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York Mills & Ness

York Mills Rd & Ness Dr · Toronto, Ontario · Fenside-Parkwoods · Ward 16, Don Valley East

In Fenside-Parkwoods, York Mills & Ness is a moderately travelled crossing. At the corner: 2 schools within 250 m. Nearby: 10 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
9,840
vehicles · 14-hour count, Feb 11, 2025
1,645 pedestrians · 15 cyclists · #1707 busiest
Collisions
26
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 24 property damage · #3056 of 5,508 · +3 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
5 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 14-hour count works out to close to 700 vehicles, 61% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 6 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Police have logged an average of 2.6 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 2.6 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. The pace has been steady: 13 collisions in 2016–2020 and 13 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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York Mills & Ness

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
951222419167 nearest 105 m
Express
995996924
Blue Night
395324
Nearest stops
5 surface stops 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.

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools (23)
  • St Madeleine Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 76 m
  • St Isaac Jogues Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 112 m
  • Crestwood Preparatory College SchoolPrivate · 313 m
  • Roywood Public SchoolEnglish Public · 339 m
  • Fenside Public SchoolEnglish Public · 589 m
  • Victoria Park Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 647 m
  • and 17 more
Community centres
Parks (17)
  • Roywood Park350 m
  • Fenside Park490 m
  • Lynedock Park680 m
  • Brookbanks Park806 m
  • Cassandra Park861 m
  • Sandover Park907 m
  • and 11 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Brookbanks branch343 m
  • Toronto Public Library Maryvale branch1 km

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 7 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 35. The nearest is Garderie Rayon de Soleil-North York Inc., 26 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés7 within 300 m · 35 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 6 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Garderie Rayon de Soleil-North York Inc. · 1 Ness Dr26 mPassed, Aug 2026
Sunrise Caribbean Restaurant · 1285 York Mills Rd187 mPassed, Jul 2026
A + W · 1277 York Mills Rd231 mPassed, Jan 2026
Food Basics · 1277 York Mills Rdgrocery231 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Pizza Pizza · 1277 York Mills Rd Unit-9231 mPassed, Apr 2026
Tim Hortons · 1277 York Mills Rd Unit-E5231 mPassed, Jan 2026 · 1 infraction
Rayoak Place · 1340 York Mills Rd264 mPassed, Sep 2026
Shine It UP Inc (Sorelle) · 29 Roywood Dr294 mPassed, Jun 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

No public washroom is listed within a kilometre, but there is a drinking fountain 407 m away at Brookbanks Park.

No City washroom within 1 km.

Drinking water
Brookbanks Park drinking fountain · 407 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 463 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Garderie Rayon de Soleil (76 m, 77 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km7 centres · 463 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 7
  • Garderie Rayon de Soleil · 1 Ness Dr
    77 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    76 m
  • Plasp St. Isaac Jogues Catholic School - Tor · 1330 York Mills Rd
    28 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    112 m
  • Roywood Child Care North York · 11 Roywood Dr
    59 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    340 m
  • Fenside Drive Children's Centre · 131 Fenside Dr
    146 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    589 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 115 (2.0 km), the nearest police station 33 Division (2.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.0 km away.

FireFire Station 115 · 2 km115 Parkway Forest Dr
Police33 Division · 2.5 km50 Upjohn Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 23 · 2 km115 Parkway Forest Dr

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 35 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,809 rental units — three social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 83 Parkwoods Village Dr (55 m, 68 units, 7 storeys, built 1994), which scored 91 out of 100 at its June 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 91 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 6 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings35 · 2,809 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202691 across the 35
Open fire-code violations6
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
83 Parkwoods Village Drsocial housing · Community First Developments Inc.687199491 · Jun 2025055 m
1300 York Mills Rd · Ranee Management1128196587 · Oct 20250 · 1 fire80 m
1325 York Mills Rd · York Mills Court Apts644196173 · Sep 2024093 m
77 Parkwoods Village Dr · Greenwin Corp.856196292 · Jul 20249105 m
71 Parkwoods Village Dr817196285 · Jun 20252150 m
235 Brookbanks Dr · Three R Property Management Corporation414196797 · Aug 20262170 m
76 Parkwoods Village Dr · Parkwoods Management656196288 · Jun 20253181 m
1284 York Mills Rd · York Mills Place637195993 · Sep 20240 · 4 fire202 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 lots306 lots · ≈38,280 spaces · 114.8 ha
Within 500 m27 lots · ≈2,850 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 68 m away, ≈71 spaces; 80 m away, ≈160 spaces; 116 m away, ≈44 spaces; 138 m away, ≈66 spaces; 145 m away, ≈59 spaces; 169 m away, ≈4 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, Feb 11, 2025

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 5,163 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 52% of the total, against 54 from the south. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 964 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 929 from 6:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 19 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north1,428southbound · 6 bikes · 6.7% heavy
From the west3,195eastbound · 7 bikes · 2.1% heavy
Total vehicles9,8401,645 pedestrians · 15 cyclists · 2.7% heavy
From the east5,163westbound · 2 bikes · 1.9% heavy
From the south54northbound · 0 bikes · 3.7% heavy
AM peak hour964 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour929 vehicles from 6:00 p.m.
Count14-hour · Feb 11, 2025

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 Ness Dr and Rayoak Dr, 73 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2024 put the average speed at 39 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 44 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 49 km/h or more. That segment carries about 9,500 vehicles a day. Ness Dr between York Mills Rd and Lynedock Cres measured slower: 31 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 38 km/h (Dec 2019). At the school-zone speed sign on Brookbanks Dr (206 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 2,639 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
York Mills Rd · Ness Dr – Rayoak Dr · 73 mMar 2024 · 3 days9,48739 km/h44 km/h49 km/h
Ness Dr · York Mills Rd – Lynedock Cres · 80 mDec 2019 · 2 days3,32431 km/h38 km/h42 km/h

School-zone speed sign 206 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct0 · 34 km/h
Over the limit1.5%
50 km/h or more0.0%

Brookbanks Dr (westbound), N Side Brookbanks Dr 144m W of Parkwoods Village Dr · 2,639 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 5 collisions. 1 collision (4%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 4% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 24, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 2.6 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions26#3056 of 5,508
With an injury1#4658 of 4,660
Property damage only24
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
All since 201436latest Jun 24, 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 Feb 27, 2008.

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is York Mills & Ness a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 26 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 & Ness?

A moderately travelled crossing. It ranks #1707 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 61% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at York Mills & Ness?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on York Mills Rd between Ness Dr and Rayoak Dr (March 2024), found an average of 39 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 44 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 206 m away (40 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near York Mills & Ness?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 306 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 38,280 spaces — 27 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

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

Bus routes 95, 122, 24, 191, 67, 995, 996, 924 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near York Mills & Ness?

7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 35 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Garderie Rayon de Soleil-North York Inc. (26 m), Sunrise Caribbean Restaurant (187 m), A + W (231 m), Pizza Pizza (231 m) and Tim Hortons (231 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 York Mills & Ness?

Not within a kilometre in the City's lists of park washrooms, civic-building washrooms and automated street toilets. The nearest drinking fountain is 407 m away at Brookbanks Park. Washrooms in malls, coffee shops and TTC stations are not in those lists.

Is there child care near York Mills & Ness?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 463 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Garderie Rayon de Soleil (76 m, 77 spaces), Plasp St. Isaac Jogues Catholic School - Tor (112 m, 28 spaces) and Roywood Child Care North York (340 m, 59 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near York Mills & Ness?

35 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,809 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 83 Parkwoods Village Dr (55 m, 68 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 1300 York Mills Rd (80 m, 112 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 1325 York Mills Rd (93 m, 64 units, RentSafeTO score 73) and 77 Parkwoods Village Dr (105 m, 85 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 35 is 92 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 & Ness in?

York Mills & Ness is in Fenside-Parkwoods (City of Toronto neighbourhood 150). It is in Ward 16, Don Valley East, represented by Councillor Jon Burnside.

Sources

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