Beware of rising air quality

When I finally got past the obtrusive car ad and reached the Herald’s WestConnex report this morning, four typos glared out at me in that one story:

“Attendants at a Stop WestConnex meeting at the Balmain Town Hall”. Read “Attendees.” Actually, “Attendants” is not a typo, but entirely the wrong word. It meant people who attended the meeting, not staff who checked hats and coats.

“it would be a significant decision to remove that interchange, partly because [it] was part of the WestConnex business case.” Not really a typo either – the subject of the second clause was simply missing.

“An argument against removing the Camperdown interchange, however, was that [it] could direct extra traffic to the Anzac Bridge.” Word missing again.

“An entrance of similar scale would be built at Parramatta Road at Sydney University if an interchange was build there.” Curiously, the article got “built” right the first time but wrong the second time, and in the same sentence. Or was it an attempt at elegant variation?

As Mr Casey would have said, write out one hundred times, “I must check my work.”

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