Map
Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time
Getting here
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk
Transit & cycling
- TTC bus
- 5795381291311334321 nearest 29 m
- Express
- 995996903904938939
- Blue Night
- 395343
- Nearest stops
- 14 surface stops within 300 m — Midland Ave at Ellesmere Rd; Ellesmere Rd at Midland Ave
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Bernadine St / Brimley Rd 855 m · 11 docks · 1 station, 11 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 College - Midland CampusCollege · 47 m
- Edgewood Public SchoolEnglish Public · 462 m
- Enquiring Minds Montessori and London School of DancePrivate · 778 m
- St Victor Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
- Donwood Park Jr Public School - Highbrook CampusEnglish Public · 1.4 km
- Donwood Park Jr Public School - Main BldgEnglish Public · 1.4 km
- and 1 more
- Community centres
- Birkdale Community Centre583 m
- Parks (10)
- West Birkdale Park254 m
- Edgewood Park333 m
- Jolly Way Park626 m
- Birkdale Ravine1.1 km
- Scarborough Civic Centre1.2 km
- Dorset Park1.3 km
- and 4 more
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Scarborough Civic Centre branch1.2 km
- Signal
- 0697, activated 1965 · SA1
Around the corner
Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node
Restaurants & food
There are 12 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 70 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Roll N Bowl, 33 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.
| Nearest food premises | Distance | Latest DineSafe inspection |
|---|---|---|
| Roll N Bowl · 1157 Ellesmere Rd Unit-6 | 33 m | Passed, May 2026 |
| Starlite Family Restaurant · 1157 Ellesmere Rd Unit-1 | 33 m | Passed, Aug 2026 |
| House of Nizams · 1163 Ellesmere Rd Unit-6 | 46 m | Passed, May 2026 |
| Culture Crust · 1095 Ellesmere Rd Unit-3 | 65 m | Passed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction |
| Niji Japanese Restaurant · 1095 Ellesmere Rd | 65 m | Passed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction |
| Mary Brown's · 1100 Ellesmere Rd Unit-3 | 66 m | Passed, Jul 2026 |
| Starbucks Coffee · 1100 Ellesmere Rd -Unit-#1 | 66 m | Passed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction |
| Tim Hortons · 1900 Midland Ave | 82 m | Passed, Jul 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 Birkdale Community Centre Washroom, 591 m away, View centre hours.
- Birkdale Community Centre Washroom · 1299 Ellesmere Rd
View centre hours591 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
Three licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 306 spaces; two accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is The Squirrels' Nest Child Care Centre (572 m, 123 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).
- The Squirrels' Nest Child Care Centre · 1305 Ellesmere Rd
123 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day572 m - Enquiring Minds Montessori · 24 Progress Ave
93 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day778 m - Progress Childcare (Scarborough Inc. #1 (3 Glamorgan) · 3 Glamorgan Ave
90 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day926 m
Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
Emergency services
The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 232 (1.5 km), the nearest police station 42 Division (3.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.9 km away.
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
Four registered apartment buildings with 263 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner — well below the median of 22. The nearest is 1175 Ellesmere Rd (103 m, 65 units, 5 storeys, built 1967), which scored 95 out of 100 at its October 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 5 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | LTB orders | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1175 Ellesmere Rd · Loraview Holdings Inc. | 65 | 5 | 1967 | 95 · Oct 2025 | 1 | 103 m |
| 1181 Ellesmere Rd | 32 | 4 | 1976 | 91 · Jul 2024 | 1 | 155 m |
| 1191 Ellesmere Rd | 27 | 4 | 1976 | 88 · Jul 2026 | 3 | 177 m |
| 3 Glamorgan Ave · Living Properties Inc. | 139 | 10 | 1984 | 83 · Sep 2024 | 0 | 926 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
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellesmere Lot - Near 1050 Ellesmere Road - closed for construction until November 2019 · Surface | 443 m | 68 * | — |
| 158 Borough Drive · Surface | 1.3 km | 16 * | — |
| 40 Bushby Dr · Surface | 1.8 km | 215 | 32% (Q1 2026) |
| Lawrence East Lot - Near 2450 Lawrence Ave East · Surface | 1.9 km | 90 * | — |
Nearest lots: 57 m away, ≈49 spaces; 60 m away, ≈67 spaces; 68 m away, ≈66 spaces; 70 m away, ≈65 spaces; 84 m away, ≈34 spaces; 111 m away, ≈42 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, Jun 25, 2025
The west leg carries the load — 13,203 eastbound vehicles, or 27% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 10,328. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 4,420 vehicles in the hour from 4:00 p.m., 24% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (3,576). Trucks and buses were 7.7% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 15 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.
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 counter on Ellesmere Rd between Zezel Way and Great West Dr (295 m away) recorded an average of 37 km/h in its 3-day count in August 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 43 km/h. That segment carries about 2,900 vehicles a day.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midland Ave · Canadine Rd – Ellesmere Rd · 79 m | Nov 2012 · 3 days | 19,073 | — | — | — |
| Ellesmere Rd · Zezel Way – Great West Dr · 295 m | Aug 2025 · 3 days | 2,860 | 37 km/h | 43 km/h | 48 km/h |
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
2024 was the peak year (101 collisions), and 2025 closed with 68. 15% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 58 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 11% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 2% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 43 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 28, 2026.
By year
Exposure-adjusted: 11.2 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 543 | #107 of 5,508 |
| With an injury | 79 | #100 of 4,660 |
| Property damage only | 414 | |
| Fail to remain | 58 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 8 | #342 of 3,193 |
| Involving a cyclist | 1 | #1828 of 2,576 |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 3 | |
| With a fatality | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 50 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 43 | |
| All since 2014 | 686 | latest Jun 28, 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
Neither of the two serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025 was fatal. 2 pedestrians were among those hurt. One of the two happened in darkness. The last one inside the window was in 2022. Since January 2026, after the ranking window closed, 1 serious-injury collision has been recorded here, the latest on Jan 31, 2026. Going back to 2006, the total is 5.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All KSI collisions | 2 | #328 of 1,505 |
| Fatal | 0 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 2 | #119 of 879 |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 0 | |
| In darkness | 1 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 1 | latest Jan 31, 2026 |
| All KSI since 2006 | 5 | latest Jan 31, 2026 |
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 11 thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 2 in 2023–2025, about 0.7 a year, against 1.3 a year before that. 82% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 2 more have been reported, the latest on May 19, 2026.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 11 | 2 | 2 | street/outdoor (9), commercial premises (2) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 19, 2026. 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 Bendale-Glen Andrew.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Midland & Ellesmere a dangerous intersection?
It is not among the worst. 2 serious-injury collisions were recorded in 2016–2025 (#328 of 1,505), out of 543 reported collisions of any severity. 1 serious-injury collision has been recorded since January 2026, after the ranking window closed. 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 Midland & Ellesmere?
One of the hundred busiest counted intersections in Toronto. It ranks #43 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 3.0× the median for a counted intersection.
Is there a red-light camera at Midland & Ellesmere?
Yes. A red-light camera has operated at Midland & Ellesmere since 2022, according to the City of Toronto's red-light camera list. It issued 542 tickets in 2025 (505 in 2024) and 222 in 2026 through Jun 30, 2026; 2,045 since it was switched on.
How many red-light camera tickets are issued at Midland & Ellesmere?
542 in 2025, according to the City's annual charges data — about the same as 505 in 2024, and 222 in 2026 through Jun 30, 2026. The camera has issued 2,045 tickets since 2022. A red-light camera ticket in Toronto is $325 and carries no demerit points because it is issued to the vehicle's owner.
How fast do cars go at Midland & Ellesmere?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Ellesmere Rd between Zezel Way and Great West Dr (August 2025), found an average of 37 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Midland & Ellesmere?
The nearest Green P car park is Ellesmere Lot - Near 1050 Ellesmere Road - closed for construction until November 2019 (443 m away, 68 spaces). The City's mapping shows 387 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 83,090 spaces — 36 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Midland & Ellesmere by transit?
Bus routes 57, 95, 38, 129, 131, 133, 43, 21 and 6 more within 1 km (nearest stop: Midland Ave at Ellesmere Rd, 29 m).
What restaurants are near Midland & Ellesmere?
12 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 70 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Roll N Bowl (33 m), Starlite Family Restaurant (33 m), House of Nizams (46 m), Culture Crust (65 m) and Niji Japanese Restaurant (65 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 Midland & Ellesmere?
The nearest is Birkdale Community Centre Washroom, 1299 Ellesmere Rd, 591 m away (View centre hours). 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 Midland & Ellesmere?
Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 306 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Squirrels' Nest Child Care Centre (572 m, 123 spaces), Enquiring Minds Montessori (778 m, 93 spaces) and Progress Childcare (Scarborough Inc. #1 (3 Glamorgan) (926 m, 90 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Midland & Ellesmere?
Four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 263 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1175 Ellesmere Rd (103 m, 65 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 1181 Ellesmere Rd (155 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 1191 Ellesmere Rd (177 m, 27 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 3 Glamorgan Ave (926 m, 139 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 4 is 89 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 Midland & Ellesmere?
Toronto Police place 11 thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 2 since January 2026. 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 Bendale-Glen Andrew page.
What neighbourhood is Midland & Ellesmere in?
Midland & Ellesmere is in Bendale-Glen Andrew (City of Toronto neighbourhood 156). It is in Ward 21, Scarborough Centre, represented by Councillor Michael Thompson.
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 Jun 25, 2025.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Aug 29, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras; tickets from Red Light Camera Annual Charges (2026 figures through Jun 30, 2026).
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts.
- Around the corner: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health); Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Fire Station Locations, Police Facility Locations, Ambulance Station Locations.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport with the Ontario LTB Order Catalogue and Toronto Fire Services inspection data (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through May 19, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 21 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting here: 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. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Walking distance: City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Parking: 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.
- Coordinates: 43.76792, -79.27111 · centreline node 13447496.