Toronto · intersection · signal 1190

Pharmacy & Steeles

Pharmacy Ave & Steeles Ave E · Toronto, Ontario · Steeles

Pharmacy & Steeles is a major arterial intersection. It sits in Steeles. At the corner: an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 7 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
28,387
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 31, 2023
353 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
KSI collisions
3
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
1 fatal · 2 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #92 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
4
TTC stops within 100 m
4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 3,550 vehicles an hour, 3.1× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 80 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13).

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Pharmacy & Steeles

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
167532439 nearest 28 m
Express
953924
Blue Night
353
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m — Pharmacy Ave at Steeles Ave East; Steeles Ave East at Pharmacy Ave
Regional
York Region Transit 002 Milliken014 14th Avenue024 Woodbine at Victoria Park Av / Steeles Av407 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 (12)
  • St Henry Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 777 m
  • Covenant Central AcademyPrivate · 799 m
  • William Academy Scarborough CampusPrivate · 1 km
  • Queen's Elite Academy of CanadaPrivate · 1 km
  • Ut Preparatory Academy Secondary SchoolPrivate · 1.1 km
  • Toronto International College Secondary SchoolPrivate · 1.3 km
  • and 6 more
Parks (2)
  • Bamburgh Park666 m
  • Huntsmill Park1.1 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Steeles branch1.1 km
Signal
1190, activated 1978 · SA1 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · transit priority

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; 19 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 71 within a kilometre. The nearest is Daango Sweets Inc, 619 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 19 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 2 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Daango Sweets Inc · 1 Glendinning Ave Unit-19619 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 2 infractions
Subway · 1 Glendinning Ave Unit-7a619 mPassed, May 2026
San Marcos Place · 15 Glendinning Ave625 mPassed, Oct 2025
Shahi Manjil · 3820 Victoria Park Ave650 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions
Monkey Sushi (Central Kitchen) · 1 Glendinning Ave 19671 mPassed, Jul 2026
Canadian Thai · 3125 Steeles Ave E Unit-B4675 mPassed, Feb 2026
Kung Fu Tea · 3125 Steeles Ave E Unit-B3675 mPassed, May 2026
Tim Hortons · 3389 Steeles Ave E688 mPassed, May 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

No City washroom within 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

Two licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 87 spaces; one accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Narmer Montessori School (640 m, 18 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km2 centres · 87 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 2
  • Narmer Montessori School · 41 Glendinning Ave
    18 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    640 m
  • Kreative Kids Child Care Centre · 100 Bamburgh Cir
    69 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    777 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 241 (1.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.8 km away.

FireFire Station 241 · 1.1 km3325 Warden Ave
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 24 · 2.8 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 (1.0 km, 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 202401 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 lots110 lots · ≈31,450 spaces · 94.3 ha
Within 500 m2 lots · ≈1,060 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 369 m away, ≈1,004 spaces; 449 m away, ≈58 spaces; 552 m away, ≈716 spaces; 586 m away, ≈831 spaces; 611 m away, ≈325 spaces; 634 m away, ≈62 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 — 8-hour, Jan 31, 2023

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 11,160 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 39% of the total, against 3,141 from the south. Evening rush dominates here: 4,556 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 3,828 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2023, 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 north3,650southbound · 0 bikes · 3.2% heavy
From the west10,436eastbound · 0 bikes · 4.3% heavy
Total vehicles28,387353 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 4.0% heavy
From the east11,160westbound · 0 bikes · 4.2% heavy
From the south3,141northbound · 0 bikes · 3.2% heavy
AM peak hour3,828 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour4,556 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jan 31, 2023

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 Steeles Ave E between Pharmacy Ave and Firebrace Rd (184 m away, Apr 2014) recorded volume only — about 58,501 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Steeles Ave E · Pharmacy Ave – Firebrace Rd · 184 mApr 2014 · 3 days58,501
Pharmacy Ave · Gordon Baker Rd – Steeles Ave E · 297 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

Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.

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

Of the three serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025, one was fatal. 2 pedestrians were among those hurt; one collision involved vehicle occupants only. All happened in daylight or lit conditions (citywide, 39% of KSI collisions occur in darkness). 2016 alone accounted for 2 of them. The most recent was on Apr 2, 2017. Going back to 2006, the total is 6.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions3#92 of 1,505
Fatal1#285 of 319
Involving a pedestrian2#94 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness00% here vs 39% citywide
All KSI since 20066latest Apr 2, 2017

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Pharmacy & Steeles a dangerous intersection?

By serious injuries, yes: it ranks #92 of 1,505 for killed-or-seriously-injured collisions in 2016–2025. 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 & Steeles?

A major arterial intersection. Its latest count is from Jan 31, 2023, 3.1× the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Pharmacy & Steeles?

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 31,450 spaces — 2 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Pharmacy & Steeles by transit?

Bus routes 167, 53, 24, 39, 953, 924 within 1 km (nearest stop: Pharmacy Ave at Steeles Ave East, 28 m); York Region Transit routes 002 Milliken, 014 14th Avenue, 024 Woodbine at Victoria Park Av / Steeles Av.

What restaurants are near Pharmacy & Steeles?

None within 300 m, and 19 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Daango Sweets Inc (619 m), Subway (619 m), San Marcos Place (625 m), Shahi Manjil (650 m) and Monkey Sushi (Central Kitchen) (671 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there child care near Pharmacy & Steeles?

Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 87 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Narmer Montessori School (640 m, 18 spaces) and Kreative Kids Child Care Centre (777 m, 69 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Pharmacy & Steeles?

One RentSafeTO-registered apartment building with 332 rental units is within 1 km. The nearest is 125 Bamburgh Crcl (1.0 km, 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.

What neighbourhood is Pharmacy & Steeles in?

Pharmacy & Steeles is in Steeles (City of Toronto neighbourhood 116).

Sources

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