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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 · Apr 25, 2007
This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 12,274 westbound vehicles, or 53% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 240. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 3,584 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 8% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (3,314). Trucks and buses were 5.8% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 20 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2007, 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: 3,314 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 3,584 from 4:45 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
2019 was the peak year (9 collisions), and 2025 closed with 5. 6% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. 11 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 22% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 2% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 22, 2026.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 49 | #2102 of 5,519 |
| With an injury | 3 | |
| Property damage only | 37 | |
| Fail to remain | 11 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 1 | |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| Severity not classified | 9 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 4 | |
| 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.
Speeds here, last measured in 2021
The City's counter on Ellington Dr between Lawrence Ave E and Roselm Rd (27 m away) recorded an average of 31 km/h in its 3-day count in October 2021; 85% of drivers were at or under 39 km/h. That segment carries about 700 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 23 speed humps slow traffic on Ellington Drive between Lawrence Ave E and Warden Ave (installed 2025).
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellington Dr · Lawrence Ave E – Roselm Rd · 27 m | Oct 2021 · 3 days | 729 | 31 km/h | 39 km/h | 44 km/h |
| Lawrence Ave E · Warden Ave – Ainsdale Rd · 218 m | Jun 2013 · 7 days | 22,902 | — | — | — |
- Traffic calming
- Ellington Drive (Lawrence Ave E – Warden Ave): 23 speed humps (installed 2025)
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 0503, activated 1968
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- TTC bus
- 54 68 17 nearest 22 m
- Express
- 954 968
- Blue Night
- 354
- Nearest stops
- 4 surface stops within 300 m — Lawrence Ave East at Ellington Dr; Lawrence Ave East at Crockford Blvd
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Dulverton Rd / Birchmount Rd 656 m · 8 min · 11 docks · 1 station, 11 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
- 19 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 28 mapped lots within 500 m, 217 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 | 697 m | 25 * | — |
| Lawrence East Lot - Near 2450 Lawrence Ave East · Surface | 1.7 km | 90 * | — |
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: Food Basics is 265 m away, one of two grocery stores within 300 m. Four specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Diana's Seafood Delights at 102 m. There are 22 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 75 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Diana's Seafood Oyster Bar, 75 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Main Drug Mart, 277 m away; 3 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Diana's Seafood Oyster Bar · 2105 Lawrence Ave E75 m
- Chicken Kitchen · 2086 Lawrence Ave E Unit-A153 m
- Fv Foods · 2085 Lawrence Ave E Unit-1158 m
- Subway · 2084 Lawrence Ave E Unit-A158 m
- Kanafani Sweets & Coffee · 2082 Lawrence Ave E Unit-B164 m
- Grocery
- Food Basics 265 m · 3 min · 2 within 300 m
- Food shops
- Diana's Seafood Delights 102 m · 4 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- Main Drug Mart 277 m · 3 min · 3 within 1 km
- Child care
- Scarborough Citadel Child Care · 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day361 m · 4 min
- Washrooms
- McGregor Park Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed903 m · 11 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 Park893 m · 11 min
- Manhattan Park1 km · 12 min
- Wayne Parkette1.3 km · 15 min
- Community centres
- McGregor Park Community Centre903 m · 11 min
- Schools (10)
- St Lawrence Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km · 12 min
- Manhattan Park Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km · 12 min
- Delta Academy Inc Secondary SchoolPrivate · 1.1 km · 13 min
- Winston Churchill Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
- Buchanan Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km · 15 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library McGregor Park branch849 m · 10 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 care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #1,649 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
Five registered apartment buildings with 833 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 15. The nearest is 2015 Lawrence Ave E (370 m, 158 units, 11 storeys, built 1994), which scored 96 out of 100 at its September 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Lawrence Ave E social housing | 158 | 11 | 1994 | 96 · Sep 2026 | 370 m · 4 min |
| 2155 Lawrence Ave E social housing · Aldebrain Attendant Care Services of Toronto | 243 | 11 | 1993 | 92 · Nov 2025 | 483 m · 6 min |
| 1255 Birchmount Rd · Signet Group Inc. | 70 | 6 | 1960 | 89 · Aug 2026 | 649 m · 8 min |
| 1236 Birchmount Rd · Homes First Property Management Inc. | 220 | 15 | 2023 | — | 678 m · 8 min |
| 2185 Lawrence Ave E · Shelborne Property Management | 142 | 12 | 1968 | 90 · Dec 2025 | 734 m · 9 min |
5 registered buildings · 833 units · 2 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 nine thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 56% of the vehicle thefts were from commercial premises — shops, offices and their lots.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 9 | 1 | 0 | commercial premises (5), street/outdoor (3) |
| 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 Wexford/Maryvale.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Lawrence & Ellington a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 49 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 & Ellington?
A high-volume crossing at the City's last count here, in 2007. Its latest count is from Apr 25, 2007, 2.5× today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Lawrence & Ellington a walkable intersection?
Lawrence & Ellington scores 60 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #1,649 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: 2 grocery stores within 300 m · 22 places to eat within 300 m; nearest school 1 km · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 4 stops within 300 m · 6 routes within 1 km. The crossing itself: traffic signal · traffic calming.
How fast do cars go at Lawrence & Ellington?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Ellington Dr between Lawrence Ave E and Roselm Rd (October 2021), found an average of 31 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 39 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Lawrence & Ellington?
The nearest Green P car park is 1940 Lawrence Avenue East (697 m away, 25 spaces). The City's mapping shows 217 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 40,400 spaces — 28 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Lawrence & Ellington by transit?
Bus routes 54, 68, 17, 954, 968 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lawrence Ave East at Ellington Dr, 22 m).
What restaurants are near Lawrence & Ellington?
22 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 75 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Diana's Seafood Oyster Bar (75 m), Chicken Kitchen (153 m), Fv Foods (158 m), Subway (158 m) and Kanafani Sweets & Coffee (164 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Lawrence & Ellington?
The nearest is McGregor Park Community Centre Washroom, 2231 Lawrence Ave E, 903 m away.
Is there child care near Lawrence & Ellington?
One licensed child care centre within 1 km, with 49 spaces in total; it accepts City fee subsidy and it is in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest is Scarborough Citadel Child Care (361 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Lawrence & Ellington?
Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 833 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2015 Lawrence Ave E (370 m, 158 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 2155 Lawrence Ave E (483 m, 243 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 1255 Birchmount Rd (649 m, 70 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 1236 Birchmount Rd (678 m, 220 units). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 is 92 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Lawrence & Ellington?
Toronto Police place nine 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 Wexford/Maryvale page.
What neighbourhood is Lawrence & Ellington in?
Lawrence & Ellington is in Wexford/Maryvale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 119). It is in Ward 21, Scarborough Centre, represented by Councillor Michael Thompson. The corner falls inside the Wexford Heights Business Improvement Area.
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 Apr 25, 2007.
- 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; Traffic Calming Database.
- 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: 43.74618, -79.29092 · centreline node 13450686.