Map
Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time. Steeles Avenue is the city limit: the north side is Vaughan or Markham and outside Toronto's records
Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume14-hour count · Oct 29, 2024
The north leg carries the load — 12,938 southbound vehicles, or 33% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 6,830. Most cyclists arrived from the east (105 of 227). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 3,635 vehicles in the hour from 4:30 p.m., 8% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (3,352). Heavy vehicles made up 4.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 2 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.
Peak hours: 3,352 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 3,635 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
Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.
One collision in 2016–2025 was fatal. 1 motorcyclist was among those hurt. It happened in daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Aug 13, 2019. Going back to 2006, the total is 5.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 0 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 0 | |
| Fail to remain | 0 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 1 | #586 of 1,505 |
| Fatal | 1 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| In darkness | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 5 | latest Aug 13, 2019 |
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.
How fast traffic moves here
The City's counter on McCowan Rd between Alton Towers Crcl and Milliken Park Trl (312 m away) recorded an average of 52 km/h in its 24-hour count in April 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 59 km/h. That segment carries about 24,500 vehicles a day.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steeles Ave E · McCowan Rd – Milliken Park Trl · 171 m | Apr 2016 · 7 days | 15,042 | — | — | — |
| McCowan Rd · Alton Towers Crcl – Milliken Park Trl · 312 m | Apr 2025 · 24 h | 24,472 | 52 km/h | 59 km/h | 64 km/h |
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 1492, activated 1985 · 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
- 129 53 130 830 nearest 23 m
- Express
- 953
- Blue Night
- 316 353
- Nearest stops
- 11 surface stops within 300 m — McCowan Rd at Steeles Ave East; Steeles Ave East at McCowan Rd
- Cycling
- Cycle Track on Steeles Ave E installed 2025; Bike Lane on Steeles Ave E installed 2004
- Bike Share
- no station 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
- 7 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 5 mapped lots within 500 m, 66 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.
Steeles Avenue is the city limit. Everything on the north side of the street is in Vaughan or Markham and outside every Toronto dataset on this page — the restaurants, shops and services across the road are not counted, on the map or in the score below.
Food, shops and services
The nearest grocery store is Field Fresh Supermarket, 828 m away; 2 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. For everything else there is one convenience store or gas bar within 300 m. There is 1 restaurant, café or takeout within 300 m, and 34 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 87 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Hillcroft Pharmacy, 440 m away; 4 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Tim Hortons · 5445 Steeles Ave E87 m
- Dangol · 240 Alton Towers Crcl Unit-A10652 m · 8 min
- Ginger and Onion Cuisine · 240 Alton Towers Crcl Unit-A7652 m · 8 min
- Tasty House · 240 Alton Towers Crcl Unit-5652 m · 8 min
- Tim Hortons · 240 Alton Towers Crcl652 m · 8 min
- Grocery
- Field Fresh Supermarket 828 m · 10 min · 2 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Romantic Bakery 652 m · 8 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- Hillcroft Pharmacy 440 m · 5 min · 4 within 1 km
- Child care
- Banting and Best Child Care Centre (380 Goldhawk) · 118 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day790 m · 9 min
- Banting and Best Schoolage Satellite(255 Alton Towers) · 43 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day812 m · 10 min
- Washrooms
- Milliken Park Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed229 m
- Milliken Park Washroom Building · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible499 m · 6 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
- Milliken Park613 m · 7 min
- Goldhawk Park1.2 km · 14 min
- Muirlands Park1.3 km · 16 min
- Community centres
- Schools
- Banting and Best Public SchoolEnglish Public · 790 m · 9 min
- Prince of Peace Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 812 m · 10 min
- Ecole Elementaire Laure RieseFrench Public · 1.1 km · 14 min
- The Divine Infant Catholic Elementary School & Msgr Frasier NortheastEnglish Separate · 1.3 km · 15 min
- Macklin Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.4 km · 17 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Goldhawk Park branch923 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 care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is, and nothing north of Steeles.
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 McCowan & Steeles a dangerous intersection?
It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#586 of 1,505). 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 & Steeles?
A heavily travelled arterial crossing. It ranks #124 of 2,438 counted intersections for vehicles, 2.4× the median for a counted intersection.
Is McCowan & Steeles a walkable intersection?
McCowan & Steeles scores 45 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: nearest park 0.6 km · 1 community centre within 800 m; 11 stops within 300 m · 7 routes within 1 km; 2 grocery stores within 1 km · 1 place to eat within 300 m. The crossing itself: traffic signal · head start for people walking · accessible signals. Steeles Avenue is the city limit, so nothing on the north side of the street is counted.
How fast do cars go at McCowan & Steeles?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on McCowan Rd between Alton Towers Crcl and Milliken Park Trl (April 2025), found an average of 52 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 59 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near McCowan & Steeles?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 66 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 16,320 spaces — 5 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to McCowan & Steeles by transit?
Bus routes 129, 53, 130, 830, 953 within 1 km (nearest stop: McCowan Rd at Steeles Ave East, 23 m).
What restaurants are near McCowan & Steeles?
1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 34 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Tim Hortons (87 m), Dangol (652 m), Ginger and Onion Cuisine (652 m), Tasty House (652 m) and Tim Hortons (652 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours, and nothing on the north side of Steeles, which is outside Toronto, is in it.
Is there a public washroom near McCowan & Steeles?
The nearest is Milliken Park Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 4325 Mccowan Rd, 229 m away. Next nearest: Milliken Park Washroom Building (499 m).
Is there child care near McCowan & Steeles?
Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 161 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Banting and Best Child Care Centre (380 Goldhawk) (790 m, 118 spaces) and Banting and Best Schoolage Satellite(255 Alton Towers) (812 m, 43 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What neighbourhood is McCowan & Steeles in?
McCowan & Steeles is in Milliken (City of Toronto neighbourhood 130). It is in Ward 23, Scarborough North, represented by Councillor Jamaal Myers.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Oct 29, 2024.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 23 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.83105, -79.27520 · centreline node 13441649.