Map
Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time. Steeles Avenue is the city limit: the north side is Vaughan or Markham and outside Toronto's records
Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume14-hour count · Jan 28, 2025
This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 9,824 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 2,957 from the south. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,756 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,803 from 4:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 21 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.
Peak hours: 1,756 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,803 from 4:30 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 2023, with 28 collisions; 2025 recorded 14. 10 collisions (16%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 6% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 9 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 10, 2026.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 64 | #1711 of 5,519 |
| With an injury | 10 | #1774 of 4,669 |
| Property damage only | 52 | |
| Fail to remain | 4 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| Severity not classified | 2 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 9 | |
| 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.
How fast traffic moves here
On Steeles Ave E between Morningside Ave and Staines Rd, 98 m from the corner, a 7-day count in June 2023 put the average speed at 50 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 62 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 67 km/h or more. That segment carries about 17,500 vehicles a day. Staines Rd between Quietbrook Cres and Rivitt Pl measured slower: 44 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 51 km/h (Aug 2023).
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steeles Ave E · Morningside Ave – Staines Rd · 98 m | Jun 2023 · 7 days | 17,488 | 50 km/h | 62 km/h | 67 km/h |
| Staines Rd · Quietbrook Cres – Rivitt Pl · 207 m | Aug 2023 · 3 days | 6,755 | 44 km/h | 51 km/h | 55 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.
- The crossing
- Signal 1954, activated 2003
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- TTC bus
- 53 nearest 72 m
- Express
- 953
- Blue Night
- 353
- Nearest stops
- 3 surface stops within 300 m — Steeles Ave East at Staines Rd
- Regional
- York Region Transit 002 Milliken at Kirkham Dr / Bousfield Gt633 m · 8 min
- 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.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- none within 2 km
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 3 mapped lots within 500 m, 8 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.
Steeles Avenue is the city limit. Everything on the north side of the street is in Vaughan or Markham and outside every Toronto dataset on this page — the restaurants, shops and services across the road are not counted, on the map or in the score below.
Food, shops and services
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
- Starry Park871 m · 10 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 restaurant or café, a grocery store, a pharmacy, a community centre, a school, licensed child care, 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, and nothing north of Steeles.
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.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Staines & Steeles a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 64 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 Staines & Steeles?
An above-average intersection for traffic. It ranks #888 of 2,438 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.25× the median for a counted intersection.
Is Staines & Steeles a walkable intersection?
Staines & Steeles scores 14 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: 3 stops within 300 m · 3 routes within 1 km; nearest park 0.9 km. The crossing itself: traffic signal. Steeles Avenue is the city limit, so nothing on the north side of the street is counted.
How fast do cars go at Staines & Steeles?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Steeles Ave E between Morningside Ave and Staines Rd (June 2023), found an average of 50 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 62 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Staines & Steeles?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 8 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 2,210 spaces — 3 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Staines & Steeles by transit?
Bus routes 53, 953 within 1 km (nearest stop: Steeles Ave East at Staines Rd, 72 m); York Region Transit route 002 Milliken at Kirkham Dr / Bousfield Gt.
What neighbourhood is Staines & Steeles in?
Staines & Steeles is in Morningside Heights (City of Toronto neighbourhood 144). 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
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Jan 28, 2025.
- 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.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 23 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: 43.84104, -79.23222 · centreline node 14630472.