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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 volume14-hour count · Mar 6, 2024
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The south leg carries the load — 2,769 northbound vehicles, or 49% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 368. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 606 vehicles in the hour from 5:30 p.m., 8% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (560). Heavy vehicles made up 3.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.
Peak hours: 560 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 606 from 5:30 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
2019 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 36% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 36% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 1, 2026.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 11 | 1.9 a year per 10,000 daily vehicles |
| With an injury | 4 | |
| Property damage only | 4 | |
| Fail to remain | 4 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 3 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 1 | |
| 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.
How fast traffic moves here
The City's counter on Orton Park Rd between Amboy Rd and Thornbeck Dr (111 m away) recorded an average of 47 km/h in its 24-hour count in October 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 53 km/h. That segment carries about 7,700 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Orton Park Rd (122 m away, 30 km/h limit), 72% of the 108,404 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a high share for a school zone.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orton Park Rd · Amboy Rd – Thornbeck Dr · 111 m | Oct 2024 · 24 h | 7,667 | 47 km/h | 53 km/h | 58 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Orton Park Rd (northbound), 122 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 43 km/h, 85th percentile 50 km/h; 72% at 40 km/h or more. 108,404 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
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
- 154 54 nearest 332 m · 4 min
- Express
- 954
- Blue Night
- 354
- Nearest stops
- no surface stop within 300 m
- Cycling
- Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Orton Park Rd installed 2007
- Bike Share
- Brimorton Dr / Orton Park Rd 345 m · 4 min · 11 docks · 2 stations, 26 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
- none within 2 km
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 5 mapped lots within 500 m, 110 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often 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; 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
The nearest grocery store is Simi African Food Market, 861 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 7 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Food Kulture, 375 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Orton Park Pharmacy, 366 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: Extendicare Scarborough, a long-term care home 1.0 km away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Food Kulture · 136 Orton Park Rd, Unit-5375 m · 4 min
- Gas & Grab Mart · 3930 Lawrence Ave E522 m · 6 min
- Tasty Slice Pizza · 3930 Lawrence Ave E, Unit-2523 m · 6 min
- Mahakali Farsan · 3879 Lawrence Ave E811 m · 10 min
- Shiva's Coffee & Snacks · 3867 Lawrence Ave E849 m · 10 min
- Grocery
- Simi African Food Market 861 m · 10 min
- Food shops
- Prem Grocerie Fish & Meat 914 m · 11 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Orton Park Pharmacy 366 m · 4 min
- Child care
- Sandbox Day Care Centre · 92 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day474 m · 6 min
- Lawrence Orton Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 54 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day716 m · 9 min
- Future Stars Child Care Centre · 52 spaces, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day794 m · 9 min
- Health and care
- Extendicare Scarborough · long-term care home1 km · 12 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
- Curran Hall Ravine Park582 m · 7 min
- Botany Hill Park1.1 km · 13 min
- Community centres
- Curran Hall Community Centre1 km · 12 min
- Schools (7)
- George B Little Public SchoolEnglish Public · 317 m · 4 min
- Willow Park Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 14 min
- Golf Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km · 14 min
- Heather Heights Jr & Ben Heppner Vm AcademyEnglish Public · 1.3 km · 15 min
- Tecumseh Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.3 km · 16 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 library or a public washroom.
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
Nine registered apartment buildings with 864 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, five of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 15 Orton Park Rd (475 m, 147 units, 14 storeys, built 1967), which scored 76 out of 100 at its October 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 81, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Orton Park Rd · Uppresideapartments Ltd | 147 | 14 | 1967 | 76 · Oct 2024 | 475 m · 6 min |
| 3939 Lawrence Ave E Toronto Community Housing · Del Managment | 31 | 3 | 1970 | 82 · Oct 2025 | 612 m · 7 min |
| 3941 Lawrence Ave E Toronto Community Housing · Del Management | 33 | 3 | 1970 | 75 · Jul 2026 | 682 m · 8 min |
| 3943 Lawrence Ave E Toronto Community Housing · Del Management | 15 | 3 | 1970 | 87 · Oct 2025 | 695 m · 8 min |
| 3950 Lawrence Ave E · Uperside Apartments Ltd | 164 | 15 | 1967 | 74 · Oct 2024 | 713 m · 8 min |
| 3947 Lawrence Ave E Toronto Community Housing · Del Management | 238 | 19 | 1970 | 94 · Jul 2026 | 717 m · 9 min |
9 registered buildings · 864 units · 5 social housing · tallest 19 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
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. 86% of the vehicle thefts were from house driveways and garages.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 7 | 2 | 0 | house driveway/garage (6), other (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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 Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Orton Park & Thornbeck a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 11 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 Orton Park & Thornbeck?
A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Mar 6, 2024, 35% of the median for a counted intersection.
Is Orton Park & Thornbeck a walkable intersection?
Orton Park & Thornbeck scores 20 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: 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; nearest park 0.6 km · nearest centre 1 km; 1 grocery store within 1 km · 7 within 1 km.
How fast do cars go at Orton Park & Thornbeck?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Orton Park Rd between Amboy Rd and Thornbeck Dr (October 2024), found an average of 47 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 53 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 122 m away (30 km/h), 72% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Orton Park & Thornbeck?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 110 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 10,240 spaces — 5 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Orton Park & Thornbeck by transit?
Bus routes 154, 54, 954 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Orton Park & Thornbeck?
None within 300 m, and 7 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Food Kulture (375 m), Gas & Grab Mart (522 m), Tasty Slice Pizza (523 m), Mahakali Farsan (811 m) and Shiva's Coffee & Snacks (849 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there child care near Orton Park & Thornbeck?
Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 198 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Sandbox Day Care Centre (474 m, 92 spaces), Lawrence Orton Early Learning & Child Care Centre (716 m, 54 spaces) and Future Stars Child Care Centre (794 m, 52 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Orton Park & Thornbeck?
Nine RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 864 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 15 Orton Park Rd (475 m, 147 units, RentSafeTO score 76), 3939 Lawrence Ave E (612 m, 31 units, RentSafeTO score 82), 3941 Lawrence Ave E (682 m, 33 units, RentSafeTO score 75) and 3943 Lawrence Ave E (695 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 87). The average RentSafeTO score across the 9 is 81 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Orton Park & Thornbeck?
Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn page.
What neighbourhood is Orton Park & Thornbeck in?
Orton Park & Thornbeck is in Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn (City of Toronto neighbourhood 141), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 24, Scarborough-Guildwood, represented by Councillor Paul Ainslie.
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 Mar 6, 2024.
- 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; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; 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 24 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: 43.76871, -79.20761 · centreline node 13447219.