Man crashes motorcycle on the Camillien-Houde
A man descending the Camillien-Houde on a motorcycle Sunday afternoon hit the barrier and was badly injured.
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Kate
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jeather 21:52 on 2021-04-04 Permalink
I know this isn’t the point but isn’t Camillien-Houde an east west street? Which direction is north?
Kate 22:17 on 2021-04-04 Permalink
It depends whether you’re thinking compass north or Montreal north, plus the road snakes around. The TVA piece says “vers le bas sur la voie se rendant vers l’avenue du Mont-Royal” which is about as accurate as it can be, I think. You can’t go downhill on the C-H in but one direction, because the road changes name at the top so if you find yourself going downhill in the other direction, towards Côte-des-Neiges, you’re not on Camillien-Houde any more, but on Remembrance Road.
jeather 10:30 on 2021-04-05 Permalink
Why would anyone describe compass north for routes in the city? I actually never remember where the road changes names, anyhow.
Yes, other articles described it clearly as “descending towards Mont-Royal”, which is fine, but who would call that direction north, even at the Gazette?
Kate 10:52 on 2021-04-05 Permalink
I think it’s the same principle that leads journalists to write that something happened in “Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension” or “Ahuntsic-Cartierville” – i.e., it’s technically, literally true, it’s what they got from a police handout, so they can’t be called out for making a mistake.
To a Montrealer it hardly matters whether someone descending Camillien-Houde toward Park Avenue is technically northbound, because it’s not how a Montrealer perceives the geography. Likewise, whether an incident happened in St-Michel or Park Ex, Cartierville or Ahuntsic, has significance, but the journalist may not have been arsed to check which one it is, on a map.
Maybe too many people in editorial don’t live in town and have never lived in town?
Blork 11:03 on 2021-04-05 Permalink
“Maybe too many people in editorial …”
No. The problem is there aren’t enough people in editorial. As in, all they have is writers, no editors. Because the editorial offices have been stripped to the bone.