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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume14-hour count · Oct 22, 2024
This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 16,959 westbound vehicles, or 54% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 694. Most cyclists arrived from the east (52 of 103). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 2,755 vehicles in the hour from 3:15 p.m., 11% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (2,487). Heavy vehicles made up 4.2% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 2 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.
Peak hours: 2,487 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 2,755 from 3:15 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).
Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m
2023 was the peak year (19 collisions), and 2025 closed with 11. 18% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 23 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 21% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 5% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 15 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jul 20, 2026.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 111 | #993 of 5,519 |
| With an injury | 20 | #867 of 4,669 |
| Property damage only | 71 | |
| Fail to remain | 23 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 2 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 3 | #840 of 2,576 |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| Severity not classified | 20 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 15 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.
How fast traffic moves here
The City's counter on Lawrence Ave E between Birchmount Rd and 2190 Lawrence Ave E (194 m away) recorded an average of 42 km/h in its 3-day count in August 2026; 85% of drivers were at or under 55 km/h. That segment carries about 38,900 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Cornwallis Dr (282 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.5% of the 21,840 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Ave E · Birchmount Rd – 2190 Lawrence Ave E · 194 m | Aug 2026 · 3 days | 38,910 | 42 km/h | 55 km/h | 62 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Cornwallis Dr (eastbound), 282 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 30 km/h, 85th percentile 38 km/h; 0.5% at 50 km/h or more. 21,840 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- TTC bus
- 54 17 43 nearest 143 m
- Express
- 954
- Blue Night
- 354 343
- Nearest stops
- 3 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Dulverton Rd / Birchmount Rd 427 m · 5 min · 11 docks · 2 stations, 22 docks within 1 km
Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- 2 car parks · about 115 spaces
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 18 mapped lots within 500 m, 246 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence East Lot - Near 2450 Lawrence Ave East · Surface | 933 m | 90 * | — |
| 1940 Lawrence Avenue East · Surface | 1.5 km | 25 * | — |
Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.
Within a walk
What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.
Food, shops and services
The nearest grocery store is Food Basics, 627 m away; 2 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. There are 5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 41 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Coffee In, 245 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Extra Care Pharmacy, 405 m away; 4 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: Hellenic Home - Scarborough, a long-term care home 590 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Coffee In · 2181a Lawrence Ave E245 m
- Finger Licking Caribbean Kitchen · 2179 Lawrence Ave E254 m · 3 min
- Craves Bites & Delights · 2171 Lawrence Ave E Unit-2171278 m · 3 min
- Wong's Asian Cuisine · 2173 Lawrence Ave E278 m · 3 min
- Scarborough Pizza & Kabob · 2157 Lawrence Ave E298 m · 4 min
- Grocery
- Food Basics 627 m · 7 min · 2 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Ani Bakery 767 m · 9 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Extra Care Pharmacy 405 m · 5 min · 4 within 1 km
- Child care
- PLASP St. Lawrence C.S. · 28 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day237 m
- Washrooms
- McGregor Park Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed110 m
- Health and care
- Hellenic Home - Scarborough · long-term care home590 m · 7 min
Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.
Parks, schools and places
- Parks
- McGregor Park123 m
- Kennedy - Lawrence Parkette792 m · 9 min
- Arsandco Park1.4 km · 16 min
- Community centres
- Schools (6)
- St Lawrence Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 237 m
- Winston Churchill Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 313 m · 4 min
- Dorset Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 564 m · 7 min
- General Crerar Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
- Delta Academy Inc Secondary SchoolPrivate · 1.3 km · 15 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library McGregor Park branch56 m
Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
Nine registered apartment buildings with 857 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, one of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2185 Lawrence Ave E (119 m, 142 units, 12 storeys, built 1968), which scored 90 out of 100 at its December 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2185 Lawrence Ave E · Shelborne Property Management | 142 | 12 | 1968 | 90 · Dec 2025 | 119 m |
| 2230 Lawrence Ave E · Comer Group Limited | 64 | 7 | 1962 | 72 · Aug 2024 | 271 m · 3 min |
| 2250 Lawrence Ave E · Ulrich Priperties Ltd | 33 | 6 | 1968 | 95 · Nov 2025 | 327 m · 4 min |
| 2260 Lawrence Ave E · Prescott Apts. Inc. | 26 | 5 | 1960 | 93 · Sep 2026 | 359 m · 4 min |
| 2155 Lawrence Ave E social housing · Aldebrain Attendant Care Services of Toronto | 243 | 11 | 1993 | 92 · Nov 2025 | 376 m · 4 min |
| 1255 Birchmount Rd · Signet Group Inc. | 70 | 6 | 1960 | 89 · Aug 2026 | 420 m · 5 min |
9 registered buildings · 857 units · 1 social housing · tallest 15 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Toronto Police place ten thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 5 in 2023–2025, about 1.7 a year, against 1.0 a year before that. 90% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Apr 10, 2026.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 10 | 3 | 1 | street/outdoor (9), apartment parking (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 2 | 2 | 0 | street/outdoor (1), other (1) |
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 Dorset Park.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Lawrence & Canlish a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 111 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 & Canlish?
An above-average intersection for traffic. It ranks #291 of 2,438 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.95× the median for a counted intersection.
Is Lawrence & Canlish a walkable intersection?
Lawrence & Canlish scores 48 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 2 schools within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; 2 grocery stores within 1 km · 5 places to eat within 300 m.
How fast do cars go at Lawrence & Canlish?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Lawrence Ave E between Birchmount Rd and 2190 Lawrence Ave E (August 2026), found an average of 42 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 55 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 282 m away (40 km/h), 0.5% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Lawrence & Canlish?
The nearest Green P car park is Lawrence East Lot - Near 2450 Lawrence Ave East (933 m away, 90 spaces). The City's mapping shows 246 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 45,060 spaces — 18 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Lawrence & Canlish by transit?
Bus routes 54, 17, 43, 954 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Lawrence & Canlish?
5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 41 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Coffee In (245 m), Finger Licking Caribbean Kitchen (254 m), Craves Bites & Delights (278 m), Wong's Asian Cuisine (278 m) and Scarborough Pizza & Kabob (298 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Lawrence & Canlish?
The nearest is McGregor Park Community Centre Washroom, 2231 Lawrence Ave E, 110 m away.
Is there child care near Lawrence & Canlish?
One licensed child care centre within 1 km, with 28 spaces in total; it accepts City fee subsidy and it is in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest is PLASP St. Lawrence C.S. (237 m, 28 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Lawrence & Canlish?
Nine RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 857 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2185 Lawrence Ave E (119 m, 142 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 2230 Lawrence Ave E (271 m, 64 units, RentSafeTO score 72), 2250 Lawrence Ave E (327 m, 33 units, RentSafeTO score 95) and 2260 Lawrence Ave E (359 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 9 is 88 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Lawrence & Canlish?
Toronto Police place ten thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Dorset Park page.
What neighbourhood is Lawrence & Canlish in?
Lawrence & Canlish is in Dorset Park (City of Toronto neighbourhood 126). It is in Ward 21, Scarborough Centre, represented by Councillor Michael Thompson.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Oct 22, 2024.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 21 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.74820, -79.28145 · centreline node 13450391.