 8.7% heavy
From the west943eastbound · 0 bikes · 9.5% heavy
Total vehicles10,6731,470 pedestrians · 2 cyclists · 9.2% heavy
From the east523westbound · 1 bikes · 3.1% heavy
From the south4,797northbound · 0 bikes · 10.3% heavy
AM peak hour1,374 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,651 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 8, 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 Coolhurst Dr and Redcliff Blvd, 182 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2025 put the average speed at 46 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 54 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 58 km/h or more. That segment carries about 23,200 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Kipling Ave (164 m away, 50 km/h limit), 3.1% of the 65,469 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 60 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Kipling Ave · Coolhurst Dr – Redcliff Blvd · 182 mApr 2025 · 3 days23,19546 km/h54 km/h58 km/h

School-zone speed sign 164 m

Posted limit50 km/h
Median · 85th pct49 · 55 km/h
Over the limit15%
60 km/h or more3.1%

Kipling Ave (northbound), 2163/2165 Kipling Ave · 65,469 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 18 collisions. 20 collisions (16%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 25 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 4 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (3%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 5 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 9, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions123#890 of 5,508
With an injury20#866 of 4,660
Property damage only81
Fail to remain25
Involving a pedestrian2#1835 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist2#1216 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified22
Since January 2026 (outside the window)5
All since 2014137latest Apr 9, 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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 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

Seven thefts from vehicles and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 57% 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 vehicle710street/outdoor (4), commercial premises (2)
Bicycle theft110commercial premises (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 1, 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 & Taber a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 123 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 & Taber?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from Feb 8, 2022, 1.15× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Kipling & Taber?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Kipling Ave between Coolhurst Dr and Redcliff Blvd (April 2025), found an average of 46 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 54 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 164 m away (50 km/h), 3.1% of vehicles were doing 60 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Kipling & Taber?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 323 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 76,090 spaces — 36 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Kipling & Taber by transit?

Bus routes 45, 96, 37, 46, 945, 996, 937 within 1 km (nearest stop: Kipling Ave at Taber Rd, 18 m); MiWay route 30 Rexdale at Rexdale Blvd West of Brydon Dr.

What restaurants are near Kipling & Taber?

11 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 45 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Caribbean Cuisine (56 m), Gino's Pizza (56 m), Lajawab Punjabi Chaap (56 m), Shelby's (56 m) and Subway (56 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 & Taber?

The nearest is West Acres Seniors Centre Washroom, 65 Hinton Rd, 712 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Sunnydale Acres Park Outdoor Rink 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 & Taber?

Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 184 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Mandi Day Care (309 m, 72 spaces), Sunny Faces Day Care Centre - St. Benedict Site (467 m, 76 spaces) and Kipling Early Learning & Child Care Centre (633 m, 36 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Kipling & Taber?

Nine RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 236 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 14 Torbolton Dr (913 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 20 Torbolton Dr (925 m, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 81), 30 Torbolton Dr (939 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 76) and 40 Torbolton Dr (1.0 km, 17 units, RentSafeTO score 98). The average RentSafeTO score across the 9 is 90 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 & Taber?

Toronto Police place seven 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 & Taber in?

Kipling & Taber 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