Ever feel lost trying to navigate the maze beneath Toronto’s financial district?

You’re not alone.

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.

Some 200,000 pedestrians travel the PATH underground network each workday between 80 buildings, including five major banks.

The new PATH map

The network keeps them out of the wind and snow but the Toronto Financial District BIA admits in a press release it’s “also notoriously difficult to navigate, especially for new users.”

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Comments on the new map and signage are sought in an online survey and through #PATH360 on Twitter.

“We know there are further refinements to make and we hope both PATH experts and new users take the opportunity to assist in making the new map the best it can be,” said Evan Weinberg, policy and advocacy manager at the Toronto Financial District BIA, in a prepared statement.

The new map was drawn up after looking at almost 2,000 public responses that were received from February to 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 to reduce confusion, 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.”

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