Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts

[danbrotherston]

In Montreal, streets go east/west from Boul. St. Laurent which is the traditional dividing line between French and English Montrealers (although this is no longer true).
Also, Montreal is tilted so when you're driving down a road labeled Ouest (West) you're actually going South West. Everyone goes along with the big lie and it works out well.

The difference is that in Kitchener many of the North-South roads largely run only a one or two dozen degrees away from East-West.

Worse, the region uses a different (more accurate) compass from Kitchener (not street names, but where Kitchener City will say "south on Victoria", the region might say "west on Victoria").  This makes communicating with an already complex government even more difficult.