Toronto · intersection · signal 1258 · red-light camera

Tapscott & Finch

Tapscott Rd & Finch Ave E · Toronto, Ontario · Malvern West · Ward 23, Scarborough North

Tapscott & Finch is a busier-than-typical intersection. It sits in Malvern West. At the corner: a red-light camera in place since 2023 that issued 200 tickets in 2025 and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
27,299
vehicles · 14-hour count, Dec 11, 2024
942 pedestrians · 13 cyclists · #448 busiest
Collisions
250
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
48 with an injury · 176 property damage · #376 of 5,508 · +15 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 3 before 2016
Red-light camera
200
tickets in 2025
since 2023 · 150 so far in 2026 · tickets by camera
Transit
5
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 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 1,950 vehicles an hour, 1.69× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 29 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 25 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 9.2 per 10,000 counted vehicles, 1.85× the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions edged down 15%, from 135 in 2016–2020 to 115 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Tapscott & Finch

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
13439102133 nearest 29 m
Express
939902
Blue Night
339334353
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Tapscott Rd at Finch Ave East; Tapscott Rd at Finch Ave East North Side
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 (10)
  • Tom Longboat Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 609 m
  • Whitefield Christian Schools - Bldg 1Private · 648 m
  • Whitefield Christian Schools - Bldg 2Private · 709 m
  • Islamic Institute of Toronto Academy SchoolPrivate · 771 m
  • St Gabriel Lalemant Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 852 m
  • Shirdi Sai School of CanadaPrivate · 917 m
  • and 4 more
Parks (10)
  • Horseley Hill Park720 m
  • Mourning Dove Park1 km
  • Neilson Park - Scarborough1 km
  • Pinery Park1.1 km
  • Telfer Park1.1 km
  • Tapscott Woodlot1.2 km
  • and 4 more
Signal
1258, activated 1980 · SA2 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · transit priority

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 9 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 36. The nearest is Lucky Lin's Restaurant, 97 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés9 within 300 m · 36 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 9 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Lucky Lin's Restaurant · 5633 Finch Ave E Unit-2-497 mPassed, Jul 2026
Luxme Vilas · 5637 Finch Ave E 2b116 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Thirumalai Eats · 5637 Finch Ave E116 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions
Scarborough Event Centre · 5637 Finch Ave E Unit-1120 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 2 infractions
Pizza 2 GO · 5637 Finch Ave E, Unit-2121 mPassed, Sep 2025 · 1 infraction
Roti King · 5635 Finch Ave E 4154 mPassed, Aug 2026
New Ocean Supermarket · 5635 Finch Ave E Unit-2,3,4grocery154 mPassed, Jun 2026
Mahaans Pick& Press Oil Mill Inc · 5635 Finch Ave E154 mPassed, Oct 2024

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

One licensed child care centre within a kilometre offers 31 spaces; it accepts City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - St. Gabriel Lalemant (852 m, 31 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km1 centre · 31 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 1
  • Network Child Care Services - St. Gabriel Lalemant · 160 Crow Trail
    31 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    852 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 211 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 42 Division (2.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.2 km away.

FireFire Station 211 · 1.2 km900 Tapscott Rd
Police42 Division · 2.8 km242 Milner Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 27 · 1.2 km900 Tapscott 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 lots205 lots · ≈93,380 spaces · 280.2 ha
Within 500 m18 lots · ≈12,270 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 98 m away, ≈124 spaces; 139 m away, ≈22 spaces; 246 m away, ≈900 spaces; 279 m away, ≈1,782 spaces; 292 m away, ≈294 spaces; 304 m away, ≈201 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 — 14-hour, Dec 11, 2024

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 10,133 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 37% of the total, against 4,518 from the north. Evening rush dominates here: 2,810 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:45 p.m., against 2,221 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Trucks and buses were 7.5% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 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.

From the north4,518southbound · 4 bikes · 9.9% heavy
From the west10,133eastbound · 4 bikes · 8.1% heavy
Total vehicles27,299942 pedestrians · 13 cyclists · 7.5% heavy
From the east7,798westbound · 4 bikes · 6.2% heavy
From the south4,850northbound · 1 bikes · 6.1% heavy
AM peak hour2,221 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour2,810 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count14-hour · Dec 11, 2024

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 Tapscott Rd between Melford Dr and Finch Ave E, 183 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2025 put the average speed at 53 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 60 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 65 km/h or more. That segment carries about 11,500 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Tapscott Rd · Melford Dr – Finch Ave E · 183 mApr 2025 · 3 days11,49153 km/h60 km/h65 km/h
Finch Ave E · Tapscott Rd – Baldoon Rd · 200 mOct 2011 · 3 days12,323

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

The worst year was 2019, with 35 collisions; 2025 recorded 24. 48 collisions (19%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 33 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 13% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 8 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (3%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 15 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 15, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 9.2 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions250#376 of 5,508
With an injury48#254 of 4,660
Property damage only176
Fail to remain33
Involving a pedestrian4#1053 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist4#664 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist2
With a fatality0
Severity not classified26
Since January 2026 (outside the window)15
All since 2014318latest Jun 15, 2026

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. 3 earlier KSI collisions are on file, the last on Feb 14, 2013.

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.

Thefts reported at this corner

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

13 thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 0 in 2023–2025, about 0.0 a year, against 1.9 a year before that. 62% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1300street/outdoor (8), commercial premises (4)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 10, 2021. 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 Malvern West.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Tapscott & Finch a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 250 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 Tapscott & Finch?

A busier-than-typical intersection. It ranks #448 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 1.69× the median for a counted intersection.

Is there a red-light camera at Tapscott & Finch?

Yes. A red-light camera has operated at Tapscott & Finch since 2023, according to the City of Toronto's red-light camera list. It issued 200 tickets in 2025 (254 in 2024) and 150 in 2026 through Jun 30, 2026; 896 since it was switched on.

How many red-light camera tickets are issued at Tapscott & Finch?

200 in 2025, according to the City's annual charges data — down from 254 in 2024, and 150 in 2026 through Jun 30, 2026. The camera has issued 896 tickets since 2023. A red-light camera ticket in Toronto is $325 and carries no demerit points because it is issued to the vehicle's owner.

How fast do cars go at Tapscott & Finch?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Tapscott Rd between Melford Dr and Finch Ave E (April 2025), found an average of 53 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 60 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Tapscott & Finch?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 205 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 93,380 spaces — 18 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Tapscott & Finch by transit?

Bus routes 134, 39, 102, 133, 939, 902 within 1 km (nearest stop: Tapscott Rd at Finch Ave East, 29 m).

What restaurants are near Tapscott & Finch?

9 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 36 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Lucky Lin's Restaurant (97 m), Luxme Vilas (116 m), Thirumalai Eats (116 m), Scarborough Event Centre (120 m) and Pizza 2 GO (121 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 Tapscott & Finch?

One licensed child care centre within 1 km, with 31 spaces in total; it accepts City fee subsidy and it is in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - St. Gabriel Lalemant (852 m, 31 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

How many thefts are reported at Tapscott & Finch?

Toronto Police place 13 thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Malvern West page.

What neighbourhood is Tapscott & Finch in?

Tapscott & Finch is in Malvern West (City of Toronto neighbourhood 145). It is in Ward 23, Scarborough North, represented by Councillor Jamaal Myers.

Sources

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