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Do your streets have multiple names?

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No but I did notice a lot of the names end in street! Holy crap. How do they know it's not an avenue, a drive or a lane! Can you drive on a lane or an avenue. If you can only drive on a drive - how do you get down a lane or an avenue. Do you need to push your car!!! Bejesus, I forgot about the street. For the love of God what do we do on a street! What's happening here! Is someone watching us??? Did I see a set of eyes peering out at me from the woods???

(I love to mess with drunks and stoners. 😀)
 
Not really multiple names, but at some point in the past, some how they changed the name I live on. It used to be <something> Hill Road. Now, it's Habgood Road. Every time someone needs my address, I have to spell "Habgood" for them. I never thought I actually gave out my address that much until I moved here. Since then, I've realized it's more often than you'd think. I wish they'd change the name of the road back.
 
We some with the same names but it's usually something like M-39 also being called Washtenaw.

More annoying than that is is how much they like the name Huron. In the same city there is a Huron St, Lake Huron St, Huron River Dr and Huron River Ave
 
the street I live on crosses 2 towns.

when it goes from my town into the next, it goes from being Cedar Ave to Cedar St.
 
loki8481 said:
the street I live on crosses 2 towns.

when it goes from my town into the next, it goes from being Cedar Ave to Cedar St.
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I'm soooo confused! Wouldn't it be the avenue you live on goes from being Cedar Ave to Cedar Street?

( 😛 )
 
Austin is bad about that. Two examples:

RM2222->Northland Dr.->Allandale Rd.->Koenig Ln->Hwy290 all within 5 miles or so.

US183->Ed Bluestien Blvd->Anderson Ln->Research Blvd->US183 (although everyone just calls the whole thing "183")
 
Anchorage Alaska is the worst...

Northern Lights magically becomes Benson and then later turns back into Northern Lights
Minnesota magically turns into O'Malley
Dimond magically becomes Abbott
A St becomes C St
Ingra becomes the Seward Highway
Tudor becomes Muldoon

and on and on... You just kind of have to know where you're going there...
 
Yup I think every city of any size has a few like that. I know we have several but I can't think of any off the top of my head.
 
often two previously unconnected streets are joined together

since no one wants to change their address, they just let the street name change at the boundary
 
I guess this question only really makes sense as a question with North American cities, where the streets are all laid out on a grid.

In European Cities name changes every mile or so are the norm. I guess because neighboring villages all merged into each other and each kept their own name for the road through them.

Whereas US cities were all laid out at one go.
 
Of course different sections of the same street/road can have different names. It would be weird otherwise, because street names would be totally unrelated to their location or function.

http://maps.google.se/?ie=UTF8&ll=59.854342,17.640095&spn=0.004111,0.013937&t=h&z=17

For example, one street is called Hospital Road where it passes the hospital, and Lower Castle Street where it passes just below the castle. Makes sense. Maybe you had too many beers 😛
 
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Several have multiple names at the same time, at least on some sections.
Buffalo Road = Route 20
East Lake Road = Route 5

There was a stretch back home where I believe 3 different road names occupied the same length of highway. Route 22, Interstate 78, and Route 309 - congratulations, you're on all of them right now.
 
Happens in Louisville all the time, here's an example:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou....247045,-85.650616&spn=0.022447,0.045362&z=15
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou....245697,-85.650144&spn=0.022447,0.045362&z=15

Look at the bottom right, see where Browns Ln turns into S Hubbards Ln? oh but look a block to the west, it is Browns Ln there. Also in that vicinity, Kresge Way changes to Bowling Blvd.

In the middle Breckinridge Ln changes to Chenoweth Ln, and to the far west Pee Wee Reese Rd changes to Willis Ave and Beals Branch Road changes to Wilmington Ave
 
I have some that change name, but they typically change names in their new city, so it's not a big deal.

What is annoying is TWO SEPERATE roads with nearly the same name.

I have two roads in close proximity (but not connected) that have the same name, but a different ending.

Alice Ave and Alice Loop

Then, also some idiots decide to name two adjacent residential roads nearly the same causing much confusion at times: Bugle Court and Beagle Drive. Different yes, but at first glance most people would confuse the two.
 
pmv said:
I guess this question only really makes sense as a question with North American cities, where the streets are all laid out on a grid.

In European Cities name changes every mile or so are the norm. I guess because neighboring villages all merged into each other and each kept their own name for the road through them.

Whereas US cities were all laid out at one go.
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Have you ever been to the US?
 
pmv said:
I guess this question only really makes sense as a question with North American cities, where the streets are all laid out on a grid.

In European Cities name changes every mile or so are the norm. I guess because neighboring villages all merged into each other and each kept their own name for the road through them.

Whereas US cities were all laid out at one go.
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You sound like an expert on City planning in the USA.

You're completely wrong.
 
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