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Intersections where both roads change names

Started by webny99, January 11, 2018, 03:57:58 PM

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Mike_OH

In Cincinnati and Norwood, OH, there is a street that has two names for a stretch of a half mile or more.  The west side of the street is Rhode Island Ave, City of Cincinnati, while the east side is Section Ave, city of Norwood.  About halfway through this stretch is an intersection with Worth Ave (Norwood) and Northcutt Ave (Cincinnati).


mrcmc888

Here's one in Knoxville, TN.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.965714,-83.9243304,17z

Western Ave becomes Summit Hill Dr, and Henley St becomes Broadway.

mrsman


Bitmapped

In Monterey, VA, all four legs at the US 220/US 250 intersection have a different name. US 220 is Potomac River Road north and Jackson River Road south. US 250 is Mountain Turnpike west and Highland Turnpike east.

mrsman

While knowing it's not in the spirit of the thread, since other people mentioned freeway interchanges, it seems to me that I-10/I-45 in Houston will count.
Katy Fwy - East Fwy  //  North Fwy - Gulf Fwy

Forth Worth also has I-30/I-35W:   West Fwy - Landry Fwy  // North Fwy - South Fwy

I thought Dallas may also qualify, but for the I-30/I-35E:  You have Landry Fwy-Thornton Fwy // Stemmons Fwy - Thornton Fwy.  IMO it's rather confusing to have both I-30 east of town and I-35E south of town with the same name.

If there is any other town that labels their freeways based on direction (or destination) from one central point, then they's probably qualify.  All of Houston's radial freeways, for the most part are named for compass direction (or renamed from a compass direction) so it qualifies.

Others already mentioned the Chicago Circle Interchange and LA's Four-Level.  LA's east LA interchange does not qualify, because even though Santa Monica-Pomona forms the e-w route and I-5 does change its name from Santa Ana to Golden State at the same interchange, the piece of US 101 emanating from the interchange is also part of the Santa Ana Fwy, even though almost nobody calls it that anymore, even those who use names.  Santa Ana Fwy almost automatically refers to the I-5 portion in common LA area lingo.

ErmineNotyours

At Safeco Field in Seattle, streets immediately west and south of the stadium have been renamed for important figures of the team.  So at the southwest corner you have 1st Ave S/Dave Niehaus Way & S Atlantic St/Edgar Martinez Drive.  The road to the north was named Royal Brougham Way when the Kingdome opened, and the whole length of the street kept that name.  It used to be Connecticut.  They've run out of streets to name other players after. Google Maps.

frankenroad

With its propensity for arbitrarily changing road names mid-stream, I thought Cincinnati must have several of these, but I can only think of one, other than the one mentioned above, which is where Camargo Road becomes Plainville Rd where it crosses Madison Road as it changes to East Fork Ave.   That thoroughfare is interesting because if you start on East Fork Ave, you can drive on it, Madison Rd, Martin Luther King Drive, Hopple Street, and Westwood Northern Blvd all without making any turns. 

My favorite is going east on Montana Ave, which becomes West Fork Rd, and then becomes Virginia Ave, all without making any turns.   Who knew it was so easy to get from Montana to Virginia?
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paulthemapguy

This intersection counts

https://goo.gl/maps/FyajWAxZ7fk

North: Naperville Road.  South:  Naper Blvd.
West: Naperville-Wheaton Road. East: Ridgeland Ave.
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