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Starspray & Rouge Hills

Starspray Blvd & Rouge Hills Dr · Toronto, Ontario · West Rouge · Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park

In West Rouge, Starspray & Rouge Hills is a lightly travelled intersection. At the corner: parks. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
1,220
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 17, 2023
104 pedestrians · 48 cyclists
Collisions
2
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
0
TTC stops within 100 m
3 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
13/100
city median 48
1 place to eat within 1 km

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Starspray & Rouge Hills

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 · Oct 17, 2023

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 569 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 47% of the total, against 269 from the west. Most cyclists arrived from the south (31 of 48). Evening rush dominates here: 142 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 93 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north569southbound · 8 bikes · 3.2% heavy
From the west269eastbound · 9 bikes · 5.6% heavy
Total vehicles1,220104 pedestrians · 48 cyclists · 4.1% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south382northbound · 31 bikes · 4.5% heavy

Peak hours: 93 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 142 from 5:00 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 2024, with 1 collision; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 50% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Apr 15, 2024.

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions2
With an injury0
Property damage only2
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

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 Rouge Hills Dr between Starspray Blvd and Taylor Rd, 96 m from the corner, a 3-day count in October 2023 put the average speed at 40 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 1,300 vehicles a day. Starspray Blvd between Clearlake Ave and West Rouge Park Trl measured slower: 36 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 45 km/h (Jun 2024).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Starspray Blvd · Clearlake Ave – West Rouge Park Trl · 90 mJun 2024 · 3 days73436 km/h45 km/h49 km/h
Rouge Hills Dr · Starspray Blvd – Taylor Rd · 96 mOct 2023 · 3 days1,25640 km/h48 km/h53 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

TTC bus
54 nearest 673 m · 8 min
Express
954
Blue Night
354
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Starspray Blvd / Lawrence Ave E 686 m · 8 min · 19 docks · 1 station, 19 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
none recorded nearby
Other lots
1 mapped lot within 500 m, 26 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 listed within a kilometre of this corner. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 1 eating place is within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Inspo & Gingerbread, 828 m away. No pharmacy in the Ministry of Health's register is within a kilometre of this corner. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: Birdsilver Gardens Senior Support Centre, a retirement home 663 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Inspo & Gingerbread · 5 Bornholm Dr828 m · 10 min
0 within 300 m · 1 within 1 km
Washrooms
  • West Rouge Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed · accessible143 m
Drinking water: West Rouge Park 292 m · 3 min (off)
Health and care
  • Birdsilver Gardens Senior Support Centre · retirement home663 m · 8 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
  • West Rouge Park197 m
  • Kirkdene Park1.5 km · 18 min
Community centres
Schools
  • West Rouge Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.3 km · 15 min
Places of interest
  • Rouge Beach ParkNature/ 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 grocery store, a pharmacy, licensed child care or a library.

13of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food1/30

    1 within 1 km

  • Transit2/28

    3 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go1/14

    1 place of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation8/10

    1 park within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care1/8

    nearest school 1.3 km

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

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.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.

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 West Rouge.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Starspray & Rouge Hills a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 2 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 Starspray & Rouge Hills?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 17, 2023, 8% of the median for a counted intersection.

Is Starspray & Rouge Hills a walkable intersection?

Starspray & Rouge Hills scores 13 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 · 1 community centre within 800 m; nearest school 1.3 km; 3 routes within 1 km.

How fast do cars go at Starspray & Rouge Hills?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Rouge Hills Dr between Starspray Blvd and Taylor Rd (October 2023), found an average of 40 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 Starspray & Rouge Hills?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 26 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 2,680 spaces — 1 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Starspray & Rouge Hills by transit?

Bus routes 54, 954 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Starspray & Rouge Hills?

None within 300 m, and 1 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Inspo & Gingerbread (828 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Starspray & Rouge Hills?

The nearest is West Rouge Community Centre Washroom, 270 Rouge Hills Dr, 143 m away, with an accessible washroom.

What neighbourhood is Starspray & Rouge Hills in?

Starspray & Rouge Hills is in West Rouge (City of Toronto neighbourhood 143). It is in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park, represented by Councillor Neethan Shan.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined