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Leslie & Talwood

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

Leslie & Talwood, in Banbury-Don Mills, is a moderately heavy crossing. At the corner: a park. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
28,850
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 29, 2025
73 pedestrians · 19 cyclists · #382 busiest
Collisions
11
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
3 with an injury · 7 property damage · #4189 of 5,508
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
3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 2,060 vehicles an hour over its 14-hour span, 1.78× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 395 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). On average 1.1 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 0.4 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Leslie & Talwood

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
51162403 nearest 13 m
Nearest stops
3 surface stops within 300 m — Leslie St at Talwood Dr (South) South Side; Leslie St at Talwood Dr (South)
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Lawrence Ave E / Don Mills Trail 444 m · 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.

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools (18)
  • Rippleton Public SchoolEnglish Public · 390 m
  • St Bonaventure Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 594 m
  • Norman Ingram Public SchoolEnglish Public · 610 m
  • Metamorphosis Greek Orthodox SchoolPrivate · 945 m
  • Overland Learning CentreEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Seneca Hill Private SchoolPrivate · 1 km
  • and 12 more
Community centres
  • Banbury Community Centre1.1 km
  • Don Mills Civitan Arena1.2 km
Parks (15)
  • Talwood Park217 m
  • Duncairn Park331 m
  • Mike Bela Park334 m
  • Rippleton Park403 m
  • Edwards Gardens625 m
  • Paperbirch Walkway674 m
  • and 9 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Don Mills branch788 m
Places of interest
  • Toronto Botanical Gardens and Edwards GardensNature/ Park · 474 m

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 10 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 375 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 10 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 2 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Circle K · 800 Lawrence Ave Egrocery375 mPassed, Nov 2024
Tim Hortons · 800 Lawrence Ave E375 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Dandilion Cafe · 755 Lawrence Ave E506 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Rippleton Roadsters Satellite Program · 1340 Leslie St587 mPassed, Mar 2025
Sweetway Cafe Eatery · 170 the Donway W Unit-2778 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Chatime Don Mills · 895 Lawrence Ave E Unit-15802 mPassed, Aug 2026
Congee Queen · 895 Lawrence Ave E Unit-8802 mPassed, May 2026 · 3 infractions
Subway · 895 Lawrence Ave E Unit-17802 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

The nearest public washroom is Edwards Gardens Washroom, 509 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 540 m away at Edwards Gardens.

  • Edwards Gardens Washroom · 755 Lawrence Ave E
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    509 m
  • Bond Park Sport Centre Washroom · 120 Bond Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    917 m
Drinking water
Edwards Gardens drinking fountain · 540 m

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

Four licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 464 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Rippleton Roadsters Child Care Program (390 m, 186 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km4 centres · 464 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 4
  • Rippleton Roadsters Child Care Program · 21 Rippleton Rd
    186 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    390 m
  • Rippleton Roadsters Satellite Program · 1340 Leslie St
    142 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    594 m
  • Blue Wave Child Care Centre · 50 Duncairn Rd
    106 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    610 m
  • Norman Ingram School Age YMCA · 50 Duncairn Rd
    30 spaces · school age · fee subsidy
    610 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 123 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 33 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.5 km away.

FireFire Station 123 · 1.2 km143 Bond Ave
Police33 Division · 1.5 km50 Upjohn Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 57 · 2.5 km2075 Bayview Ave

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 eight RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 333 rental units — one social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 868 Lawrence Ave E (561 m, 31 units, 4 storeys, built 1954), which scored 87 out of 100 at its July 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 4 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings8 · 333 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20264 across the 8
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest6 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
868 Lawrence Ave E · Jelcoro Investments314195487 · Jul 20240561 m
874 Lawrence Ave E123196087 · Oct 20250618 m
878 Lawrence Ave E · Excel Property Management113196087 · Jul 20260640 m
876 Lawrence Ave E · Excel Property Management123196092 · Oct 20251643 m
20 Sanderling PlToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation905199094 · Jul 20240804 m
150 The Donway W · Akelius Canada Ltd656196297 · Jul 20253921 m
4 Overland Dr · Akelius Canada Ltd484196198 · Jun 20250941 m
980 Lawrence Ave E · Niot Investment Holdings Limited646195897 · Jul 202601 km

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 lots217 lots · ≈34,000 spaces · 102 ha
Within 500 m4 lots · ≈160 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 388 m away, ≈53 spaces; 448 m away, ≈17 spaces; 450 m away, ≈69 spaces; 453 m away, ≈23 spaces; 504 m away, ≈484 spaces; 581 m away, ≈17 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, Oct 29, 2025

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 15,393 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 53% of the total, against 182 from the east. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 2,934 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 8% above the afternoon peak from 3:15 p.m. (2,707). 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 north15,393southbound · 8 bikes · 3.1% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles28,85073 pedestrians · 19 cyclists · 3.1% heavy
From the east182westbound · 1 bikes · 3.8% heavy
From the south13,275northbound · 10 bikes · 3.0% heavy
AM peak hour2,934 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour2,707 vehicles from 3:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Oct 29, 2025

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

The City's most recent midblock count on Leslie St between Lawrence Ave E and Mike Bela Park Trl (375 m away, Oct 2014) recorded volume only — about 19,375 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Leslie St · Lawrence Ave E – Mike Bela Park Trl · 375 mOct 2014 · 7 days19,375

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 2016, with 5 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 3 collisions (27%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 9% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (9%). The most recent report on file is from Oct 31, 2023.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 0.4 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions11#4189 of 5,508
With an injury3#3362 of 4,660
Property damage only7
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian1#2730 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 201414latest Oct 31, 2023

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Leslie & Talwood a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 11 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?

A moderately heavy crossing. It ranks #382 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.78× the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Leslie & Talwood?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 217 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 34,000 spaces — 4 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Leslie & Talwood by transit?

Bus routes 51, 162, 403 within 1 km (nearest stop: Leslie St at Talwood Dr (South) South Side, 13 m).

What restaurants are near Leslie & Talwood?

None within 300 m, and 10 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Tim Hortons (375 m), Dandilion Cafe (506 m), Rippleton Roadsters Satellite Program (587 m), Sweetway Cafe Eatery (778 m) and Chatime Don Mills (802 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Leslie & Talwood?

The nearest is Edwards Gardens Washroom, 755 Lawrence Ave E, 509 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Bond Park Sport Centre Washroom (917 m). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Leslie & Talwood?

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 (390 m, 186 spaces), Rippleton Roadsters Satellite Program (594 m, 142 spaces) and Blue Wave Child Care Centre (610 m, 106 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Leslie & Talwood?

Eight RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 333 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 868 Lawrence Ave E (561 m, 31 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 874 Lawrence Ave E (618 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 878 Lawrence Ave E (640 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 87) and 876 Lawrence Ave E (643 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 8 is 92 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.

What neighbourhood is Leslie & Talwood in?

Leslie & Talwood is in Banbury-Don Mills (City of Toronto neighbourhood 042). It is in Ward 16, Don Valley East, represented by Councillor Jon Burnside.

Sources

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