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Progress & Orchid Place

Progress Ave & Orchid Place Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Malvern East · Ward 23, Scarborough North

Progress & Orchid Place is a moderately travelled crossing. It sits in Malvern East. At the corner: parks. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
11,590
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jun 23, 2026
1,193 pedestrians · 114 cyclists · #1588 busiest
Collisions
22
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 16 property damage · #3297 of 5,508 · +5 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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 830 vehicles an hour over its 14-hour span, 72% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 10 vehicles, close to the citywide median. That comes with about 2.2 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 1.9 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Collisions fell 31%, from 13 in 2016–2020 to 9 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Progress & Orchid Place

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
13485102132131 nearest 79 m
Express
985902903
Blue Night
385
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Progress Ave at Sheppard Ave East South Side; Progress Ave at Sheppard Ave East
Regional
Durham Region Transit 920 Route 920921 Route 921 at Progress Northbound @ Milner Avenue404 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 (16)
  • Vedic RootsPrivate · 465 m
  • Burrows Hall Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 468 m
  • Malvern Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 487 m
  • St Barnabas Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 633 m
  • Islamic Foundation SchoolPrivate · 760 m
  • Gibraltar Leadership Academy SchoolPrivate · 828 m
  • and 10 more
Community centres
Parks (7)
  • Cynthia Lai Park84 m
  • Pinetree Park639 m
  • Burrows Hall Park645 m
  • Berner Trail Park1.2 km
  • Major Abbas Ali Park1.3 km
  • Woburn Park - Scarborough1.5 km
  • and 1 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Burrows Hall branch56 m
Places of interest
  • Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater TorontoAttraction · 109 m

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 1 eating place within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 30. The nearest is Tim Hortons, 281 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in January 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés1 within 300 m · 30 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 5 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Al-Nour Halal Meat and Grocery · 5650 Sheppard Ave E, Unit-1grocery180 mPassed, Sep 2025 · 1 infraction
Al-Nour Halal Meat and Grocery · 5650 Sheppard Ave E Unit-1grocery180 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Tim Hortons · 1641 Markham Rd281 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 1 infraction
Madurai Pandiyas · 5780 Sheppard Ave E307 mPassed, Aug 2026
New Spiceland Super Market · 5790 Sheppard Ave Egrocery342 mPassed, Jun 2026
Popular Pizza · 5790 Sheppard Ave E342 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions
Markham Station · 5117 Sheppard Ave E376 mPassed, Jan 2026
KFC · 5109 Sheppard Ave E408 mPassed, Apr 2025

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

The nearest public washroom is Burrows Hall Community Centre Washroom, 63 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 151 m away at Cynthia Lai Park.

  • Burrows Hall Community Centre Washroom · 1081 Progress Ave
    View centre hours
    63 m
Drinking water
Cynthia Lai Park drinking fountain · 151 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

Four licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 359 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Sheppard Square Day Nursery (216 m, 118 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, school age).

Within 1 km4 centres · 359 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 4
  • Sheppard Square Day Nursery · 5600 Sheppard Ave E
    118 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    216 m
  • Kimbercroft Day Nursery 2 · 39 Kimbercroft Crt
    78 spaces · preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    394 m
  • Family Day St Barnabas Child Care Centre · 30 Washburn Way
    105 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    634 m
  • Montessori Villa Wisdom Inc. · 231 Milner Ave
    58 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day
    643 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 213 (718 m), the nearest police station 42 Division (640 m) and the nearest ambulance station 2.3 km away.

FireFire Station 213 · 718 m7 Lapsley Rd
Police42 Division · 640 m242 Milner Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 29 · 2.3 km4560 Sheppard Ave E

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 are three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 364 rental units — one social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 5600 Sheppard Ave E (216 m, 120 units, 10 storeys, built 1970), which scored 94 out of 100 at its October 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 94, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 16 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings3 · 364 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score94 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202616 across the 3
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest10 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
5600 Sheppard Ave E · Signet Group Inc.12010197094 · Oct 202415 · 1 fire216 m
30 Kimbercroft Crt · Davpart Inc948198090 · Oct 20241444 m
221 Milner Avesocial housing15010198297 · Oct 20250734 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 lots253 lots · ≈96,200 spaces · 288.6 ha
Within 500 m34 lots · ≈2,920 spaces
Green P (public)2 car parks · about 116 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1530 Markham Road - minor capital repairs onsite · Surface526 m24 *
284 Milner Ave · Surface554 m9218% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 52 m away, ≈183 spaces; 79 m away, ≈25 spaces; 164 m away, ≈49 spaces; 170 m away, ≈26 spaces; 176 m away, ≈3 spaces; 203 m away, ≈52 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, Jun 23, 2026

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 6,392 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 55% of the total, against 507 from the east. Most cyclists arrived from the south (49 of 114). Evening rush dominates here: 1,290 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:30 p.m., against 981 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north6,392southbound · 47 bikes · 3.1% heavy
From the west574eastbound · 11 bikes · 2.3% heavy
Total vehicles11,5901,193 pedestrians · 114 cyclists · 3.3% heavy
From the east507westbound · 7 bikes · 1.6% heavy
From the south4,117northbound · 49 bikes · 3.9% heavy
AM peak hour981 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour1,290 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Jun 23, 2026

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

On Progress Ave between Rosebank Dr and Orchid Place Dr, 68 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in November 2005 put the average speed at 52 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 59 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 68 km/h or more. That segment carries about 9,800 vehicles a day. The reading is 21 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Progress Ave · Rosebank Dr – Orchid Place Dr · 68 mNov 2005 · 24 h9,81852 km/h59 km/h68 km/h

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 2019, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 2 collisions (9%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 27% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 5 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 25, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 1.9 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions22#3297 of 5,508
With an injury2#3902 of 4,660
Property damage only16
Fail to remain6
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
Since January 2026 (outside the window)5
All since 201428latest Apr 25, 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

25 thefts from vehicles and two bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 4.5× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 4 in 2023–2025, about 1.3 a year, against 3.3 a year before that. 96% 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 vehicle2520street/outdoor (24), apartment parking (1)
Bicycle theft220other (1), transit property (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 11, 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 Malvern East.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Progress & Orchid Place a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 22 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 Progress & Orchid Place?

A moderately travelled crossing. It ranks #1588 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 72% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Progress & Orchid Place?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Progress Ave between Rosebank Dr and Orchid Place Dr (November 2005), found an average of 52 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 59 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Progress & Orchid Place?

The nearest Green P car park is 1530 Markham Road - minor capital repairs onsite (526 m away, 24 spaces). The City's mapping shows 253 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 96,200 spaces — 34 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Progress & Orchid Place by transit?

Bus routes 134, 85, 102, 132, 131, 985, 902, 903 within 1 km (nearest stop: Progress Ave at Sheppard Ave East South Side, 79 m); Durham Region Transit routes 920 Route 920, 921 Route 921 at Progress Northbound @ Milner Avenue.

What restaurants are near Progress & Orchid Place?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 30 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Tim Hortons (281 m), Madurai Pandiyas (307 m), Popular Pizza (342 m), Markham Station (376 m) and KFC (408 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 Progress & Orchid Place?

The nearest is Burrows Hall Community Centre Washroom, 1081 Progress Ave, 63 m away (View centre hours). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Progress & Orchid Place?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 359 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Sheppard Square Day Nursery (216 m, 118 spaces), Kimbercroft Day Nursery 2 (394 m, 78 spaces) and Family Day St Barnabas Child Care Centre (634 m, 105 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Progress & Orchid Place?

Three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 364 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 5600 Sheppard Ave E (216 m, 120 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 30 Kimbercroft Crt (444 m, 94 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 221 Milner Ave (734 m, 150 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 3 is 94 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 Progress & Orchid Place?

Toronto Police place 25 thefts from vehicles and two 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 Malvern East page.

What neighbourhood is Progress & Orchid Place in?

Progress & Orchid Place is in Malvern East (City of Toronto neighbourhood 146). It is in Ward 23, Scarborough North, represented by Councillor Jamaal Myers.

Sources

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