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York Mills & Chipstead

York Mills Rd & Chipstead Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Banbury-Don Mills · Ward 15, Don Valley West

York Mills & Chipstead, in Banbury-Don Mills, is an above-average intersection for traffic. At the corner: 2 schools within 250 m and an accessible pedestrian signal. Nearby: 7 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
9,814
vehicles · 8-hour count, Dec 17, 2022
120 pedestrians · 10 cyclists
Collisions
21
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
9 with an injury · 12 property damage · #3374 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
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
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 1,230 vehicles, about the citywide median. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 82 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). Police have logged an average of 2.1 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 50%, from 14 in 2016–2020 to 7 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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York Mills & Chipstead

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
9511512251 nearest 15 m
Express
995996
Blue Night
395
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m — York Mills Rd at Chipstead Rd; York Mills Rd at Banbury Rd (West)
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 (16)
  • Ecole Secondaire Etienne BruleFrench Public · 124 m
  • York Mills Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 247 m
  • Windfields Middle SchoolEnglish Public · 518 m
  • Denlow Public SchoolEnglish Public · 800 m
  • Harrison Public SchoolEnglish Public · 857 m
  • Central Montessori School - York MillsPrivate · 1.1 km
  • and 10 more
Community centres
  • Banbury Community Centre1 km
  • York Mills Arena1.1 km
Parks (15)
  • Ames Park291 m
  • Mossgrove Park508 m
  • Longwood Park727 m
  • Kirkwood Park843 m
  • Vyner Greenbelt886 m
  • Banbury Park1 km
  • and 9 more
Signal
1079, activated 1973 · 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

Toronto Public Health inspects 1 eating place within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 4 — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Ecole Secondarie Etienne-Brule - Student Nutrition Program, 125 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés1 within 300 m · 4 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 0 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Ecole Secondarie Etienne-Brule - Student Nutrition Program · 300 Banbury Rd125 mPassed, Apr 2026
Tim Hortons · 1869 Leslie St949 mPassed, Apr 2026
Hamaru Sushi · 1865 Leslie St1 kmPassed, Mar 2026
Windfield's Restaurant · 801 York Mills Rd1 kmPassed, Mar 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 Banbury Community Centre Washroom, 1.0 km away, View centre hours.

  • Banbury Community Centre Washroom · 120 Banbury Rd
    View centre hours
    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 63 spaces; it accepts City fee subsidy. The nearest is Denlow Community Child Care Centre - North York (799 m, 63 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km1 centre · 63 spaces
Fee subsidy1 of 1
  • Denlow Community Child Care Centre - North York · 50 Denlow Blvd
    63 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    799 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 122 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 33 Division (1.6 km) and the nearest ambulance station 3.3 km away.

FireFire Station 122 · 1.1 km2545 Bayview Ave
Police33 Division · 1.6 km50 Upjohn Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 57 · 3.3 km2075 Bayview Ave

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 five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 686 rental units. The nearest is 745 York Mills Rd (694 m, 138 units, 18 storeys, built 1972), which scored 97 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 96, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 22 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 7 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings5 · 686 units
RentSafeTO score96 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202622 across the 5
Open fire-code violations7
Tallest19 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
745 York Mills Rd · M&r Property Management13818197297 · Aug 20261694 m
740 York Mills Rd · Minto Properties Inc13719197097 · Oct 20257 · 1 fire714 m
17 Farmstead Rd · Minto Properties Inc13619197094 · Aug 20266777 m
755 York Mills Rd · M&r Property Management13818197096 · Aug 20261786 m
750 York Mills Rd · Minto Properties Inc13719197095 · Aug 20267 · 6 fire811 m

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 lots195 lots · ≈30,600 spaces · 91.8 ha
Within 500 m2 lots · ≈690 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)Bessarion CC · 1.9 km · 10 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 158 m away, ≈537 spaces; 495 m away, ≈149 spaces; 720 m away, ≈98 spaces; 741 m away, ≈77 spaces; 748 m away, ≈124 spaces; 846 m away, ≈89 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, Dec 17, 2022 (a weekend day)

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 4,849 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 249 from the south. Evening rush dominates here: 2,296 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:00 p.m., against 576 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). 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 north390southbound · 1 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west4,849eastbound · 3 bikes · 3.0% heavy
Total vehicles9,814120 pedestrians · 10 cyclists · 2.9% heavy
From the east4,326westbound · 5 bikes · 3.2% heavy
From the south249northbound · 1 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour576 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour2,296 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

On York Mills Rd between Sandfield Rd and Banbury Rd, 184 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2026 put the average speed at 51 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 59 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 64 km/h or more. That segment carries about 27,000 vehicles a day. Chipstead Rd between Harlington Rd and York Mills Rd measured slower: 37 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 44 km/h (Oct 2025). At the school-zone speed sign on York Mills Rd (87 m away, 50 km/h limit), 3.6% of the 8,361 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 60 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Chipstead Rd · Harlington Rd – York Mills Rd · 84 mOct 2025 · 3 days1,44337 km/h44 km/h49 km/h
York Mills Rd · Sandfield Rd – Banbury Rd · 184 mMay 2026 · 3 days27,01751 km/h59 km/h64 km/h
Banbury Rd · Portsmith Rd – Heathcote Ave · 352 mFeb 2024 · 3 days2,33337 km/h44 km/h49 km/h

School-zone speed sign 87 m

Posted limit50 km/h
Median · 85th pct35 · 52 km/h
Over the limit15%
60 km/h or more3.6%

York Mills Rd (westbound), North Side of York Mills Rd 75m West of Banbury Rd · 8,361 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 2016, with 5 collisions; 2025 recorded 2. 9 collisions (43%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (5%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Feb 26, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions21#3374 of 5,508
With an injury9#1976 of 4,660
Property damage only12
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian1#3188 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201433latest Feb 26, 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. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on May 17, 2009.

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

Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 13, 2014. 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 Banbury-Don Mills.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is York Mills & Chipstead a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 21 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 York Mills & Chipstead?

An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from Dec 17, 2022, about the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at York Mills & Chipstead?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on York Mills Rd between Sandfield Rd and Banbury Rd (May 2026), found an average of 51 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 59 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 87 m away (50 km/h), 3.6% of vehicles were doing 60 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near York Mills & Chipstead?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 195 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 30,600 spaces — 2 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at Bessarion CC (1.9 km).

How do I get to York Mills & Chipstead by transit?

Bus routes 95, 115, 122, 51, 995, 996 within 1 km (nearest stop: York Mills Rd at Chipstead Rd, 15 m).

What restaurants are near York Mills & Chipstead?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 4 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Ecole Secondarie Etienne-Brule - Student Nutrition Program (125 m), Tim Hortons (949 m), Hamaru Sushi (1.0 km) and Windfield's Restaurant (1.0 km). 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 York Mills & Chipstead?

The nearest is Banbury Community Centre Washroom, 120 Banbury Rd, 1.0 km away (View centre hours). 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 York Mills & Chipstead?

One licensed child care centre within 1 km, with 63 spaces in total; it accepts City fee subsidy and it is in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest is Denlow Community Child Care Centre - North York (799 m, 63 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near York Mills & Chipstead?

Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 686 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 745 York Mills Rd (694 m, 138 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 740 York Mills Rd (714 m, 137 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 17 Farmstead Rd (777 m, 136 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 755 York Mills Rd (786 m, 138 units, RentSafeTO score 96). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 is 96 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.

What neighbourhood is York Mills & Chipstead in?

York Mills & Chipstead is in Banbury-Don Mills (City of Toronto neighbourhood 042). It is in Ward 15, Don Valley West, represented by Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin.

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