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Rathburn & Melbert

Rathburn Rd & Melbert Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Eringate-Centennial-West Deane · Ward 2, Etobicoke Centre

Rathburn & Melbert, in Eringate-Centennial-West Deane, is a moderately travelled crossing. It has a school within 250 m and a park at the corner. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
8,355
vehicles · 14-hour count, Aug 19, 2025
316 pedestrians · 89 cyclists · #1825 busiest
Collisions
28
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
3 with an injury · 21 property damage · #2924 of 5,508 · +3 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
3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 600 vehicles, 52% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 26 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 2.8 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 3.4 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. The pace has been steady: 14 collisions in 2016–2020 and 14 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Rathburn & Melbert

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
4811250 nearest 20 m
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m — Rathburn Rd at Melbert Rd; 590 Rathburn Rd
Regional
MiWay 20 Rathburn26 Burnhamthorpe at Burnhamthorpe Rd at Silver Shadow Path1 km
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 (9)
  • Seneca SchoolEnglish Public · 104 m
  • Hollycrest Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 677 m
  • Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 693 m
  • Mill Valley Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 732 m
  • Wellesworth Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 882 m
  • Broadacres Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 889 m
  • and 3 more
Community centres
Parks (11)
  • Carsbrooke Park577 m
  • Elmcrest Park631 m
  • Christ the King Park658 m
  • Centennial Park - Etobicoke841 m
  • Burnhamill Park912 m
  • Wellesworth Park1 km
  • and 5 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Elmbrook Park branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Centennial Park ConservatoryNature/ Park · 459 m
  • Centennial ParkNature/ Park · 802 m

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

There are 5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores, and 11 eating places within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Booster Juice, 215 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés5 within 300 m · 11 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 3 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Booster Juice · 460 Renforth Dr 13215 mPassed, Aug 2026
Domino's Pizza · 460 Renforth Dr 11215 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 2 infractions
Stacked · 460 Renforth Dr Unit-15215 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Steve's No Frills · 460 Renforth Drgrocery215 mPassed, Jul 2026
The Wings Hut · 460 Renforth Dr N14215 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Renforth Fish & Chips · 460 Renforth Drgrocery216 mPassed, Mar 2025
Renforth Smoke and Gift · 460 Renforth Dr216 mPassed, Apr 2024 · 1 infraction
Centannial Park Place · 25 Centennial Park Rd365 mPassed, Jun 2026

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 Etobicoke Olympium Washroom, 139 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 298 m away at Centennial Park - Etobicoke (currently off).

  • Etobicoke Olympium Washroom · 590 Rathburn Rd
    View centre hours
    139 m
  • Centennial Park Etobicoke Picnic Site 1 Washroom · 256 Centennial Park Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Under Construction
    364 m
  • Centennial Park Rob Ford Stadium Accessible Washrooms · 256 Centennial Park Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    420 m
Drinking water
Centennial Park - Etobicoke drinking fountain · 298 m · off; Centennial Park - Etobicoke bottle filling station · 423 m · off

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

Five licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 252 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Wonderkids Daycare (663 m, 24 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km5 centres · 252 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 5
  • Wonderkids Daycare · 475 Rathburn Rd
    24 spaces · preschool
    663 m
  • Plasp Nativity of Our Lord Catholic School · 35 Saffron Cres
    58 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    693 m
  • Mill Valley Child Care (B.f. Toronto Centre) · 411 Mill Rd
    103 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    732 m
  • Wellesworth School Age YMCA · 225 Wellesworth Dr
    43 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    882 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 444 (829 m), the nearest police station 22 Division (4.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 3.4 km away.

FireFire Station 444 · 829 m666 Renforth Dr
Police22 Division · 4.4 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 13 · 3.4 km555 Martin Grove Rd

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

One registered apartment building with 137 rental units stands within a kilometre of the corner — well below the median of 23. The nearest is 2 Triburnham Pl (894 m, 137 units, 10 storeys, built 1964), which scored 94 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation.

Registered buildings1 · 137 units
RentSafeTO score94 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20262 across the 1
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest10 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2 Triburnham Pl · H&r Property Management13710196494 · Aug 20242894 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 lots180 lots · ≈21,040 spaces · 63.1 ha
Within 500 m15 lots · ≈1,960 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 103 m away, ≈196 spaces; 129 m away, ≈80 spaces; 135 m away, ≈54 spaces; 152 m away, ≈829 spaces; 227 m away, ≈4 spaces; 232 m away, ≈273 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, Aug 19, 2025

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. The west leg carries the load — 4,302 eastbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 398. Most cyclists arrived from the east (47 of 89). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,126 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 67% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (676). Heavy vehicles made up 1.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 13 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north0southbound · 2 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west4,302eastbound · 33 bikes · 1.6% heavy
Total vehicles8,355316 pedestrians · 89 cyclists · 1.6% heavy
From the east3,655westbound · 47 bikes · 1.8% heavy
From the south398northbound · 7 bikes · 0.5% heavy
AM peak hour676 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour1,126 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count14-hour · Aug 19, 2025

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

The City's counter on Rathburn Rd between Centennial Park Trl and Elmcrest Park Trl (125 m away) recorded an average of 45 km/h in its 3-day count in November 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 52 km/h. That segment carries about 7,900 vehicles a day. Melbert Rd between Norbert Cres and Warlingham Crt measured slower: 40 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 50 km/h (Aug 2020). At the school-zone speed sign on Rathburn Rd (59 m away, 40 km/h limit), 5.5% of the 29,115 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Rathburn Rd · Centennial Park Trl – Elmcrest Park Trl · 125 mNov 2025 · 3 days7,94645 km/h52 km/h56 km/h
Melbert Rd · Norbert Cres – Warlingham Crt · 305 mAug 2020 · 3 days81440 km/h50 km/h54 km/h

School-zone speed sign 59 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct40 · 46 km/h
Over the limit25%
50 km/h or more5.5%

Rathburn Rd (eastbound), S Side Rathburn Road Approx 50m E of Melbert Rd · 29,115 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 5 collisions. 11% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 14% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 4% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 6, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 3.4 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions28#2924 of 5,508
With an injury3#3431 of 4,660
Property damage only21
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian1#2923 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
All since 201437latest Jun 6, 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

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle400street/outdoor (3), commercial premises (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 19, 2020. 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 Eringate-Centennial-West Deane.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Rathburn & Melbert a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 28 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 Rathburn & Melbert?

A moderately travelled crossing. It ranks #1825 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 52% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Rathburn & Melbert?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Rathburn Rd between Centennial Park Trl and Elmcrest Park Trl (November 2025), found an average of 45 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 52 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 59 m away (40 km/h), 5.5% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Rathburn & Melbert?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 180 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,040 spaces — 15 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Rathburn & Melbert by transit?

Bus routes 48, 112, 50 within 1 km (nearest stop: Rathburn Rd at Melbert Rd, 20 m); MiWay routes 20 Rathburn, 26 Burnhamthorpe at Burnhamthorpe Rd at Silver Shadow Path.

What restaurants are near Rathburn & Melbert?

5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 11 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Booster Juice (215 m), Domino's Pizza (215 m), Stacked (215 m), The Wings Hut (215 m) and Renforth Smoke and Gift (216 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 Rathburn & Melbert?

The nearest is Etobicoke Olympium Washroom, 590 Rathburn Rd, 139 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Centennial Park Etobicoke Picnic Site 1 Washroom (364 m); Centennial Park Rob Ford Stadium Accessible Washrooms (420 m). 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 Rathburn & Melbert?

Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 252 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Wonderkids Daycare (663 m, 24 spaces), Plasp Nativity of Our Lord Catholic School (693 m, 58 spaces) and Mill Valley Child Care (B.f. Toronto Centre) (732 m, 103 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Rathburn & Melbert?

One RentSafeTO-registered apartment building with 137 rental units is within 1 km. The nearest is 2 Triburnham Pl (894 m, 137 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 1 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 Rathburn & Melbert?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and no 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 Eringate-Centennial-West Deane page.

What neighbourhood is Rathburn & Melbert in?

Rathburn & Melbert is in Eringate-Centennial-West Deane (City of Toronto neighbourhood 011). It is in Ward 2, Etobicoke Centre, represented by Councillor Stephen Holyday.

Sources

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