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Warden & Tower

Warden Ave & Tower Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Wexford/Maryvale · Ward 21, Scarborough Centre

In Wexford/Maryvale, Warden & Tower is an above-average intersection for traffic. At the corner: an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 8 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
15,429
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 16, 2022
193 pedestrians · 1 cyclists
Collisions
53
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
15 with an injury · 37 property damage · #1979 of 5,508 · +5 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 1 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #1440 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

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,930 vehicles, 1.67× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 80 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 5.3 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 29%, from 31 in 2016–2020 to 22 in 2021–2025. Just one of those 53 collisions left someone killed or seriously injured.

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Warden & Tower

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
68956717 nearest 15 m
Express
968995996
Blue Night
395
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Warden Ave at Tower Dr
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 (12)
  • Manhattan Park Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 274 m
  • Buchanan Public SchoolEnglish Public · 355 m
  • Bond Academy SchoolPrivate · 690 m
  • St Kevin Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 746 m
  • Maryvale Public SchoolEnglish Public · 760 m
  • Sathya Sai Elementary SchoolPrivate · 806 m
  • and 6 more
Parks (7)
  • Manhattan Park303 m
  • Maryvale Park670 m
  • Ellesmere Park686 m
  • Deanvar Parkette1.1 km
  • Dorset Park1.4 km
  • Willowfield Gardens Park1.4 km
  • and 1 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Maryvale branch1.1 km
Signal
1469, activated 1983 · SA2 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · 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, though there is 1 grocery or convenience store; 24 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Golden House Chinese Restaurant, 725 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 24 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 7 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Express Convenience · 1331 Warden Ave, Unit-5grocery62 mPassed, Aug 2024
Costco Wholesale · 1411 Warden Avegrocery587 mPassed, Feb 2026
Arz Fine Foods · 11 Canadian Rd Unit-3grocery712 mPassed, Dec 2025
Kostas Bakery · 265 Ellesmere Rdgrocery724 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Kostas Meat · 259 Ellesmere Rdgrocery725 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions
Golden House Chinese Restaurant · 257 Ellesmere Rd725 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
The Blackhorn Steakhouse · 251 Ellesmere Rd727 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Blue Cat Coffee · 1510 Birchmount Rd 120-121727 mPassed, Aug 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

The nearest public washroom is Maryvale Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 671 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

  • Maryvale Park Outdoor Pool Washroom · 5 Trestleside Grove
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    671 m
  • Ellesmere Community Centre Washroom · 20 Canadian Rd
    View centre hours
    704 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

Two licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 107 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Buchanan Extended Day & School Age Program (355 m, 30 spaces, school age).

Within 1 km2 centres · 107 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 2
  • Buchanan Extended Day & School Age Program · 4 Bucannan Rd
    30 spaces · school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    355 m
  • Maryvale Jr YMCA · 1325 Pharmacy Ave
    77 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    760 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 245 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 41 Division (3.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.2 km away.

FireFire Station 245 · 1.1 km1600 Birchmount Rd
Police41 Division · 3.1 km2222 Eglinton Avenue East
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 20 · 2.2 km2430 Lawrence Ave E

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 are six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 221 rental units. The nearest is 1477 Birchmount Rd (864 m, 21 units, 3 storeys, built 1960), which scored 86 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 81, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 15 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings6 · 221 units
RentSafeTO score81 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202615 across the 6
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest6 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1477 Birchmount Rd213196086 · Sep 20251864 m
1475 Birchmount Rd · Signet Group Inc.285196782 · Aug 20261870 m
1525 Birchmount Rd · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.524195689 · Sep 202521 km
1535 Birchmount Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc374196083 · Jul 202631 km
1545 Birchmount Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc374196076 · Jul 202631 km
1555 Birchmount Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc466195071 · Sep 202551 km

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 lots437 lots · ≈71,870 spaces · 215.6 ha
Within 500 m5 lots · ≈220 spaces
Green P (public)1 car park · about 25 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1940 Lawrence Avenue East · Surface1.1 km25 *

Nearest lots: 43 m away, ≈41 spaces; 168 m away, ≈55 spaces; 337 m away, ≈25 spaces; 363 m away, ≈65 spaces; 447 m away, ≈34 spaces; 502 m away, ≈314 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, Feb 16, 2022

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 8,436 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 55% of the total, against 232 from the east. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,013 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 2,167 from 4:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 6.7% 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 5 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 north8,436southbound · 1 bikes · 6.5% heavy
From the west418eastbound · 0 bikes · 2.6% heavy
Total vehicles15,429193 pedestrians · 1 cyclists · 6.7% heavy
From the east232westbound · 0 bikes · 3.4% heavy
From the south6,343northbound · 0 bikes · 7.4% heavy
AM peak hour2,013 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour2,167 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 16, 2022

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 Warden Ave between Murray Glen Dr and Ellington Dr, 260 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in October 2006 put the average speed at 55 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 66 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 76 km/h or more. That segment carries about 32,800 vehicles a day. Tower Dr between Pickwick Rd and Lilian Dr measured slower: 35 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 43 km/h (Oct 2025). The reading is 20 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Manhattan Dr (317 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.5% of the 19,986 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Tower Dr · Pickwick Rd – Lilian Dr · 161 mOct 2025 · 3 days1,65735 km/h43 km/h47 km/h
Warden Ave · Murray Glen Dr – Ellington Dr · 260 mOct 2006 · 24 h32,79755 km/h66 km/h76 km/h

School-zone speed sign 317 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct25 · 36 km/h
Over the limit1.9%
50 km/h or more0.5%

Manhattan Dr (eastbound), 81 Manhattan Drive · 19,986 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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 10 collisions; 2025 recorded 6. 15 collisions (28%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 6% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 4 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (8%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 5 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 19, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions53#1979 of 5,508
With an injury15#1229 of 4,660
Property damage only37
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian3#1440 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist1#2482 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)5
All since 201471latest Jun 19, 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

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. 1 pedestrian was among those hurt. It happened in daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Mar 1, 2023. Going back to 2006, the total is 3.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1440 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian1#839 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness0
All KSI since 20063latest Mar 1, 2023

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

Two thefts from vehicles and two bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle210street/outdoor (1), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft200house driveway/garage (1), street/outdoor (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 1, 2025. 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 Wexford/Maryvale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Warden & Tower a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1440 of 1,505), out of 53 reported 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 Warden & Tower?

An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from Feb 16, 2022, 1.67× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Warden & Tower?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Warden Ave between Murray Glen Dr and Ellington Dr (October 2006), found an average of 55 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 66 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 317 m away (40 km/h), 0.5% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Warden & Tower?

The nearest Green P car park is 1940 Lawrence Avenue East (1.1 km away, 25 spaces). The City's mapping shows 437 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 71,870 spaces — 5 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Warden & Tower by transit?

Bus routes 68, 95, 67, 17, 968, 995, 996 within 1 km (nearest stop: Warden Ave at Tower Dr, 15 m).

What restaurants are near Warden & Tower?

None within 300 m, and 24 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Golden House Chinese Restaurant (725 m), The Blackhorn Steakhouse (727 m) and Blue Cat Coffee (727 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 Warden & Tower?

The nearest is Maryvale Park Outdoor Pool Washroom, 5 Trestleside Grove, 671 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Ellesmere Community Centre Washroom (704 m). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Warden & Tower?

Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 107 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Buchanan Extended Day & School Age Program (355 m, 30 spaces) and Maryvale Jr YMCA (760 m, 77 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Warden & Tower?

Six RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 221 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1477 Birchmount Rd (864 m, 21 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 1475 Birchmount Rd (870 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 82), 1525 Birchmount Rd (1.0 km, 52 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 1535 Birchmount Rd (1.0 km, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 6 is 81 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.

How many thefts are reported at Warden & Tower?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and two 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 Wexford/Maryvale page.

What neighbourhood is Warden & Tower in?

Warden & Tower is in Wexford/Maryvale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 119). It is in Ward 21, Scarborough Centre, represented by Councillor Michael Thompson.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined