National Boards > General Highway Talk
Towns whose main street has the name of the town itself
KCRoadFan:
I was just thinking about how in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, the main street is called…Kirkwood Road.
Throughout the country, what other cities and towns can you think of in which the main street of town has the same name as the town itself? I know that US 20 through Mentor, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, is named Mentor Avenue, while Friendswood Drive is the main street in Friendswood, Texas, a Houston suburb. Meanwhile, the main street of Wendover, Utah/West Wendover, Nevada, is called Wendover Boulevard - and of course, also in Nevada, the predominant north-south road in Vegas, which includes the Strip, is officially named Las Vegas Boulevard.
Aside from the ones mentioned above, what other such examples can you think of? I believe it’s a pretty common thing out west, especially.
roadman65:
Altamonte Drive in Altamonte Springs, FL.
Though locals call it four thirty-six, that is its route number, nonetheless it’s not Semoran Boulevard like the rest of FL SR 436.
1:
In New England, it's much more common for street names to be of adjacent towns, where the street name tells you which town it goes to.
zachary_amaryllis:
Does South Boulder Road, ever actually touch Boulder?
The highway I live on (CO 14) is also known as Poudre Canyon Highway. so.. sorta close.
What if the reverse were true? Towns named after the road they're on? Nunn, CO could be just as simple as "US85sburg" or something.
Max Rockatansky:
Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas. Similarly Boulder City Parkway/Highway (Old US 93) is the main road through nearby Boulder City.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version