Poplar Plains & St Clair

Traffic volume14-hour count · Oct 18, 2025 · weekend

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. The east leg carries the load — 8,975 westbound vehicles, or 53% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 1,054. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,498 vehicles in the hour from 5:30 p.m., 19% above the morning peak from 9:30 a.m. (1,258). Heavy vehicles made up 1.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count was taken on a Saturday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

Peak hours: 1,258 vehicles in the hour from 9:30 a.m. and 1,498 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

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 3 collisions. 12% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 6% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 12% of collisions here. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Mar 22, 2026.

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

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 Plains Rd between Balmoral Ave and Lynwood Ave (166 m away) recorded an average of 30 km/h in its 3-day count in February 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 38 km/h. That segment carries about 1,400 vehicles a day. 7 speed humps slow traffic on Poplar Plains Road between Boulton Dr and St Clair Ave W.

Traffic calming

Poplar Plains Road (Boulton Dr – St Clair Ave W): 7 speed humps

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.

The crossing

Signal 2454, activated 2019 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal

• Groceries and food9/30

  3 grocery stores within 1 km · 37 within 1 km

• Transit23/28

  St Clair Station 0.9 km · 7 stops within 300 m · 12 routes within 1 km

• Library and places to go6/14

  library 1 km away · 2 places of interest within 1.5 km

• Parks and recreation9/10

  2 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

• Schools and child care7/8

  4 schools within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m

• Crossing on foot8/10

  traffic signal · accessible signals · traffic calming

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.

60 registered apartment buildings with 4,070 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner — 4.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 268 Poplar Plains Rd (55 m, 59 units, 10 storeys, built 1959), which scored 87 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm.

60 registered buildings · 4,070 units · tallest 30 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.

Toronto Police place no thefts from vehicles and eight bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 63% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking.

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 Casa Loma.

• Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Oct 18, 2025.
• 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; Traffic Calming Database.
• Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; 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 12 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: 43.68614, -79.40388 · centreline node 13460681.