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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 volume8-hour count · Feb 9, 2023
The west leg carries the load — 9,663 eastbound vehicles, or 47% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 837. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 3,204 vehicles in the hour from 4:00 p.m., 23% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (2,607). Heavy vehicles made up 4.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2023, 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.
Peak hours: 2,607 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 3,204 from 4:00 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
2024 was the peak year (39 collisions), and 2025 closed with 37. 17% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 34 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 13% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 4% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 30 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 22, 2026.
No one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 4 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Dec 24, 2015.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 253 | #370 of 5,519 |
| With an injury | 44 | #293 of 4,669 |
| Property damage only | 179 | |
| Fail to remain | 34 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 7 | #456 of 3,196 |
| Involving a cyclist | 2 | #1231 of 2,576 |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| Severity not classified | 30 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 30 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 4 | latest Dec 24, 2015 |
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 Curlew Dr between Crab Appleway and Rialto Dr (367 m away) recorded an average of 44 km/h in its 3-day count in October 2023; 85% of drivers were at or under 52 km/h. That segment carries about 6,800 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Roanoke Rd (364 m away, 40 km/h limit), 2.4% of the 26,875 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a small minority.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Ave E · Railside Rd – Carnforth Rd · 330 m | Jun 2013 · 7 days | 19,995 | — | — | — |
| Curlew Dr · Crab Appleway – Rialto Dr · 367 m | Oct 2023 · 3 days | 6,798 | 44 km/h | 52 km/h | 57 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Roanoke Rd (westbound), 364 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 28 km/h, 85th percentile 41 km/h; 2.4% at 50 km/h or more. 26,875 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.
- The crossing
- Signal 0406, activated 1962 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · leading pedestrian interval East/West
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- TTC bus
- 54 91 191 24 nearest 30 m
- Express
- 954 924
- Blue Night
- 354 324
- Nearest stops
- 3 surface stops within 300 m — Lawrence Ave East at Curlew Dr West Side; Lawrence Ave East at Railside Rd (East)
- 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.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- 1 car park · about 25 spaces
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 23 mapped lots within 500 m, 228 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 Lawrence Avenue East · Surface | 1.7 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
You can do a shop on foot from here: Baharak Market is 124 m away. For everything else there is one convenience store or gas bar within 300 m. There are 4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 27 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Subway, 51 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Curlew Compounding Pharmacy, 139 m away; 5 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Subway · 1244 Lawrence Ave E51 m
- Tim Hortons · 1244 Lawrence Ave E51 m
- Valleyfields Family Restaurant · 1222 Lawrence Ave E66 m
- Mak European Delicatessens · 1335 Lawrence Ave E Unit-2157 m
- Tim Hortons · 1309 Lawrence Ave E453 m · 5 min
- Grocery
- Baharak Market 124 m · 3 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Sugar & Season Bakehouse 1 km · 12 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- Curlew Compounding Pharmacy 139 m · 5 within 1 km
- Child care
- Curlew Montessori School · 58 spaces, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day323 m · 4 min
- Broadlands School Age Program YMCA · 56 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day699 m · 8 min
- Little Acorns Montessori School (Cathie Mahoney) · 16 spaces, preschool · $10-a-day880 m · 10 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
- Broadlands Park1 km · 12 min
- Woodcliff Greenbelt1.4 km · 17 min
- Sweeney Park1.4 km · 17 min
- Deanvar Parkette1.5 km · 18 min
- Dr. Daniel Hill Park1.5 km · 18 min
- Community centres
- Broadlands Community Recreation Centre1 km · 12 min
- Schools (6)
- Seerah Mission SchoolPrivate · 379 m · 5 min
- St Catherine Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 632 m · 8 min
- Broadlands Public SchoolEnglish Public · 699 m · 8 min
- Milne Valley Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km · 14 min
- Ecole Elementaire Jeanne LajoieFrench Public · 1.4 km · 17 min
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.
Not within a walk: a library, a public washroom or a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,433 of 5,672. 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
11 registered apartment buildings with 1,388 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner. The nearest is 74 Curlew Dr (442 m, 112 units, 4 storeys, built 1966), which scored 87 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 Curlew Dr · Hazelview Properties | 112 | 4 | 1966 | 87 · Jul 2025 | 442 m · 5 min |
| 1441 Lawrence Ave E · Sterling Karamar Property Management | 251 | 14 | 1961 | 88 · Sep 2025 | 592 m · 7 min |
| 9 Roanoke Rd · CAPREIT | 113 | 9 | 1963 | 95 · Sep 2024 | 725 m · 9 min |
| 1850 Victoria Park Ave · Falconwin Property Management | 240 | 15 | 1964 | 79 · Sep 2024 | 728 m · 9 min |
| 7 Roanoke Rd · CAPREIT | 113 | 9 | 1963 | 97 · Jun 2025 | 819 m · 10 min |
| 10 Roanoke Rd · Quadreal Residential Properties G.p. Inc. | 101 | 12 | 1962 | 97 · Jun 2025 | 844 m · 10 min |
11 registered buildings · 1,388 units · 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 12 thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.2 a year. 50% of the vehicle thefts were from commercial premises — shops, offices and their lots.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 12 | 4 | 0 | commercial premises (6), street/outdoor (4) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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 Victoria Village.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Lawrence & Curlew a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 253 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 & Curlew?
A high-volume crossing at the City's last count here, in 2023. Its latest count is from Feb 9, 2023, 2.2× today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Lawrence & Curlew a walkable intersection?
Lawrence & Curlew scores 52 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,433 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; 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: 1 grocery store within 300 m · 4 places to eat within 300 m; 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 3 stops within 300 m · 8 routes within 1 km. The crossing itself: traffic signal · head start for people walking · accessible signals.
How fast do cars go at Lawrence & Curlew?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Curlew Dr between Crab Appleway and Rialto Dr (October 2023), found an average of 44 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 52 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 364 m away (40 km/h), 2.4% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Lawrence & Curlew?
The nearest Green P car park is 1940 Lawrence Avenue East (1.7 km away, 25 spaces). The City's mapping shows 228 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,580 spaces — 23 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Lawrence & Curlew by transit?
Bus routes 54, 91, 191, 24, 954, 924 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lawrence Ave East at Curlew Dr West Side, 30 m).
What restaurants are near Lawrence & Curlew?
4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 27 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Subway (51 m), Tim Hortons (51 m), Valleyfields Family Restaurant (66 m), Mak European Delicatessens (157 m) and Tim Hortons (453 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there child care near Lawrence & Curlew?
Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 130 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Curlew Montessori School (323 m, 58 spaces), Broadlands School Age Program YMCA (699 m, 56 spaces) and Little Acorns Montessori School (Cathie Mahoney) (880 m, 16 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Lawrence & Curlew?
11 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,388 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 74 Curlew Dr (442 m, 112 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 1441 Lawrence Ave E (592 m, 251 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 9 Roanoke Rd (725 m, 113 units, RentSafeTO score 95) and 1850 Victoria Park Ave (728 m, 240 units, RentSafeTO score 79). The average RentSafeTO score across the 11 is 90 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Lawrence & Curlew?
Toronto Police place 12 thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Victoria Village page.
What neighbourhood is Lawrence & Curlew in?
Lawrence & Curlew is in Victoria Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 043), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 16, Don Valley East, represented by Councillor Jon Burnside.
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 Feb 9, 2023.
- 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; 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 16 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: 43.74118, -79.31928 · centreline node 13451566.