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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 volume8-hour count · Feb 15, 2022
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 351 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 69 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 118 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:30 p.m., against 104 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 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.
Peak hours: 104 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 118 from 4:30 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 2020, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 2 collisions (40%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Feb 14, 2024.
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 | 5 | |
| With an injury | 2 | |
| Property damage only | 2 | |
| Fail to remain | 1 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 1 | |
| 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 Watson St between Glenthorne Dr and Wishaw Rd, 96 m from the corner, a 3-day count in December 2023 put the average speed at 41 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 49 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 54 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,600 vehicles a day.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watson St · Glenthorne Dr – Wishaw Rd · 96 m | Dec 2023 · 3 days | 1,591 | 41 km/h | 49 km/h | 54 km/h |
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
- 38 95 154 86 nearest 357 m · 4 min
- Express
- 986
- Blue Night
- 395 386
- Nearest stops
- no surface stop within 300 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.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- none within 2 km
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- none recorded nearby
- Other lots
- 8 mapped lots within 500 m, 106 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often 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; 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 listed within a kilometre of this corner. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 16 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 41 within a kilometre. The nearest is Platinum Lounge & Sports Bar, 358 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Highland Creek Pharamcy, 600 m away; 2 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Platinum Lounge & Sports Bar · 271 Old Kingston Rd358 m · 4 min
- Rosa's Pasta Express · 271 Old Kingston Rd358 m · 4 min
- Street Momos Port Union · 271 Old Kingston Rd Unit-103358 m · 4 min
- The Joy of Harvest · 271 Old Kingston Rd Unit-104358 m · 4 min
- The Creek Cafe · 370 Old Kingston Rd602 m · 7 min
- Food shops
- Hq Meats 568 m · 7 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Highland Creek Pharamcy 600 m · 7 min · 2 within 1 km
- Child care
- Children's Land Learning Centre Inc. · 55 spaces, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day514 m · 6 min
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 (6)
- Morrish Parkette628 m · 7 min
- Highland Creek Parkette790 m · 9 min
- Highland Creek Community Park929 m · 11 min
- Bramber Woods Park1 km · 12 min
- Canmore Park1.1 km · 14 min
- Schools
- Highland Creek Public SchoolEnglish Public · 859 m · 10 min
- Cardinal Leger Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.2 km · 14 min
- Morrish Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km · 14 min
- Rouge Valley Education CentrePrivate · 1.3 km · 16 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Highland Creek branch583 m · 7 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 grocery store, a community centre, a public washroom 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.
Thefts reported at this corner
Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025
Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.
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 Highland Creek.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Watson & Glenthorne a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 5 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 Watson & Glenthorne?
A quiet local crossing at the City's last count here, in 2022. Its latest count is from Feb 15, 2022, 7% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Watson & Glenthorne a walkable intersection?
Watson & Glenthorne scores 16 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: library 583 m away; nearest school 0.9 km · 1 licensed child care within 1 km; nearest park 0.6 km.
How fast do cars go at Watson & Glenthorne?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Watson St between Glenthorne Dr and Wishaw Rd (December 2023), found an average of 41 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 49 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Watson & Glenthorne?
There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 106 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 6,940 spaces — 8 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Watson & Glenthorne by transit?
Bus routes 38, 95, 154, 86, 986 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Watson & Glenthorne?
None within 300 m, and 16 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Platinum Lounge & Sports Bar (358 m), Rosa's Pasta Express (358 m), Street Momos Port Union (358 m), The Joy of Harvest (358 m) and The Creek Cafe (602 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there child care near Watson & Glenthorne?
One licensed child care centre within 1 km, with 55 spaces in total; it does not accept City fee subsidy and it is in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest is Children's Land Learning Centre Inc. (514 m, 55 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What neighbourhood is Watson & Glenthorne in?
Watson & Glenthorne is in Highland Creek (City of Toronto neighbourhood 134). It is in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park, represented by Councillor Neethan Shan.
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 Feb 15, 2022.
- 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.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; 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.
- 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 25 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, -79.17368 · centreline node 13445030.