The Gazette polled people on the West Island to find a single icon typical of their area, and none drew an overwhelming response. In fact the second most popular choice, Hudson Village, isn't even in the West Island; the newspaper's response that Hudson is included in their West Island coverage seems a bit lame.

The scattered response suggests that there isn't any one symbol typical of the area, and choices like the 211 bus, while based on an incontrovertible fact of suburban life, don't exactly lend themselves to dynamic logo design or whatever else you do with a collective icon. In fact the result is proof that the area is not, notionally, a single place, except as concerns the Gazette's marketing policies. posted at 12:40