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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 · Apr 21, 2022
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 171 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 42% of the total, against 88 from the west. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 69 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 19% above the afternoon peak from 2:00 p.m. (58). Heavy vehicles made up 2.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 5 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: 69 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 58 from 2:00 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 worst year was 2021, with 1 collision; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 100% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Nov 8, 2021.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 1 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 0 | |
| Fail to remain | 1 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 1 | |
| 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.
Speeds here, last measured in 2020
On Evanston Dr between Barksdale Ave and Purdon Dr, 93 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in November 2009 put the average speed at 38 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 48 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 53 km/h or more. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. The reading is 17 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Purdon Dr between Garthdale Crt and Hyfan Crt measured slower: 35 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 44 km/h (Jan 2020) — a much more recent reading than the one above. 6 speed humps slow traffic on Purdon Drive between Wilmington Ave and Evanston Dr.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evanston Dr · Barksdale Ave – Purdon Dr · 93 m | Nov 2009 · 24 h | 636 | 38 km/h | 48 km/h | 53 km/h |
| Purdon Dr · Garthdale Crt – Hyfan Crt · 269 m | Jan 2020 · 3 days | 398 | 35 km/h | 44 km/h | 51 km/h |
- Traffic calming
- Purdon Drive (Wilmington Ave – Evanston Dr): 6 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.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- TTC bus
- 104 105 36 nearest 491 m · 6 min
- Blue Night
- 329 336
- Nearest stops
- no surface stop within 300 m
- Regional
- York Region Transit 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St / Overbrook Pl518 m · 6 min
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Wilmington Ave / Kennard Ave 917 m · 11 min · 11 docks · 2 stations, 30 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
- 1 post-and-ring within 300 m
- Other lots
- 3 mapped lots within 500 m, 165 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
No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Yummy Market, 896 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 14 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is E Lemonis, 361 m away. The nearest pharmacy is York Downs Chemists, 863 m away; 2 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Branson Ambulatory Care Centre, 2.0 km away. For seniors' housing: 147 Elder Street Inc., a retirement home 1.0 km away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- E Lemonis · 66 Garthdale Crt 2361 m · 4 min
- North American Impex Q/A Prosperity Foods · 4250 Dufferin St, Unit-B688 m · 8 min
- Subway · 1123 Lodestar Rd692 m · 8 min
- Sunset Grill · 1123 Lodestar Rd692 m · 8 min
- King Kone Ice Cream Best Treats · 144 Clifton Ave692 m · 8 min
- Grocery
- Yummy Market 896 m · 11 min
- Pharmacy
- York Downs Chemists 863 m · 10 min · 2 within 1 km
- Child care
- Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre · 30 spaces, school age · fee subsidy620 m · 7 min
- Gan Chabad Preschool · 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day668 m · 8 min
- Wilmington Best Child Care Centre · 171 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day748 m · 9 min
- Health and care
- Branson Ambulatory Care Centre · hospital site2 km · 23 min
- 147 Elder Street Inc. · retirement home1 km · 12 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 (6)
- Garthdale Parkette269 m · 3 min
- Kennard Parkette818 m · 10 min
- Bayhampton Parkette835 m · 10 min
- Irving W. Chapley Park1 km · 11 min
- West Don Parkland1.2 km · 14 min
- Community centres
- Irving W. Chapley Community Centre887 m · 11 min
- Schools
- Adelfiha's Christian AcademyPrivate · 608 m · 7 min
- Charles H Best Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 620 m · 7 min
- Wilmington Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 748 m · 9 min
- Tanenbaum Chat Wallenberg CampusPrivate · 858 m · 10 min
- Forest Valley Outdoor Education CentreEnglish Public · 1 km · 11 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 library or a public washroom.
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.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
Within a kilometre there are six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 268 rental units — one social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 81 Garthdale Crt (239 m, 10 units, 3 storeys, built 1959), which scored 78 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 Garthdale Crt | 10 | 3 | 1959 | 78 · Aug 2024 | 239 m |
| 229 Pannahill Rd · Sarossa Investments Inc | 12 | 3 | 1950 | 92 · Jun 2025 | 514 m · 6 min |
| 750 Wilson Heights Blvd Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation | 79 | 4 | 1993 | 86 · Aug 2024 | 689 m · 8 min |
| 707 Finch Ave W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc | 150 | 7 | 1964 | 99 · Jul 2026 | 850 m · 10 min |
| 711 Finch Ave W | 0 | 0 | — | — | 901 m · 11 min |
| 118 Overbrook Pl | 17 | 3 | 1960 | 87 · Jun 2025 | 908 m · 11 min |
6 registered buildings · 268 units · 1 social housing · tallest 7 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.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Three thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Apr 2, 2026.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 3 | 1 | 0 | house driveway/garage (3) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 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 Bathurst Manor.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Purdon & Evanston a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 1 lesser collision. 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 Purdon & Evanston?
A low-volume local intersection at the City's last count here, in 2022. Its latest count is from Apr 21, 2022, 4% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Purdon & Evanston a walkable intersection?
Purdon & Evanston scores 21 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 park within 500 m · nearest centre 0.9 km; 1 grocery store within 1 km · 14 within 1 km; nearest school 0.6 km · 3 licensed child cares within 1 km. The crossing itself: traffic calming.
How fast do cars go at Purdon & Evanston?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Evanston Dr between Barksdale Ave and Purdon Dr (November 2009), found an average of 38 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 48 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Purdon & Evanston?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 165 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 33,130 spaces — 3 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Purdon & Evanston by transit?
Bus routes 104, 105, 36 within 1 km; York Region Transit route 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St / Overbrook Pl.
What restaurants are near Purdon & Evanston?
None within 300 m, and 14 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are E Lemonis (361 m), North American Impex Q/A Prosperity Foods (688 m), Subway (692 m), Sunset Grill (692 m) and King Kone Ice Cream Best Treats (692 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there child care near Purdon & Evanston?
Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 250 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre (620 m, 30 spaces), Gan Chabad Preschool (668 m, 49 spaces) and Wilmington Best Child Care Centre (748 m, 171 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Purdon & Evanston?
Six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 268 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 81 Garthdale Crt (239 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 78), 229 Pannahill Rd (514 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 750 Wilson Heights Blvd (689 m, 79 units, RentSafeTO score 86) and 707 Finch Ave W (850 m, 150 units, RentSafeTO score 99). The average RentSafeTO score across the 6 is 88 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Purdon & Evanston?
Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Bathurst Manor page.
What neighbourhood is Purdon & Evanston in?
Purdon & Evanston is in Bathurst Manor (City of Toronto neighbourhood 034). It is in Ward 6, York Centre, represented by Councillor James Pasternak.
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 Apr 21, 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; Traffic Calming Database.
- 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.
- 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 6 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: 43.76417, -79.46302 · centreline node 13448434.