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McCowan & Oakridge

McCowan Rd & Oakridge Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Cliffcrest · Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest

In Cliffcrest, McCowan & Oakridge is a moderately travelled crossing. At the corner: a park. Nearby: Eglinton GO 895 m away and 11 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
8,327
vehicles · 14-hour count, Sep 26, 2024
319 pedestrians · 79 cyclists · #1830 busiest
Collisions
24
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
9 with an injury · 15 property damage · #3154 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
0
TTC stops 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 14-hour count works out to close to 590 vehicles, 51% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 26 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 2.4 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 2.9 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Collisions rose 40%, from 10 in 2016–2020 to 14 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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McCowan & Oakridge

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
Eglinton GO — Lakeshore East895 m
TTC bus
91210286116201 nearest 100 m
Express
902905
Blue Night
334386316
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Fenwood Ht / Kingston Rd 736 m · 15 docks · 4 stations, 72 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 (12)
  • H A Halbert Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 548 m
  • Bliss Carman Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 782 m
  • Anson Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 792 m
  • Pere Philipe Lamarche Catholic Secondary SchoolFrench Separate · 895 m
  • St Agatha Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
  • R H King AcademyEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 6 more
Parks (16)
  • McCowan District Park249 m
  • Halbert Park464 m
  • Muir Park623 m
  • Anson Park636 m
  • Colonial Park769 m
  • Horton Park785 m
  • and 10 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Cliffcrest branch789 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; 40 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Newserenagrills, 617 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in October 2025.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 40 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 8 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Newserenagrills · 3110 Kingston Rd, Unit-2617 mPassed, Oct 2025
Brotheres Pizza N Chicken · 3110 Kingston Rd 6619 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 2 infractions
Doaba Junction · 3110 Kingston Rd619 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Brothers Pizza N Chicken · 3110 Kingston Rd619 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Bedessee Imports Ltd · 70 Barbados Blvd639 mPassed, Jun 2024
Toronto Donut Bakery · 120 Barbados Blvd Unit-17/18grocery669 mPassed, Aug 2026
Tim Hortons · 3090 Kingston Rd685 mPassed, Jul 2026
Paradise Shawarma · 3103 Kingston Rd689 mPassed, Jun 2026

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 McCowan District Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 339 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

  • McCowan District Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 150 Mccowan Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    339 m
  • Halbert Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 24 Rockwood Dr
    View outdoor pool hours
    482 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

Two licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 125 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Heart Beatz - Halbert Child Care Site (548 m, 71 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km2 centres · 125 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 2
  • Heart Beatz - Halbert Child Care Site · 25 Halbert Place
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    548 m
  • Heart Beatz Child Care - Cliffcrest Site · 2938 Eglinton Ave E
    54 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    893 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 223 (894 m), the nearest police station 41 Division (3.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.3 km away.

FireFire Station 223 · 894 m116 Dorset Rd
Police41 Division · 3.4 km2222 Eglinton Avenue East
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 22 · 1.3 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 three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 278 rental units. The nearest is 3171 Kingston Rd (695 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 93, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 4 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings3 · 278 units
RentSafeTO score93 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20264 across the 3
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest15 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
3171 Kingston Rd184196092 · Jul 20260695 m
3207 Kingston Rd · Trivest Developments Corporation535196890 · Aug 20251728 m
370 Mccowan Rd · CAPREIT20715196597 · Oct 202531 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 lots293 lots · ≈33,790 spaces · 101.4 ha
Within 500 m3 lots · ≈710 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 269 m away, ≈52 spaces; 288 m away, ≈108 spaces; 475 m away, ≈550 spaces; 532 m away, ≈81 spaces; 554 m away, ≈4 spaces; 563 m away, ≈20 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, Sep 26, 2024

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 3,600 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 43% of the total, against 480 from the east. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 871 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 820 from 3:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 23 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north3,600southbound · 27 bikes · 2.6% heavy
From the west731eastbound · 12 bikes · 2.9% heavy
Total vehicles8,327319 pedestrians · 79 cyclists · 2.5% heavy
From the east480westbound · 10 bikes · 1.9% heavy
From the south3,516northbound · 30 bikes · 2.5% heavy
AM peak hour871 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour820 vehicles from 3:00 p.m.
Count14-hour · Sep 26, 2024

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 Oakridge Dr between McCowan Rd and Lowell Ave, 88 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2023 put the average speed at 37 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 44 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 48 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,000 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Oakridge Dr · McCowan Rd – Lowell Ave · 88 mMar 2023 · 3 days99337 km/h44 km/h48 km/h
McCowan Rd · Phyllis Ave – Cree Ave · 189 mMay 2011 · 24 h6,842

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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 5 collisions. 9 collisions (38%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Jul 25, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 2.9 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions24#3154 of 5,508
With an injury9#1921 of 4,660
Property damage only15
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
All since 201427latest Jul 25, 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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is McCowan & Oakridge a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 24 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 & Oakridge?

A moderately travelled crossing. It ranks #1830 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 51% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at McCowan & Oakridge?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Oakridge Dr between McCowan Rd and Lowell Ave (March 2023), found an average of 37 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 44 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near McCowan & Oakridge?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 293 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 33,790 spaces — 3 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to McCowan & Oakridge by transit?

Eglinton GO is 895 m away; bus routes 9, 12, 102, 86, 116, 201, 902, 905 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near McCowan & Oakridge?

None within 300 m, and 40 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Newserenagrills (617 m), Brotheres Pizza N Chicken (619 m), Doaba Junction (619 m), Brothers Pizza N Chicken (619 m) and Bedessee Imports Ltd (639 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 & Oakridge?

The nearest is McCowan District Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 150 Mccowan Rd, 339 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Halbert Park Outdoor Pool Washroom (482 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 & Oakridge?

Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 125 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Heart Beatz - Halbert Child Care Site (548 m, 71 spaces) and Heart Beatz Child Care - Cliffcrest Site (893 m, 54 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near McCowan & Oakridge?

Three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 278 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 3171 Kingston Rd (695 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 3207 Kingston Rd (728 m, 53 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 370 Mccowan Rd (1.0 km, 207 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 3 is 93 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 McCowan & Oakridge in?

McCowan & Oakridge 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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