Toronto · intersection · signal 2108

Lawrence & Brookhaven

Lawrence Ave W & Brookhaven Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Brookhaven-Amesbury · Ward 5, York South-Weston

Lawrence & Brookhaven is an above-average intersection for traffic. It sits in Brookhaven-Amesbury. At the corner: a school within 250 m and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
10,810
vehicles · 8-hour count, Mar 10, 2020
183 pedestrians · 2 cyclists
Collisions
57
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
14 with an injury · 38 property damage · #1871 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 2 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
5 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 1,350 vehicles, 1.17× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 59 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 5.7 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 16%, from 31 in 2016–2020 to 26 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Lawrence & Brookhaven

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
52357915859 nearest 19 m
Express
952935
Blue Night
352335
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Lawrence Ave West at Brookhaven Dr; Lawrence Ave West at Brookhaven Dr West Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Lawrence Ave W / Renfield St 177 m · 11 docks · 4 stations, 59 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)
  • Brookhaven Public SchoolEnglish Public · 221 m
  • St Bernard Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 341 m
  • Amesbury Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 510 m
  • Chaminade College SchoolEnglish Separate · 639 m
  • Gracefield Public SchoolEnglish Public · 669 m
  • Darul Arqam Islamic Academy SchoolPrivate · 1 km
  • and 6 more
Community centres
  • Amesbury Sports Complex817 m
  • Amesbury Community Centre1.2 km
  • Falstaff Community Recreation Centre1.5 km
Parks (17)
  • Upwood Greenbelt293 m
  • Olympia Park531 m
  • Harding Park552 m
  • Gracefield Park595 m
  • Hearst Circle Parkette689 m
  • Merrill Park764 m
  • and 11 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Amesbury Park branch904 m
Signal
2108, activated 2007 · 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 1 eating place within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 53. The nearest is Sunny Ice Cream Truck, 175 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés1 within 300 m · 53 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 18 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Sunny Ice Cream Truck · 14 Creekbank Rd175 mPassed, Jun 2026
Red & White Mediterranean Cuisine · 1635 Lawrence Ave W, Unit-10358 mPassed, Mar 2025 · 2 infractions
Duhok Shawarma · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-10359 mPassed, Aug 2026
Dulce Aroma · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Bldg-17359 mPassed, Apr 2026
Dynasty House Seafood Restaurant · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-12grocery359 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions
Heart Broken Cantina · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-8359 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Mama's Tofu · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-3a359 mPassed, Jun 2026
Pho Bo To · 1635 Lawrence Ave W Unit-4359 mPassed, Aug 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 335 m away at Upwood Greenbelt.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Upwood Greenbelt drinking fountain · 335 m; Harding Park drinking fountain · 527 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 256 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Brookhaven Child Care (221 m, 151 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km3 centres · 256 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 3
  • Brookhaven Child Care · 70 Brookhaven Dr
    151 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    221 m
  • Brookhaven Child Care - St. Bernard Site · 12 Duckworth St
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    341 m
  • Prodigy Learning Centre Inc. · 1545 Jane St
    34 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    774 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 133 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 12 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 133 · 1.2 km1505 Lawrence Ave W
Police12 Division · 1.3 km200 Trethewey Drive
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 10 · 1.3 km2015 Lawrence Ave W

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 32 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 3,416 rental units — seven social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1724 Lawrence Ave W (79 m, 30 units, 3 storeys, built 1959), which scored 78 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 86 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings32 · 3,416 units · 7 social housing
RentSafeTO score86 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202686 across the 32
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest23 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1724 Lawrence Ave W · 354256 Ontario Ltd303195978 · Jul 2026179 m
1728 Lawrence Ave W · 2143753 Ontario Inc344196090 · Oct 2025097 m
1750 Lawrence Ave W704197996 · Oct 20250141 m
101 Brookhaven Dr193196595 · Oct 20250184 m
1640 Lawrence Ave W · Drake Property Management929196573 · Jul 20262340 m
1809 Lawrence Ave W · Amg Apartments Inc324196192 · Jul 20263407 m
1619 Lawrence Ave W244196282 · Sep 20250453 m
1630 Lawrence Ave Wsocial housing · Affordable Property Management1008199476 · Nov 20251467 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 lots362 lots · ≈34,870 spaces · 104.6 ha
Within 500 m17 lots · ≈1,020 spaces
Green P (public)2 car parks · about 70 spaces
EV charging (City)1812 Weston Rd · 1.5 km · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
4 Rosemount Avenue · Surface1.4 km34 *
1169 Weston Rd · Surface2 km3658% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 55 m away, ≈32 spaces; 75 m away, ≈97 spaces; 130 m away, ≈30 spaces; 190 m away, ≈18 spaces; 216 m away, ≈95 spaces; 217 m away, ≈27 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 10, 2020

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 5,273 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 963 from the south. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,600 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,722 from 5:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 13.5% 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 7 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2020, 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 north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west5,273eastbound · 0 bikes · 13.6% heavy
Total vehicles10,810183 pedestrians · 2 cyclists · 13.5% heavy
From the east4,574westbound · 2 bikes · 14.2% heavy
From the south963northbound · 0 bikes · 8.9% heavy
AM peak hour1,600 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,722 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Mar 10, 2020

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 Lawrence Ave W between Duckworth St and Martini Dr, 365 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2026 put the average speed at 47 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 54 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 60 km/h or more. That segment carries about 15,700 vehicles a day. Brookhaven Dr between Nordale Cres and Fox Point measured slower: 36 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 43 km/h (Apr 2019). At the school-zone speed sign on Duckworth St (312 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.4% of the 23,510 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none. 5 speed humps slow traffic on Brookhaven Drive between Lawrence Ave W and Trethewey Dr.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Brookhaven Dr · Nordale Cres – Fox Point · 280 mApr 2019 · 2 days3,04936 km/h43 km/h47 km/h
Lawrence Ave W · Duckworth St – Martini Dr · 365 mApr 2026 · 3 days15,70447 km/h54 km/h60 km/h

School-zone speed sign 312 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct9 · 27 km/h
Over the limit1.7%
40 km/h or more0.4%

Duckworth St (southbound), Opp 9 Duckworth St · 23,510 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Brookhaven Drive · Lawrence Ave W – Trethewey Dr
    5 speed humps

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 11 collisions; 2025 recorded 7. 14 collisions (25%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 5 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 9% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 3 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (5%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 2 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
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions57#1871 of 5,508
With an injury14#1294 of 4,660
Property damage only38
Fail to remain5
Involving a pedestrian2#1858 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist1#2069 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified5
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201475latest 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. 2 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Apr 16, 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

One theft from a vehicle and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle110street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft100apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 11, 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 Brookhaven-Amesbury.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Lawrence & Brookhaven a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 57 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 Lawrence & Brookhaven?

An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from Mar 10, 2020, 1.17× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Lawrence & Brookhaven?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Lawrence Ave W between Duckworth St and Martini Dr (April 2026), found an average of 47 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 312 m away (30 km/h), 0.4% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Lawrence & Brookhaven?

The nearest Green P car park is 4 Rosemount Avenue (1.4 km away, 34 spaces). The City's mapping shows 362 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 34,870 spaces — 17 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1812 Weston Rd (1.5 km).

How do I get to Lawrence & Brookhaven by transit?

Bus routes 52, 35, 79, 158, 59, 952, 935 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lawrence Ave West at Brookhaven Dr, 19 m).

What restaurants are near Lawrence & Brookhaven?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 53 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Sunny Ice Cream Truck (175 m), Red & White Mediterranean Cuisine (358 m), Duhok Shawarma (359 m), Dulce Aroma (359 m) and Heart Broken Cantina (359 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 Lawrence & Brookhaven?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 335 m away at Upwood Greenbelt. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Lawrence & Brookhaven?

Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 256 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Brookhaven Child Care (221 m, 151 spaces), Brookhaven Child Care - St. Bernard Site (341 m, 71 spaces) and Prodigy Learning Centre Inc. (774 m, 34 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Lawrence & Brookhaven?

32 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,416 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1724 Lawrence Ave W (79 m, 30 units, RentSafeTO score 78), 1728 Lawrence Ave W (97 m, 34 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 1750 Lawrence Ave W (141 m, 70 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 101 Brookhaven Dr (184 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 95). The average RentSafeTO score across the 32 is 86 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 Lawrence & Brookhaven?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle 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 Brookhaven-Amesbury page.

What neighbourhood is Lawrence & Brookhaven in?

Lawrence & Brookhaven is in Brookhaven-Amesbury (City of Toronto neighbourhood 030). It is in Ward 5, York South-Weston, represented by Councillor Frances Nunziata.

Sources

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