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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 · May 23, 2006
Traffic is heaviest from the east: 297 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 36% of the total, against 141 from the north. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 192 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 25% above the afternoon peak from 4:45 p.m. (153). Heavy vehicles were a negligible share of traffic (0.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 20 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2006, 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: 192 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 153 from 4:45 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
The worst year was 2024, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 17% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Dec 25, 2025.
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 | 6 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 5 | |
| 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 2021
On Columbine Ave between Brookmount Rd and Rainsford Rd, 48 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in September 2010 put the average speed at 32 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 39 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 43 km/h or more. That segment carries about 800 vehicles a day. The reading is 16 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Rainsford Rd between Morrissey Lane and Kingston Rd measured slower: 20 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 28 km/h (Sep 2021) — a much more recent reading than the one above.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbine Ave · Brookmount Rd – Rainsford Rd · 48 m | Sep 2010 · 24 h | 824 | 32 km/h | 39 km/h | 43 km/h |
| Rainsford Rd · Morrissey Lane – Kingston Rd · 126 m | Sep 2021 · 3 days | 499 | 20 km/h | 28 km/h | 32 km/h |
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
- Streetcar
- 503 501 nearest 192 m
- TTC bus
- 92 31 22 nearest 100 m
- Blue Night
- 301 322
- Nearest stops
- 4 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Heyworth Cres / Kingston Rd 492 m · 6 min · 19 docks · 8 stations, 186 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
- 17 car parks · about 1,093 spaces
- EV charging
- 1856 Queen St E. · 379 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 1834 Queen St E (463 m), 166 Woodbine Ave (508 m)
- Bike parking
- 2 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 27 mapped lots within 500 m, 272 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 166 Woodbine Ave · Surface | 439 m | 21 | 46% (Q1 2026) |
| 192 Boardwalk Dr · Surface | 445 m | 24 | 45% (Q1 2026) |
| 116 Joseph Duggan Rd · Surface | 540 m | 24 | 41% (Q1 2026) |
| 118 Sarah Ashbridge Ave · Surface | 624 m | 24 | 40% (Q1 2026) |
| 116 Winners Crcl · Surface | 740 m | 10 | 52% (Q1 2026) |
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 Bruno's Fine Foods, 434 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 55 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Ichiban Sushi, 329 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Woods Drug Store, 355 m away; 4 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. Woodgreen Communtiy Centre Epc runs a seniors' active living programme 917 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Ichiban Sushi · 1864 Queen St E329 m · 4 min
- Sauvignon · 1862 Queen St E331 m · 4 min
- Jugo Juice · 1886b Queen St E None463 m · 6 min
- Delina Restaurant · 1891 Queen St E491 m · 6 min
- Sid's Gourmet Pizza · 66 Kingston Rd507 m · 6 min
- Grocery
- Bruno's Fine Foods 434 m · 5 min · 4 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Cobs Bread 877 m · 10 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Woods Drug Store 355 m · 4 min · 4 within 1 km
- Child care
- Brightpath Academy - the Beach Clubzone · 72 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · $10-a-day585 m · 7 min
- Brightpath Academy - the Beach · 111 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day608 m · 7 min
- Norway School Age YMCA · 99 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day687 m · 8 min
- Washrooms
- Donald D. Summerville Olympic Outdoor Pool Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible905 m · 11 min
- Woodbine Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible1 km · 12 min
- Health and care
- Woodgreen Communtiy Centre Epc · seniors' active living centre917 m · 11 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 (18)
- Jeff Sloan Playground361 m · 4 min
- Edgewood Parkette541 m · 6 min
- Orchard Park676 m · 8 min
- Maughan Crescent Parkette781 m · 9 min
- Measurement Park803 m · 10 min
- Community centres
- Beaches Recreation Centre1 km · 12 min
- Fairmount Park Community Centre1.3 km · 15 min
- Schools (7)
- Academy of Thought and Industry TorontoPrivate · 570 m · 7 min
- Norway Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 687 m · 8 min
- Kew Beach Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 772 m · 9 min
- Boardwalk Montessori SchoolPrivate · 891 m · 11 min
- Glen Ames Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km · 14 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Beaches branch1.1 km · 13 min
- Places of interest
- Kew Gardens ParkNature/ Park · 1.2 km · 15 min
- Woodbine BeachNature/ Park · 1.2 km · 15 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 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.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
Within a kilometre there are 31 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,126 rental units, 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection — six social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 158 Kingston Rd (263 m, 44 units, 4 storeys, built 1960), which scored 87 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 158 Kingston Rd | 44 | 4 | 1960 | 87 · Aug 2026 | 263 m · 3 min |
| 204 Kingston Rd · 204 Kingston Birch Properties Inc | 15 | 3 | 1934 | 92 · Jul 2025 | 283 m · 3 min |
| 98 Elmer Ave Toronto Community Housing · TCH | 36 | 4 | 1955 | 92 · Jun 2024 | 305 m · 4 min |
| 156 Kingston Rd · Firm Capital | 62 | 4 | 1950 | 71 · Aug 2026 | 321 m · 4 min |
| 140 Kingston Rd · Signet Group Inc. | 60 | 4 | 1954 | 95 · Aug 2026 | 342 m · 4 min |
| 419 Woodbine Ave | 11 | 3 | 1960 | 93 · Nov 2025 | 362 m · 4 min |
31 registered buildings · 1,126 units · 6 social housing · tallest 9 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
Four thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on May 16, 2026.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 4 | 1 | 0 | house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (1) |
| 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 The Beaches.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Rainsford & Columbine a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 6 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 Rainsford & Columbine?
A low-volume local intersection at the City's last count here, in 2006. Its latest count is from May 23, 2006, 9% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Rainsford & Columbine a walkable intersection?
Rainsford & Columbine scores 31 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 1 km; 4 stops within 300 m · 7 routes within 1 km; 4 grocery stores within 1 km · 55 within 1 km.
How fast do cars go at Rainsford & Columbine?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Columbine Ave between Brookmount Rd and Rainsford Rd (September 2010), found an average of 32 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 39 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Rainsford & Columbine?
The nearest Green P car park is 166 Woodbine Ave (439 m away, 21 spaces, 46% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 272 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 10,690 spaces — 27 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1856 Queen St E. (379 m).
How do I get to Rainsford & Columbine by transit?
Streetcar routes 503, 501 stop within 1 km, the nearest 192 m away; bus routes 92, 31, 22 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Rainsford & Columbine?
None within 300 m, and 55 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Ichiban Sushi (329 m), Sauvignon (331 m), Jugo Juice (463 m), Delina Restaurant (491 m) and Sid's Gourmet Pizza (507 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Rainsford & Columbine?
The nearest is Donald D. Summerville Olympic Outdoor Pool Washroom, 1867 Lake Shore Blvd E, 905 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Woodbine Park Washroom (1.0 km).
Is there child care near Rainsford & Columbine?
Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 589 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Brightpath Academy - the Beach Clubzone (585 m, 72 spaces), Brightpath Academy - the Beach (608 m, 111 spaces) and Norway School Age YMCA (687 m, 99 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Rainsford & Columbine?
31 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,126 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 158 Kingston Rd (263 m, 44 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 204 Kingston Rd (283 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 98 Elmer Ave (305 m, 36 units, RentSafeTO score 92) and 156 Kingston Rd (321 m, 62 units, RentSafeTO score 71). The average RentSafeTO score across the 31 is 92 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Rainsford & Columbine?
Toronto Police place four 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 The Beaches page.
What neighbourhood is Rainsford & Columbine in?
Rainsford & Columbine is in The Beaches (City of Toronto neighbourhood 063). It is in Ward 19, Beaches-East York, represented by Councillor Brad Bradford.
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 May 23, 2006.
- 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.
- 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 19 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: 43.67152, -79.30815 · centreline node 13463050.