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Leslie & Talwood (North)

Leslie St & Talwood Dr (North) · Toronto, Ontario · Banbury-Don Mills · Ward 16, Don Valley East

Leslie & Talwood (North), in Banbury-Don Mills, was a moderately heavy crossing — that was the City's last count here, in 2010. At the corner: a multi-use trail, a park and an accessible pedestrian signal. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
16,088
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 20, 2010
248 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
7
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
2
TTC stops within 100 m
2 routes within 1 km · trail
Within a walk
33/100
city median 48
2 places to eat within 1 km

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Leslie & Talwood (North)

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 · Dec 20, 2010

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 7,961 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 400 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 2,716 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:30 p.m., against 2,470 in the morning peak from 7:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 16 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2010, 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.

From the north7,727southbound · 0 bikes · 3.6% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles16,088248 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 4.6% heavy
From the east400westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south7,961northbound · 0 bikes · 5.9% heavy

Peak hours: 2,470 vehicles in the hour from 7:30 a.m. and 2,716 from 4:30 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

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 2 collisions. 1 collision (14%) involved an injury. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (14%). Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 16, 2026.

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

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions7
With an injury1
Property damage only6
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian1
Involving a cyclist0
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

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 Leslie St between Talwood Dr and Talwood Park Trl (167 m away, Jun 2011) recorded volume only — about 16,704 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Leslie St · Talwood Dr – Talwood Park Trl · 167 mJun 2011 · 3 days16,704———

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 0736, activated 1970 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

TTC bus
51 162 nearest 18 m
Nearest stops
3 surface stops within 300 m — Leslie St at Talwood Dr (North)
Cycling
Multi-Use Trail - Entrance on Rippleton Park Trl installed 2001
Bike Share
Bond Ave / Don Mills Trail 619 m · 7 min · 19 docks · 2 stations, 38 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
none within 2 km
EV charging
no City charger within 2 km
Bike parking
none recorded nearby
Other lots
1 mapped lot within 500 m, 129 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; 2 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 675 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Geriatrx Pharmacy, 932 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: Greenview Lodge, a retirement home 1.0 km away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Tim Hortons · 800 Lawrence Ave E675 m · 8 min
  • Dandilion Cafe · 755 Lawrence Ave E1 km · 11 min
0 within 300 m · 2 within 1 km
Pharmacy
Geriatrx Pharmacy 932 m · 11 min
Child care
  • Rippleton Roadsters Child Care Program · 186 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day428 m · 5 min
  • Blue Wave Child Care Centre · 106 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day868 m · 10 min
  • Norman Ingram School Age YMCA · 30 spaces, school age · fee subsidy868 m · 10 min
4 licensed centres · 464 spaces within 1 km · all accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Bond Park Sport Centre Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible811 m · 10 min
  • Edwards Gardens Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.1 km · 11 min
Health and care
  • Greenview Lodge · retirement home1 km · 12 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 (13)
  • Talwood Park194 m
  • Duncairn Park445 m · 5 min
  • Rippleton Park474 m · 6 min
  • Mike Bela Park647 m · 8 min
  • Southwell Park895 m · 11 min
and 8 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
  • Banbury Community Centre1.3 km · 16 min
Schools (9)
  • Rippleton Public SchoolEnglish Public · 428 m · 5 min
  • Norman Ingram Public SchoolEnglish Public · 869 m · 10 min
  • Metamorphosis Greek Orthodox SchoolPrivate · 873 m · 10 min
  • St Bonaventure Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 920 m · 11 min
  • La Citadelle International Academy of Arts & SciencesPrivate · 1 km · 12 min
and 4 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Don Mills branch1.1 km · 13 min
Places of interest
  • Toronto Botanical Gardens and Edwards GardensNature/ Park · 923 m · 11 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.

33of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food1/30

    2 within 1 km

  • Transit8/28

    3 stops within 300 m · 2 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go3/14

    library 1.1 km away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation7/10

    3 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 1.3 km

  • Schools and child care6/8

    1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot8/10

    traffic signal · head start for people walking · accessible signals

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 Leslie & Talwood (North) a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 7 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 & Talwood (North)?

A moderately heavy crossing at the City's last count here, in 2010. Its latest count is from Dec 20, 2010, 1.74× today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Leslie & Talwood (North) a walkable intersection?

Leslie & Talwood (North) scores 33 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: 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 3 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 1.3 km; 3 stops within 300 m · 2 routes within 1 km. The crossing itself: traffic signal · head start for people walking · accessible signals.

Where can I park near Leslie & Talwood (North)?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 129 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 18,040 spaces — 1 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Leslie & Talwood (North) by transit?

Bus routes 51, 162 within 1 km (nearest stop: Leslie St at Talwood Dr (North), 18 m).

What restaurants are near Leslie & Talwood (North)?

None within 300 m, and 2 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Tim Hortons (675 m) and Dandilion Cafe (1.0 km). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Leslie & Talwood (North)?

The nearest is Bond Park Sport Centre Washroom, 120 Bond Ave, 811 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Edwards Gardens Washroom (1.0 km).

Is there child care near Leslie & Talwood (North)?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 464 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Rippleton Roadsters Child Care Program (428 m, 186 spaces), Blue Wave Child Care Centre (868 m, 106 spaces) and Norman Ingram School Age YMCA (868 m, 30 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What neighbourhood is Leslie & Talwood (North) in?

Leslie & Talwood (North) is in Banbury-Don Mills (City of Toronto neighbourhood 042). 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