page_title: PATH (Toronto)
section_title: 21st century
hierarchical_section_title: PATH (Toronto) / History / 21st century
caption_attribution_description: English: Coming new PATH path! Will provide extra access to GO's new western concourse at Toronto Union Station.
context_page_description: PATH is a network of underground pedestrian tunnels, elevated walkways, and at-grade walkways connecting the office towers of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It connects more than 70 buildings via 30 kilometres of tunnels, walkways, and shopping areas. According to Guinness World Records, PATH is the largest underground shopping complex in the world with 371,600 square metres of retail space which includes over 1,200 retail fronts. As of 2016, over 200,000 residents and workers use the PATH daily with the number of private dwellings within walking distance at 30,115
  The PATH network's northerly point is the Toronto Coach Terminal at Dundas Street and Bay Street, while its southerly point is Waterpark Place on Queens Quay. Its main north-south axes of walkways generally parallel Yonge and Bay Streets, while its main east-west axis parallels King Street.
  There is continuous expansion of the PATH system around Union Station.
context_section_description: Construction of the PATH tunnel north from Scotia Plaza through the Bay Adelaide Centre started in fall 2007. Completion of this section closed the last remaining gap in the north-south route through PATH that parallels Yonge Street, thus eliminating the need to double back from Bay Street to get between buildings located on the eastern edge of PATH.
  In 2011, the City of Toronto released a long-term expansion plan for the PATH, developed by Urban Strategies Inc. As part of the expansion plan there will be 45 new entry points, and the walkway expanded to as long as 60 kilometres when changes are completed.
  In August 2014, a major southward expansion of the PATH network brought it closer to the Toronto waterfront, with the opening of a covered pedestrian bridge connecting Scotiabank Arena south to WaterPark Place on Queens Quay (crossing the Lake Shore Boulevard/Gardiner Expressway corridor and Harbour Street).
  The city of Toronto is constructing a 300-metre, CAD$65 million tunnel connecting Union Station to Wellington Street, the first publicly owned segment of the 4,000,000-square-foot (370,000 m²) PATH subterranean shopping district. Toronto planners have begun work to guide future PATH development and ensure PATH link construction is included in basement levels of key new buildings.
  The area was particularly hard-hit during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, with BNN Bloomberg calling the area a "ghost town." The pedestrian system's narrow halls in some locations were noted as a particular challenge, even once downtown employees returned to work. The Toronto Financial District Business Improvement Area has planned various movement modifications to the space, for future use.
caption: Work on new PATH tunnels at Union Station, 2014.
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