In winter, when there’s ice in the harbour and the ferry can’t get through, the only real way for the 650 or so residents of the Toronto Islands to get to the mainland is to take a bus from Ward’s Island to Billy Bishop Airport, then wait for a chance to cross the runway and walk through the airport’s tunnel to the base of Bathurst Street.
The journey can eat up hours of any day, according to Michael Page, a Ward’s Island resident for over 40 years. But, given the choice of all that, or a permanent bridge to the mainland — a proposal city council has agreed to study — he’d settle for the way it is.
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