A new map for the downtown PATH was posted on Monday morning in the Royal Bank Plaza, after a recent survey found that 81 per cent of PATH users found the old signage didn’t help them navigate the underground system. The new map was drawn up after looking at almost 2,000 public responses that were received in February and May about how to improve the PATH map and signage, Weinberg said. “This has been a highly collaborative process and our goal in making the PATH map concept available is to continue to allow the public to inform the development of the new map,” Weinberg said. The new map aims for calmer nerves, but there’s also money at stake. For every 1 per cent increase in regular PATH users — which is about 2,000 new users — the PATH generates $17 million in additional tax revenue, $2 million in HST and $285,000 in property tax revenue to the City of Toronto, according to a study completed in May by H. Barry Lyons Consultants Limited, entitled, “Opinion on the Economic Impact of an Improved Path Wayfinding System.”

Source: thestar September 26, 2016 13:52 UTC