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Street/Highway names that will never exist

Started by hotdogPi, June 05, 2016, 08:26:11 AM

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US71

Quote from: Big John on June 11, 2016, 08:37:58 AM
Quote from: 1 on June 11, 2016, 07:11:23 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on June 10, 2016, 08:30:12 PM
Nothing for Putin I could find and there is too many Clintons to count.

If it just says "Clinton", it's probably after Bill Clinton, not Hillary Clinton.
A lot of those had the name prior to Bill Clinton being president and is pure coincidence.
California Blvd in Fayetteville, AR is now Clinton Blvd because it passes Hill & Bill's first home (now a museum)
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Avalanchez71


Max Rockatansky


kphoger

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.

inkyatari

I'm never wrong, just wildly inaccurate.

dfwmapper

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 05, 2016, 02:27:54 PM
Wolverine St. in any Ohio municipality, or Buckeye Rd. anywhere in Michigan
You underestimate the power of tOSU/UMich grads in local government who need to come up with a name for the road leading to that new landfill or sewage treatment plant.

dvferyance

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 05, 2016, 02:27:54 PM
Denkinger or Kroenke Way in St. Louis
Chemin de Zdeno Chara in Montreal
Wolverine St. in any Ohio municipality, or Buckeye Rd. anywhere in Michigan
Modell Place in Cleveland
Dannel Malloy Blvd.
Route 11 in Montville and Waterford, CT
Benedict Arnold Plaza
Turn Pike
Champion St. in Cleveland
Johnel Way
The Quadruple Bypass
Wareagle Rd in Tuscaloosa
Ocean View Blvd. anywhere in Kansas or Mountain Rd. anywhere in Florida
Positivelyfourth St.
Hartford-Providence Expressway
You will never see a Badger Rd in Minnesota or a Packer Dr there. You will never see a Vikings St in Wisconsin.


paulthemapguy

Basta Rd.
Mole St.
Animal Crossing
Dearly Blvd.
Probable Causeway

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And now the ones that aren't wordplay:

The Baltimore Thruway
The Key West Bypass
The Bluegrass Parkway: Lexington Spur
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Max Rockatansky

Quote from: paulthemapguy on July 05, 2016, 10:36:01 PM
Basta Rd.
Mole St.
Animal Crossing
Dearly Blvd.
Probable Causeway

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And now the ones that aren't wordplay:

The Baltimore Thruway
The Key West Bypass
The Bluegrass Parkway: Lexington Spur

Thought Mole Street looked familiar:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mole+St,+Philadelphia,+PA+19102/@39.9565783,-75.1676689,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c6c62d8e41e0b5:0x94122bc0a7c7c0f9!8m2!3d39.9565783!4d-75.1654802?hl=en

inkyatari

I'm never wrong, just wildly inaccurate.

kphoger

Quote from: dvferyance on July 05, 2016, 04:57:51 PM
You will never see a Badger Rd in Minnesota or a Packer Dr there. You will never see a Vikings St in Wisconsin.
Quote from: Big John on July 05, 2016, 06:22:00 PM
^^
Badger Rd https://www.google.com/maps/place/Badger+Rd,+Kimball,+MN+55353/@45.3265838,-94.2796094,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x52b4ef73e13f5abb:0xf0bf77321748b64c!8m2!3d45.3265838!4d-94.2774154
Close, but a Viking Dr https://www.google.com/maps/place/Viking+Dr,+Reedsburg,+WI+53959/@43.5437734,-89.986764,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88075f3eff9f2d4f:0x22de00058713d419!8m2!3d43.5437734!4d-89.98457

Yes, there are many streets in Minnesota named Badger or Viking.  Do people not even bother looking first before posting on this thread??

To name a few:

Viking – Buffalo, Burnsville, Eden Prairie
Badger – Caledonia, Garrison, Kimball, Monticello
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.

PurdueBill

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 05, 2016, 02:27:54 PM
Wolverine St. in any Ohio municipality, or Buckeye Rd. anywhere in Michigan

Dayton has one if a Drive is included--Canton has one as well but no signblade. 

As far as US 666 being north-south, isn't that OK?  I thought the 3-digit US routes didn't have[/url] to follow the numbering convention.  (US 202 is another prominent example of such, although it changes back and forth.)

Desert Man

123 Kickbutt street
Route 420
Avenue of the Homeless Panhandlers
Bootleggers Trail
Camino El Chapo
County Road KKK
Fat Woman Shaming Lane
Gloryhole Canyon Road
Jump street
Little Soviet Union Road
Negro Man Head Highway
Sealclubbers Way
Wh0re Street
and my personal favorite: Richard Nixon Blvd., Drive or Pkwy. (then again, Yorba Linda CA has the Richard Nixon Freeway for 2 miles of CA SR 90)
Get your kicks...on Route 99! Like to turn 66 upside down. The other historic Main street of America.

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: Desert Man on July 09, 2016, 09:24:14 PM
123 Kickbutt street
Route 420
Avenue of the Homeless Panhandlers
Bootleggers Trail
Camino El Chapo
County Road KKK
Fat Woman Shaming Lane
Gloryhole Canyon Road
Jump street
Little Soviet Union Road
Negro Man Head Highway
Sealclubbers Way
Wh0re Street
and my personal favorite: Richard Nixon Blvd., Drive or Pkwy. (then again, Yorba Linda CA has the Richard Nixon Freeway for 2 miles of CA SR 90)

Actually there was a US Route 420:

http://www.usends.com/20-29/420/420.html

More than a handful of Interstate Spurs and state highways numbered 420:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highways_numbered_420

Rumor was when I was living in Florida that Lake Pickett Road saw a lot of County Route sign thefts...  Too bad Colorado and Washington couldn't join in the fun.

Bootlegger Trail in Montana

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Bootlegger+Trail,+Ledger,+MT/@48.2909071,-111.3387996,14z/data=!3m1!4b1?hl=en

I want to say there is a secondary supplemental route in Missouri which would be akin to a county route that is signed as KKK...at least there is one floating on eBay now and then.

Not "Canyon" but there are plenty of Glory Hole Roads in 49er country up in the Californian Sierra:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Glory+Hole+Rd,+Angels+Camp,+CA+95222/@38.0086968,-120.5385567,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8090ea9871c0965b:0x97df03c5bbeef62a!8m2!3d38.0086968!4d-120.536368?hl=en

Plenty of Richard Nixon to go around:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richard+Nixon+Blvd,+Aguanga,+CA+92536/@33.4829847,-116.7885214,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80dba1e57fc0ef2b:0x3f56835412edec5a!8m2!3d33.4829847!4d-116.7863327?hl=en


dfwmapper

Quote from: Desert Man on July 09, 2016, 09:24:14 PMRoute 420
https://goo.gl/maps/CgZG7GXodaD2
QuoteCounty Road KKK
This is probably what Max Rockatansky was referring to, though obviously it has been renamed. https://goo.gl/maps/oZKuB6cFmDL2
QuoteJump street
https://goo.gl/maps/pzW3CahmkDs

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: dfwmapper on July 10, 2016, 12:46:34 AM
Quote from: Desert Man on July 09, 2016, 09:24:14 PMRoute 420
https://goo.gl/maps/CgZG7GXodaD2
QuoteCounty Road KKK
This is probably what Max Rockatansky was referring to, though obviously it has been renamed. https://goo.gl/maps/oZKuB6cFmDL2
QuoteJump street
https://goo.gl/maps/pzW3CahmkDs

The sad part is that the guy who had the KKK Route sign was asking a small fortune for it....   Silver lining was that nobody seems to have bought it over the past year...at least that affirms some minimal faith in humanity.  I'll post the ebay listing if it comes up again.  That said just goes to show how twisted up almost anything can becomes with time and a couple really nasty people.

paulthemapguy

#67
Quote from: Desert Man on July 09, 2016, 09:24:14 PM

Gloryhole Canyon Road


:rofl:
I actually lost my shit hahahahha
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National collection status: 361/425. Only 64 route markers remain

jay8g

Quote from: Bruce on June 08, 2016, 08:26:22 PM
A few Seattle-area ones:

Alaskan Way Tunnel  :-D

Fourth Lake Washington Bridge
R.H. Thompson Expressway
Mercer Street Expressway
Puget Sound Bridge
Elliott Bay Freeway
Kemper Freeman Memorial Parkway

Tim Eyman Highway

ModernDayWarrior


CNGL-Leudimin

#70
Quote from: Desert Man on July 09, 2016, 09:24:14 PMRoute 420

As if it was never proposed for an US or Interstate designation.
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on June 10, 2016, 05:05:52 PM
I-420 was taken down (twice), while US 420 is now part of Alt US 14. All of this was unrelated to cannabis culture.

Not to mention in Spain we have a very long road numbered N-420. In fact it is the second longest national road at 550 miles (only behind N-340, at which ends), although now it is split in two due to a section in the middle being downgraded to a first order regional road.
Supporter of the construction of several running gags, including I-366 with a speed limit of 85 mph (137 km/h) and the Hypotenuse.

Please note that I may mention "invalid" FM channels, i.e. ending in an even number or down to 87.5. These are valid in Europe.

hbelkins



Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.

kphoger

This thread has devolved into a mix of (1) street names that do actually exist but the member neglected to bother doing a cursory Google search first, and (2) silly names that only bear resemblance to street names by the addition of "Hwy" or "St" at the end. We seem to have run out of truly clever ones.

I was about to suggest "Hwy 0", but Wikipedia lists two highways with that number, in Belgium and Hungary. That makes me wonder, are there any highways with true fractions as their number? e.g. Route 6½?
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.

SteveG1988

Turd Road
Urination Alley
Shades of Brown Road
JagOff Blvd (leading to the away team parking in Pittsburgh)
Masturbation Circle
genius Ct
Interstate 666
Joe Biden Turnpike
Bumblefuck Highway
Roads Clinched

I55,I82,I84(E&W)I88(W),I87(N),I81,I64,I74(W),I72,I57,I24,I65,I59,I12,I71,I77,I76(E&W),I70,I79,I85,I86(W),I27,I16,I97,I96,I43,I41,

CNGL-Leudimin

I-666 is my planned Washington outer beltway :evilgrin:.
Quote from: kphoger on July 10, 2016, 07:32:58 PM
This thread has devolved into a mix of (1) street names that do actually exist but the member neglected to bother doing a cursory Google search first, and (2) silly names that only bear resemblance to street names by the addition of "Hwy" or "St" at the end. We seem to have run out of truly clever ones.

I fell casualty to #1 with Toll Road, as it exists in Salisbury MA (I even had read about it before in this forum :banghead:). I've done several clever ones, like the full name-like Pearson S. Trail. I don't think they would name a street after a disease, and in this case the S stands for syndrome (I've seen an upcoming trail running event directly named after a disease, though). And the several memorial highways specified to meet certain conditions, such as the FritzOwl Memorial Highway being an US route, the Ethanman62187 Memorial Freeway being I-366 with an 85 mph speed limit, the TheAlan360 Memorial Goat Path being and not being a goat path, and the dzlsabe Memorial Hypotenuse cutting through neighborhoods.

And a couple more:
John Muir Freeway
Any street named after a US president in North Korea.
Supporter of the construction of several running gags, including I-366 with a speed limit of 85 mph (137 km/h) and the Hypotenuse.

Please note that I may mention "invalid" FM channels, i.e. ending in an even number or down to 87.5. These are valid in Europe.



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