Toronto · intersection · signal 2226

McCowan & Halbert

McCowan Rd & Halbert Pl · Toronto, Ontario · Cliffcrest · Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest

McCowan & Halbert is a quiet local crossing. It sits in Cliffcrest. At the corner: a school within 250 m, a park and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 8 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
3,648
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 20, 2011
91 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
9
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 6 property damage · #4439 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
1
TTC stop within 100 m
6 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 8-hour count works out to close to 460 vehicles, 39% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 40 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 0.9 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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McCowan & Halbert

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
9121028669201 nearest 86 m
Express
902
Blue Night
316
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — McCowan Rd at Anson Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Fenwood Ht / Kingston Rd 342 m · 15 docks · 4 stations, 64 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 (11)
  • H A Halbert Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 136 m
  • St Agatha Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 525 m
  • R H King AcademyEnglish Public · 623 m
  • Anson Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 636 m
  • Bliss Carman Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 856 m
  • Fairmount Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 874 m
  • and 5 more
Parks (16)
  • Halbert Park231 m
  • Anson Park518 m
  • Balcarra Park527 m
  • McCowan District Park758 m
  • Muir Park914 m
  • Cudia Park1.1 km
  • and 10 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Cliffcrest branch304 m
Signal
2226, activated 2010 · SA2 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

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; within a kilometre the count is 34. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 192 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés10 within 300 m · 34 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 5 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Tim Hortons · 3090 Kingston Rd192 mPassed, Jul 2026
Newserenagrills · 3110 Kingston Rd, Unit-2233 mPassed, Oct 2025
Brotheres Pizza N Chicken · 3110 Kingston Rd 6234 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 2 infractions
Doaba Junction · 3110 Kingston Rd234 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Brothers Pizza N Chicken · 3110 Kingston Rd234 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Leo Bar and Grill · 3081 Kingston Rd270 mPassed, Mar 2026
Cliffside Hearth Bread Company · 3047 Kingston Rd283 mPassed, Aug 2025
The Korner Pub · 3045 Kingston Rd290 mPassed, Aug 2025 · 1 infraction

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 Halbert Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 259 m away, View outdoor pool hours.

  • Halbert Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 24 Rockwood Dr
    View outdoor pool hours
    259 m
  • McCowan District Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 150 Mccowan Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    850 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 293 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Heart Beatz - Halbert Child Care Site (136 m, 71 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km4 centres · 293 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 4
  • Heart Beatz - Halbert Child Care Site · 25 Halbert Place
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    136 m
  • St Agatha Catholic Before & After School Program · 49 Cathedral Bluffs Dr
    86 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    525 m
  • Bluffer's Park Montessori School · 2857 Kingston Rd
    26 spaces · toddler, preschool
    639 m
  • Fairmount Sunshine Child Care · 31 Sloley Rd
    110 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    874 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 223 (384 m), the nearest police station 41 Division (3.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.7 km away.

FireFire Station 223 · 384 m116 Dorset Rd
Police41 Division · 3.5 km2222 Eglinton Avenue East
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 22 · 1.7 km3100 Eglinton Ave E

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 five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 539 rental units — one social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 3171 Kingston Rd (438 m, 18 units, 4 storeys, built 1960), which scored 92 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 11 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings5 · 539 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202611 across the 5
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest11 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
3171 Kingston Rd184196092 · Jul 20260438 m
3207 Kingston Rd · Trivest Developments Corporation535196890 · Aug 20251567 m
17 Brimley RdToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation33011197996 · Jul 20258 · 2 fire898 m
3750 St Clair Ave E · Amaz Property Management557196591 · Jun 202401 km
131 Minerva Ave · Park Property Management Inc836196492 · Aug 202621 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 lots259 lots · ≈31,980 spaces · 96 ha
Within 500 m23 lots · ≈1,690 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 168 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1 Brimley Road (Bluffer's Park) · Surface1.7 km168 *

Nearest lots: 99 m away, ≈81 spaces; 175 m away, ≈85 spaces; 201 m away, ≈7 spaces; 226 m away, ≈2 spaces; 241 m away, ≈90 spaces; 284 m away, ≈798 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 — 8-hour, Jan 20, 2011

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 1,778 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 109 from the east. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 632 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 9% above the afternoon peak from 4:30 p.m. (581). Trucks and buses were 5.8% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 16 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2011, 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 north1,761southbound · 0 bikes · 4.8% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles3,64891 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 5.8% heavy
From the east109westbound · 0 bikes · 30.3% heavy
From the south1,778northbound · 0 bikes · 5.3% heavy
AM peak hour632 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour581 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jan 20, 2011

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 McCowan Rd between Halbert Pl and Horfield Ave, 60 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2019 put the average speed at 58 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 67 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 73 km/h or more. That segment carries about 4,300 vehicles a day. The reading is 7 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on McCowan Rd (61 m away, 50 km/h limit), 4.3% of the 43,998 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 60 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
McCowan Rd · Halbert Pl – Horfield Ave · 60 mMay 2019 · 3 days4,25158 km/h67 km/h73 km/h

School-zone speed sign 61 m

Posted limit50 km/h
Median · 85th pct49 · 55 km/h
Over the limit18%
60 km/h or more4.3%

McCowan Rd (southbound), West Side of McCowan Rd, Fronting No.38/40 · 43,998 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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 2022, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 2 collisions (22%) involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Apr 4, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions9#4439 of 5,508
With an injury2#3843 of 4,660
Property damage only6
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 201412latest Apr 4, 2025

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

No thefts from vehicles and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle000
Bicycle theft100school/campus (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 2, 2017. 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 Cliffcrest.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is McCowan & Halbert a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 9 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 McCowan & Halbert?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Jan 20, 2011, 39% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at McCowan & Halbert?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on McCowan Rd between Halbert Pl and Horfield Ave (May 2019), found an average of 58 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 67 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 61 m away (50 km/h), 4.3% of vehicles were doing 60 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near McCowan & Halbert?

The nearest Green P car park is 1 Brimley Road (Bluffer's Park) (1.7 km away, 168 spaces). The City's mapping shows 259 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 31,980 spaces — 23 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to McCowan & Halbert by transit?

Bus routes 9, 12, 102, 86, 69, 201, 902 within 1 km (nearest stop: McCowan Rd at Anson Ave, 86 m).

What restaurants are near McCowan & Halbert?

10 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 34 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Tim Hortons (192 m), Newserenagrills (233 m), Brotheres Pizza N Chicken (234 m), Doaba Junction (234 m) and Brothers Pizza N Chicken (234 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 McCowan & Halbert?

The nearest is Halbert Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 24 Rockwood Dr, 259 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: McCowan District Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (850 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 McCowan & Halbert?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 293 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Heart Beatz - Halbert Child Care Site (136 m, 71 spaces), St Agatha Catholic Before & After School Program (525 m, 86 spaces) and Bluffer's Park Montessori School (639 m, 26 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near McCowan & Halbert?

Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 539 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 3171 Kingston Rd (438 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 3207 Kingston Rd (567 m, 53 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 17 Brimley Rd (898 m, 330 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 3750 St Clair Ave E (1.0 km, 55 units, RentSafeTO score 91). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 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.

How many thefts are reported at McCowan & Halbert?

Toronto Police place no 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 Cliffcrest page.

What neighbourhood is McCowan & Halbert in?

McCowan & Halbert is in Cliffcrest (City of Toronto neighbourhood 123). It is in Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest, represented by Councillor Parthi Kandavel.

Sources

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