Quote:
Originally Posted by alphachapmtl
Underground city : 31,5 km (Longest in the world)
Montreal's is the longest (including many dark sterile corridors),
but Toronto's is the biggest (and much better connected).
PATH is the largest underground shopping complex with 27 km (16 miles) of shopping arcades. It has 371,600 sq. metres (4 million sq. ft) of retail space. In fact, the retail space connected to PATH rivals the West Edmonton Mall in size.
http://www.toronto.ca/path/ |
"Many dark sterile corridors?" Does soft-lit travertine marble count as sterile?
Most of RÉSO features things that look like this:
(from montreal-underground.com)
(from
http://cheapoair.files.wordpress.com/)
(from
http://www.johnnyjet.com)
(
http://www.bob-wonderland.supanet.co...dMontreal2.jpg)
(from
www.blork.org)
with the occasional this (about as awful as I can find):
(from
www.johnnyjet.com)
RÉSO is still larger (bigger, longer whatever you want to call it) than PATH, and used on average by more than 5 times as many pedestrians (more than half a million) daily. It's also better connected (more than 60 buildings in the central segment alone along with seven metro stations). And, if it doesn't have as many square meters of retail space, it still has more actual retail outlets.