Dan416
Senior Member
Does anyone actually use that parking lot for going to the mall? I can understand maybe some office workers but I who would drive downtown to shop at the Eaton Centre?
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Does anyone actually use that parking lot for going to the mall? I can understand maybe some office workers but I who would drive downtown to shop at the Eaton Centre?
saveyorksouthweston
New Member
I drive to the Eaton Centre to shop with my family.
I do not understand the reason behind the comment.
Lets get rid of all the cars driving into the city and see how long the businesses survive.
I do not understand the reason behind the comment.
Lets get rid of all the cars driving into the city and see how long the businesses survive.
whatever
Senior Member
I live just north of Carlton and I've used those parking lots. Sometimes it's just easier to drive down and load up the car than it is to try to walk home pushing a dolly (which I've also done; never doing that with a 46" television again tho)
Dan416
Senior Member
The Eaton Centre is connected to Queen and Dundas subway stations. There's no reason TEC needs any parking at all in my opinion. It's a shopping mall not a residence.
junctionist
Senior Member
The amount of people the subway moves downtown is staggering. That kind of capacity is what makes downtown work. I've only used that parking lot once in recent years, but it's an interesting experience. The top section of the garage allows for views on Yonge, and the stairs connecting with the mall allow for fantastic views of the length of the mall from four floors up. It was a good design, though admittedly few ever take in those vistas.
Remember, it's a shopping mall; clothes, shoes, and watches aren't a challenge to carry home at all on public transit.
Remember, it's a shopping mall; clothes, shoes, and watches aren't a challenge to carry home at all on public transit.
I've used it once, and I've been going to the Eaton Centre since it was built (yeah, yeah, I'm a dinosaur). I've even bought luggage at the mall and rolled it home on the subway (not in rush hour of course!)
ILuvTO
Active Member
Some people from suburbia DO in fact shop at the Eaton Centre, and can't get there easily via public transit and must drive. It only makes sense for the mall to have it's own parking.
Skeezix
Senior Member
Anecdotal stories about taking stuff home on the subway or never having driven to the Eaton Centre aside, I agree that the Eaton Centre is probably far less reliant on automobile traffic than any other major mall in the GTA. Having said that, I used to work in one of the towers at the Eaton Centre, and that lot was often packed - even level 5. Obviously, it serves two of the three office towers (I presume that the workers at 1 Dundas who commute by car use the Dundas parkade), and I suspect that it would hard for CF to lease that office space without any parking. The lot is even busy evenings and weekends - lots of shoppers do appear to drive to the mall. You also see a lot of people parking there for church on Sundays (St. Michael's, Metropolitan United, Holy Trinity), as well in the evening for shows at the Canon, Massey Hall and the Elgin Winter Garden. If it was more lucrative to replace the parkade with retail or office space, it presumably would have been done by now. I suspect that the lot is a cash cow.
Uncle Teddy
Senior Member
They removed a parking garage to build the Roger Business School. This parking was added back in when they built the Rogers Business School complex. Obviously parking is important to Cadillac Fairview or they wouldn't have replaced it.
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gabe
Guest
Parking garage is still needed not just for the people in the burbs, i know a few people that live downtown with fancy cars that wouldn't be caught dead on public transit. I have never used the parking garage at Eaton Centre either
Kingsway
Active Member
Parking is probably important to the 2 office towers also and office users within the upper floors of TEC.
Every time I use the lot (which is every single time I go there even though I live on a subway line) its pretty full
Every time I use the lot (which is every single time I go there even though I live on a subway line) its pretty full
Hairball
Active Member
Of course parking is needed at the mall, but isn't the Eaton Centre a fairly easy place to get by transit even if you live in the suburbs? Well I guess except for the length of the commute which can be quite long...
Greg
New Member
I'm from the 905 and I usually drive downtown 2-3 times a year with the sole purpose of going to the Eaton Centre. I always park in the Bay Parkade, as I find it easier to get in and out of rather than that on the Yonge side of things. Parking is definitely handy there although there certainly are cheaper places in the vicinity to park.
Duke-of-East-York
New Member
Do you have a link? After a quick browse through SSP, I couldn't find anything.
ILuvTO
Active Member
I could walk to Barrie faster then taking three buses and two subways to get to TEC from Markham. Driving takes me 30 mins tops on an avg Saturday afternoon with medium traffic on the DVP.