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Leslie & Kirkwood

Leslie St & Kirkwood Rd · Toronto, Ontario · St.Andrew-Windfields · Ward 16, Don Valley East

Leslie & Kirkwood is a busier-than-typical intersection. It sits in St.Andrew-Windfields. At the corner: a school within 250 m and a park. Nearby: 7 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
30,055
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jan 22, 2026
242 pedestrians · 4 cyclists · #329 busiest
Collisions
72
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
7 with an injury · 51 property damage · #1516 of 5,508 · +7 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
4 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 14-hour count works out to close to 2,150 vehicles, 1.86× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 124 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 7.2 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 2.4 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Collisions edged up 6%, from 35 in 2016–2020 to 37 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Leslie & Kirkwood

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
5111595122 nearest 18 m
Express
995996
Blue Night
395
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m — Leslie St at Kirkwood Rd; Leslie St at Kirkwood Rd North Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
York Mills Rd / Lesmill Rd 744 m · 14 docks · 2 stations, 29 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 (27)
  • Central Montessori School - York MillsPrivate · 198 m
  • Brooklyn College Secondary SchoolPrivate · 371 m
  • Metropolitan Preparatory Academy SchoolPrivate · 509 m
  • Webtree AcademyPrivate · 553 m
  • Hawthorn School For GirlsPrivate · 725 m
  • Bayview Glen Private SchoolPrivate · 774 m
  • and 21 more
Parks (16)
  • Kirkwood Park117 m
  • Mossgrove Park470 m
  • Vyner Greenbelt657 m
  • Woodsworth Greenbelt729 m
  • Ames Park746 m
  • Moatfield Farm Park872 m
  • and 10 more
Places of interest
  • Canadian Sculpture CentreGallery · 873 m

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 10 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 63. The nearest is York Mills Gallery, 79 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026 with 3 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés10 within 300 m · 63 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 7 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
York Mills Gallery · 1885 Leslie St None79 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Mama's Greek Cuisine · 1881 Leslie St Unit-B112 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Shirini Sara Pastry House · 1881 Leslie St Unit-1112 mPassed, Jul 2026
Shirini Sara Pastry House · 1881 Leslie St, Unit-1112 mPassed, Jul 2025 · 3 infractions
Tim Hortons · 1869 Leslie St112 mPassed, Apr 2026
Phipps Desserts · 1875 Leslie St127 mPassed, Aug 2025 · 1 infraction
Chapman's Specialty Foods · 1875 Leslie St 3grocery127 mPassed, Jul 2026
The Goose: A Firkin Pub · 1875 Leslie St Unit-1-2127 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions

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 City washroom within 1 km.

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

Five licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 466 spaces; none accepts City fee subsidy. The nearest is Central Montessori Schools - York Mills Campus (197 m, 319 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km5 centres · 466 spaces
Fee subsidynone
  • Central Montessori Schools - York Mills Campus · 18 Coldwater Rd
    319 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    197 m
  • Hawthorn School Day Care · 101 Scarsdale Rd
    14 spaces · toddler, preschool
    725 m
  • The Giles School · 80 Scarsdale Rd
    13 spaces · toddler, preschool
    794 m
  • Miracle Montessori School Inc · 20 Upjohn Rd
    42 spaces · toddler, preschool
    866 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 116 (1.5 km), the nearest police station 33 Division (1.0 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.6 km away.

FireFire Station 116 · 1.5 km255 Esther Shiner Blvd
Police33 Division · 1 km50 Upjohn Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 23 · 2.6 km115 Parkway Forest Dr

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 six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 770 rental units. The nearest is 17 Farmstead Rd (239 m, 136 units, 19 storeys, built 1970), which scored 94 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 96, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 24 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 7 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings6 · 770 units
RentSafeTO score96 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202624 across the 6
Open fire-code violations7
Tallest19 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
17 Farmstead Rd · Minto Properties Inc13619197094 · Aug 20266239 m
750 York Mills Rd · Minto Properties Inc13719197095 · Aug 20267 · 6 fire304 m
740 York Mills Rd · Minto Properties Inc13719197097 · Oct 20257 · 1 fire336 m
755 York Mills Rd · M&r Property Management13818197096 · Aug 20261451 m
745 York Mills Rd · M&r Property Management13818197297 · Aug 20261464 m
44 Stubbs Dr · CAPREIT847197498 · Oct 20252591 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 lots233 lots · ≈35,580 spaces · 106.7 ha
Within 500 m29 lots · ≈5,880 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 102 spaces
EV charging (City)Bessarion CC · 1.8 km · 10 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Leslie Lot - 2760 Old Leslie Street · Surface1.6 km102 *

Nearest lots: 68 m away, ≈810 spaces; 104 m away, ≈102 spaces; 147 m away, ≈200 spaces; 153 m away, ≈203 spaces; 212 m away, ≈89 spaces; 215 m away, ≈128 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 — 14-hour, Jan 22, 2026

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 15,737 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 52% of the total, against 514 from the east. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,612 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 2,682 from 3:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north13,116southbound · 2 bikes · 3.2% heavy
From the west688eastbound · 0 bikes · 2.0% heavy
Total vehicles30,055242 pedestrians · 4 cyclists · 3.1% heavy
From the east514westbound · 0 bikes · 2.5% heavy
From the south15,737northbound · 2 bikes · 3.2% heavy
AM peak hour2,612 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour2,682 vehicles from 3:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Jan 22, 2026

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 Kirkwood Rd between Tullamore Dr and Leslie St, 70 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in May 2012 put the average speed at 28 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 37 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 42 km/h or more. That segment carries about 700 vehicles a day. The reading is 14 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Kirkwood Rd · Tullamore Dr – Leslie St · 70 mMay 2012 · 24 h65128 km/h37 km/h42 km/h
Leslie St · York Mills Rd – Farmstead Rd · 286 mOct 2014 · 7 days20,558

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 2019, with 14 collisions; 2025 recorded 7. 7 collisions (10%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 16 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 22% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (1%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 7 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 17, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 2.4 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions72#1516 of 5,508
With an injury7#2276 of 4,660
Property damage only51
Fail to remain16
Involving a pedestrian1#2727 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified14
Since January 2026 (outside the window)7
All since 2014104latest May 17, 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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

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

17 thefts from vehicles and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 3.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 2 in 2023–2025, about 0.7 a year, against 2.3 a year before that. 71% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1710street/outdoor (12), commercial premises (4)
Bicycle theft110commercial premises (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 16, 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 St.Andrew-Windfields.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Leslie & Kirkwood a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 72 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 Leslie & Kirkwood?

A busier-than-typical intersection. It ranks #329 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.86× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Leslie & Kirkwood?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Kirkwood Rd between Tullamore Dr and Leslie St (May 2012), found an average of 28 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 37 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Leslie & Kirkwood?

The nearest Green P car park is Leslie Lot - 2760 Old Leslie Street (1.6 km away, 102 spaces). The City's mapping shows 233 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 35,580 spaces — 29 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at Bessarion CC (1.8 km).

How do I get to Leslie & Kirkwood by transit?

Bus routes 51, 115, 95, 122, 995, 996 within 1 km (nearest stop: Leslie St at Kirkwood Rd, 18 m).

What restaurants are near Leslie & Kirkwood?

10 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 63 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are York Mills Gallery (79 m), Mama's Greek Cuisine (112 m), Shirini Sara Pastry House (112 m), Shirini Sara Pastry House (112 m) and Tim Hortons (112 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there child care near Leslie & Kirkwood?

Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 466 spaces in total; none accepts City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Central Montessori Schools - York Mills Campus (197 m, 319 spaces), Hawthorn School Day Care (725 m, 14 spaces) and The Giles School (794 m, 13 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Leslie & Kirkwood?

Six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 770 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 17 Farmstead Rd (239 m, 136 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 750 York Mills Rd (304 m, 137 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 740 York Mills Rd (336 m, 137 units, RentSafeTO score 97) and 755 York Mills Rd (451 m, 138 units, RentSafeTO score 96). The average RentSafeTO score across the 6 is 96 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 Leslie & Kirkwood?

Toronto Police place 17 thefts from vehicles 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 St.Andrew-Windfields page.

What neighbourhood is Leslie & Kirkwood in?

Leslie & Kirkwood is in St.Andrew-Windfields (City of Toronto neighbourhood 040). It is in Ward 16, Don Valley East, represented by Councillor Jon Burnside.

Sources

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