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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 14, 2017
This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. The west leg carries the load — 2,059 eastbound vehicles, or 52% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 132. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 622 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 11% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (558). Trucks and buses were 5.5% 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 10 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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: 558 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 622 from 5:00 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
Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
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.
Traffic on these streets
The City's most recent midblock count on Lawson Rd between Old Sweats Lane and Meadowvale Rd (193 m away, Oct 2009) recorded volume only — about 7,124 vehicles a day — with no speed data.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawson Rd · Old Sweats Lane – Meadowvale Rd · 193 m | Oct 2009 · 3 days | 7,124 | — | — | — |
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
- 38 86 nearest 61 m
- Express
- 986
- Blue Night
- 386
- Nearest stops
- 4 surface stops within 300 m — 59 Lawson Rd; 58 Lawson Rd
- 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
- none within 2 km
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 4 mapped lots within 500 m, 75 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often 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; 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
No grocery store is listed within a kilometre of this corner. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 15 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Ted's Restaurant, 485 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Highland Creek Pharamcy, 637 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: Tony Stacey Centre For Veterans' Care, a long-term care home 117 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Ted's Restaurant · 404 Old Kingston Rd485 m · 6 min
- Peggy's Caribbean Cuisine · 402 Old Kingston Rd497 m · 6 min
- Amigos Bar & Grill · 6089 Kingston Rd566 m · 7 min
- Shamrock Burgers · 6109 Kingston Rd566 m · 7 min
- Fratelli Village Pizzeria · 384 Old Kingston Rd580 m · 7 min
- Food shops
- Hq Meats 651 m · 8 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Highland Creek Pharamcy 637 m · 8 min
- Child care
- Children's Land Learning Centre Inc. · 55 spaces, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day725 m · 9 min
- Health and care
- Tony Stacey Centre For Veterans' Care · long-term care home117 m
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
- Highland Creek Parkette449 m · 5 min
- Morrish Parkette827 m · 10 min
- Tanis Cres Woodlot1 km · 12 min
- Bramber Woods Park1.2 km · 15 min
- Schools
- Centennial Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.3 km · 16 min
- Ecole Elementaire Catholique Saint MichelFrench Separate · 1.4 km · 17 min
- Highland Creek Public SchoolEnglish 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 grocery store, a community centre, a library or a public washroom.
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.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Lawson & Old Sweats a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025 and police reported no collisions of any severity. 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 Lawson & Old Sweats?
A quiet local crossing at the City's last count here, in 2017. Its latest count is from Feb 14, 2017, 43% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Lawson & Old Sweats a walkable intersection?
Lawson & Old Sweats scores 21 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: 4 stops within 300 m · 4 routes within 1 km; 1 park within 500 m; nearest school 1.3 km · 1 licensed child care within 1 km.
Where can I park near Lawson & Old Sweats?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 75 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 4,820 spaces — 4 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Lawson & Old Sweats by transit?
Bus routes 38, 86, 986 within 1 km (nearest stop: 59 Lawson Rd, 61 m).
What restaurants are near Lawson & Old Sweats?
None within 300 m, and 15 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Ted's Restaurant (485 m), Peggy's Caribbean Cuisine (497 m), Amigos Bar & Grill (566 m), Shamrock Burgers (566 m) and Fratelli Village Pizzeria (580 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Lawson & Old Sweats?
Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 453 m away at Highland Creek Parkette.
Is there child care near Lawson & Old Sweats?
One licensed child care centre within 1 km, with 55 spaces in total; it does not accept City fee subsidy and it is in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest is Children's Land Learning Centre Inc. (725 m, 55 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What neighbourhood is Lawson & Old Sweats in?
Lawson & Old Sweats is in Centennial Scarborough (City of Toronto neighbourhood 133). It is in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park, represented by Councillor Neethan Shan.
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 14, 2017.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 25 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: 43.78374, -79.16469 · centreline node 20232429.