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Steeles & Kelvin Grove

Steeles Ave E & Kelvin Grove Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Ward 22, Scarborough-Agincourt

Steeles & Kelvin Grove, in Toronto, is a busier-than-typical intersection. Nearby is Milliken GO 841 m away and 7 TTC routes within a kilometre. It is among the fifty worst in the city for killed-or-seriously-injured collisions.

Traffic volume
17,519
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jan 31, 2023
248 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
KSI collisions
4
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
1 fatal · 4 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #29 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 2,190 vehicles an hour, 1.89× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 71 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13).

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Steeles & Kelvin Grove

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
Milliken GO — Stouffville841 m
TTC bus
53174357 nearest 24 m
Express
953
Blue Night
353343
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m — Steeles Ave East at Kelvin Grove Ave; Steeles Ave East at Putnam Gate
Regional
York Region Transit 008 Kennedy at Steeles Av / Putnam Gate37 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 (5)
  • Kennedy Public SchoolEnglish Public · 521 m
  • Wales College Secondary SchoolPrivate · 550 m
  • Terry Fox Public SchoolEnglish Public · 899 m
  • Mary Ward Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1 km
  • Dr Norman Bethune Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.3 km
Community centres
  • L'amoreaux Community Recreation Centre1.2 km
Parks (5)
  • Sanwood Park543 m
  • Shepton Way Park874 m
  • Terry Fox Park1.1 km
  • L'amoreaux North Park1.1 km
  • Fundy Bay Park1.4 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Steeles branch1.1 km
Signal
1503, activated 1986 · 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; 29 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Fat Ninja Bite, 470 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 29 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 3 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Fat Ninja Bite · 3517 Kennedy Rd 1470 mPassed, Jun 2026
Nichiban Sushi 4 U · 3517 Kennedy Rd Unit-3470 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
Bejing Tong Ren Tang · 4577 Steeles Ave E503 mPassed, Mar 2025
3477 Bar and Lounge · 3477 Kennedy Rd, Flr-2510 mPassed, Nov 2024
Club Kennedy · 3477 Kennedy Rd Flr-2511 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Embassy Snooker Sport Bar · 3477 Kennedy Rd 2, Unit 1533 mPassed, Aug 2026
Kim Po Vietnamese Cuisine · 58 Redlea Ave560 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 4 infractions
Allan's Pastry Shop Ltd. · 3447 Kennedy Rd 3-4628 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 3 infractions

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

Four licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 234 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Family Day Kennedy Extended Day & School Age Program (520 m, 43 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km4 centres · 234 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 4
  • Family Day Kennedy Extended Day & School Age Program · 20 Elmfield Cres
    43 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    520 m
  • Cheer Day Care Centre · 3300 Kennedy Rd
    47 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    814 m
  • Enjoy Learning Centre · 27 Passmore Ave
    45 spaces · school age
    883 m
  • Kreative Kids Terry Fox · 185 Wintermute Blvd
    99 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    899 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 241 (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.2 km away.

FireFire Station 241 · 1.3 km3325 Warden Ave
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 24 · 2.2 km3061 Birchmount 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 lots102 lots · ≈27,170 spaces · 81.5 ha
Within 500 m3 lots · ≈300 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingno post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 32 bikes within 600 m

Nearest lots: 89 m away, ≈190 spaces; 462 m away, ≈74 spaces; 478 m away, ≈33 spaces; 504 m away, ≈226 spaces; 532 m away, ≈5 spaces; 543 m away, ≈52 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: 8,154 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 47% of the total, against 726 from the south. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,426 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 2,617 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.5% 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 north824southbound · 0 bikes · 0.4% heavy
From the west7,815eastbound · 0 bikes · 4.6% heavy
Total vehicles17,519248 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 4.5% heavy
From the east8,154westbound · 0 bikes · 5.2% heavy
From the south726northbound · 0 bikes · 0.4% heavy
AM peak hour2,426 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour2,617 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

On Steeles Ave E between Birchmount Rd and Kelvin Grove Ave, 197 m from the corner, a 3-day count in July 2025 put the average speed at 53 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 61 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 67 km/h or more. That segment carries about 38,400 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Kelvin Grove Ave · Canongate Trl – Steeles Ave E · 123 mJun 2016 · 3 days4,131
Steeles Ave E · Birchmount Rd – Kelvin Grove Ave · 197 mJul 2025 · 3 days38,43953 km/h61 km/h67 km/h

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

Of the four serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025, one was fatal. 4 pedestrians were among those hurt. 2 of the 4 happened in darkness — 50%, about the citywide 39%. 2020 alone accounted for 2 of them. The most recent was on Oct 17, 2024. Going back to 2006, the total is 6.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions4#29 of 1,505
Fatal1#282 of 319
Involving a pedestrian4#7 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness250% here vs 39% citywide
All KSI since 20066latest Oct 17, 2024

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 & Kelvin Grove a dangerous intersection?

By serious injuries, yes: it ranks #29 of 1,505 for killed-or-seriously-injured collisions in 2016–2025. 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 & Kelvin Grove?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from Jan 31, 2023, 1.89× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Steeles & Kelvin Grove?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Steeles Ave E between Birchmount Rd and Kelvin Grove Ave (July 2025), found an average of 53 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 61 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Steeles & Kelvin Grove?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 102 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 27,170 spaces — 3 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Steeles & Kelvin Grove by transit?

Milliken GO is 841 m away; bus routes 53, 17, 43, 57, 953 within 1 km (nearest stop: Steeles Ave East at Kelvin Grove Ave, 24 m); York Region Transit route 008 Kennedy at Steeles Av / Putnam Gate.

What restaurants are near Steeles & Kelvin Grove?

None within 300 m, and 29 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Fat Ninja Bite (470 m), Nichiban Sushi 4 U (470 m), Bejing Tong Ren Tang (503 m), 3477 Bar and Lounge (510 m) and Club Kennedy (511 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there child care near Steeles & Kelvin Grove?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 234 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Family Day Kennedy Extended Day & School Age Program (520 m, 43 spaces), Cheer Day Care Centre (814 m, 47 spaces) and Enjoy Learning Centre (883 m, 45 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What ward is Steeles & Kelvin Grove in?

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

Sources

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