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Funniest street names

Started by J Route Z, September 15, 2014, 12:56:22 PM

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jakeroot

Quote from: NE2 on July 12, 2017, 01:37:12 PM
Quote from: kphoger on April 16, 2017, 05:36:58 PM
Google Maps makes this fun.

Are you sure? I see no way to make this fun.

Too late to respond. Kphoger has disappeared.


Rothman

A place to languish in Bethlehem, NY.

Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position(s) of NYSDOT.

formulanone

Quote from: jbnv on June 09, 2017, 11:25:34 AM
If you're a juvenile boy, Everhard Rd. in Canton, OH, and Goodwood Rd. in Baton Rouge.

Probably comes from the Goodwood House, and estate (later, and airfield and racetrack) owned by the Earl of March.

I'm probably one of the few that thinks "race track" before anything else. [/hipster mode]

yakra

"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker

jbnv

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jbnv

Saline, LA: Strange Church Road. (Too bad they abbreviated it on the sign. I completely missed it as I drove by.)

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DandyDan

I spent part of last week hanging out with an old friend in Independence, MO and we got to drive past Necessary Road, which looked like a dead end to me.
MORE FUN THAN HUMANLY THOUGHT POSSIBLE

yakra

Is that really a necessary road?
"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker

bzakharin


tckma

Enjoy these submissions --

East Northport, NY: https://goo.gl/maps/fZzz1nWadtv
Locust Valley, NY: https://goo.gl/maps/uZw5NafWLXn
Shrewsbury, PA: https://goo.gl/maps/5ZqwcUuycW82
Littlestown, PA (and as far as I can tell, nowhere near a hunting range, fish hatchery, or hunting and fishing club): https://goo.gl/maps/8NUC6YgEgrk
Keymar, MD: https://goo.gl/maps/qXrrvFaPWBw
Keymar, MD (so what happens when this road is closed?): https://goo.gl/maps/Thkr1hCUzYT2
Westminster, MD (shouldn't this just be "Windsor Pike?"): https://goo.gl/maps/riyAuRAiFDR2

In the "We Couldn't Decide" category:

Westminster, MD: https://goo.gl/maps/VaaZZ8qq7aQ2
Walkersville, MD: https://goo.gl/maps/wYg4xxwhenT2
Lowell, MA: https://goo.gl/maps/BAPoHt31yqD2
Gettysburg, PA: https://goo.gl/maps/9iAm81KQubE2

Several roads in Columbia, MD sound as if they were named by hippies in the 1970s -- for example: Flight Feather, Blue Pool, Many Hours, Quiet Times -- and no, none of these have suffixes like Rd, St, or Ave -- even in GIS.

In the "uncreative" category:

Westminster, MD / Hanover PA has "Line Road" straddling (you guessed it) the state line: https://goo.gl/maps/majUWAfGBYk




bzakharin

Broadway with a suffix is pretty common actually. Usually it's street, but there is a Broadway Road in Cranbury, NJ.

KEVIN_224

Funny thing with that Line Road example above, on the MD/PA border: A slight distance north of that in PA, there's a Bee Jay Lane.  :hmmm: :-D

US 89

Quote from: bzakharin on July 27, 2017, 01:10:20 PM
Broadway with a suffix is pretty common actually. Usually it's street, but there is a Broadway Road in Cranbury, NJ.

There's also a Broadway Blvd in Albuquerque, but Albuquerque usually doesn't put suffixes on street signs.

roadman65

Wichita there is Broadway Avenue (old US 81) but not signed but in reality yes.

I have seen Broadway Blvd. in some places as well.

In Orlando we have Landstreet Road which is not comical funny but peculiar funny.
Every day is a winding road, you just got to get used to it.

Sheryl Crowe

Nanis

Map of state roads I have taken pictures for the signs for can be seen here (although four routes ave not been added yet because of their lengths.):
https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/us_route_map/s7vYO7rC80

SectorZ

Quote from: Nanis on July 29, 2017, 10:19:32 AM
I sometimes see a road named Unruh Avenue. Seems like a metal battlecry or something.
And yes, it does exist
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Unruh+Ave,+Philadelphia,+PA/@40.0382069,-75.0649442,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c6b684bbf9a74b:0x29543b6551ad856

It is a last name, that while not common, Boston's ABC affiliate had a Heather Unruh as a local newscaster for over a decade.

theline

Jesse Unruh was a well-known California politician from the Sixties through the Eighties. The name stuck with me because it seemed odd.

tckma

Interestingly enough, I happened to come up MD-194 yesterday after working in northern Virginia at a location where I don't normally work.

There's a long-term bridge closure on 194 for reconstruction.

The detour is signed along... wait for it...

Detour Road to MD-77.

I took a photo because I couldn't resist, but the sun was setting so it's bad quality.  It's on my Facebook (currently as my profile cover photo), but I'm at work right now and Facebook is blocked, but I'm tckma there, in case you want to see it.  I have until September 4th (I think) to get a daytime photo, which I want to do as my current photo is too dark.

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: tckma on August 02, 2017, 09:43:35 AM
Interestingly enough, I happened to come up MD-194 yesterday after working in northern Virginia at a location where I don't normally work.

There's a long-term bridge closure on 194 for reconstruction.

The detour is signed along... wait for it...

Detour Road to MD-77.

I took a photo because I couldn't resist, but the sun was setting so it's bad quality.  It's on my Facebook (currently as my profile cover photo), but I'm at work right now and Facebook is blocked, but I'm tckma there, in case you want to see it.  I have until September 4th (I think) to get a daytime photo, which I want to do as my current photo is too dark.

So you're saying that you can't get to "Ladiesburg" right now on 194?

dvferyance

I saw a Hardscrabble Road in Jefferson County wi. Got a kick out of that after seeing Monsters University.

Roadgeekteen

Quote from: dvferyance on August 02, 2017, 01:28:06 PM
I saw a Hardscrabble Road in Jefferson County wi. Got a kick out of that after seeing Monsters University.
Scrabble is hard if you can't spell.
God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

tckma

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 02, 2017, 09:57:31 AM
Quote from: tckma on August 02, 2017, 09:43:35 AM
Interestingly enough, I happened to come up MD-194 yesterday after working in northern Virginia at a location where I don't normally work.

There's a long-term bridge closure on 194 for reconstruction.

The detour is signed along... wait for it...

Detour Road to MD-77.

I took a photo because I couldn't resist, but the sun was setting so it's bad quality.  It's on my Facebook (currently as my profile cover photo), but I'm at work right now and Facebook is blocked, but I'm tckma there, in case you want to see it.  I have until September 4th (I think) to get a daytime photo, which I want to do as my current photo is too dark.

So you're saying that you can't get to "Ladiesburg" right now on 194?

Ladiesburg is still fully accessible (My wife's grandfather, who visited from overseas a few years ago, asked if there was a "Gentsburg" when we drove through the town).  The only part that is closed is the bridge over Little Pipe Creek at the Frederick/Carroll County Line.  To me, Good Intent Road to Claybaugh to Johnsville to Middleburg makes more sense as a detour, but then again, that crosses a single-lane bridge, and there are big trucks that use 194, so I can see why they signed the detour via Detour Road, other than just for the laughs.

jakeroot

This roundabout in Newbury, Berkshire is the meeting point of Tull Way and Turnpike Road...

https://goo.gl/m8iM7A


Roadgeekteen

Quote from: jakeroot on August 07, 2017, 02:46:17 AM
This roundabout in Newbury, Berkshire is the meeting point of Tull Way and Turnpike Road...

https://goo.gl/m8iM7A


Why would a road be called turnpike road?
God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5



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