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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 · May 28, 2025
This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. Traffic is heaviest from the east: 3,328 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 54% of the total, against 323 from the north. Evening rush dominates here: 733 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:30 p.m., against 559 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 17 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.
Peak hours: 559 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 733 from 5:30 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 2022, with 1 collision; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jul 7, 2026.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 3 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 3 | |
| Fail to remain | 0 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 4 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
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 Van Horne Ave between Seneca Hill Dr and Silas Hill Dr, 93 m from the corner, a 3-day count in June 2025 put the average speed at 36 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 42 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 45 km/h or more. That segment carries about 5,700 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Van Horne Ave (122 m away, 40 km/h limit), 8.2% of the 59,209 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a share the City would treat as a speeding problem.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Van Horne Ave · Seneca Hill Dr – Silas Hill Dr · 93 m | Jun 2025 · 3 days | 5,719 | 36 km/h | 42 km/h | 45 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Van Horne Ave (westbound), 122 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 41 km/h, 85th percentile 47 km/h; 8.2% at 50 km/h or more. 59,209 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
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
- 151 25 10 169 nearest 554 m · 7 min
- Express
- 925
- Blue Night
- 325
- Nearest stops
- no surface stop within 300 m
- Regional
- York Region Transit 090 Leslie 090B Leslie at Don Mills Rd / Van Horne Av625 m · 7 min
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Don Mills Rd / Goodview Rd 858 m · 10 min · 11 docks · 1 station, 11 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
- 1 car park · about 366 spaces
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 2 mapped lots within 500 m, 139 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Don Mills Lot - 1800 Sheppard Ave East · Surface | 1.9 km | 366 * | — |
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 within 300 m of the corner. The closest is Fine Indian Groceries, 781 m away. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 13 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, 767 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Rainbow Ida Pharmacy, 797 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen · 3070 Don Mills Rd E767 m · 9 min
- Saigon Express Pho · 3070 Don Mills Rd E Unit-12a767 m · 9 min
- Saigon Express · 3070 Don Mills Rd E, Unit-12a768 m · 9 min
- Mr. Jerk · 3050 Don Mills Rd776 m · 9 min
- India Waale Desi Street Food · 3040 Don Mills Rd Unit-B781 m · 9 min
- Grocery
- Fine Indian Groceries 781 m · 9 min · 3 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Peanut Plaza Pastry Shop 768 m · 9 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Rainbow Ida Pharmacy 797 m · 9 min
- Child care
- PLASP Divine Mercy C.S. · 97 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day46 m
- Van Horne Day Care · 50 spaces, toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day773 m · 9 min
- Crestview School Age Program YMCA · 86 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day826 m · 10 min
- Washrooms
- Bellbury Park Tennis Club Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible · closed — Under Construction138 m
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 (13)
- Bellbury Park340 m · 4 min
- Linus Park613 m · 7 min
- O'shea Walkway614 m · 7 min
- Leslie Park741 m · 9 min
- Lescon Park804 m · 10 min
- Community centres
- Oriole Community Recreation Centre1.1 km · 13 min
- Schools (10)
- St Matthias C.s. (Closed For Renovation)English Separate · 47 m
- Crestview Public SchoolEnglish Public · 849 m · 10 min
- Lescon Public SchoolEnglish Public · 919 m · 11 min
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 946 m · 11 min
- Don Valley Middle SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km · 12 min
- Places of interest
- Historic Zion SchoolhouseMuseum · 1.1 km · 13 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 library or a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
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.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
Within a kilometre there are seven RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,147 rental units. The nearest is 225 Van Horne Ave (748 m, 153 units, 13 storeys, built 1968), which scored 98 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 94, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 225 Van Horne Ave · Homestead Land Holdings Limited | 153 | 13 | 1968 | 98 · Jul 2025 | 748 m · 9 min |
| 201 Van Horne Ave · The Brown Group of Companies Inc. | 245 | 18 | 1966 | 87 · Sep 2024 | 773 m · 9 min |
| 185 Shaughnessy Blvd · Westdale Properties | 180 | 17 | 1967 | 93 · Jul 2025 | 783 m · 9 min |
| 335 Van Horne Ave · Homestead Land Holdings Limited | 125 | 14 | 1969 | 96 · Jul 2025 | 799 m · 10 min |
| 12 Deerford Rd · CAPREIT | 137 | 12 | 1969 | 89 · Aug 2024 | 887 m · 11 min |
| 175 Shaughnessy Blvd · Homestead Land Holdings Limited | 139 | 18 | 1968 | 99 · Jul 2025 | 901 m · 11 min |
7 registered buildings · 1,147 units · tallest 18 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
One theft from a vehicle and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 1 | 1 | 0 | house driveway/garage (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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 Don Valley Village.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Van Horne & Silas Hill a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 3 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 Van Horne & Silas Hill?
A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from May 28, 2025, 38% of the median for a counted intersection.
Is Van Horne & Silas Hill a walkable intersection?
Van Horne & Silas Hill scores 25 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 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 park within 500 m · nearest centre 1.1 km; 3 grocery stores within 1 km · 13 within 1 km.
How fast do cars go at Van Horne & Silas Hill?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Van Horne Ave between Seneca Hill Dr and Silas Hill Dr (June 2025), found an average of 36 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 122 m away (40 km/h), 8.2% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Van Horne & Silas Hill?
The nearest Green P car park is Don Mills Lot - 1800 Sheppard Ave East (1.9 km away, 366 spaces). The City's mapping shows 139 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 15,560 spaces — 2 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Van Horne & Silas Hill by transit?
Bus routes 151, 25, 10, 169, 925 within 1 km; York Region Transit routes 090 Leslie, 090B Leslie at Don Mills Rd / Van Horne Av.
What restaurants are near Van Horne & Silas Hill?
None within 300 m, and 13 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (767 m), Saigon Express Pho (767 m), Saigon Express (768 m), Mr. Jerk (776 m) and India Waale Desi Street Food (781 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Van Horne & Silas Hill?
The nearest is Bellbury Park Tennis Club Washroom, 55 Van Horne Ave, 138 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. The City currently lists it as closed: under construction.
Is there child care near Van Horne & Silas Hill?
Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 561 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are PLASP Divine Mercy C.S. (46 m, 97 spaces), Van Horne Day Care (773 m, 50 spaces) and Crestview School Age Program YMCA (826 m, 86 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Van Horne & Silas Hill?
Seven RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,147 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 225 Van Horne Ave (748 m, 153 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 201 Van Horne Ave (773 m, 245 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 185 Shaughnessy Blvd (783 m, 180 units, RentSafeTO score 93) and 335 Van Horne Ave (799 m, 125 units, RentSafeTO score 96). The average RentSafeTO score across the 7 is 94 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Van Horne & Silas Hill?
Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Don Valley Village page.
What neighbourhood is Van Horne & Silas Hill in?
Van Horne & Silas Hill is in Don Valley Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 047). It is in Ward 17, Don Valley North, represented by Councillor Shelley Carroll.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count May 28, 2025.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 17 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.78509, -79.35997 · centreline node 13445378.