A couple of streets here do this. West Street starts in downtown Jackson. When it crosses Mayes Street, it changes to Northbrook Drive for about two miles. After crossing Northside Drive, it then becomes Hanging Moss Road until it reaches West County Line Road (where it becomes Madison County/city of Ridgeland). From there, it becomes Highland Colony Parkway until reaching MS 469 at Madison, when it becomes Bozeman Road. When Bozeman Rd. reaches the Gluckstadt community, it becomes Catlett Road. If I'm not mistaken, I believe Catlett changes name before finally ending at MS 22 west of Canton.
Terry Road also does this. Recently, the stretch of Terry Road between I-20 and the downtown/Jackson State University area was renamed University Blvd. Once University crosses Gallatin into downtown, it then becomes Pascagoula Street until it ends at I-55 just east of downtown.
Near where I live in Orange County CA, I consider these one continuous street route.
(From South to North) Street of the Golden Lantern -> Moulton Pkwy -> Irvine Center Dr -> Edinger Rd.
In Petersburg, Young's Road heads south from US 1-460B and becomes Squirrel Level Road at VA 142. Squirrel Level then leaves to the west and the road becomes Wells Road. It then becomes Vaughan Road after it meets Halifax Road. It may also very briefly be Halifax, but if so it isn't signed. Vaughan Road also changes names twice (Duncan Road and Old Stage Road) in Dinwiddie County.
Travel outside of the country, and you're likely to find streets that change names every few blocks.....
In Richmond...
- Old Osborne Turnpike (VA 5) enters from the east and becomes Main Street at Orleans Street about 500 feet inside the city limits (the segment between the city line and Orleans St is considered by the city to be Old Osborne Tnpk). It remains Main Street despite changing route numbers several times (from VA 5 to US 60/VA 5 to just US 60 to US 60/360 to US 60/TRUCK 360 to VA 147) all the way to Boulevard (VA 161), where it becomes Ellwood Avenue. Ellwood Avenue becomes discontinuous at Thompson Street but its orphaned segments are all Ellwood Avenue.
- River Road (VA 147) enters Richmond from the west and becomes Cary Street Road at Three Chopt Road (former VA 197). It becomes just Cary Street at Cameron Street, at the onramp to southbound I-195 and VA 76. It remains Cary Street all the way through Richmond clear up until it ends at Pear Street.
- Chamberlayne Road (US 1/301) enters Richmond from the north and becomes Chamberlayne Avenue. It becomes Belvidere Street when it crosses I-95, then becomes Cowardin Avenue when it crosses the James River. It becomes Jefferson Davis Highway a few blocks later.
Another one from Petersburg: South Boulevard begins in a neighborhood next to I-95, going west past the 301 twins for a mile or two until it reaches Johnson Road, upon which it becomes the fun-to-drive Defense Road. It then becomes Fort Lee Road at VA 142.
Off the top of my head I can think of 1.5 in Colonial Heights. The first one is Stuart Ave -> Conduit Road -> Dunston Point Parkway. The other one is W. Roslyn Road -> Southpark Boulevard -> E. Roslyn Road. I guess that only counts for half.
Osceola County, FL where US 192 goes from West to East as Bronson Hwy, then Vine Street, back to Bronson Hwy, then 13th Street and once again Bronson Hwy.
FL 436 goes from Semoran Boulevard to Altamonte Drive and back to Semoran Boulevard. The only hold up is Altamonte Springs does not want to be consistent with the rest of the communities around it and named the road after itself!
Goldenrod Road at its northern terminus briefly changes names to Osceola Avenue cause of FDOT's change in alignment there when the road was widened they chose not to do Goldenrod Road at its end, but to shift the traffic over to a newer facility.
Charlottesville, Virginia, is notorious for this. For example:
Coming into town from the west on US-250 you're on Ivy Road. It becomes University Avenue when it crosses US-29 Business near UVA. A short distance later, after it's past the University, it becomes Main Street, then when it gets downtown it becomes Water Street.
Garth Road, also coming from the west, becomes Barracks Road, then Rugby Road, then Preston Avenue, then Market Street.
Going north Rugby Road becomes Hydraulic Road when you cross the bypass. Hydraulic later turns left and if you stay on the main route without turning left you're on Rio Road (pronounced with a long "I" like rye bread with an "o" on the end). Rio hooks back to the southeast and becomes Park Street.
Fifth Street becomes Ridge Street and then McIntire Road.
Maury Road becomes Alderman Road and then changes to Copeley Road.
I recall a few name changes like that in Durham as well. Cameron Boulevard changes to Academy Road, so everyone called it NC-751. Duke University Road becomes Chapel Hill Street (talk about incongruous if you take rivalries seriously). Meanwhile, University Drive becomes Duke Street at one end and Old Chapel Hill Road at the other. I know there were others but I'm not inclined to look them up. One of the big things I recall is that people always said Durham needed to learn that you can use names other than "Duke," "University," and "Chapel" or names containing those words.
The ones I mentioned in Durham generally changed names again, as I recall, but off the top of my head I don't recall to what except for University Drive.
In the L.A. area there's also:
Helberta Avenue - Camino Real - Sepulveda Boulevard* - Willow Street - Katella Avenue - Villa Park Road - Santiago Canyon Road
*this portion of Sepulveda is disconnected from the better-known portion to the north.
Near San Jose is:
Main Street - Los Gatos Boulevard - Bascom Avenue - Washington Street* - Lafayette Street - Gold Street
*Washington does continue, but Lafayette is the "thru" route at that intersection.
We have a few of these in Lincoln-one of the main ones is Normal Blvd./Capitol Pkwy./K & L Streets(one-way pair)/Rosa Parks Way.
I have a friend from college who is from Nashville, and he has pointed out to me before that there are a lot of these there. One is the TN 155 loop which is Briley Pkwy., Thompson Ln., Woodmont Blvd. and White Bridge Rd.(actually Woodmont Blvd. is not part of TN 155, but it connects the two ends). Old Hickory Blvd. is also part of a number of name changes as the road runs as mostly a loop around the city(except for the area around Percy Priest Lake and the absence of a bridge across the Cumberland River on the west end), but it makes a number of turns off the "main road" and the "main road" continues under a different name. Because of this it is very difficult and makes little sense geographically to follow the road from beginning to end as separate sections of the road are connected much easier and faster by other roads.
In Sacramento...
Pocket Road becomes Meadowview Road, which then becomes Mack Road, and then Elsie Avenue, before ending as Cottonwood Lane. However, Meadowview and Mack were not connected as one street until the early 1980s.
Charlotte is great for this. You have Idlewild/Rama/Sardis/Fairview/Tyvola, and my favorite Charlottean quirk, Mulberry Church/Billy Graham/Woodlawn/Runnymede/Sharon/Wendover/Eastway
In Frederick MD 4th Street changes to Dill Ave a couple blocks west of Market street. After a couple more blocks it changes to Rosemont Ave. A mile or so later after passing the edge of Fort Detrick it changes to Yellow Springs Rd.
A quite long chain that takes you through Manhattan, The Bronx, and New Rochelle, NY:
West 207th Street - West Fordham Road - East Fordham Road - (Bronx and) Pelham Parkway - Shore Road - Pelham Road - Echo Avenue - River Street
If you stretch the definition of "straight" out of the rotary at the end of River Street, you can also tack Memorial Highway on there.
Ahem, London.
From west (Hanworth) to east (London):
Bear Rd
A314 Hounslow Rd
A314 Hanworth Rd
A315 High St
A315 London Rd
A315 High St
A315 North Circular Rd
A315 Chiswick High Rd
A315 King St
A315 Hammersmith Rd
A315 Kensington High Rd
A315 Kensington Rd
A315 Knightsbridge
A4 Knightsbridge
A4 Piccadilly
A401 Shaftesbury Ave
Shaftesbury Ave
Starting in Bexley, Ohio:
Ashbourne Rd becomes Clifton Ave [enters Columbus] becomes Greenway Ave S becomes Greenway Ave becomes Mt Vernon Ave becomes Martin Luther King Jr Blvd becomes Spring St becomes Dublin Rd [enters Grandview Heights] [enters Columbus again] becomes Riverside Dr [enters Upper Arlington] [enters Columbus again] [enters Dublin] [leaves Dublin] (becomes unnamed SR 257 maybe?) becomes Klondike Rd.
Klondike Rd finally ends at US 36 between Ostrander and Delaware.
That's 10 names in about 30 miles – and 9 of them can be found in the urban, easternmost ~10 miles. At least 6 names can be found in a contiguous stretch contained entirely in and maintained by the City of Columbus.
Quote from: Bickendan on March 04, 2012, 11:58:24 PM
Ahem, London.
From west (Hanworth) to east (London):
Bear Rd
A314 Hounslow Rd
A314 Hanworth Rd
A315 High St
No, not a direct continuation at all... If you had Staines Road, then you'd be making a point.
QuoteA315 London Rd
We're still not in London yet... This is London Road, Hounslow.
QuoteA315 High St
We're still not in London's road naming area - that comes at Hammersmith. This is Brentford...
QuoteA315 North Circular Rd
Your map is very very wrong - not only is it not the North Circular, but the South Circular bit is (A205) Chiswick High Road. Perhaps you mean Kew Bridge Road.
QuoteA315 Chiswick High Rd
A315 King St
King Street is our first genuine London road! Original layout in Hammersmith means that it's only a rough continuation of the road from the west (the original Roman line obliterated by the village centre).
QuoteA315 Hammersmith Rd
A315 Kensington High Rd
A315 Kensington Rd
A315 Knightsbridge
A4 Knightsbridge
A4 Piccadilly
Obviously the road goes through the ancient town of Kensington. The two 'Knightsbridge's you list obviously have the same road name.
QuoteA401 Shaftesbury Ave
Shaftesbury Ave
Historically seperated by layout at Piccadilly Circus. Also, same road name.
What you have done is
1)taken several roads (in the American sense of routes through several communities if there's some vague sort of straight line, not just the British sense), through several places - London, Chiswick, Brentford, Hounslow.
2)imposed a history of London that makes it look as if it's Los Angeles or something in that there are not lots of very old towns and villages that were subsumed by the urban area and when the London street name reform came about, it was to remove duplicates in the county of London, not waste money removing the history of London by giving main routes one long road name that people wouldn't use. Most of those street names are organic, not planned.
3)imposed a US view of road naming on the UK
I can't believe I forgot this one; while it's not in a city, it's on the same right-of-way:
In Henrico County, Horsepen Road turns onto itself and the mainline continues as Glenside Drive. Glenside Drive becomes Hilliard Road at US 33, and it remains Hilliard Road until it ends at US 1.
Just a few off the top of my head
In Edina and Minneapolis Gleason Rd becomse Vernon Ave becomes West 50th St.
The road marked for much of its length as MN-120 is, at various points, Century Ave, Geneva Ave, Division St and County Line Road. Several of these overlap (ie the signs on one side of the road are different than those on the other side).
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emphasis added in your quoted words below]
Quote from: english si on March 05, 2012, 04:15:17 AM
What you have done is
1)taken several roads (in the American sense of routes through several communities if there's some vague sort of straight line, not just the British sense), through several places - London, Chiswick, Brentford, Hounslow.
2)imposed a history of London that makes it look as if it's Los Angeles or something in that there are not lots of very old towns and villages that were subsumed by the urban area and when the London street name reform came about, it was to remove duplicates in the county of London, not waste money removing the history of London by giving main routes one long road name that people wouldn't use. Most of those street names are organic, not planned.
3)imposed a US view of road naming on the UK
English, you are
so correct.
One of the
charms of Greater London (at least to me, and I have
not dared to drive there, so I have only gotten around on foot or by transit bus or the Tube) is that the street network is so very "confusing," since the urban area grew up (for the most part) without a master plan of some sort (compare and contrast with Washington, D.C., for example, which
still manages to have some very confusing aspects of its street network).
In the Denver area, there are quite a few. Basically, whenever a road curves, it's given a new name to fit within the street grid.
Starting in NW Denver, Irving St heads S, then SE as Speer Blvd thru downtown, then E as 1st Ave thru Cherry Creek, then S for two blocks as Steele St, then SE for 2 blocks as Cherry Creek Dr N, then east as Alameda Ave into Aurora, then Alameda Pkwy, then S as Tower Rd, SE then S as Reservoir Rd into Centennial, S then SE as Himalaya St, then W as Orchard Rd, ending at Parker Rd (SR 83), which it crossed further north as Alameda.
Total Length: 27.71 miles
Total Amount of Street Names: 11
Another one that has not been mentioned is U.S. 29 in Northern Virginia. Headed South (and west) from the Key Bridge, it starts out in Virginia as N. Fort Myer Drive (southbound) and N. Lynn Street (northbound). Then it quickly becomes Lee Highway after a turn to the west. But U.S. 29 becomes "separated" from Lee Highway for several blocks (U.S. 29 is Old Dominion Drive), then regains Lee Highway. When U.S. 29 arrives at the City of Falls Church, it becomes Washington Street, but when it leaves Falls Church and enters Fairfax County, it again becomes Lee Highway. When U.S. 29 leaves Fairfax County and enters the City of Fairfax, it is usually called Fairfax Boulevard, but when it leaves the City of Fairfax and re-enters Fairfax County it again regains the name of Lee Highway.
Another similar Northern Virginia road is Va. 123. Also moving south from the Potomac River, it starts out as Chain Bridge Road headed away from the Potomac River. But in Langley it becomes Dolley Madison Boulevard, only to re-gain the name Chain Bridge Road in McLean near Tysons Corner. But when Va. 123 reaches the Town of Vienna it becomes Maple Avenue, and once out of Vienna, it regains the name Chain Bridge Road. The road continues to the City of Fairfax as Chain Bridge Road, but after passing through the city, it becomes Ox Road. It keeps the Ox Road name until it reaches the Occoquan River and enters Prince William County, at which point it becomes Gordon Boulevard.
In Indianapolis, Michigan Rd becomes MLK Street which becomes West Street which becomes Bluff Rd.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on March 06, 2012, 08:53:39 AM
Another one that has not been mentioned is U.S. 29 in Northern Virginia. Headed South (and west) from the Key Bridge, it starts out in Virginia as N. Fort Myer Drive (southbound) and N. Lynn Street (northbound). Then it quickly becomes Lee Highway after a turn to the west. But U.S. 29 becomes "separated" from Lee Highway for several blocks (U.S. 29 is Old Dominion Drive), then regains Lee Highway. When U.S. 29 arrives at the City of Falls Church, it becomes Washington Street, but when it leaves Falls Church and enters Fairfax County, it again becomes Lee Highway. When U.S. 29 leaves Fairfax County and enters the City of Fairfax, it is usually called Fairfax Boulevard, but when it leaves the City of Fairfax and re-enters Fairfax County it again regains the name of Lee Highway.
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The big distinction between that road and the scenario posed in the OP is that US-29 in Northern Virginia crosses jurisdictional lines. The City of Falls Church and the City of Fairfax are independent from the surrounding counties. I don't think it's all that unusual for streets to change names when they cross jurisdictional lines; consider, for example, that here in Northern Virginia VA-7 changes from Leesburg Pike to King Street when it enters the City of Alexandria and from Leesburg Pike to Broad Street when it enters Falls Church. VA-236 is Duke Street in Alexandria and Main Street in Fairfax City.
In a similar vein, sticking with the US-29 example, in Albemarle County US-29 is Seminole Trail, but when it enters the City of Charlottesville it becomes Emmet Street; the business route later becomes Jefferson Park Avenue when Emmet Street ends at the triangular intersection and then shortly after that the business route becomes Fontaine Avenue when JPA turns left.
I don't think the change from Fort Myer Drive/Lynn Street to/from Lee Highway is all that notable simply because the "route" (US-29) turns 90 degrees at that point from one "road" to another." I understood this thread to be addressing the scenario where you drive straight ahead and the road changes names (in that respect, the JPA/Fontaine example is a situation where the "road" keeps the same "name" even though the "name" continues past that point).
I've always thought the 123 example with Dolley Madison Boulevard was odd and I assume Chain Bridge Road existed prior to the VA-123 designation. Dolley Madison Boulevard is almost like a bypass of sorts. I'd guess maybe that's also the situation with the short segment of Lee Highway you mention in Arlington (I can picture where you mean, near Lorcom Lane). I'm too lazy to go look it up.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on March 05, 2012, 05:30:15 PMOne of the charms of Greater London (at least to me, and I have not dared to drive there, so I have only gotten around on foot or by transit bus or the Tube) is that the street network is so very "confusing," since the urban area grew up (for the most part) without a master plan of some sort (compare and contrast with Washington, D.C., for example, which still manages to have some very confusing aspects of its street network).
I'm glad you put "confusing" in quotes - it's not confusing, just different from the planned grids in newer countries. On main roads outside the centre, it's easy 90% of the time. Hammersmith Road is the road to Hammersmith (unless you've just been there), High Street 'x' is the main road through 'x', and so on. The road names are about navigation, just a different sort to that of, say, Manhattan's grid.
I'll end by saying that the UK is
not a museum, and while you didn't use that horrid word 'quaint', the word to use in this case is 'interesting'. I believe that was the sentiment you were expressing, though 'charms' being in bold text makes me worry.
the English system sounds very much like Massachusetts. this is not coincidental.
US 60 in and around Williamsburg, VA changes names quite often. It goes by Pocahontas Trail, Richmond Road, Bypass Road, Capitol Landing Road, Page Street, and York Street. It is Pocahontas Trail three times and Richmond Road two times.
in Rochester NY, Atlantic Ave starts in the city. When it crosses Winton Rd it changes to Browncroft Blvd. At NY 590 Browncroft Blvd picks up NY 286. A few miles outside the city, it turns back into Atlantic Ave.
In Irondequoit NY, Durand Blvd crosses Culver Rd and turns into Sweet Fern Dr for all of maybe 300 feet, and then turns into Lakeshore Dr.
US 60 in Virginia Beach: Shore Drive, Atlantic Avenue, Pacific Avenue, 17th Street, back to Atlantic to its end.
Quote from: Takumi on March 10, 2012, 07:54:51 PM
US 60 in Virginia Beach: Shore Drive, Atlantic Avenue, Pacific Avenue, 17th Street, back to Atlantic to its end.
I forgot about this one. Being that it is all in Virginia Beach there is no change in jurisdiction either like in Williamsburg and Lightfoot. Too bad they do not sign it along with US 58 near the oceanfront area. Plus, from USends.com you see a photo taken on Pacific Avenue that shows an END US 60 assembly at the Rudee Inlet Bridge where US 60 is not there nor has never been.
This is a common trend in two cities in which I have lived. Baton Rouge, Louisiana has an obscene number of streets that do this.Near LSu Burband Drive begins and heads east. It curves at Highland Road and becomes Siegen Lane, which is remains named until the junction with US 61/Airline Highway where it becomes Sherwood Forest Blvd for the remainder of its run to Greenwell Springs. Similarly, College Drive changes into Lee Drive at Perkins, and into Brightside at Nicholson. LA 73 is named Jefferson Highway until it turns west at a 90 degree angle to become Government Street. And there are many more.
I used to think Baton Rouge was "notorious for this." Then I moved back to Houston, where this happens even more. Lockwood Drive becomes Elgin, which then becomes Westheimer, which splits after SH 6. Near my neighborhood, Bingle Road when heading south turns into Voss at IH 10, then that becomes Hillcroft at Westheimer. San Felipe becomes Briar Forest; Montrose Blvd splits and becomes both Heights Blvd and Studewood Street north of IH 10. Before that, however, at Allen Parkway (which itself becomes Kirby Drive at Sheperd Drive, a road that splits into Greenbriar and Shepherd near US 59 and into Shepherd and Durham north of Memorial.. both times splitting into four lane one way couplets) Montrose Blvd becomes Studemont. Usually streets change names at major freeway intersections here it seems.
In South Plainfield, NJ you have Durham Avenue, Hamilton Boulevard, Lakeview Avenue, Plainfield Avenue, Sampson Avenue, and Clinton Avenue all if you travel in a straight line from CR 501 northward. Most places it changes names cause Hamilton Boulevard and Plainfield Avenue do alignment changes as well as Clinton Avenue from Sampson. Lakeview Avenue is a realigned Hamilton Boulevard after a grade crossing was removed from the former Lehigh Valley Railroad in favor of a bridge where it was named that. Old Hamilton Boulevard is now two separate streets on both sides of the railroad. Lakeview Avenue deviates from what is now a dead end stub just south of the now Conrail Shared Assets and parallels it to the west until Plainfield Avenue.
The Bay Area has Produce Avenue in South San Francisco, Airport Boulevard, Bayshore Boulevard, Third Street, and Kearney Street, which dead-ends north of Broadway, but there's no access coming in from the south.
Erlanger Rd to Power Blvd to David Dr to Hickory Ave to Dickory Ave here in Jefferson Parish, Lousisiana
http://g.co/maps/5kp59
Quote from: english si on March 06, 2012, 10:55:51 AM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on March 05, 2012, 05:30:15 PMOne of the charms of Greater London (at least to me, and I have not dared to drive there, so I have only gotten around on foot or by transit bus or the Tube) is that the street network is so very "confusing," since the urban area grew up (for the most part) without a master plan of some sort (compare and contrast with Washington, D.C., for example, which still manages to have some very confusing aspects of its street network).
I'm glad you put "confusing" in quotes - it's not confusing, just different from the planned grids in newer countries. On main roads outside the centre, it's easy 90% of the time. Hammersmith Road is the road to Hammersmith (unless you've just been there), High Street 'x' is the main road through 'x', and so on. The road names are about navigation, just a different sort to that of, say, Manhattan's grid.
Different is right. Though I think a fair number of people
do get confused (and that's a problem in most of the world, not just Britain). And yes, road names that tell the user that this is the road to Hammersmith are useful, and somewhat common in the U.S. as well (one that immediately comes to my mind is the Rockville Pike (Md. 355), which predictably leads to Rockville, though the same road starts out as Wisconsin Avenue in the Georgetown area [speaking of "quaint" and "fashionable"] of Washington, D.C.).
QuoteI'll end by saying that the UK is not a museum, and while you didn't use that horrid word 'quaint', the word to use in this case is 'interesting'. I believe that was the sentiment you were expressing, though 'charms' being in bold text makes me worry.
,
I strongly agree with you - the UK is definitely not a museum (nor is the rest of the EU), and I don't much care for the word "quaint" either.
But the layout of the UK's (usually older) streets and highways in Metropolitan London, a fair number of which date back to Roman times, are
fascinating (at least to me).
I can say the same about streets in the central (and old) areas of cities like Visby, Uppsala and Stockholm in Sweden; Tallinn, Estonia; and Ã...bo [
Turku in Finnish], Finland.
CP, you mention Sweden and neighboring areas a lot - are you from there?
downtown Budapest is similar to this as well - laid out a very long time ago without revision. I didn't have much trouble driving there, as for me the most "quaint" (and mildly frightening!) aspect of London traffic would be the reverse traffic flow. I totally see myself fucking that up and driving on the side of the road that I'm used to.
Speaking from seeing the opposite perspective, drive-on-left wouldn't be a problem in London. More a problem somewhere rural. If there's lots of other cars, you'll remember, but somewhere quiet and you'll find it easier to forget that you are meant to be on the 'wrong' side.
Quote from: english si on March 20, 2012, 01:25:37 PM
Speaking from seeing the opposite perspective, drive-on-left wouldn't be a problem in London. More a problem somewhere rural. If there's lots of other cars, you'll remember, but somewhere quiet and you'll find it easier to forget that you are meant to be on the 'wrong' side.
I always imagine myself being baffled as to what lane I am to be in at a roundabout. See: Magic Roundabout in Swindon.
Quote from: apjung on March 20, 2012, 07:58:21 AM
...Hickory Ave to Dickory Ave...
http://g.co/maps/5kp59
Shouldn't there be a Dock Ave around there somewhere?
Quote from: vtk on March 20, 2012, 05:24:59 PM
Quote from: apjung on March 20, 2012, 07:58:21 AM
...Hickory Ave to Dickory Ave...
http://g.co/maps/5kp59
Shouldn't there be a Dock Ave around there somewhere?
http://g.co/maps/ky3w9
There you go.
Quote from: Kacie Jane on March 20, 2012, 05:53:56 PM
Quote from: vtk on March 20, 2012, 05:24:59 PM
Quote from: apjung on March 20, 2012, 07:58:21 AM
...Hickory Ave to Dickory Ave...
http://g.co/maps/5kp59
Shouldn't there be a Dock Ave around there somewhere?
http://g.co/maps/ky3w9
There you go.
Right under my nose, even. My mobile maps app isn't that great at labeling every street, and it's short, so no surprise I missed it.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on March 06, 2012, 12:57:23 PM
the English system sounds very much like Massachusetts. this is not coincidental.
Speaking of Massachusetts, within Boston city limits, you can end up driving an almost complete loop on the following 10 streets without having to make a turn: Old Colony Ave — Morrissey Blvd — Gallivan Blvd — Morton St — Arborway — Jamaicaway — Riverway — Fenway — Louis Prang St — Ruggles St.
(If you could cross town boundaries, I'm sure you could find a lot more than 10 name changes!)
Crazy instance, but in Monroe, LA, there are actually different instances of the same street. Breard Street begins at the river and continues towards LA 3280. It then gets split in half, and continues to North 18th Street. From there, it hops across Washington Street at an angle to form an alley for a block then ends. It then picks up about two blocks later as a small two-block-long street, then stops at the railroad. It then picks up on the other side of the railroad as Breard Street, eventually becoming a state highway and ending close to ULM. Anyone else got an instance of that happening?
Any winding street in a number grid. Clark County has several. If there's a 90 degree turn on a road, it will change street number, unless there's a unique name for that road.
San Jose Area:
Hillsdale Ave./Capital Expressway/Capitol Ave/Great Mall Parkway/Tasman Dr.
Landess Ave./Montague Expressway/San Tomas Expressway/Camden Ave.
Coleman Ave./Market St./Monterey Rd./Monterey Hwy
Almaden Ave./Almaden Expressway/McKean Rd./Uvas Rd.
Blossom Hill Rd./Silver Creek Valley Rd./Nieman Blvd.
13th St./Oakland Rd./Main St. (Milpitas)/Abel St./Jacklin Rd./Evans Rd./Piedmont Rd./White Rd./San Felipe Rd.
Bernal Ave./Silicon Valley Blvd./Piercy Rd.
Gold St./Lafayette St./Washington St./Bascom Ave./Los Gatos Blvd./Main St. (Los Gatos)
Pruneridge Ave./Hedding St./Berryessa Ave.
The Alameda/Santa Clara St./Alum Rock Ave.
Permanente Rd./Stevens Creek Blvd./San Carlos Ave.
Foothill Expressway/Foothill Blvd./Stevens Canyon Rd./Mt. Eden Rd.
Saratoga Sunnyvale Rd./De Anza Blvd./Sunnyvale Saratoga Rd.
Mathilda Ave./Caribbean Dr./Lawrence Expressway/Quito Rd.
Remington Ave./Fair Oaks Ave./Java Dr./Lockheed Martin Way
Winfield Rd./Cynoweth Ave. (technically, it's broken, since there's a huge undeveloped flaglot in the middle of the city...)/Roeder Rd.
Goodyear St./Keyes St./Story Rd.
Airport Pkwy./Brokaw Rd./Murphy Ave./Hostetter Rd.
Lewis St./De La Cruz Blvd./Trimble Rd.
Quote from: mcdonaat on April 27, 2012, 04:45:41 AM
Crazy instance, but in Monroe, LA, there are actually different instances of the same street. Breard Street begins at the river and continues towards LA 3280. It then gets split in half, and continues to North 18th Street. From there, it hops across Washington Street at an angle to form an alley for a block then ends. It then picks up about two blocks later as a small two-block-long street, then stops at the railroad. It then picks up on the other side of the railroad as Breard Street, eventually becoming a state highway and ending close to ULM. Anyone else got an instance of that happening?
In Columbus, Oakland Park Ave exists in three disjoint sections, roughly in line with one another. And then there's Wall St and Pearl St (aka Pearl Alley), the alleys a half-block west and east of High St: each has a few legitimate gaps, as well as many jogs at side streets.
Quote from: KEK Inc. on April 27, 2012, 06:05:13 AM
Any winding street in a number grid. Clark County has several. If there's a 90 degree turn on a road, it will change street number, unless there's a unique name for that road.
Yes, let's please not start this list. It would be innumerable. How many 17th Streets nationwide do you think we could come up with that have a gap? A gojillion?
Jeffersontown/Middletown/Douglass Hills/Louisville, KY:
Bluegrass Parkway becomes Tucker Station Road, which becomes South Pope Lick Road (not to be confused with North Pope Lick Road) - if you were driving on south on Tucker Station Road, you would have to turn several times to stay on Tucker Station, including a left by Papa John's corporate headquarters to not get on Bluegrass Parkway). Tucker Station turns into Madison Avenue in Middletown just blocks from US 60 (Shelbyville Road).
North English Station Road turns into Urton Lane, which becomes North Pope Lick Road. Ironcially, Urton/North Pope Lick misses becoming Ellingsworth lane by about 200 feet-that extension could be accomplished with tearing down 1 house at most (although a couple of others might not have much yard left).
QuoteNormal Blvd
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Above Average Blvd?
Long streets in LA/OC:
Carson Street - Lincoln Ave - Nohl Ranch Road;
Imperial Hwy - Richard Nixon Parkway - Imperial Hwy - Cannon Street - Crawford Canyon Road;
Chapman Ave - Santiago Canyon Road - El Toro Road;
Leffingwell Road - La Habra Blvd - Central Ave - State College Blvd - The City Drive;
Lincoln Blvd - Sepulveda Blvd - Pacific Coast Hwy - Coast Hwy - Camino Las Rambles;
Camino Real - Sepulveda Blvd - Willow Street - Katella Ave - Villa Park Road - Santiago Canyon Road
LA/San Berdo:
Miles Ave - Soto Street - Huntington Drive - Foothill Blvd - Alosta Ave - Foothill Blvd - 5th Street - Greenspot Road - Florida Street - Garnet Ave;
Wilmington Blvd - Main Street - Valley Blvd - Holt Ave;
Oregon Highway 43 from Portland to Oregon City:
Macadam Boulevard from I-5 to Sellwood Bridge
S.W. Riverside Drive from Sellwood Bridge to Terwilliger Boulevard (crossing over the Portland/Lake Oswego city line)
N. State Street from Terwilliger Boulevard to A Avenue
S. State Street from A Avenue to McVey Avenue
Pacific Highway from McVey Avenue to Marylhurst University (Lake Oswego/West Linn City Line)
Willamette Drive from Marylhurst University to the Oregon City Bridge
7th Street from Oregon City Bridge to Main Street (end of route, 7th Street continues one more block south to the Oregon City Municipal Elevator and Union Pacific railroad track)
So, it has two different street names within Portland city limits, three different street names (in two quadrants) in Lake Oswego city limits, one street name in West Linn and one street name in Oregon City. For a total distance of approximately 12 miles.
QuoteWilmington Blvd - Main Street - Valley Blvd - Holt Ave;
Which also turns into Holt Blvd everywhere else :eyebrow:
North to South
The Old Rd - Golden State Hwy - The Old Rd - San Fernando Rd - San Fernando Blvd - San Fernando Rd - Avenue 19
CA-126 - Telegraph Rd - Ventura St - Telepgraph Rd, Henry Mayo Dr - Newhall Ranch Rd - Golden Valley Rd
Denton, Texas:
Colorado Blvd, Woodrow Ln, Audra Ln, Nottingham Dr.
This reminds me... In my opinion, when a street changes names, the MUTCD should require a sign informing drivers of this situation.
It would read, for example: BEGIN
Colorado Blvd.
Pascagoula, Miss.
* Beach Blvd. begins along the coast, then turns northward on the east side of town and becomes Martin Street. At Orchard Street, that street becomes Old Mobile Highway.
* Eden Street begins at Ingalls Avenue and goes northward. Just above Boston Avenue, Eden Street curves northeastward and becomes Nathan Hale Avenue. At Long Avenue, Nathan Hale turns south and becomes Emerson Street. At Locksley Avenue, Emerson turns east then turns off itself. The eastward street becomes Saratoga Avenue and finally ends at Pimlico Street.
New Orleans
* Northbound lanes of Pontchartrain Blvd. becomes West End Blvd at I-10 (Southbound stays Pontchartrain). At Robert E. Lee Blvd., those two streets become Lakeshore Drive. After crossing the Seabrook Bridge over the Industrial Canal, Lakeshore becomes South Shore Harbor Blvd at Downman Road.
* Gov. Nicholls Street starts in the French Quarter and becomes Bayou Road at Rampart Street. Bayou Road turns to Gentilly Blvd. at Paul Morphy Street. Gentilly Blvd. becomes Chef Menteur Highway at Providence Place/Old Gentilly Road.
* LaSalle Street begins at Jefferson Street in Uptown and becomes Simon Bolivar at First Street. At the Pontchartrain Expressway, Simon Bolivar becomes Loyola Avenue. At Common Street/Tulane Avenue, Loyola becomes Elk Place and that name changes to Basin Street at Canal Street...a mere two blocks later. At Armstrong Park, Basin curves northward and becomes Orleans Avenue at North Claiborne Avenue and ends at Robert E. Lee.
* Louisiana Avenue begins at Tchoupitoulas Street and runs northward, becoming Toledano Street at South Claiborne Avenue. That name sticks until its intersection with Dorgenois Street/Washington Avenue, where Washington takes over. At South Carrollton Avenue, Washington becomes Palmetto Street and runs to the parish line, where it ends at Orpheum Avenue just inside Metairie near Long Vue House and Gardens.
* Apple Street begins at the Jefferson Parish line and becomes Fontainbleau Drive at South Carrollton. At Napoleon Avenue, the names changes to Broad Street and that sticks until it reaches Treasure Street. There, northbound becomes Allen Street and southbound becomes New Orleans Street. Both streets end at Gentilly Boulevard.
More where that came from.
In Valparaiso, IN, you have Ransom Rd. that turns into Bullseye Lake Rd. and then Country Club Rd.
Don't know if this counts, but there's also the mess of numbers along IL-92 in the Illinois Quad Cities. The same street is 6th Ave in Rock Island, 4th Ave in Moline, 16th Ave in East Moline (which curves and turns into 18th Ave), and 1st Ave in Silvis.
Quote from: Brian556 on June 06, 2012, 01:45:13 AM
Denton, Texas:
Colorado Blvd, Woodrow Ln, Audra Ln, Nottingham Dr.
This reminds me... In my opinion, when a street changes names, the MUTCD should require a sign informing drivers of this situation.
It would read, for example: BEGIN
Colorado Blvd.
I've thought of that, too, but it would say something like: Bullseye Lake Rd.
Becomes
Country Club Rd.
Austin is full of them. Wells Branch Pkwy becomes Howard Lane becomes McNeil becomes Spicewood Springs Road becomes Old Lampasas Road. 183/Research Blvd becomes Anderson Lane becomes Ed Blaustein.
Akron has at least one example of a sign indicating a change (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=weathervane&ll=41.136068,-81.556637&spn=0.000809,0.001206&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&fb=1&gl=us&hq=weathervane+theater&hnear=0x8830d0a306c94401:0x71a0e9a30be3990,Fairlawn,+OH&cid=0,0,8899677940965221042&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=41.136014,-81.55652&panoid=V7ah_-WRvubNo0lbpbQz2w&cbp=12,330.11,,0,8.31)--it's blurry in street view but not hopeless if you know what it says..
MERRIMAN RD.
ENDS
--------------------
RIVERVIEW RD.
BEGINS
There is a corresponding sign southbound as well.
There's another one here: http://goo.gl/maps/N9Gx
One side says "Start Dallas Ave" and the other says "Start Chrysler Ave"
Texas needs these....usually it's alignment issues. They do a good job matching roads up but never change the names. Howard Lane is a major 4 lane. That becomes Scofield while Howard Lane turns off as a 2 lane street before hitting Wells branch Pkwy and taking it over as a 4 lane again.
Chicagoland is chock full of these.
A few examples:
* Larkin Ave -> Weber Rd -> Naper Blvd -> Naperville Rd.
* Bridge St (Joliet) -> Jackson St (Joliet) -> Maple St (Joliet) -> Southwest Hwy -> Columbus Ave (Chicago), and Wolf Rd is mixed in there, merging with Southwest Hwy.
* Butterfield Rd -> 22nd St -> Cermak Rd (Butterfield also makes a turn off 22nd in Oakbrook Terrace).
* Collins St (Joliet) -> State St (Lockport) -> Archer Ave -> a choice between Archer, 55th St, and 1st Ave in Summit.
* Black Rd -> Ruby St -> Columbia St (all in Joliet).
It gets even more interesting with road realignments whereby the old road turns off itself and the main lanes turn into a different road i.e. Farnsworth Ave (Aurora) -> Kirk Rd -> Dunham Rd (Kirk ends at Dunham, but the lanes don't) -> IL-25 (main lanes become IL-25 at Sterns Rd).
Houston area:
Rankin Road to West Rankin Road to Spears St to Antonie Drive.
Bammel-North Houston Rd to North Houston-Roslin Rd to Bingle Rd to Voss Rd to South Voss Rd to Hillcroft to South Hillcroft.
Ley Rd to Weaver Rd to Emie Rd to East Crosstimbers St to Crosstimbers St to W 43rd St to Clay Rd
Decker Prairie Rd to Cypress Rosehill Rd to North Fry Rd to South Fry Rd.
Quote from: Brian556 on June 06, 2012, 01:45:13 AM
It would read, for example: BEGIN
Colorado Blvd.
There's a BEGIN Freeman Ave sign in Cincinnati. I think they literally put a BEGIN banner for route markers over a normal street blade.
Delaware County and (though less consistently) Franklin County are good about signing the road name on all legs of an intersection, including straight ahead if the road name changes – though sometimes this is done only on the road name plaques below the advance intersection warning sign, and nt on blades at the actual intersection.
Columbus has a standard way of signing the situation where a residential street makes a 90° bend and changes names. They post a single blade on the one "corner" that points diagonally over the "intersection", with one name on each side of the blade.
In Carlisle, PA; there is a Cavalry Rd. & Cavalry St. near the fairgrounds; the former terminates at the latter and the latter terminates at US 11.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on March 20, 2012, 09:39:14 AM
CP, you mention Sweden and neighboring areas a lot - are you from there?
Sorry for not responding sooner.
No, but my parents came from that part of the world.
Quotedowntown Budapest is similar to this as well - laid out a very long time ago without revision. I didn't have much trouble driving there, as for me the most "quaint" (and mildly frightening!) aspect of London traffic would be the reverse traffic flow. I totally see myself fucking that up and driving on the side of the road that I'm used to.
I have never been able to work up the courage to drive in greater London, or anyplace in Great Britain. It's enough of a challenge to remember to look to the right when crossing a street, though I have noticed that drivers in London are at least as good as drivers in California when it comes to yielding to pedestrians.
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Quote from: apjung on March 20, 2012, 07:58:21 AM
...Hickory Ave to Dickory Ave...
http://g.co/maps/5kp59
Shouldn't there be a Dock Ave around there somewhere?
http://g.co/maps/ky3w9
There you go.
Right under my nose, even. My mobile maps app isn't that great at labeling every street, and it's short, so no surprise I missed it.
Don't forget Mouse Ln! It's not on Google Maps but it's on Mapquest!
http://mapq.st/LSDcwo
Quote from: Brandon on June 06, 2012, 08:17:01 PM
Chicagoland is chock full of these.
* Butterfield Rd -> 22nd St -> Cermak Rd (Butterfield also makes a turn off 22nd in Oakbrook Terrace).
Butterfield Road, heading east, ends at a T intersection with Eastern Avenue near Saint Charles Road in Bellwood. That used to be part of my preferred rush-hour route from the western suburbs to River Forest. The turn off of 22nd is just a case where a street name doesn't follow the straight curb line, which happens at countless locations nationwide.
Omaha has a few of these as well. Going west on US 275/NE 92, there is Missouri Avenue, L Street, Industrial Blvd. and then West Center Road. There is also Cass Street, which goes east until it becomes Underwood Avenue, which then becomes California Street. You can also go from 108th Street and West Center (actually north of there a block or two) to Bellevue (straight south of Omaha) without turning, as 108th turns into Portal Road in LaVista, which turns into 6th Street in Papillion, which turns into Cornhusker Road east of Papillion, which turns into Harvell Road in Bellevue.
But my all time favorite loopy road in Omaha begins at 84th and Frederick Street. Going west on Frederick Street, it turns into 90th Street (South, then North, where it also picks up NE 133 at West Dodge Road), which turns into Sorenson Parkway at Blair High Road (remember this intersection). Sorenson Pkwy turns into the Storz expressway, which turns into Abbott Drive by the Omaha airport. Abbott Drive goes SW from the airport, going thru Carter Lake, Iowa and turns into Cuming Street at 10th Street (you see pictures of this intersection during ESPN's broadcast of the College World Series). Cuming then turns north and then west into Northwest Radial Highway, which then becomes Military Avenue just north of downtown Benson, which turns into Blair High Road, which at 90th Street becomes NE 133 all the way to Blair. You get all of NE 133, but nonconsecutively, not that anyone in Omaha cares about the state highway designations, including NDOR.
Sorry for the bump, but there's several of these in the Detroit area:
Jefferson Avenue->Lakeshore Drive (Saint Clair Shores)->Lake Shore Road (Grosse Pointe Shores & Farms)->East Jefferson Avenue->West Jefferson Avenue (at Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit)->Biddle Avenue (Wyandotte)->West Jefferson Avenue->U.S. Turnpike Road (Berlin Township, Monroe County)->North Dixie Highway->Winchester Street (Monroe).
North Avenue->Groesbeck Highway (M-97)->Hoover Street (Detroit; still M-97; though it continues north of where Groesbeck merges into it)->Gunston Street (Detroit; still M-97 up to Gratiot Avenue/M-3, then it stops and resumes a block south at Rosemary Street, then T'ing at Harper Avenue and resumes across I-94 for two blocks before merging with Conner Street)
Avon Road (Rochester Hills)->23 Mile Road (M-3 between Gratiot Avenue and I-94, M-29 east of I-94)->a choice of Green Street (M-29) and Main Street in New Baltimore->Main Street in eastern New Baltimore (M-29)->Dixie Highway (M-29)->Pointe Tremble Road (M-29)->Saint Clair River Drive (M-29; Algonac)->River Road (M-29)->Parker Street (M-29; Marine City)->Fairbanks Street (M-29; Marine City)->Broadway Street (M-29 west of Main Street; Marine City)
Here to resurrect with a good one: A 1997 article (https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/08/us/towns-in-washington-bringing-back-poetry-in-street-names.html) (paywall bypass (http://archive.is/NLDSz)) in the
NY Times described historic road names in Thurston and Snohomish counties and came with an added bonus:
QuoteFrank Jenkins, a real estate photographer who moved here from Ohio, derided a street-numbering system that he said took numbering to its illogical conclusion. He cited the former Kline Hill Road west of Issaquah, with each of its eight switchbacks dutifully numbered.
I believe that he's talking about this wonderful road: https://goo.gl/maps/5nTTbgghkUWa9Tew9
Following the general flow, it goes from SE 60th Street to 189th Ave SE to 190th Place SE to 191st Ave SE to SE 56th Street to 194th Ave SE to SE 54th Street. There seems to be two missing name changes.
OpenStreetMap shows 190th Ave SE in between 189th Ave SE and 190th Place SE. There's one of the missing name changes (really, only a suffix change). SE 60th Street appears to continue past 189th Avenue SE, though not with the general flow.
In Saginaw, Michigan there is a pair of one way streets one set is called Hess and Gallagher and the other is called Fraser and Vermont, in between it's a divided street turning into Center Street for the Saginaw River bridge. Further west Fraser turns into Marquette Street.
Further north in downtown Johnson Street turns into Davenport Avenue. Davenport and State Street are one way streets, further west it turns into a two way street just known as State Street. Much of it is also M-58.
Quote from: 6a on March 04, 2012, 05:10:18 PM
Charlotte is great for this. You have Idlewild/Rama/Sardis/Fairview/Tyvola, and my favorite Charlottean quirk, Mulberry Church/Billy Graham/Woodlawn/Runnymede/Sharon/Wendover/Eastway
came here looking for Charlotte to be mentioned. I used to live off Sardis Rd and I always found it strange the way the roads were named. Road names often "turn" at intersections, which can make navigation quite tricky when trying to follow verbal directions.
I'm shocked that no one has mentioned that Atlanta's most famous street, Peachtree Street, turns into Peachtree Road as it enters Buckhead, then becomes Peachtree Industrial Boulevard by the time it crosses the Topside Perimeter (aka I-285), then has other names as well as it winds out through northeast suburbia.
If you didn't follow the 60-degree right turn that Peachtree Road makes in the heart of Buckhead, then you're on Roswell Road all the way into Roswell (and also on US 19 from 14th Street to I-285), and then off through Alpharetta and Cumming all the way to Dahlonega with a variety of names on the way.
I thought I had posted this somewhere before but I don't see it. This reminds me very much of Bloomington, Indiana. Several roads change names around there but there's one that really stands out.
There's a long east-west road across the south side of Bloomington that changes names often. Starting at the west around Interstate 69 the road is called Tapp Road. Heading east after it crosses Rockport Road it becomes Country Club Road (passing by the Bloomington Country Club.) After crossing Walnut Street it then becomes Winslow Road. Further east at High Street the road changes names again to Rogers Road (not to be confused with Rogers Street which Country Club Road intersects back to the west.) Then the road makes a 90-degree turn to the north and changes names to Smith Road where it runs for about three miles to its terminus. And this is all the same paved roadway.
There's also Moores Pike and Hillside Drive. And Henderson Street and Walnut Street Pike. Fullerton Pike (also interchanging with I-69) is being extended eastward to connect with Gordon Pike, which then becomes Rhorer Road.
In the northern Detroit suburbs, 16 Mile Road is called (from west to east) Quarton Road, then Big Beaver Road, then 16 Mile Road, then Metropolitan Parkway.
Quote from: Finrod on May 03, 2020, 07:06:01 PM
I'm shocked that no one has mentioned that Atlanta's most famous street, Peachtree Street, turns into Peachtree Road as it enters Buckhead, then becomes Peachtree Industrial Boulevard by the time it crosses the Topside Perimeter (aka I-285), then has other names as well as it winds out through northeast suburbia.
Don't forget Whitehall Street on the south end, either. And if you keep following that roadway south, it becomes Murphy Street which follows the east side of the train tracks for a few miles before dying in the Oakland City area.
Quote from: Finrod on May 03, 2020, 07:06:01 PM
I'm shocked that no one has mentioned that Atlanta's most famous street, Peachtree Street, turns into Peachtree Road as it enters Buckhead, then becomes Peachtree Industrial Boulevard by the time it crosses the Topside Perimeter (aka I-285), then has other names as well as it winds out through northeast suburbia.
If you didn't follow the 60-degree right turn that Peachtree Road makes in the heart of Buckhead, then you're on Roswell Road all the way into Roswell (and also on US 19 from 14th Street to I-285), and then off through Alpharetta and Cumming all the way to Dahlonega with a variety of names on the way.
Atlanta has A LOT of these roads!
To the north, Peachtree becomes Peachtree Industrial Blvd (around I-285) and keeps that name until it becomes McEver Rd at the Gwinnett/Hall county line. This road finally ends at Dawsonville Hwy northwest of downtown Gainesville. (Distance: 57.4 miles from the south end of Murphy St [the part that is continuous with Peachtree; there is a separate section a little farther south) to Dawsonville Hwy)
Also, Peachtree Pkwy splits off Peachtree Industrial Blvd in Norcross, becoming Medlock Bridge Rd when re-entering Fulton County before reverting to Peachtree Pkwy when entering Forsyth County. At US-19, it changes names to Bethelview Rd. At GA 20, it changes names again to Friendship Circle (briefly) before becoming Hurt Bridge Rd. At Heardsville Rd, it becomes Heardsville Circle. After that, the road circles around itself, becoming Heardsville Rd. It finally ends for good at GA 20 just east of the Forsyth/Cherokee county line. (Distance from splitting off Peachtree Industrial Blvd (roughly 22 miles from the south end of continuous Murphy St) to hitting GA 20 the second time: 33.3 miles)
Roswell Rd, after splitting off of Peachtree Rd, becomes Atlanta St when crossing into Roswell. It later becomes Alpharetta Hwy before changing names again to Main St in Alpharetta. After leaving that city, it reverts to Alpharetta Hwy and then becomes Atlanta Hwy when crossing into Forsyth County, crossing the aforementioned Bethelview Rd between the Forsyth line and Cumming. In downtown Cumming, it becomes Pilgrim Mill Rd, finally ending at a dead end at Tidwell Park on the north shore of Lake Lanier. (Distance from splitting off Peachtree in Buckhead to Tidwell Park: 42.9 miles)
Another long road starts as Brynfield Pkwy in Gwinnett County before becoming McGinnis Ferry Rd at Lawrenceville-Suwannee Rd. McGinnis Ferry turns into Union Hill Rd after following the Fulton/Forsyth county line from the Chattahoochee River to nearly GA 400. From there, it becomes Mullinax Rd just north of McFarland Pkwy (Union Hill Rd turns off) and Post Rd at GA 9. At GA 20, it changes names again to Tribble Rd before ending at Watson Rd in western Forsyth County. (Distance: 25.3 miles)
Another really long road starts as Hairston Rd just north of I-20 in central DeKalb County. It becomes Mountain Industrial Blvd near Stone Mountain before becoming Jimmy Carter Blvd at the Gwinnett County line. Just north of Peachtree Industrial Blvd, it becomes Holcomb Bridge Rd and keeps that name until it becomes Crossville Rd at the aforementioned Alpharetta Hwy. It becomes Woodstock Rd briefly before becoming Alabama Rd at when crossing into Cobb County. It keeps that name almost all the way across Cherokee County before becoming Cherokee Rd when the road turns to the south. After crossing I-75, it becomes Cowan Rd and finally ends at Main St in Acworth. (Distance: 49.7 miles)
In the East Bay in California, several segments of old Route 21 are a continuous road. Starting in Sunol, Foothill road runs north for 9 miles to Pleasanton. At the Dublin/Pleasanton line, it changes names for the first time to San Ramon Rd, which it uses to run for 1.5 miles through Dublin.
At the Alameda/Contra Costa County line, the road changes names again to San Ramon Valley Blvd. It runs as SRV 8 miles through to Danville, where it changes names again to Hartz Ave. After the Railroad Ave intersection, the road changes names again to Danville Blvd.
Danville Blvd leaves Danville and runs through Alamo and, after 5 miles, it changes its name at the Walnut Creek city limit to Main St. and runs as Main for 4 miles until it changes to Contra Costa Blvd. in Pleasant Hill.
Pacheco continues through Pleasant Hill until the roadway ends in Vine Hill. The road is around 33 miles total and has 8 separate names.
Quote from: ftballfan on May 04, 2020, 10:21:53 AM
Roswell Rd, after splitting off of Peachtree Rd, becomes Atlanta St when crossing into Roswell. It later becomes Alpharetta Hwy before changing names again to Main St in Alpharetta. After leaving that city, it reverts to Alpharetta Hwy and then becomes Atlanta Hwy when crossing into Forsyth County, crossing the aforementioned Bethelview Rd between the Forsyth line and Cumming. In downtown Cumming, it becomes Pilgrim Mill Rd, finally ending at a dead end at Tidwell Park on the north shore of Lake Lanier. (Distance from splitting off Peachtree in Buckhead to Tidwell Park: 42.9 miles)
Not to be confused with the other Roswell Rd, which follows part of the GA 120 corridor between Marietta and Roswell and features an impressive amount of name changes itself. The street begins as Mill Street, a minor residential road in Roswell, before crossing US 19 and becoming Marietta Highway. After crossing into Cobb County, it changes to Roswell Road, which it maintains all the way to US 41 in Marietta. Then it briefly follows Roswell St and South Park Square in Marietta, and heads out of Marietta as Whitlock Ave. It then becomes Dallas Highway, a designation it maintains out to the Paulding County line where it becomes Charles Hardy Parkway. At US 278, it becomes the Bill Carruth Parkway, which loops back around Hiram and back to US 278. It changes names again there to Poplar Springs Road, which continues a few miles before finally ending at Wright Rd.
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Quote from: ftballfan on May 04, 2020, 10:21:53 AM
Roswell Rd, after splitting off of Peachtree Rd, becomes Atlanta St when crossing into Roswell. It later becomes Alpharetta Hwy before changing names again to Main St in Alpharetta. After leaving that city, it reverts to Alpharetta Hwy and then becomes Atlanta Hwy when crossing into Forsyth County, crossing the aforementioned Bethelview Rd between the Forsyth line and Cumming. In downtown Cumming, it becomes Pilgrim Mill Rd, finally ending at a dead end at Tidwell Park on the north shore of Lake Lanier. (Distance from splitting off Peachtree in Buckhead to Tidwell Park: 42.9 miles)
Not to be confused with the other Roswell Rd, which follows part of the GA 120 corridor between Marietta and Roswell and features an impressive amount of name changes itself. The street begins as Mill Street, a minor residential road in Roswell, before crossing US 19 and becoming Marietta Highway. After crossing into Cobb County, it changes to Roswell Road, which it maintains all the way to US 41 in Marietta. Then it briefly follows Roswell St and South Park Square in Marietta, and heads out of Marietta as Whitlock Ave. It then becomes Dallas Highway, a designation it maintains out to the Paulding County line where it becomes Charles Hardy Parkway. At US 278, it becomes the Bill Carruth Parkway, which loops back around Hiram and back to US 278. It changes names again there to Poplar Springs Road, which continues a few miles before finally ending at Wright Rd.
This road is 36.7 miles long.
Found a couple more:
Timber Ridge Rd > Lower Roswell Rd > Terrell Mill Rd > Delk Rd > South Cobb Dr > James Jackson Pkwy > Hamilton E. Holmes Dr > Hightower Rd > Peyton Rd (30.9 miles)
Lester Rd > Pleasant Hill Rd > State Bridge Rd > Old Milton Pkwy > Rucker Rd (22.8 miles)
I found a very good one in the Orlando area. It starts as Alafaya Trail on the east side of Orlando and continues north past the UCF campus and downtown Oveido before turning west and becoming FL 434. After crossing I-4, it turns to the south, remaining FL 434 until it turns into John Young Parkway. John Young Parkway continues south through Orlando and into Kissimmee. In Kissimmee, it becomes US 17/US 92 (Orange Blossom Trail). In Haines City, it becomes 17th St. This street finally ends at Grove Avenue, a block south of where US 17/US 92 turn off onto Hinson Avenue.
Distance: 78.2 miles