{"id":616089,"date":"2026-04-20T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616089\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:49:09","slug":"the-path-and-pedestrian-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616089\/","title":{"rendered":"The PATH and Pedestrian Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beneath Toronto&#8217;s downtown streets lies one of the world&#8217;s largest underground pedestrian networks, where 30 kilometres of tunnels, concourses, and connections that quietly shape how hundreds of thousands of people move through the city every day.<\/p>\n<p>In this inaugural tour series, the Council on Vertical Urbanism&#8217;s Canada Office welcomes James Parakh, Urban Design Manager for Toronto &amp; East York, to guide participants through the history, design, and ongoing evolution of the PATH network and Toronto&#8217;s broader pedestrian realm.<\/p>\n<p>Starting from City Hall&#8217;s public plaza, the tour traces how underground infrastructure, street-level design, and the spaces between buildings come together to define the experience of the city at ground level. Whether you&#8217;re a longtime Torontonian or new to the city, this is a chance to see the urban fabric from a perspective that rarely gets the spotlight: from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p>This tour will meet in front of the main entrance to Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beneath Toronto&#8217;s downtown streets lies one of the world&#8217;s largest underground pedestrian networks, where 30 kilometres of tunnels,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-616089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}