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Steeles & Firebrace

Steeles Ave E & Firebrace Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Ward 22, Scarborough-Agincourt

In Toronto, Steeles & Firebrace is a heavily travelled arterial crossing. Nearby is 10 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
22,297
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 31, 2023
116 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
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 · #1375 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
5 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 8-hour count works out to close to 2,790 vehicles, 2.4× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 192 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13).

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Steeles & Firebrace

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
53167681724 nearest 26 m
Express
953968924
Blue Night
353324
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Steeles Ave East at Firebrace Rd; Steeles Ave East at Firebrace Rd West Side
Regional
York Region Transit 002 Milliken024 Woodbine at Victoria Park Av / Steeles Av773 m
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 (11)
  • St Henry Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 578 m
  • Terry Fox Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • Covenant Central AcademyPrivate · 1.1 km
  • William Academy Scarborough CampusPrivate · 1.2 km
  • Dr Norman Bethune Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • Queen's Elite Academy of CanadaPrivate · 1.2 km
  • and 5 more
Parks (4)
  • Bamburgh Park437 m
  • Terry Fox Park1 km
  • Huntsmill Park1 km
  • Fundy Bay Park1.4 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Steeles branch818 m
Signal
1618, activated 1990 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 22 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is San Marcos Place, 678 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in October 2025.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 22 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 3 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
San Marcos Place · 15 Glendinning Ave678 mPassed, Oct 2025
Daango Sweets Inc · 1 Glendinning Ave Unit-19685 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 2 infractions
Subway · 1 Glendinning Ave Unit-7a685 mPassed, May 2026
McDonald's · 395 Bamburgh Crcl710 mPassed, Aug 2026
Pizza Nova · 395 Bamburgh Crcl Unit-103710 mPassed, Jan 2026
Popeyes · 395 Bamburgh Crcl, Unit-D102710 mPassed, Jul 2025
Monkey Sushi (Central Kitchen) · 1 Glendinning Ave 19750 mPassed, Jul 2026
Popeye's · 395 Bamburgh Crcl D102757 mPassed, Feb 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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 479 m away at Bamburgh Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Bamburgh Park drinking fountain · 479 m

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

Three licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 146 spaces; one accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Kreative Kids Child Care Centre (578 m, 69 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km3 centres · 146 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 3
  • Kreative Kids Child Care Centre · 100 Bamburgh Cir
    69 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    578 m
  • Narmer Montessori School · 41 Glendinning Ave
    18 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    673 m
  • Agile Innovators Montessori · 390 Bamburgh Cir
    59 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    681 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 241 (791 m) and the nearest ambulance station 2.5 km away.

FireFire Station 241 · 791 m3325 Warden Ave
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 24 · 2.5 km3061 Birchmount 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

Within a kilometre there is one RentSafeTO-registered apartment building — 332 rental units. The nearest is 125 Bamburgh Crcl (745 m, 332 units, 20 storeys, built 1978), which scored 90 out of 100 at its October 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation.

Registered buildings1 · 332 units
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20260 across the 1
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
125 Bamburgh Crcl · Sterling Karamar Property Management33220197890 · Oct 20240745 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 lots108 lots · ≈29,950 spaces · 89.8 ha
Within 500 m0 lots · ≈0 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 518 m away, ≈123 spaces; 538 m away, ≈63 spaces; 572 m away, ≈24 spaces; 585 m away, ≈425 spaces; 609 m away, ≈58 spaces; 658 m away, ≈1,004 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 — 8-hour, Jan 31, 2023

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 11,071 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 50% of the total, against 102 from the north. Evening rush dominates here: 3,535 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 2,758 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 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2023, 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.

From the north102southbound · 0 bikes · 3.9% heavy
From the west10,327eastbound · 0 bikes · 4.2% heavy
Total vehicles22,297116 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 4.1% heavy
From the east11,071westbound · 0 bikes · 4.2% heavy
From the south797northbound · 0 bikes · 0.5% heavy
AM peak hour2,758 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour3,535 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jan 31, 2023

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 Firebrace Rd and Walkway E of Firebrace and S of Steeles (32 m away, Apr 2014) recorded volume only — about 27,246 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Steeles Ave E · Firebrace Rd – Walkway E of Firebrace and S of Steeles · 32 mApr 2014 · 3 days27,246
Firebrace Rd · Glencoyne Cres – Steeles Ave E · 38 mJun 2016 · 3 days4,948

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. 1 motorcyclist was among those hurt. It happened in darkness. The most recent was on Oct 1, 2018.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1375 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
In darkness1
All KSI since 20061latest Oct 1, 2018

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Steeles & Firebrace a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1375 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 Steeles & Firebrace?

A heavily travelled arterial crossing. Its latest count is from Jan 31, 2023, 2.4× the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Steeles & Firebrace?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 108 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 29,950 spaces — none within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Steeles & Firebrace by transit?

Bus routes 53, 167, 68, 17, 24, 953, 968, 924 within 1 km (nearest stop: Steeles Ave East at Firebrace Rd, 26 m); York Region Transit routes 002 Milliken, 024 Woodbine at Victoria Park Av / Steeles Av.

What restaurants are near Steeles & Firebrace?

None within 300 m, and 22 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are San Marcos Place (678 m), Daango Sweets Inc (685 m), Subway (685 m), McDonald's (710 m) and Pizza Nova (710 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 Steeles & Firebrace?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 479 m away at Bamburgh Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near Steeles & Firebrace?

Three licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 146 spaces in total; 1 accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Kreative Kids Child Care Centre (578 m, 69 spaces), Narmer Montessori School (673 m, 18 spaces) and Agile Innovators Montessori (681 m, 59 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Steeles & Firebrace?

One RentSafeTO-registered apartment building with 332 rental units is within 1 km. The nearest is 125 Bamburgh Crcl (745 m, 332 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 1 is 90 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.

What ward is Steeles & Firebrace in?

Steeles & Firebrace is in Ward 22, Scarborough-Agincourt, represented by Councillor Nick Mantas.

Sources

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