Toronto · intersection · signal 1485

McCowan & Triton

McCowan Rd & Triton Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Woburn North · Ward 21, Scarborough Centre

McCowan & Triton is a heavily travelled arterial crossing. It sits in Woburn North. Nearby is 22 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
19,540
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 29, 2015
233 pedestrians · 6 cyclists
Collisions
152
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
25 with an injury · 120 property damage · #707 of 5,508 · +11 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
14 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 2,440 vehicles an hour, 2.1× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 84 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). On average 15 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 4.9× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. Collisions fell 21%, from 85 in 2016–2020 to 67 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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McCowan & Triton

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
GO bus 94 Pickering / Square One41 Hamilton / Pickering96 Oshawa / Finch Express92 Oshawa / Yorkdale at Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal669 m
TTC bus
12913013113216991341638133406952143 nearest 24 m
Express
903938904995939996
Blue Night
316395
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — McCowan Rd at Triton Rd; Bushby Dr at McCowan Rd - McCowan Rt Station
Regional
Durham Region Transit 920 Route 920921 Route 921 at Bushby Westbound @ McCowan93 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
100 Grangeway Ave 214 m · 39 docks · 4 stations, 92 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 (19)
  • Madinatul Uloom Islamic Academy & Oxford College & Fh InternationalPrivate · 324 m
  • Mac Al-Furqan SchoolPrivate · 347 m
  • Al Haadi SchoolPrivate · 436 m
  • Madinatul Uloom Islamic Girls AcademyPrivate · 485 m
  • Madinatul Uloom Academy IncPrivate · 544 m
  • New Covenant Church SchoolPrivate · 630 m
  • and 13 more
Parks (13)
  • Albert Campbell Square409 m
  • Frank Faubert Wood Lot440 m
  • Scarborough Civic Centre487 m
  • Hillsborough Park735 m
  • Lee Centre Park785 m
  • North Bendale Park893 m
  • and 7 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Scarborough Civic Centre branch494 m
Signal
1485, activated 1985 · SAV

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 11 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 100. The nearest is Gateway Newstand, 152 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2024 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés11 within 300 m · 100 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 16 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Gateway Newstand · 290 Borough Dr152 mPassed, May 2024 · 1 infraction
Flames Gourmet · 100 Consilium Pl180 mPassed, May 2026
Cafe Depot · 100 Consilium Pl180 mPassed, May 2026
Mr. Souvlaki · 100 Consilium Pl Unit-2180 mPassed, Apr 2026
Piazza Manna · 100 Consilium Pl181 mPassed, Jun 2025
Freshco · 1255 McCowan Rdgrocery191 mPassed, Aug 2026
St. Louis Bar and Grill · 55 Town Centre Crt, Unit-101213 mPassed, Aug 2025 · 1 infraction
Hamonié Cafe · 55 Town Centre Crt Unit-110214 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 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 Scraborough Civic Centre, 410 m away, Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed. A drinking fountain is 361 m away at Albert Campbell Square.

  • Scraborough Civic Centre · 160 Borough Drive
    Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed
    410 m
  • Scraborough Civic Centre · 150 Borough Drive
    Mon-Fri 8:00am-6:00pm, Sat 10:00am-6:00pm, Sun Closed · accessible
    474 m
  • Albert Campbell Square Outdoor Rink Washroom · 150 Borough Dr
    View outdoor rink hours
    476 m
Drinking water
Albert Campbell Square bottle filling station · 361 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 273 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Scarborough Jr YMCA (171 m, 90 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km4 centres · 273 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 4
  • Scarborough Jr YMCA · 230 Town Centre Crt
    90 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    171 m
  • The Squirrels' Nest Child Care Centre - North Bendale · 29 Aveline Cres
    56 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    664 m
  • St Victor Catholic School Before & After Child Care Program · 20 Bernadine St
    71 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    882 m
  • Network - St. Andrews Before and After School Program · 60 Brimorton Dr
    56 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    1 km

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 243 (1.7 km), the nearest police station 42 Division (1.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.7 km away.

FireFire Station 243 · 1.7 km4560 Sheppard Ave E
Police42 Division · 1.8 km242 Milner Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 29 · 1.7 km4560 Sheppard 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 is one RentSafeTO-registered apartment building — 145 rental units — it is social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1680 Ellesmere Rd (359 m, 145 units, 8 storeys, built 1994), which scored 98 out of 100 at its September 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation.

Registered buildings1 · 145 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score98 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20263 across the 1
Open fire-code violations8
Tallest8 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1680 Ellesmere Rdsocial housing · Aykler Management1458199498 · Sep 20243 · 8 fire359 m

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 lots330 lots · ≈84,970 spaces · 254.9 ha
Within 500 m38 lots · ≈9,420 spaces
Green P (public)5 car parks · about 602 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingno post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 16 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
40 Bushby Dr · Surface137 m21532% (Q1 2026)
101 Grangeway Ave · Surface200 m2557% (Q1 2026)
158 Borough Drive · Surface473 m16 *
284 Milner Ave · Surface1.9 km9218% (Q1 2026)
1530 Markham Road - minor capital repairs onsite · Surface2 km24 *

Nearest lots: 38 m away, ≈26 spaces; 130 m away, ≈209 spaces (Green P); 165 m away, ≈57 spaces; 211 m away, ≈2 spaces; 237 m away, ≈18 spaces; 237 m away, ≈292 spaces (Green P).

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, Apr 29, 2015

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 9,518 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 766 from the west. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,630 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 2,790 from 4:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 10.8% 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 11 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2015, 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 north9,518southbound · 0 bikes · 7.7% heavy
From the west766eastbound · 0 bikes · 92.7% heavy
Total vehicles19,540233 pedestrians · 6 cyclists · 10.8% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south9,256northbound · 6 bikes · 7.2% heavy
AM peak hour2,630 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour2,790 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 29, 2015

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 McCowan Rd between Triton Rd and McCowan Rd S (50 m away, Apr 2013) recorded volume only — about 21,005 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
McCowan Rd · Triton Rd – McCowan Rd S · 50 mApr 2013 · 3 days21,005

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 2019, with 23 collisions; 2025 recorded 16. 25 collisions (16%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 7 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 5% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (1%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 11 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 29, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions152#707 of 5,508
With an injury25#655 of 4,660
Property damage only120
Fail to remain7
Involving a pedestrian1#2780 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified7
Since January 2026 (outside the window)11
All since 2014202latest Jun 29, 2026

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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Aug 20, 2007.

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 & Triton a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 152 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 & Triton?

A heavily travelled arterial crossing. Its latest count is from Apr 29, 2015, 2.1× the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near McCowan & Triton?

The nearest Green P car park is 40 Bushby Dr (137 m away, 215 spaces, 32% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 330 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 84,970 spaces — 38 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to McCowan & Triton by transit?

Bus routes 129, 130, 131, 132, 169, 9, 134, 16 and 12 more within 1 km (nearest stop: McCowan Rd at Triton Rd, 24 m); Durham Region Transit routes 920 Route 920, 921 Route 921 at Bushby Westbound @ McCowan.

What restaurants are near McCowan & Triton?

11 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 100 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Gateway Newstand (152 m), Flames Gourmet (180 m), Cafe Depot (180 m), Mr. Souvlaki (180 m) and Piazza Manna (181 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 & Triton?

The nearest is Scraborough Civic Centre, 160 Borough Drive, 410 m away (Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed). Next nearest: Scraborough Civic Centre (474 m); Albert Campbell Square Outdoor Rink Washroom (476 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 & Triton?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 273 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Scarborough Jr YMCA (171 m, 90 spaces), The Squirrels' Nest Child Care Centre - North Bendale (664 m, 56 spaces) and St Victor Catholic School Before & After Child Care Program (882 m, 71 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near McCowan & Triton?

One RentSafeTO-registered apartment building with 145 rental units is within 1 km. The nearest is 1680 Ellesmere Rd (359 m, 145 units, RentSafeTO score 98). The average RentSafeTO score across the 1 is 98 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 & Triton in?

McCowan & Triton is in Woburn North (City of Toronto neighbourhood 142), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 21, Scarborough Centre, represented by Councillor Michael Thompson.

Sources

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