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Underground Toronto

GREAT ARTICLE on Toronto's underground PATH ["Under Cover in Toronto," Feb. 25]. I am an academic who plans to write an article on the PATH as an example of public/private cooperation in building municipal infrastructure. (I also live beside the Skydome, so I use the PATH all the time).

If Andrea Sachs had wanted to get to Montreal and explore its underground without going "above," she could also have taken the VIA train from Union Station to Montreal and never have been exposed to the elements!

Dimitry Anastakis

Toronto

I WAS born in Toronto and spent a lot of the early '90s wandering around the PATH. It seems that the directions are not much better than they used to be -- fun if you are wandering around on the weekend, but aggravating if you are on a schedule during the week.

Grant Matthews

Houston

JUST A NOTE on the "ersatz Pentagon Mall" nature of Eaton Centre. Eaton Centre opened in 1977 and was considered a groundbreaking design for downtown malls. The idea of putting a major mall downtown was fairly new, and Eaton Centre was copied all across North America. The design of the interior was also considered cutting-edge, using exposed pipes and elevator machinery a la the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Having visited Pentagon Mall and finding it gently underwhelming, I have to think that you had your ersatzes backward. I have never seen a mall like Eaton Centre, but Pentagon Mall looks pretty much like every other mall I have seen. However, on a more positive note, I found a pair of boots at Cole Haan at Pentagon that I couldn't find even in New York.

Dan Lawson

Port Hope, Ontario