Towns with more than one Main Street

Started by kc8yqq, October 02, 2018, 11:38:14 AM

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webny99

The scope this thread has depends on whether we're allowed to take it figuratively as well as literally.

kc8yqq


michravera

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'").

Eth

The town where I grew up, Hampton, GA, 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.

HazMatt

Quote from: Eth on October 02, 2018, 12:13:17 PM
The town where I grew up, Hampton, GA, 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.

Brandon

Mendota, Illinois: https://goo.gl/maps/rkEa52m2MEy
Appears to be due to a former rail line between the two.
"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." - Ramsay Bolton

"Symbolic of his struggle against reality." - Reg

hubcity

In Neptune Township, NJ, Main Ave. and S. Main St. intersect.

https://goo.gl/maps/4yVKtGJKnxp

kphoger

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.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Brandon

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.
"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." - Ramsay Bolton

"Symbolic of his struggle against reality." - Reg

kphoger

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.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Brandon

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).
"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." - Ramsay Bolton

"Symbolic of his struggle against reality." - Reg

kphoger

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 (which is also the name of my neighborhood) and Armour (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.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

GaryV


jp the roadgeek

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.
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

SCtoKC

My hometown of Easley, SC has an E/W Main Street and North E/W Main Street, divided by the railroad tracks.

LM117

Danville has W. Main, S. Main, N.Main, and just plain ol' Main.

“I don’t know whether to wind my ass or scratch my watch!” - Jim Cornette

cjk374

Homer, LA has 4 Main Streets (N,S,E,W) that all meet in the courthouse square & radiate outward.
Runnin' roads and polishin' rails.

mapman1071

New York City has 5 "Main Streets" one in each borough/county

empirestate

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).

jakeroot

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 (which is also the name of my neighborhood) and Armour (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



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