Toronto · intersection · signal 1924

O'Connor & Taylor

O'Connor Dr & Taylor Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Old East York · Ward 19, Beaches-East York

O'Connor & Taylor, in Old East York, is a moderately heavy crossing. Nearby is 8 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
16,176
vehicles · 8-hour count, Aug 17, 2010
213 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
26
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
7 with an injury · 17 property damage · #3033 of 5,508
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
7 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 8-hour count works out to close to 2,020 vehicles, 1.75× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 76 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 2.6 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 27%, from 15 in 2016–2020 to 11 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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O'Connor & Taylor

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
87091938740462 nearest 23 m
Blue Night
322
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — O'connor Dr at Taylor Dr; O'connor Dr at Glebemount Ave East Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Woodbine Ave / O'Connor Dr 389 m · 19 docks · 6 stations, 98 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 (15)
  • Canadian Martyrs Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 357 m
  • East York Alternative Secondary SchoolEnglish Public · 469 m
  • East York Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 550 m
  • Parkside Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 590 m
  • Diefenbaker Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 782 m
  • Cosburn Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 796 m
  • and 9 more
Community centres
Parks (16)
  • Cullen Bryant Park400 m
  • Duncan C. Little Park640 m
  • Stan Wadlow Park773 m
  • Coxwell Ravine Park827 m
  • Les Anthony Parkette845 m
  • Cosburn Park862 m
  • and 10 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library S. Walter Stewart branch906 m
Signal
1924, activated 2001 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

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; 32 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 465 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2024.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 32 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 8 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Shoppers Drug Mart · 1500 Woodbine Avegrocery355 mPassed, Sep 2025
Circle K · 561 O'connor Drgrocery465 mPassed, Sep 2025
Tim Hortons · 561 O'connor Dr465 mPassed, Jul 2024
Butter Chicken Roti · 1041 Coxwell Ave466 mPassed, Sep 2026 · 3 infractions
Yaya's · 1027 Coxwell Ave468 mPassed, Feb 2026
Lucky Elinext Mart · 1021 Coxwell Ave472 mPassed, Jul 2024
Free Topping Pizza · 1015 Coxwell Ave472 mPassed, Sep 2026 · 3 infractions
Coxwell Milk Convenience · 1011 Coxwell Avegrocery473 mPassed, Mar 2025

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 Kiwanis Outdoor Pool Washroom, 610 m away, View outdoor pool hours.

  • Kiwanis Outdoor Pool Washroom · 375 Cedarvale Ave
    View outdoor pool hours
    610 m
  • Stan Wadlow Park Washroom · 888 Cosburn Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    694 m
  • East York Civic Centre · 850 Coxwell Avenue
    Mon-Fri 8:30am-6:00pm, Sat-Sun Closed · 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 302 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Plains Road Child Care Inc. (357 m, 174 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km4 centres · 302 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 4
  • Plains Road Child Care Inc. · 520 Plains Rd
    174 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    357 m
  • Lily's House Inc. · 1032 Coxwell Ave
    15 spaces · toddler · $10-a-day
    523 m
  • Centennial College East York Day Care (Plains Rd) · 175 Plains Rd
    56 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    782 m
  • Centennial College Early Childhood Education Centre(550 Mortimer) · 550 Mortimer Ave
    57 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · 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 224 (709 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (3.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.7 km away.

FireFire Station 224 · 709 m1313 Woodbine Ave
Police55 Division · 3.4 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 46 · 1.7 km105 Cedarvale Ave

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 are five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 588 rental units — two social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1430 Woodbine Ave (392 m, 61 units, 6 storeys, built 1992), which scored 96 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 32 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 11 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings5 · 588 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202632 across the 5
Open fire-code violations11
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1430 Woodbine Avesocial housing616199296 · Aug 20260392 m
1501 Woodbine Ave · Metcap Living Management Inc30420196893 · Jul 202629 · 11 fire460 m
831 Cosburn Ave113195081 · Sep 20240523 m
611 Cosburn Ave123195185 · Sep 20240616 m
9 Haldon AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation2006196296 · Jul 202631 km

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 lots405 lots · ≈25,030 spaces · 75.1 ha
Within 500 m8 lots · ≈480 spaces
Green P (public)6 car parks · about 167 spaces
EV charging (City)543 Strathmore Blvd · 1.6 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
850 Coxwell Ave · Surface1 km1862% (Q1 2026)
1612 Danforth Ave · Surface1.7 km2275% (Q1 2026)
101 Cedarvale Ave · Surface1.7 km3550% (Q1 2026)
737 Rhodes Ave · Surface1.8 km2450% (Q1 2026)
72 Amroth Ave · Surface1.8 km5050% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 312 m away, ≈22 spaces; 349 m away, ≈333 spaces; 431 m away, ≈5 spaces; 459 m away, ≈22 spaces; 461 m away, ≈36 spaces; 467 m away, ≈28 spaces. More EV charging: 1612 Danforth Ave. (1.7 km, 2 ports); 31 Roseheath Ave (2 km, 2 ports).

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, Aug 17, 2010

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 8,235 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 100 from the south. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,260 vehicles in the hour from 7:30 a.m. and 2,341 from 4:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 16 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2010, 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 north122southbound · 0 bikes · 1.6% heavy
From the west7,719eastbound · 0 bikes · 3.9% heavy
Total vehicles16,176213 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 4.1% heavy
From the east8,235westbound · 0 bikes · 4.4% heavy
From the south100northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour2,260 vehicles from 7:30 a.m.
PM peak hour2,341 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Aug 17, 2010

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 O'Connor Dr between Woodmount Ave and Woodbine Ave (282 m away, Oct 2014) recorded volume only — about 16,696 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
O'Connor Dr · Woodmount Ave – Woodbine Ave · 282 mOct 2014 · 7 days16,696

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 5 collisions. 7 collisions (27%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 8% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Nov 13, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions26#3033 of 5,508
With an injury7#2291 of 4,660
Property damage only17
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 201429latest Nov 13, 2025

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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 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

Four thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle400house driveway/garage (3), other (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 14, 2020. 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 & Taylor a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 26 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 & Taylor?

A moderately heavy crossing. Its latest count is from Aug 17, 2010, 1.75× the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near O'Connor & Taylor?

The nearest Green P car park is 850 Coxwell Ave (1.0 km away, 18 spaces, 62% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 405 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 25,030 spaces — 8 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 543 Strathmore Blvd (1.6 km).

How do I get to O'Connor & Taylor by transit?

Bus routes 8, 70, 91, 93, 87, 404, 62 within 1 km (nearest stop: O'connor Dr at Taylor Dr, 23 m).

What restaurants are near O'Connor & Taylor?

None within 300 m, and 32 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Tim Hortons (465 m), Butter Chicken Roti (466 m), Yaya's (468 m), Lucky Elinext Mart (472 m) and Free Topping Pizza (472 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 O'Connor & Taylor?

The nearest is Kiwanis Outdoor Pool Washroom, 375 Cedarvale Ave, 610 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: Stan Wadlow Park Washroom (694 m); East York Civic Centre (1.0 km). 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 O'Connor & Taylor?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 302 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Plains Road Child Care Inc. (357 m, 174 spaces), Lily's House Inc. (523 m, 15 spaces) and Centennial College East York Day Care (Plains Rd) (782 m, 56 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near O'Connor & Taylor?

Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 588 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1430 Woodbine Ave (392 m, 61 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 1501 Woodbine Ave (460 m, 304 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 831 Cosburn Ave (523 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 81) and 611 Cosburn Ave (616 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 85). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 is 90 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 O'Connor & Taylor?

Toronto Police place four 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 Old East York page.

What neighbourhood is O'Connor & Taylor in?

O'Connor & Taylor 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