Shortest Through Street/Road

[NWI_Irish96]

What is the shortest through street/road you know of that meets the following criteria:

1) Publicly accessible for its entire length
2) Connects to publicly accessible streets/roads at both termini
3) Is named and signed

There is a 350 foot long street in Lansing, IL, named Bikeway, that connects Bernice Ave and 175th St via an underpass under the Borman Expwy.  The underpass was previously for a railroad.  When the tracks were removed the railroad right of way became a fairly long bike trail, but a street was installed for the 350 feet running underneath the Borman.

[jeffandnicole]

One off the top of my head: Brenner Ave...260 Feet long from stop line to stop line.  Connects Tanyard Rd (CR 663) and Delsea Drive (NJ 47) to prevent a skewed intersection just to the north of it.  https://goo.gl/maps/YBgvKuSD6cJo5nYUA

[ftballfan]

Manistee, MI has some short streets but the shortest is Daniels St, which runs 250 feet from 5th Ave to 6th Ave

[hotdogPi]

Exit 19 on MA 128 (not I-95), between the two rotaries: about 300 feet, depending on how you count it.

[frankenroad]

Seal Street in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati.   Looks like about 250 ft between Mt Vernon Ave. and Isabella Ave.   There are no houses with a Seal St address.

[Mrt90]

Grant Road in Kenosha, Wisconsin is 290 feet and connects 40th Avenue and 41st Avenue.  This is the entirety of Grant Road in Kenosha.  Since it runs SW/NE parallel to the railroad tracks I guess they felt it shouldn't follow the number grid, although they easily could have given those dozen or so houses a 41st Avenue address or even a 68th Place address if they wanted to follow the numbering scheme.


https://www.google.com/maps/dir/42.5712662,-87.8576468/42.5717096,-87.8567498/@42.5708094,-87.8571107,17z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0?hl=en

[Mark68]

Cheyenne Place in Denver: 262 feet of one-way road that acts as a short cut between (one-way) SB Broadway and WB Colfax Ave.

[froggie]

There's one I know in Connecticut that meets 2.5 of the criteria that's less than 140ft...don't think it's signed, though.

[cwf1701]

Ethelyn Ct in Eastpoint MI is fairly short and runs about 500 feet from Gratiot (M-3) to Virginia Ave.  They may be some shorter streets, but they dead end.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Duluth has a couple at the north end of Park Point. 8th and 12th Sts both come in under 250 connecting Lake Ave to Minnesota Ave.

[MNHighwayMan]

First thing I thought of is Line Drive, a ~300 foot connector between the one-way SW 2nd and 3rd Streets in Des Moines, allowing SW 3rd St traffic to get to Principal Park.

[Rothman]

Library Lane in Granby, MA is pretty darned short.

[Buffaboy]

Apparently Gardon St in Buffalo NY is ~250 ft.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gardon+St,+Buffalo,+NY+14206/@42.8821355,-78.8011082,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89d30db13cf30261:0xef9059b3c0e5e571

[1995hoo]

Does it count if the "street" is defined by crossing jurisdictional boundaries? If so, I can't figure out the exact distance using Street View, and because there are no signs I can't go walk it off with a pedometer, but North Arizona Street in Arlington, Virginia, has to be one of the shortest. The county line corresponds with the City of Falls Church on either side, so the street goes from North Meridian Street (Falls Church) to North Arizona Street (Arlington) back to North Meridian, all within a smidgen of distance. The distance is minimal. Google Maps estimated 66 feet, but surely it can't be that short. Can it??!!!!!

[pianocello]

My personal favorite is the aptly-named Short St in St. Johns, MI. I measure it at 240 feet.

[AlexandriaVA]

Does it count if the "street" is defined by crossing jurisdictional boundaries? If so, I can't figure out the exact distance using Street View, and because there are no signs I can't go walk it off with a pedometer, but North Arizona Street in Arlington, Virginia, has to be one of the shortest. The county line corresponds with the City of Falls Church on either side, so the street goes from North Meridian Street (Falls Church) to North Arizona Street (Arlington) back to North Meridian, all within a smidgen of distance. The distance is minimal. Google Maps estimated 66 feet, but surely it can't be that short. Can it??!!!!!

Crazy geography...it sits at the far western apex of the original DC square (the "A" in "West Arlington") It's effectively a short line segment just east of the triple point between Arlington, Falls Church, and Fairfax County. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Arlington,+VA/@38.8953798,-77.1845547,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b69d7ba7a70f:0xf8cf6fc845f6b093!8m2!3d38.8799756!4d-77.1067715

Note that there's a boundary stone there... (https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8932352,-77.1718782,3a,15y,252.08h,69.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scleFnjFlLbvBnoPvej2Hug!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

[NoGoodNamesAvailable]

Edgar Street in Lower Manhattan is about 105' long measured at the centerline.

[Big John]

Little St by Camp Randall Stadium in Madison WI:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madison,+WI/@43.0681999,-89.4131169,19z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8806536d3a2019ff:0x4e0cfcb5ba484198!8m2!3d43.0730517!4d-89.4012302

[michravera]

What is the shortest through street/road you know of that meets the following criteria:

1) Publicly accessible for its entire length
2) Connects to publicly accessible streets/roads at both termini
3) Is named and signed

There is a 350 foot long street in Lansing, IL, named Bikeway, that connects Bernice Ave and 175th St via an underpass under the Borman Expwy.  The underpass was previously for a railroad.  When the tracks were removed the railroad right of way became a fairly long bike trail, but a street was installed for the 350 feet running underneath the Borman.

The public portion of South Lake Commons in Fremont, CA is around 25 m, big enough for three or four cars to wait at the stop signs at each end (maybe twice that, if you measure to the centerlines and slightly longer still, if you measure to the extreme sides of Auto Mall). It connects Eastbound Auto Mall Parkway to Westbound Auto Mall Parkway. It continues as a private road into the prefab park in which I live for another 500 m or so.

I have to think that in Old Town Sacramento and Downtown San Francisco that there are several alleys that meet all three criteria that are less than 50 m.

[CtrlAltDel]

What is the shortest through street/road you know of that meets the following criteria:

1) Publicly accessible for its entire length
2) Connects to publicly accessible streets/roads at both termini
3) Is named and signed

The shortest street in Paris is the rue des Degrés, at about 19 feet in length. However, the street consists entirely of a staircase, so it might not count. In any case, here's a picture.

[PHLBOS]

Exit 19 on MA 128 (not I-95) northbound, between the two rotaries: about 300 feet, depending on how you count it.

FTFY.  Personally, I would have listed the town (Beverly) in the above as a means of avoiding the use of the (not I-95) term. 

Until looking at the recent GSVs for that area, that short stretch is actually named, per the street-blade signage, Connector Rd..  However, Google still refers it this stretch as a continuation of Sohier Road.  Such (the naming) was probably the case prior to those two circles being retrofitted into that interchange.

[Rothman]

Library Lane in Granby, MA is pretty darned short.

About 135 ft long.

[bulldog1979]

Hospital Drive in Marquette, Michigan, is about 210 long by my measure. It runs between two roundabouts to connect Baraga Avenue to US 41/M-28 in front of the new hospital, and it's signed, so it meets all three criteria.

[sandwalk]

McKinley Street in Bellefontaine, Ohio is ~20 feet long.  It's also signed as "Shortest Street in America."

Link: https://goo.gl/maps/PmGbn2yV6V2kqonj6

[Michael]

Malt St in Weedsport, NY is 89 feet long.  Ever since I first I saw it as a kid, I've wondered "What's the point?".  I suppose it could be used as a bypass for the intersection just to the north, but there's no turn restriction there, and it looks like a tractor-trailer would have enough room to turn if they took it wide.  I've never seen anyone use Malt St as a bypass.

East of Auburn, there's Page Rd, which is 276 feet long.  This one comes in handy, since I've used it to get to and from one of the houses on Turnpike Rd without backtracking.