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Pharmacy & Gordon Baker

Pharmacy Ave & Gordon Baker Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Steeles · Ward 22, Scarborough-Agincourt

Pharmacy & Gordon Baker, in Steeles, is an intersection of typical volume. Nearby is 10 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
9,658
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 26, 2025
123 pedestrians · 80 cyclists · #1725 busiest
Collisions
49
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 38 property damage · #2097 of 5,508 · +4 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
3
TTC stops within 100 m
6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 690 vehicles an hour, 60% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 79 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 4.9 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 5.1 per 10,000 counted vehicles, in line with the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions fell 37%, from 30 in 2016–2020 to 19 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Pharmacy & Gordon Baker

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
1672439536842 nearest 24 m
Express
924953
Blue Night
353324
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m — Pharmacy Ave at Glendinning Ave; Pharmacy Ave at Gordon Baker Rd
Regional
York Region Transit 024 Woodbine at Victoria Park Av / Gordon Baker Rd414 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
no station 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 (19)
  • William Academy Scarborough CampusPrivate · 456 m
  • St Henry Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 553 m
  • Queen's Elite Academy of CanadaPrivate · 565 m
  • Covenant Central AcademyPrivate · 645 m
  • Ut Preparatory Academy Secondary SchoolPrivate · 710 m
  • Sir Ernest Macmillan Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 722 m
  • and 13 more
Parks (7)
  • Huntsmill Park549 m
  • Bamburgh Park559 m
  • Terry Fox Park1.2 km
  • Candlebrook Crescent Park1.3 km
  • Fundy Bay Park1.3 km
  • Chester Le Park1.4 km
  • and 1 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Steeles branch1 km
Signal
1429, activated 1982 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval East/West

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 4 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 40. The nearest is Daango Sweets Inc, 69 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés4 within 300 m · 40 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 6 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Daango Sweets Inc · 1 Glendinning Ave Unit-1969 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 2 infractions
Subway · 1 Glendinning Ave Unit-7a69 mPassed, May 2026
Monkey Sushi (Central Kitchen) · 1 Glendinning Ave 1981 mPassed, Jul 2026
San Marcos Place · 15 Glendinning Ave93 mPassed, Oct 2025
Huda Restaurant · 4035 Gordon Baker Rd343 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions
Karkumi Cafe · 4033 Gordon Baker Rd343 mPassed, Sep 2026
Archery Circuit · 3791 Victoria Park Ave383 mPassed, May 2026
Shahi Manjil · 3820 Victoria Park Ave427 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions

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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 574 m away at Bamburgh Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Bamburgh Park drinking fountain · 574 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

Six licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 376 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Narmer Montessori School (129 m, 18 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km6 centres · 376 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 6
  • Narmer Montessori School · 41 Glendinning Ave
    18 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    129 m
  • Kreative Kids Child Care Centre · 100 Bamburgh Cir
    69 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    553 m
  • St. Nicholas Child Care Centre - Network · 1020 McNicoll Ave
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    683 m
  • Sir Samuel B Steele Jr YMCA · 131 Huntsmill Blvd
    77 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    746 m

Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 241 (870 m) and the nearest ambulance station 2.3 km away.

FireFire Station 241 · 870 m3325 Warden Ave
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 24 · 2.3 km3061 Birchmount Rd

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 is one RentSafeTO-registered apartment building — 332 rental units. The nearest is 125 Bamburgh Crcl (703 m, 332 units, 20 storeys, built 1978), which scored 90 out of 100 at its October 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation.

Registered buildings1 · 332 units
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20260 across the 1
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
125 Bamburgh Crcl · Sterling Karamar Property Management33220197890 · Oct 20240703 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

All parking lots180 lots · ≈37,040 spaces · 111.1 ha
Within 500 m16 lots · ≈6,010 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 67 m away, ≈168 spaces; 76 m away, ≈114 spaces; 122 m away, ≈62 spaces; 152 m away, ≈716 spaces; 156 m away, ≈58 spaces; 182 m away, ≈790 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, Oct 26, 2025 (a weekend day)

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 4,157 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 43% of the total, against 867 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 944 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:15 p.m., against 612 in the morning peak from 9:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 0.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count was taken on a Sunday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north4,157southbound · 17 bikes · 0.5% heavy
From the west1,355eastbound · 26 bikes · 1.7% heavy
Total vehicles9,658123 pedestrians · 80 cyclists · 0.7% heavy
From the east867westbound · 17 bikes · 0.3% heavy
From the south3,279northbound · 20 bikes · 0.6% heavy
AM peak hour612 vehicles from 9:30 a.m.
PM peak hour944 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Oct 26, 2025 · weekend

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 Glendinning Ave between Pharmacy Ave and Huntsmill Blvd (100 m away, Sep 2009) recorded volume only — about 3,026 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Glendinning Ave · Pharmacy Ave – Huntsmill Blvd · 100 mSep 2009 · 3 days3,026
Gordon Baker Rd · Victoria Park Ave – Pharmacy Ave · 211 mSep 2009 · 3 days4,928
Pharmacy Ave · Gordon Baker Rd – Steeles Ave E · 298 mJun 2016 · 3 days15,233

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 worst year was 2017, with 10 collisions; 2025 recorded 5. 4 collisions (8%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 9 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 18% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (2%), a low share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 16, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 5.1 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions49#2097 of 5,508
With an injury4#2967 of 4,660
Property damage only38
Fail to remain9
Involving a pedestrian1#2523 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist2
With a fatality0
Severity not classified7
Since January 2026 (outside the window)4
All since 201477latest Apr 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

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

13 thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 3 in 2023–2025, about 1.0 a year, against 1.4 a year before that. 69% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1330street/outdoor (9), commercial premises (2)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 17, 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 Steeles.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Pharmacy & Gordon Baker a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 49 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 Pharmacy & Gordon Baker?

An intersection of typical volume. It ranks #1725 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 60% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Pharmacy & Gordon Baker?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 180 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 37,040 spaces — 16 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Pharmacy & Gordon Baker by transit?

Bus routes 167, 24, 39, 53, 68, 42, 924, 953 within 1 km (nearest stop: Pharmacy Ave at Glendinning Ave, 24 m); York Region Transit route 024 Woodbine at Victoria Park Av / Gordon Baker Rd.

What restaurants are near Pharmacy & Gordon Baker?

4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 40 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Daango Sweets Inc (69 m), Subway (69 m), Monkey Sushi (Central Kitchen) (81 m), San Marcos Place (93 m) and Huda Restaurant (343 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 Pharmacy & Gordon Baker?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 574 m away at Bamburgh Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Pharmacy & Gordon Baker?

Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 376 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Narmer Montessori School (129 m, 18 spaces), Kreative Kids Child Care Centre (553 m, 69 spaces) and St. Nicholas Child Care Centre - Network (683 m, 62 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Pharmacy & Gordon Baker?

One RentSafeTO-registered apartment building with 332 rental units is within 1 km. The nearest is 125 Bamburgh Crcl (703 m, 332 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 1 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 Pharmacy & Gordon Baker?

Toronto Police place 13 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 Steeles page.

What neighbourhood is Pharmacy & Gordon Baker in?

Pharmacy & Gordon Baker is in Steeles (City of Toronto neighbourhood 116). It is in Ward 22, Scarborough-Agincourt, represented by Councillor Nick Mantas.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined