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Meadowvale & Lawson

Meadowvale Rd & Lawson Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Centennial Scarborough · Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park

Meadowvale & Lawson is a quiet local crossing. It sits in Centennial Scarborough. Nearby is 6 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
6,015
vehicles · 14-hour count, Feb 11, 2026
238 pedestrians · 4 cyclists · #1956 busiest
Collisions
15
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 9 property damage · #3807 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
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

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 430 vehicles, 37% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 25 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 1.5 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 2.5 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Meadowvale & Lawson

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
388695 nearest 20 m
Express
986
Blue Night
386395
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Lawson Rd at Meadowvale Rd; Lawson Rd at Meadowvale Rd West Side
Regional
Durham Region Transit 900 Pulse 900N1 Route N1 at Ellesmere Eastbound @ Meadowvale818 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Colonel Danforth Park 945 m · 19 docks · 1 station, 19 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 (7)
  • Centennial Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 876 m
  • Ecole Elementaire Catholique Saint MichelFrench Separate · 925 m
  • St Brendan Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
  • Meadowvale Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • Highland Creek Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.4 km
  • Cardinal Leger Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.5 km
  • and 1 more
Parks (10)
  • Tanis Cres Woodlot253 m
  • Highland Creek Parkette608 m
  • Bramber Woods Park626 m
  • Morrish Parkette879 m
  • Centennial Park - Scarborough1 km
  • Wanita Park1 km
  • and 4 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Highland Creek branch1.3 km

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; 20 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Tony Stacey Centre For Vetrans Care, 306 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 20 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 1 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Tony Stacey Centre For Vetrans Care · 59 Lawson Rd306 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Ted's Restaurant · 404 Old Kingston Rd678 mPassed, Apr 2026
Amigos Bar & Grill · 6089 Kingston Rd686 mPassed, May 2025 · 1 infraction
Shamrock Burgers · 6109 Kingston Rd686 mPassed, Aug 2025
Peggy's Caribbean Cuisine · 402 Old Kingston Rd690 mPassed, Jun 2026
Malt N Salt · 285 Lawson Rd720 mPassed, Nov 2025
Fratelli Village Pizzeria · 384 Old Kingston Rd762 mPassed, Dec 2025
Kilt Pub · 371 Old Kingston Rd Unit-9762 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 Colonel Danforth Park Washroom, 1.0 km away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible.

  • Colonel Danforth Park Washroom · 73 Colonel Danforth Trl
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    1 km

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 278 spaces; two accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Creative Minds Montessori Academy (706 m, 79 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, school age).

Within 1 km4 centres · 278 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 4
  • Creative Minds Montessori Academy · 285 Lawson Rd
    79 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, school age · $10-a-day
    706 m
  • Children's Land Learning Centre Inc. · 297 Old Kingston Rd
    55 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    861 m
  • Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Scarborough · 29 Meadowvale Rd
    105 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    925 m
  • St. Brendan Kindergarten Before & After School Program · 186 Centennial Rd
    39 spaces · kindergarten · 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 214 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 43 Division (1.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.9 km away.

FireFire Station 214 · 1 km745 Meadowvale Rd
Police43 Division · 1.9 km4331 Lawrence Avenue East
AmbulanceTPS 43 Division/EMS Stn 26 · 1.9 km4331 Lawrence Ave E

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots148 lots · ≈12,560 spaces · 37.7 ha
Within 500 m9 lots · ≈820 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 102 m away, ≈9 spaces; 148 m away, ≈283 spaces; 206 m away, ≈2 spaces; 347 m away, ≈360 spaces; 367 m away, ≈91 spaces; 433 m away, ≈9 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, Feb 11, 2026

The west leg carries the load — 3,059 eastbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 257. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 615 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 603 from 2:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.2% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north257southbound · 0 bikes · 4.3% heavy
From the west3,059eastbound · 3 bikes · 3.8% heavy
Total vehicles6,015238 pedestrians · 4 cyclists · 4.2% heavy
From the east1,593westbound · 1 bikes · 5.1% heavy
From the south1,106northbound · 0 bikes · 3.8% heavy
AM peak hour615 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour603 vehicles from 2:45 p.m.
Count14-hour · Feb 11, 2026

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 Meadowvale Rd between Ramblewood Dr and Lawson Rd (58 m away, Apr 2013) recorded volume only — about 3,441 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Meadowvale Rd · Ramblewood Dr – Lawson Rd · 58 mApr 2013 · 3 days3,441
Lawson Rd · Old Sweats Lane – Meadowvale Rd · 178 mOct 2009 · 3 days7,124

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 2 collisions. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 40% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Mar 16, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 2.5 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions15#3807 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only9
Fail to remain6
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified6
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201420latest Mar 16, 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

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 43% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle720house driveway/garage (3), apartment parking (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 22, 2025. 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 Centennial Scarborough.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Meadowvale & Lawson a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 15 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 Meadowvale & Lawson?

A quiet local crossing. It ranks #1956 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 37% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Meadowvale & Lawson?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 148 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 12,560 spaces — 9 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Meadowvale & Lawson by transit?

Bus routes 38, 86, 95, 986 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lawson Rd at Meadowvale Rd, 20 m); Durham Region Transit routes 900 Pulse 900, N1 Route N1 at Ellesmere Eastbound @ Meadowvale.

What restaurants are near Meadowvale & Lawson?

None within 300 m, and 20 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Tony Stacey Centre For Vetrans Care (306 m), Ted's Restaurant (678 m), Amigos Bar & Grill (686 m), Shamrock Burgers (686 m) and Peggy's Caribbean Cuisine (690 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 Meadowvale & Lawson?

The nearest is Colonel Danforth Park Washroom, 73 Colonel Danforth Trl, 1.0 km away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. 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 Meadowvale & Lawson?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 278 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Creative Minds Montessori Academy (706 m, 79 spaces), Children's Land Learning Centre Inc. (861 m, 55 spaces) and Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Scarborough (925 m, 105 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

How many thefts are reported at Meadowvale & Lawson?

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts 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 Centennial Scarborough page.

What neighbourhood is Meadowvale & Lawson in?

Meadowvale & Lawson is in Centennial Scarborough (City of Toronto neighbourhood 133). It is in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park, represented by Councillor Neethan Shan.

Sources

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