Underground City - Canada

Canada

The cold climate makes underground pedestrian malls quite utilitarian.

• Calgary has an elevated series of walkways instead of underground in its +15 system.
• Edmonton has a small system of tunnels and above-ground skyways called the Pedway connecting buildings and LRT stations of the downtown core.
• Halifax (Downtown Halifax Link) where no point is more than 10 minutes casual walking distance from any other one.
• Montreal Underground city, or la ville souterraine in French, is the largest underground network in the world. Its 32 km (20 mi) of tunnel cover more than 41 city blocks (about 12 km2 (5 sq mi)). Access through the RÉSO can be made to apartment buildings, hotels, offices, banks, and universities, as well as public spaces like retail shops and malls, concert halls, cinemas, the Bell Centre hockey arena, museums, seven metro stations, two train stations (Lucien-L'Allier and Gare Centrale), a bus terminal (Réseau de transport de Longueuil and other transit authorities), and other areas. It connects 80% of office space and 35% of commercial space in downtown Montreal.
  • The network began as a connection between Place Ville Marie, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel and the Gare Centrale.
  • More than 2,000 shops and 40 cinemas line the passageways. Tourists often visit attractions in the underground city, which is used by an average of half a million Montrealers per day.
  • Eight metro stations link to smaller networks that are not yet part of the central network, such as Berri UQAM in the eastern part of downtown and Pie-IX which links venues from the 1976 Summer Olympics. Additionally, other underground networks are not part of the metro system, such as the La Cité housing and retail complex.
• Ottawa's Carleton University has a five kilometer underground tunnel complex which connects ten residence buildings with other buildings on its main campus. The city also has an underground concourse at Place de Ville office complex in the downtown, connecting 4 office buildings and 2 hotels stretching 2 city blocks. There are plans to expand the underground connections after the planned lrt metro (3 downtown subway stations) is built.
• St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador - At the main campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland are the MUNnels, a tunnel system, in which all the main buildings are connected, though there are also some elevated walkways.
• Toronto (PATH), comprises 27 km of walkways and 1,200 shops. It links many important buildings and attractions downtown to six TTC subway stations. PATH accommodates 100,000 pedestrians daily, and PATH businesses host the world's largest underground sidewalk sale once annually.
  • The PATH network in Toronto is the largest underground shopping complex in the world with 371,600 square metres (4,000,000 sq ft).
  • Toronto also has a separate, smaller "underground city" connecting several building complexes and two subway stations on Bloor Street.
• Vancouver has two shopping malls, Pacific Centre and Vancouver Centre, that are interconnected and extend over three city blocks, containing more than 200 stores that weaves above and below ground level. These malls are also connected to Granville SkyTrain Station on the Expo Line and Millennium Line and Vancouver City Centre Skytrain Station on the Canada Line. Other connections exist between Skytrain stations and surrounding buildings such is the case with the Burrard Station connections to the Bentall Centre and the Royal Centre and Waterfront Station's links with Canada Place and the Sinclair Centre.
• Winnipeg has a smaller (mainly commercial office) area located underground in the downtown core below Portage and Main. Several of the downtown office towers have subterranean entrances to the complex allowing employees and visitors to bypass the downtown traffic and avoid the cold winter temperatures Winnipeg regularly experiences. The system links with the skyway system known as the Winnipeg Walkway. Also the University of Manitoba has underground tunnels for the students to travel building to building.