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Steeles & Pickering Town

Steeles Ave E & Pickering Town Line · Toronto, Ontario

Steeles & Pickering Town, in Toronto, is a moderately travelled crossing. At the corner: a bike lane. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
8,687
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 17, 2022
1 pedestrians · 5 cyclists
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
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
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Buffered
no Bike Share dock within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,090 vehicles, about the citywide median. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 8,687 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13).

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Steeles & Pickering Town

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
Bike Lane - Buffered on Steeles Ave E installed 2001
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
none within 1.5 km
Signal
1690, activated 1994 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval North/South/East/West

Parking

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

No mapped parking lot, Green P car park or City EV charger within 2 km.

Traffic volume

The City's latest turning-movement count — 8-hour, Dec 17, 2022 (a weekend day)

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 4,617 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 53% of the total, against 147 from the south. Evening rush dominates here: 1,483 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:00 p.m., against 827 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles were a negligible share of traffic (0.4%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count was taken on a Saturday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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 north350southbound · 0 bikes · 1.7% heavy
From the west3,573eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.3% heavy
Total vehicles8,6871 pedestrians · 5 cyclists · 0.4% heavy
From the east4,617westbound · 0 bikes · 0.4% heavy
From the south147northbound · 5 bikes · 0.7% heavy
AM peak hour827 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour1,483 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Dec 17, 2022 · weekend

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 Beare Rd and Pickering Town Line (308 m away, May 2014) recorded volume only — about 19,405 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Steeles Ave E · Beare Rd – Pickering Town Line · 308 mMay 2014 · 24 h19,405

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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on May 27, 2014.

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 & Pickering Town a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025 and police reported no collisions of any severity. 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 & Pickering Town?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Dec 17, 2022, about the median for a counted intersection.

Sources

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