Unique Public Roadway Types

[KEK Inc.]

I'm talking about what the road is actually called.  i.e., Avenue, Boulevard, Road, Street, Court, etc.

What are some unique ones?

I'll start off with WA-525:  Mukilteo Speedway.  It's a thouroughfare built as a bypass to go directly to Mukilteo and Whidbey Island from the freeways (I-5 and I-405).  Ironically enough, once you pass WA-99, there's lights and the speed limit is 25.   

[NE2]

Harlem River Driveway.

Fenway. Riverway. Arborway. Fellsway. Charlesgate.

[Big John]

In Green Bay, there is a road renamed early last decade to Brett Favre Pass.  After 2008, the signage is often vandalized to cover up or remove the "P"

[cpzilliacus]

Baltimore City, Maryland has a street called The Alameda (the southern end is Md. 542).

Richmond, Virginia has Boulevard (Va. 161).

[roadman65]

New York City with "Bowery."

[theline]

In South Bend, we have an Erskine Manor Hill. That's "Hill," instead of Avenue or Street. Here it is: http://goo.gl/maps/JmCdt

[motorway]

"Hill" is a common road type designation in the UK, and surprised it isn't used more often here. Also, there are several examples in New Jersey of a street being called just "Boulevard," Madonna-style.

[Kacie Jane]

Also, there are several examples in New Jersey of a street being called just "Boulevard," Madonna-style.

There's one here in Bellingham as well.  Google Maps insists on calling it Boulevard Street though.

[xcellntbuy]

The Paseo may be unique in Kansas City, MO.  Our members may know otherwise.

[1995hoo]

There's a residential street in Charlottesville, across from the University of Virginia's Central Grounds, called "Gildersleeve Wood." I've always liked that name.

A residential street a few miles from my house is called simply "The Parkway." I laugh when I see it because my car's sat-nav, which omits road type designations (e.g., Constitution Avenue appears as just "Constitution"), displays it as merely "The."

I know of a "Tinner's Hill" in the City of Falls Church and a "Brockett's Crossing" in Fairfax County.

"Avenue Road" in Toronto confounded me when I first encountered it because I wondered whether it was a road named "Avenue" or an avenue named "Road."

[KEK Inc.]

Baltimore City, Maryland has a street called The Alameda (the southern end is Md. 542).

Alameda can mean "tree-lined avenue" in Spanish (according to Google).  (The county and city in California probably refers to its polar grove meaning as well.)  There's a road in San Jose, CA, called 'The Alameda' as well. 

A similar popular one out in the west is 'The Embarcadero" which means wharf.  Oakland and San Francisco have these.

[hbelkins]

Hyden, Ky., home of former UK and NFL quarterback Tim Couch, has Tim Couch Pass. It's KY 118, the connector route between the Hal Rogers Parkway and US 421.

A subdivision outside Winchester, Ky. has Shalamar Rue and Lamond Ruelle.

[Takumi]

Waterfowl Flyway, in a Chesterfield subdivision called Woodland Pond.

[TheStranger]

Although most reknowned for one specific example (El Camino Real), the usage of "Camino" as a road type is not uncommon in California (i.e. Camino Capistrano).

Which makes El Camino Avenue in Sacramento delightfully redundant.

In North Sacramento, the new (as of the early 2000s) road linking Garden Highway and Arden Way is the Arden-Garden Connector.

[Ian]

New York State Thruway.

[cpzilliacus]

Columbia, Maryland has a slew of street names that are taken from English literature.  The signs in Columbia sometimes exclude the "type" of street, or there is not one at all.  Some examples:

Torrent Row

Jacob's Ladder

Billingsgate Row

Sunny Spring

[TheStranger]

Grand Concourse in the Bronx is one that I think is not emulated elsewhere:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Grand+Concourse,+Bronx,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.856344,-73.899193&spn=0.018989,0.027595&sll=37.269174,-119.306607&sspn=10.222803,14.128418&oq=Grand+Concourse&hnear=Grand+Concourse,+Bronx,+New+York&t=m&z=15

[mapman1071]

Mesa Arizona
Outside of Major Mile Streets (University Dr, Broadway Rd ...ECT) Numbered Streets, Numbered Avenues, Center Street &  Main Street/Apache Trail, All named streets have no titles (Extension, Longmore, Horne ...ect)

[mapman1071]

How about some towns and cities in Utah
2300 North
1100 South
6500 West
2200 East

For Example

[Scott5114]

"2300 North" is just a Utah-ized way of saying "N. 23rd St.".

[KEK Inc.]

How about some towns and cities in Utah
2300 North
1100 South
6500 West
2200 East

For Example

Most numbered streets and avenues are based off of the address grid.  I think it makes sense and makes getting around town easier.  If you want to go to 5922 15th Ave NE (arbritrary address -- I have no idea what it really is...) in Seattle, you'll know it's along 15th Ave NE between NE 59th St. and NE 60th St. without looking at a map.  I guess Utah skips making it a street and avenue and just numbers the road off of the addresses.

[motorway]

There's a residential street in Charlottesville, across from the University of Virginia's Central Grounds, called "Gildersleeve Wood." I've always liked that name.

Speaking of cool streets in university towns, the main drag in Cambridge, UK is called King's Parade (it runs past King's College)...always sounded very royally festive to me .

[1995hoo]

Thought of two others:

"Cavalier Corridor" in the Lake Barcroft neighborhood in Fairfax County, Virginia.

"Rebel Run" is a street running past Fairfax High School in Fairfax City. The school's teams are called the Rebels.

[Takumi]

Similar to "Rebel Run", I know of a "Rebel Ridge", also in Chesterfield County.

[hubcity]

There's a number of "Slip"s in NYC, too.

Also, I know of a residential street in Jackson, NJ called "Rue Monet". (As if he'd ever done anything bad to them  )