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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 · Oct 20, 2022
The north leg carries the load — 350 southbound vehicles, or 38% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 101. Morning rush is the busier period: 166 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:15 a.m., compared with 141 from 2:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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: 166 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 141 from 2:45 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
2023 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Sep 2, 2023.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 5 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 5 | |
| Fail to remain | 1 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| 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 Poplar Rd between Gardentree St and Waldock St (77 m away) recorded an average of 38 km/h in its 3-day count in April 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 46 km/h. That segment carries about 1,200 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Waldock St (248 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 9,380 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poplar Rd · Gardentree St – Waldock St · 77 m | Apr 2024 · 3 days | 1,243 | 38 km/h | 46 km/h | 52 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Waldock St (westbound), 248 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 22 km/h, 85th percentile 30 km/h; 0.0% at 50 km/h or more. 9,380 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
- 116 12 86 nearest 482 m · 6 min
- Express
- 986
- Blue Night
- 334 386
- Nearest stops
- no surface stop within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Eastview Park 267 m · 3 min · 11 docks · 1 station, 11 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
- 2 mapped lots within 500 m, 142 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 Al Hera Halal Food Mart, 764 m away; 2 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 12 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Danny's Restaurant & Bar, 765 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Guild Clinic Pharmacy, 516 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Danny's Restaurant & Bar · 155 Morningside Ave, Unit-8765 m · 9 min
- Root Health Bar · 4379 Kingston Rd 2865 m · 10 min
- Simi's Kitchen · 4379 Kingston Rd865 m · 10 min
- Afghan BBQ & Pizza · 4379 Kingston Rd Unit-4865 m · 10 min
- Tadka Marun · 4379 Kingston Rd Unit-4 and 5865 m · 10 min
- Grocery
- Al Hera Halal Food Mart 764 m · 9 min · 2 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Jeprimo's Bakeshop 712 m · 8 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Guild Clinic Pharmacy 516 m · 6 min
- Child care
- East Scarb. Boys' & Girls' Club - Eastside Child Care Centre · 110 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day419 m · 5 min
- Waabanong Aboriginal Head Start · 16 spaces, preschool419 m · 5 min
- Eastside Club Day Care · 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day656 m · 8 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
- Eastview Park415 m · 5 min
- Peter Secor Park753 m · 9 min
- Galloway Park903 m · 11 min
- Poplar Park1.1 km · 13 min
- St. Margarets Parkette1.4 km · 17 min
- Schools (7)
- Eastview Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 419 m · 5 min
- Poplar Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 671 m · 8 min
- Maplewood High SchoolEnglish Public · 802 m · 10 min
- Academie Alexandre DumasFrench Public · 1 km · 12 min
- Jack Miner Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 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 community centre, a library, a public washroom or 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.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection 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 | 4 | 1 | 0 | house driveway/garage (3), street/outdoor (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0 | 0 | other (1) |
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 West Hill.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Poplar & Gardentree a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 5 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 Poplar & Gardentree?
A lightly travelled intersection at the City's last count here, in 2022. Its latest count is from Oct 20, 2022, 10% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Poplar & Gardentree a walkable intersection?
Poplar & Gardentree scores 24 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 · 2 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m; 2 grocery stores within 1 km · 12 within 1 km.
How fast do cars go at Poplar & Gardentree?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Poplar Rd between Gardentree St and Waldock St (April 2024), found an average of 38 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 46 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 248 m away (40 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Poplar & Gardentree?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 142 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,630 spaces — 2 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Poplar & Gardentree by transit?
Bus routes 116, 12, 86, 986 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Poplar & Gardentree?
None within 300 m, and 12 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Danny's Restaurant & Bar (765 m), Root Health Bar (865 m), Simi's Kitchen (865 m), Afghan BBQ & Pizza (865 m) and Tadka Marun (865 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there child care near Poplar & Gardentree?
Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 270 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are East Scarb. Boys' & Girls' Club - Eastside Child Care Centre (419 m, 110 spaces), Waabanong Aboriginal Head Start (419 m, 16 spaces) and Eastside Club Day Care (656 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
How many thefts are reported at Poplar & Gardentree?
Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the West Hill page.
What neighbourhood is Poplar & Gardentree in?
Poplar & Gardentree is in West Hill (City of Toronto neighbourhood 136), 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 Oct 20, 2022.
- 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.
- 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: 43.75794, -79.18760 · centreline node 13448721.