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Sewells & Steeles

Sewells Rd & Steeles Ave E · Toronto, Ontario · Morningside Heights · Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park

Sewells & Steeles, in Morningside Heights, is an above-average intersection for traffic.

Traffic volume
16,914
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jul 3, 2024
2 pedestrians · 2 cyclists · #1130 busiest
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 0 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #1325 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
None
no TTC stop within 100 m
no station within 250 m
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 1,210 vehicles, about the citywide median. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 8,457 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13).

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Sewells & Steeles

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Transit
No station, stop or route within 1 km in the TTC, GO, UP Express, VIA Rail or regional feeds.
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
none within 1.5 km
Parks (1)
  • Woodlands Park1 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Restaurants & cafésnone within 1 km
Grocery & conveniencenone within 1 km

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

No City washroom within 1 km.

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

No licensed child care centre within 1 km.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 211 (3.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 3.7 km away.

FireFire Station 211 · 3.7 km900 Tapscott Rd
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 27 · 3.7 km900 Tapscott Rd

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots2 lots · ≈1,600 spaces · 4.8 ha
Within 500 m1 lot · ≈1,230 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 264 m away, ≈1,233 spaces; 1.9 km away, ≈365 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, Jul 3, 2024

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 8,750 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 52% of the total, against 1,622 from the south. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 1,659 vehicles in the hour from 7:15 a.m., 15% above the afternoon peak from 4:30 p.m. (1,439). Heavy vehicles made up 2.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 2 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west6,542eastbound · 1 bikes · 2.3% heavy
Total vehicles16,9142 pedestrians · 2 cyclists · 2.1% heavy
From the east8,750westbound · 0 bikes · 2.2% heavy
From the south1,622northbound · 1 bikes · 1.3% heavy
AM peak hour1,659 vehicles from 7:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,439 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Jul 3, 2024

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 most recent midblock count on Steeles Ave E between Sewells Rd and Reesor Rd (366 m away, Jun 2010) recorded volume only — about 16,532 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Steeles Ave E · Sewells Rd – Reesor Rd · 366 mJun 2010 · 7 days16,532

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

Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.

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

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. It involved vehicle occupants only — no pedestrian or cyclist. It happened in daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Oct 2, 2017.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1325 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness0
All KSI since 20061latest Oct 2, 2017

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.

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Questions

Is Sewells & Steeles a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1325 of 1,505). 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 Sewells & Steeles?

An above-average intersection for traffic. It ranks #1130 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, about the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Sewells & Steeles?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 2 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 1,600 spaces — 1 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

What neighbourhood is Sewells & Steeles in?

Sewells & Steeles is in Morningside Heights (City of Toronto neighbourhood 144). It is in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park, represented by Councillor Neethan Shan.

Sources

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