Posted on 06/04/04
We're off to see the new terminal
The road west is still rough and potholed, lined with rusty chainlink fences and shabby industrial buildings, for a long way before it breaks into the charmed realm of Toronto's glamorous new airport terminal. But everything inside is smooth and new, from the asphalt below to the fresh shrubs that dot every green embankment, each wrapped neatly in its own burlap sweater. At the end of Highway 409 travellers leave Toronto and enter Oz, where the road sweeps them up into the sky and delivers them to the gates of a glittering palace.
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