Out of the maze: Site offers guide to PATH

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Don Givelos is the owner of Torontopath.com, which launches Monday. The site will be a guide for the stores in the PATH.

Published: April 09, 2010 5:36 a.m.

Last modified: April 08, 2010 10:38 p.m.

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Toronto’s PATH system is one of the city’s hidden gems, a collection of tunnels lined with retail outlets that connect commuters underground from Union Station to downtown office buildings and malls.

But the route is poorly signed, hard to navigate and lacks a posted guide to the location or names of the stores that make it the world’s largest subterranean mall. A new website to be launched Monday should change that.

Torontopath.com will be the online guide to PATH retailers, and by the end of the year will also offer a mobile application allowing users to search and map stores and services.

It will be the pre-eminent source for the “city under the city,” says website owner Don Givelos, who sold a recruiting Internet site he’d operated for more than a decade before setting up this one.

The PATH is a 30-kilometre maze with signage that points downtown workers in the direction of the next building but doesn’t provide much help to newcomers who don’t know the names and locations of the office towers. And the PATH maps available don’t list the stores or services.

The website should bolster traffic to the underground stores that now largely cater to passersby.

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