Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts

[jeffster]

The sign says Ottawa Street. Unsure if it says Ottawa St "W" as technically there is no Ottawas Street West, it's Ottawa Street South. I am pretty sure though that it has direction (Ottawa St S -- as well as 7/8)....

Not sure if this is irrelevant, but I’ve noticed that highway off ramps tend to be labelled [street] [direction], where the [direction] is which way you will be going. Normally this is fine, but if the street name itself has an important direction component, I’m not sure what happens. I can’t recall seeing a sign that said something like “King St. South North”, or even worse, “Ottawa St. South West”, where the first direction is the official direction in the street name and the second is the more informal direction of travel at that point.

Funny you say that, when they were building those roundabouts, the signs said "Ottawa Street West (to go North to Ottawa Street South)" and "Ottawa Street East (to go South to Ottawa Street North)"...I'm sure someone from out of town, doing the signs, took out a compass and said "what the $%&&!" and ended up printing up signs that were most accurate.

I had to do a double look, "Ottawa Street West" -- yet it seemed so correct.