Vermontville, MI
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6290182,-85.0247433,3a,15y,51.57h,90.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDbiNQqwPKAJbkaAp6t95Fg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
The scope this thread has depends on whether we're allowed to take it figuratively as well as literally.
My thought was literally.
Quote from: kc8yqq on October 02, 2018, 11:38:14 AM
Vermontville, MI
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6290182,-85.0247433,3a,15y,51.57h,90.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDbiNQqwPKAJbkaAp6t95Fg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
To the contrary: Sacramento has neither a First -NOR- a Main in its downtown area (a couple of suburbs may have either or both). It may be that the streets which today are known as "Capitol Ave" and "Capitol Mall" were known as "Main" in the few years before Sacramento became capitol, but the logical name would have been "M" street (always followed by "that's 'em' and in 'Mary'").
The town where I grew up, Hampton, GA (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.3869611,-84.2833691,18.79z), has W Main St and E Main St on opposite sides of the railroad tracks. East Main is by far the more important one; it carried US 19/41 until the mid-1950s.
Quote from: Eth on October 02, 2018, 12:13:17 PM
The town where I grew up, Hampton, GA (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.3869611,-84.2833691,18.79z), has W Main St and E Main St on opposite sides of the railroad tracks. East Main is by far the more important one; it carried US 19/41 until the mid-1950s.
Hickory, NC has this also, a Main Ave NW/NE and SW/SE north and south of the railroad track. Also a Main Avenue Drive and Main Avenue Way because whoever came up with Hickory's naming scheme was huffing paint thinner. North/south route is called Center Street.
Mendota, Illinois: https://goo.gl/maps/rkEa52m2MEy
Appears to be due to a former rail line between the two.
In Neptune Township, NJ, Main Ave. and S. Main St. intersect.
https://goo.gl/maps/4yVKtGJKnxp
Quote from: hubcity on October 02, 2018, 01:48:24 PM
In Neptune Township, NJ, Main Ave. and S. Main St. intersect.
https://goo.gl/maps/4yVKtGJKnxp
meh.
Looks like a glorified median to me. Put a canal down the middle, and it wouldn't be strange at all to have both bearing the same name.
Quote from: kphoger on October 02, 2018, 02:46:09 PM
Quote from: hubcity on October 02, 2018, 01:48:24 PM
In Neptune Township, NJ, Main Ave. and S. Main St. intersect.
https://goo.gl/maps/4yVKtGJKnxp
meh.
Looks like a glorified median to me. Put a canal down the middle, and it wouldn't be strange at all to have both bearing the same name.
Da fuq? Main Street and Main Avenue there meet at a right angle.
Quote from: Brandon on October 02, 2018, 03:05:50 PM
Quote from: kphoger on October 02, 2018, 02:46:09 PM
Quote from: hubcity on October 02, 2018, 01:48:24 PM
In Neptune Township, NJ, Main Ave. and S. Main St. intersect.
https://goo.gl/maps/4yVKtGJKnxp
meh.
Looks like a glorified median to me. Put a canal down the middle, and it wouldn't be strange at all to have both bearing the same name.
Da fuq? Main Street and Main Avenue there meet at a right angle.
I quoted the wrong post. !!!
Let's try that again.
Quote from: Brandon on October 02, 2018, 01:28:06 PM
Mendota, Illinois: https://goo.gl/maps/rkEa52m2MEy
Appears to be due to a former rail line between the two.
meh.
Looks like a glorified median to me. Put a canal down the middle, and it wouldn't be strange at all to have both bearing the same name.
Quote from: kphoger on October 02, 2018, 03:10:10 PM
Quote from: Brandon on October 02, 2018, 03:05:50 PM
Quote from: kphoger on October 02, 2018, 02:46:09 PM
Quote from: hubcity on October 02, 2018, 01:48:24 PM
In Neptune Township, NJ, Main Ave. and S. Main St. intersect.
https://goo.gl/maps/4yVKtGJKnxp
meh.
Looks like a glorified median to me. Put a canal down the middle, and it wouldn't be strange at all to have both bearing the same name.
Da fuq? Main Street and Main Avenue there meet at a right angle.
I quoted the wrong post. !!!
Let's try that again.
Quote from: Brandon on October 02, 2018, 01:28:06 PM
Mendota, Illinois: https://goo.gl/maps/rkEa52m2MEy
Appears to be due to a former rail line between the two.
meh.
Looks like a glorified median to me. Put a canal down the middle, and it wouldn't be strange at all to have both bearing the same name.
It's not. Both are two-way streets on either side of a former railroad line (that was removed).
Quote from: Brandon on October 02, 2018, 04:14:42 PM
Quote from: kphoger on October 02, 2018, 03:10:10 PM
Quote from: Brandon on October 02, 2018, 03:05:50 PM
Quote from: kphoger on October 02, 2018, 02:46:09 PM
Quote from: hubcity on October 02, 2018, 01:48:24 PM
In Neptune Township, NJ, Main Ave. and S. Main St. intersect.
https://goo.gl/maps/4yVKtGJKnxp
meh.
Looks like a glorified median to me. Put a canal down the middle, and it wouldn't be strange at all to have both bearing the same name.
Da fuq? Main Street and Main Avenue there meet at a right angle.
I quoted the wrong post. !!!
Let's try that again.
Quote from: Brandon on October 02, 2018, 01:28:06 PM
Mendota, Illinois: https://goo.gl/maps/rkEa52m2MEy
Appears to be due to a former rail line between the two.
meh.
Looks like a glorified median to me. Put a canal down the middle, and it wouldn't be strange at all to have both bearing the same name.
It's not. Both are two-way streets on either side of a former railroad line (that was removed).
There are two roads like that within 1½ miles of my house, each pair having a waterway splitting the middle.
Fabrique (https://goo.gl/maps/o9RSj3Hu2vr) (which is also the name of my neighborhood) and
Armour (https://goo.gl/maps/QhY8FADnUsu) (erroneously identified as Towne East Mall Dr on Google Maps). The extra-cool thing about your example, however, is the fact that some houses have a driveway facing
both roadways.
Rockford MI - S Main St becomes N Main St, which then bends and becomes E Main St:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rockford,+MI/@43.1209939,-85.556824,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8818df6c3870e3b9:0x4c44d34c6f0a8d06!8m2!3d43.1200272!4d-85.5600316
Farmington, CT has 2 different streets names Main St (and a South Main). One is CT 10 from the Plainville town line to CT 4. The other is CT 4 from CT 177 to just east of the Farmington River bridge west from the village of Unionville.
My hometown of Easley, SC has an E/W Main Street and North E/W Main Street, divided by the railroad tracks.
Danville has W. Main, S. Main, N.Main, and just plain ol' Main.
Homer, LA has 4 Main Streets (N,S,E,W) that all meet in the courthouse square & radiate outward.
New York City has 5 "Main Streets" one in each borough/county
Quote from: mapman1071 on October 08, 2018, 11:52:53 PM
New York City has 5 "Main Streets" one in each borough/county
With none being at all prominent except in Queens (where it's the main street of Flushing).
Quote from: kphoger on October 02, 2018, 04:25:07 PM
Quote from: Brandon on October 02, 2018, 04:14:42 PM
Quote from: kphoger on October 02, 2018, 03:10:10 PM
Quote from: Brandon on October 02, 2018, 01:28:06 PM
Mendota, Illinois: https://goo.gl/maps/rkEa52m2MEy
Appears to be due to a former rail line between the two.
meh.
Looks like a glorified median to me. Put a canal down the middle, and it wouldn't be strange at all to have both bearing the same name.
It's not. Both are two-way streets on either side of a former railroad line (that was removed).
There are two roads like that within 1½ miles of my house, each pair having a waterway splitting the middle. Fabrique (https://goo.gl/maps/o9RSj3Hu2vr) (which is also the name of my neighborhood) and Armour (https://goo.gl/maps/QhY8FADnUsu) (erroneously identified as Towne East Mall Dr on Google Maps). The extra-cool thing about your example, however, is the fact that some houses have a driveway facing both roadways.
That setup reminds me of city-building games like Cities: Skylines. Sometimes, you build roads that aren't far enough apart for two of the same types of houses to sit back-to-back. So, you just build them all facing street A, and street B gets the occasional wrong-way house or rear-access driveway. Which