Cars doing damage here and there
Police cars drove onto a patio at the MUHC hospital on Monday and broke through it (although the lede is buried in this story, the reason for their presence being mentioned in the fifth ‘graph: “The police, however, were able to retrieve the patient and return the individual back to the hospital” raising more questions than are answered). Anyone who’s seen cops driving over grass in parks and so forth will know the SPVM never walk if they can drive somewhere, however unsuitable.
In other news of cars being where they shouldn’t, a woman in St-Henri has had a car crash into her ground-floor flat for the fourth time in six years, which strongly suggests there’s a flaw in the street layout. The borough is promising to look into it.
Simon 09:41 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
Amazing, I remember this place from a previous time this happened. There’s lots of speeding on Saint-Antoine round there.
MarcG 09:52 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
Is it the building on street view that’s blurred out? https://goo.gl/maps/GTgBW6SMsvvKDWjt9
Ephraim 10:33 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
There was a famous turn at Pike River https://goo.gl/maps/DsqHM5QtCFphWkpm6 where so many people (often drunk) drove through the business that the government had to redesign the whole turn… not so sure that making a floral sign that could be a ramp was a good idea, though… but it used to be a 90 degree turn and people would just continue.
If people keep on skipping on the turn there, the easiest thing to do is put up a bollard at the sidewalk just before the dip for wheelchairs, on both sides. You clip the turn, you lose your car. No one to blame but yourself. If you don’t like a plain bollard, put up a bollard flowerpot (aka a concrete planter). Looks decorative and spruces up the neighbourhood, but really protects the corner.
dhomas 12:32 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
@MarcG from the aerial view of the area, it does not appear that the blurred out house is the one that was hit by the car. In the photos of the damage from the article, you can see that the brick wall does not form a 90 degree angle, whereas the blurry house appears to (from the aerial view). You can also see that there is a small concrete portion at the bottom of the brickwork (like a “crépi”) that the blurred out house does not appear to have. As far as I can tell from these two details, it would be the house across the street from the blurred out one.
I’m now curious, though, to know why someone would blur out their house.
Kate 12:50 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
dhomas, I have not investigated this in detail, but I believe Google is obliged to do so if you make the request on privacy concerns.
I used to often take a break on that site which is a sort of game, it shows you a random Streetview scene and you have to guess where it is. I discovered that a surprising number of buildings in Germany are blurred, and assumed it had been a thing there. Most places that allow Streetview don’t have so much blurring, although I’ve found a few places around Montreal that do. I don’t know how you apply for it.
mare 15:35 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
It used to be that streets that had a battered persons shelter would not be included in Streetview. The whole area was left out, not just the actual building. (Can’t check, this old iPad can’t do Streetview.)
Michael Black 15:59 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
I thought the concern was about people not buildings. So you could be blurred out if you complained that you were in the photo.
MarcG 16:02 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
It’s crazy that cars crash into that building – they would have to be driving pretty far over onto the sidewalk.
Blork 16:24 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
Google will blur out buildings if asked. I’m not sure why people would ask for this, but plenty of people do. For reference, drop your Streetview marker down anywhere in Germany; it’s like every fourth building is blurred out.
Alex L 18:37 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
Drivers often get crazy along that stretch of Saint-Antoine and on Saint-Jacques. Last year, I was almost hit by someone driving super fast on the protected path that runs between Saint-Jacques and Notre-Dame. I only transit through there: I don’t know how people that live in northern Saint-Henri can cope with this constant madness.
Roman 19:10 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
The house that was hit is squarely in the corner of the street in the direction of traffic.
I’m driving through this exact turn very often. I’m failing to see how it’s any special than any other turn. Why aren’t cars smashing into other corners?
Roman 19:11 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
This is the corner that was hit
https://goo.gl/maps/1hGqFgyGRtE5GYGE9
Michael Black 19:14 on 2019-10-29 Permalink
I’ve seen at least story like this before. I think in NDG, but maybe others. The house gets hit more than once. So likely something wrong, either with the intersection, or some reason drivers are careless at that point.
Michael
Kate 08:03 on 2019-10-30 Permalink
dhomas, you’ve evidently never spoken to a serious privacy fanatic, have you. Of course the irony is that having one house blurred on a block will, if anything, spark more curiosity about it than had it been left alone.