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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · Nov 4, 2021
This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 8,858 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 53% of the total, against 208 from the south. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,123 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,288 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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.
Peak hours: 2,123 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,288 from 5:00 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
The worst year was 2024, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 2. 1 collision (8%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 8% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 9, 2026.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 12 | |
| With an injury | 1 | |
| Property damage only | 10 | |
| Fail to remain | 1 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 1 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 3 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
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.
Speeds here, last measured in 2003
On Binswood Ave between Plains Rd and O'connor Dr, 105 m from the corner, a 3-day count in November 2003 put the average speed at 40 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 48 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 53 km/h or more. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. The reading is 23 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 4 speed humps slow traffic on Binswood Avenue between O'Connor Dr and Cosburn Ave.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binswood Ave · Plains Rd – O'connor Dr · 105 m | Nov 2003 · 3 days | 604 | 40 km/h | 48 km/h | 53 km/h |
| O'Connor Dr · Taylor Dr – Glebemount Ave · 167 m | Dec 2011 · 3 days | 16,597 | — | — | — |
- Traffic calming
- Binswood Avenue (O'Connor Dr – Cosburn Ave): 4 speed humps
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.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- TTC bus
- 8 70 87 91 93 404 62 nearest 14 m
- Blue Night
- 322
- Nearest stops
- 6 surface stops within 300 m — O'connor Dr at Binswood Ave West Side; O'connor Dr at Binswood Ave East Side
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Coxwell Ave / Plains Rd 526 m · 6 min · 19 docks · 3 stations, 53 docks 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
- 2 car parks · about 40 spaces
- EV charging
- 1612 Danforth Ave. · 1.9 km · 2 Level 2 ports
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 7 mapped lots within 500 m, 164 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 850 Coxwell Ave · Surface | 1.2 km | 18 | 62% (Q1 2026) |
| 1612 Danforth Ave · Surface | 1.9 km | 22 | 75% (Q1 2026) |
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.
Food, shops and services
No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Wayne's Supermarket, 411 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 18 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 320 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Shoppers Drug Mart, 672 m away; 2 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Michael Garron Hospital, 1.3 km away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Tim Hortons · 561 O'connor Dr320 m · 4 min
- Butter Chicken Roti · 1041 Coxwell Ave334 m · 4 min
- Yaya's · 1027 Coxwell Ave367 m · 4 min
- Lucky Elinext Mart · 1021 Coxwell Ave383 m · 5 min
- New Eden Chinese Food · 1025 Coxwell Ave383 m · 5 min
- Grocery
- Wayne's Supermarket 411 m · 5 min
- Food shops
- East York Deli 749 m · 9 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Shoppers Drug Mart 672 m · 8 min · 2 within 1 km
- Child care
- Lily's House Inc. · 15 spaces, toddler · $10-a-day459 m · 5 min
- Plains Road Child Care Inc. · 174 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day688 m · 8 min
- Centennial College East York Day Care (Plains Rd) · 56 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day822 m · 10 min
- Washrooms
- Kiwanis Outdoor Pool Washroom · hours not listed930 m · 11 min
- Health and care
- Michael Garron Hospital · hospital site1.3 km · 15 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 (9)
- Les Anthony Parkette840 m · 10 min
- Coxwell Ravine Park1 km · 12 min
- Cosburn Park1 km · 12 min
- Four Oaks Gate Park1.1 km · 13 min
- Memorial Gardens Park1.1 km · 13 min
- Community centres
- East York Memorial Arena1.1 km · 13 min
- East York Sports Centre1.3 km · 15 min
- Schools (7)
- East York Alternative Secondary SchoolEnglish Public · 542 m · 6 min
- Canadian Martyrs Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 688 m · 8 min
- East York Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 727 m · 9 min
- Diefenbaker Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 822 m · 10 min
- Parkside Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 860 m · 10 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library S. Walter Stewart branch1.1 km · 13 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.
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.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
Within a kilometre there are four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 388 rental units — one social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1501 Woodbine Ave (667 m, 304 units, 20 storeys, built 1968), which scored 93 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1501 Woodbine Ave · Metcap Living Management Inc | 304 | 20 | 1968 | 93 · Jul 2026 | 667 m · 8 min |
| 611 Cosburn Ave | 12 | 3 | 1951 | 85 · Sep 2024 | 697 m · 8 min |
| 1430 Woodbine Ave social housing | 61 | 6 | 1992 | 96 · Aug 2026 | 742 m · 9 min |
| 831 Cosburn Ave | 11 | 3 | 1950 | 81 · Sep 2024 | 854 m · 10 min |
4 registered buildings · 388 units · 1 social housing · tallest 20 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Two thefts from vehicles and two bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 2 | 0 | 0 | other (1), street/outdoor (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 2 | 0 | 0 | house driveway/garage (2) |
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 Old East York.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is O'Connor & Binswood a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 12 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 O'Connor & Binswood?
A busier-than-typical intersection at the City's last count here, in 2021. Its latest count is from Nov 4, 2021, 1.82× today's median for a counted intersection.
Is O'Connor & Binswood a walkable intersection?
O'Connor & Binswood scores 34 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: 6 stops within 300 m · 8 routes within 1 km; nearest school 0.5 km · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; nearest park 0.8 km · nearest centre 1.1 km. The crossing itself: traffic calming.
How fast do cars go at O'Connor & Binswood?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Binswood Ave between Plains Rd and O'connor Dr (November 2003), found an average of 40 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 48 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near O'Connor & Binswood?
The nearest Green P car park is 850 Coxwell Ave (1.2 km away, 18 spaces, 62% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 164 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 6,720 spaces — 7 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1612 Danforth Ave. (1.9 km).
How do I get to O'Connor & Binswood by transit?
Bus routes 8, 70, 87, 91, 93, 404, 62 within 1 km (nearest stop: O'connor Dr at Binswood Ave West Side, 14 m).
What restaurants are near O'Connor & Binswood?
None within 300 m, and 18 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Tim Hortons (320 m), Butter Chicken Roti (334 m), Yaya's (367 m), Lucky Elinext Mart (383 m) and New Eden Chinese Food (383 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near O'Connor & Binswood?
The nearest is Kiwanis Outdoor Pool Washroom, 375 Cedarvale Ave, 930 m away.
Is there child care near O'Connor & Binswood?
Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 245 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Lily's House Inc. (459 m, 15 spaces), Plains Road Child Care Inc. (688 m, 174 spaces) and Centennial College East York Day Care (Plains Rd) (822 m, 56 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near O'Connor & Binswood?
Four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 388 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1501 Woodbine Ave (667 m, 304 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 611 Cosburn Ave (697 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 1430 Woodbine Ave (742 m, 61 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 831 Cosburn Ave (854 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 81). The average RentSafeTO score across the 4 is 89 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at O'Connor & Binswood?
Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Old East York page.
What neighbourhood is O'Connor & Binswood in?
O'Connor & Binswood is in Old East York (City of Toronto neighbourhood 058). It is in Ward 19, Beaches-East York, represented by Councillor Brad Bradford.
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 Nov 4, 2021.
- 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; Traffic Calming Database.
- 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.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (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 Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 19 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: 43.69860, -79.32552 · centreline node 13458210.