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Title: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: jeffandnicole on May 07, 2017, 08:59:51 PM
What started out as a joke response to another thread, I'll make an actual thread.

Who has not 'clinched' the street and/or route they live on.

Before you roll your eyes...while most of us live on small side roads, someone could live on, say, US 40, and probably have never clinched the route.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: MNHighwayMan on May 07, 2017, 09:10:53 PM
Hmm, nope. I've only ever lived on relatively short city streets. Best part was that one was even a numbered highway: MN-293. :bigass:
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: Max Rockatansky on May 07, 2017, 09:24:03 PM
I never did get around to clinching FL 436 Semoran Blvd in Orlando area, but I'm pretty sure that was only one. 
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: 1995hoo on May 07, 2017, 09:34:24 PM
Heh. My street is about 700 feet long, so I've clinched it in four different cars, on foot, on a bike, and on roller blades.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: Big John on May 07, 2017, 09:40:21 PM
I currently live on a rather long street, so I have not clinched it.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: sbeaver44 on May 07, 2017, 09:44:03 PM
I have clinched the last several I have lived on, but there was a time I lived on US 11, and that would be a challenge.

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Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on May 07, 2017, 11:05:11 PM
Clinched 4 out of 5 of the streets that I lived on: 2 roads in my town, 1 in another town, and a dead end street in my town.  Never clinched the street that I lived on in Philly, as it's spread out over 60+ blocks and exists in about 10 segments and if I were to stay within the grid would involve a swim in the Schuykill River.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: epzik8 on May 07, 2017, 11:13:44 PM
I live on a cul-de-sac that's less than a quarter-mile long. I live at the end of the street and it's impossible for me not to travel the whole length of the street while leaving and returning to my house. So basically, I clinch my street every single time I go in and out of the neighborhood.
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Post by: catsynth on May 07, 2017, 11:36:56 PM
Yes, pretty much every street I have ever lived on :)
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Post by: RobbieL2415 on May 07, 2017, 11:40:24 PM
I have to, where I live.  My condo is at the end of the street.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: pumpkineater2 on May 08, 2017, 12:07:06 AM
I live on a cul de sac, and while I'm sure I can say that I've clinched it multiple times on foot and bike over the years, I haven't actually driven a car the full length of the pavement. So, no I haven't clinched my street.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: admtrap on May 08, 2017, 02:26:08 AM
Hmm.. philosophical question!   The street i grew up on had six or seven separate discontinuous segments through the city, all with the same name, and in the same place in the street grid relative to the parallel through streets, but were never actually intended to connect to one another.  To clinch such a street would one have to traverse all of the separate segments, or would each be considered separately?   
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: english si on May 08, 2017, 02:45:50 AM
My road is full of side turns and such like. I'd be surprised if half the people living on it have actually clinched it - ie gone down all the nooks and crannies. Despite it only being less than 500 hundred yards and 150 houses or so.

I've been to every door (having done deliveries as a child/teen: note that the UK doesn't do mailboxes at the end of driveways, nor has papers thrown onto porches from bikes - everything that's able to goes through slits in the door/next to the door, or maybe a box by the door) so I've throughly clinched it.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: DandyDan on May 08, 2017, 05:47:08 AM
That depends on whether the one segment of the street I live on that's a mile north of here needs to be clinched. I have got the segment immediately adjacent to my apartment.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: 1995hoo on May 08, 2017, 07:27:05 AM
Quote from: english si on May 08, 2017, 02:45:50 AM
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... nor has papers thrown onto porches from bikes ....

Around here, someone drives around in a car early in the morning and throws the (bagged) paper out the car window, hopefully landing it in the driveway. I don't think I've ever seen an old-fashioned "paper boy" in the tradition of the Henry Huggins books.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: Rothman on May 08, 2017, 07:57:05 AM
I lived on Hammond Avenue in Superior, WI for a couple of years.  Don't remember if I ever drove the entire street.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: 7/8 on May 08, 2017, 08:03:24 AM
I had a co-op term in St. Catharines, ON and I lived in an apartment on St. Paul Street, which is on former highway 8. I've clinched current highway 8, but I haven't driven most of the downloaded portion east of Hamilton.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: jeffandnicole on May 08, 2017, 08:25:25 AM
As for me, I lived in very few houses in my life, and most were in development-type areas.  I guess the longest route I lived on would've been when I lived in the dorms at college, which would place me on Rt. 7 in Delaware.  I'm pretty sure I did clinch that route, but I would've only been on the southern end of 7 once, maybe twice.

Quote from: 1995hoo on May 08, 2017, 07:27:05 AM
Quote from: english si on May 08, 2017, 02:45:50 AM
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... nor has papers thrown onto porches from bikes ....

Around here, someone drives around in a car early in the morning and throws the (bagged) paper out the car window, hopefully landing it in the driveway. I don't think I've ever seen an old-fashioned "paper boy" in the tradition of the Henry Huggins books.

Many, many, many, MANY years ago do I remember that.

I was a newspaper junkie growing up.  Even when I moved into my current house over 15 years ago, I got 2 papers delivered.  But I cut that back to one, and then none.  They were delivered by car, and the one carrier tended to deliver multiple papers.  At one point, when I got the local Times, the Philly Inquirer & had a work-based subscription to the Wall Street Journal, all 3 would be delivered by 1 carrier.  Today, I don't think a single person on our street gets any paper delivered.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: 1995hoo on May 08, 2017, 09:40:04 AM
We get the paper delivered Friday through Sunday only. Not enough time to read it in the morning the other days (or really Friday either, but they don't offer a Saturday/Sunday—only subscription).
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: bassoon1986 on May 08, 2017, 11:08:31 AM
I have not! I live on US 165. I'm only missing the northernmost section in Louisiana to have it clinched in my home state. I have not driven on any part of 165 in Arkansas


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Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: ColossalBlocks on May 08, 2017, 11:20:04 AM
I live on US 61, and I have not yet clinched it.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: bzakharin on May 08, 2017, 01:35:50 PM
I've only lived in two places since I started to drive, both small side streets, but the first place was at the corner with another street, and then it depends how you define it. I never even came close to clinching CR 510, but Washington Street, sure, many times.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: hotdogPi on May 08, 2017, 01:43:02 PM
My road has three places out: the east end of the road (where 1 and 2 would be), the back entrance to a parking lot (where 25 would be), and another road where 153 would be. The highest-numbered house is 156, so there is a small segment that acts like a driveway for 156 Not-Giving-Away-My-Location Street. I have walked and biked this segment of about 100 feet, but never in a car.

Note: I have shifted the numbers so that my location is not given away from the numbers alone.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on May 08, 2017, 01:51:14 PM
Quote from: ColossalBlocks on May 08, 2017, 11:20:04 AM
I live on US 61, and I have not yet clinched it.

I have :P
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: kphoger on May 08, 2017, 02:04:42 PM
Quote from: admtrap on May 08, 2017, 02:26:08 AM
Hmm.. philosophical question!   The street i grew up on had six or seven separate discontinuous segments through the city, all with the same name, and in the same place in the street grid relative to the parallel through streets, but were never actually intended to connect to one another.  To clinch such a street would one have to traverse all of the separate segments, or would each be considered separately?   

This.  I've clinched my section of Christine Street.  But there's a separate, one-block-long section 1½ miles to the north that I've never been on.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: WhitePoleRD on May 08, 2017, 04:04:09 PM
Let's see...

Old US 6- the "old" part I have clinched, the rest of it I have not. Though, funny story, my wife was ok with us driving up Cape Cod on our honeymoon just so I could grab the east end of US 6. We were almost late to our dinner cruise, but at least now I can say I have been to the east end of my old street! :)

Nowadays I live on old 169, and...no, I'm nowhere close to clinching. Though I have driven most of it in Iowa (all except IA 2 to MO State Line) and I've driven up to the Cities via 169. US 6 is on my road trip bucket list...US 169 not so much.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: MNHighwayMan on May 08, 2017, 04:48:55 PM
You're not missing much, not driving the rest of US-169 north. Except for the part that hugs Lake Mille Lacs' western shore. That part is pretty sweet, scenery wise. The biggest downside to it is the frequent congestion that makes that part a kind of slow drive, depending on the day (and time of year).

The part that goes through the Iron Range (Grand Rapids to Virginia) is also pretty nice but I've only been through there once, and that was a number of years ago already (well before I was old enough to drive). The memories of my childhood may be giving it a rose-colored tint.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: DTComposer on May 08, 2017, 05:28:26 PM
I've lived on 15 different streets - 4 before I was old enough to drive, but have clinched them since.
Of the remaining 11, I am positive of clinching 9 of them (including my current street).
Of the other two, one I am sure I have not clinched - like others above, there were several discontinuous segments I never got to.
The other one is a major street in L.A. with a discontinuity (Cahuenga Blvd.) - I think there's a two block segment at the southern end I never got to, but I can't say that with authority.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: cjk374 on May 08, 2017, 06:27:17 PM
I live on US 80. I have been to the eastern terminus on Tybee Island, GA but I haven't clinched it all...yet.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: Duke87 on May 08, 2017, 07:35:16 PM
Quote from: admtrap on May 08, 2017, 02:26:08 AM
The street i grew up on had six or seven separate discontinuous segments through the city, all with the same name, and in the same place in the street grid relative to the parallel through streets, but were never actually intended to connect to one another.

The majority of Queens residents would be in this situation as well, due to the borough's street numbering scheme being imposed on what is not at all a consistent grid. There are discontinuous segments of streets I've lived on that I have not clinched.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: sparker on May 08, 2017, 11:00:53 PM
Quote from: Duke87 on May 08, 2017, 07:35:16 PM
Quote from: admtrap on May 08, 2017, 02:26:08 AM
The street i grew up on had six or seven separate discontinuous segments through the city, all with the same name, and in the same place in the street grid relative to the parallel through streets, but were never actually intended to connect to one another.

The majority of Queens residents would be in this situation as well, due to the borough's street numbering scheme being imposed on what is not at all a consistent grid. There are discontinuous segments of streets I've lived on that I have not clinched.

L.A.'s San Fernando Valley features much this same concept; the only true through streets (mostly) are the arterials spaced a half-mile apart for both N-S and E-W axes.  The pattern breaks down in the NE section of the Valley, where the streets are positioned at an (about) 45-degree angle from the rest of the area, and where the grid starts impinging on the hills that surround the valley itself. 

This situation repeats itself in the area around and south of LAX, where there's a grid pattern starting at about Sepulveda Blvd. and extending east into South Central LA with repeating but discontinuous street segments maintaining a consistent trajectory.  This area accounts for the one street on which I've lived that I haven't clinched for the same reasons stated in the prior post -- had no reason nor inclination to try to locate and drive all sections of that street for a multitude of reasons.   
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: fillup420 on May 09, 2017, 07:42:33 AM
I live on US 421, so no. However, I have done the first ~330 miles from the southern terminus to my driveway.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: UCFKnights on May 09, 2017, 08:34:17 AM
I've clinched every street in every neighborhood I've lived in.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on May 09, 2017, 09:13:16 AM
Excluding college dorms, which did not have street addresses, I've lived on 11 different streets/roads since I got my driver's license and have clinched them all, though all of them are < 7 miles long.  I've also clinched three of the five streets/roads I lived on before getting my license.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: Bickendan on May 11, 2017, 03:00:45 AM
For Montclair, CA: No.
Medford, OR: Yes.
Portland: No, in all cases, due to segmentation. I have, however, clinched the segments I lived on.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: Buffaboy on May 11, 2017, 04:15:41 AM
It got extended and I clinched that.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: slorydn1 on May 22, 2017, 01:56:42 PM
I have a little bit of a technicality with my street. I actually did clinch it (not hard, its pretty short, cureves around, 180 degrees around a lake and ends in a cul de sac) before I ever lived on it. I delivered a pizza to the last house in the cul de sac before my house was built.

Since I first moved in to the house in early 1992 when it was still my parents house I have not been the whole length of the street, and definitely not since my wife and I moved back in to it in 2003 when it became our house (long story).

So the technicality is that it wasn't my street when I clinched it.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: PHLBOS on May 23, 2017, 04:36:30 PM
For every (permanent) residence I've lived in, yes.  For 3 out of my 4 college years in Bristol, RI; yes for ((Old) Ferry Road), no for RI 114.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: Roadgeekteen on May 24, 2017, 01:39:29 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: JJBers on May 25, 2017, 07:41:55 PM
If you only count the street portion, yes, hundreds of times. If you count all of CT 14 though, I've clinched most of it, but I've still not made it past Moosup.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: Eth on May 25, 2017, 09:29:13 PM
My street (not a numbered highway) is about 15 miles long, and I've only been on about 60 percent of it.
Title: Re: Have you not clinched the street you live on?
Post by: kkt on May 26, 2017, 01:00:58 AM
No, my street has a gridwork number that's then broken into sections by valleys, creeks, etc.  So I've been on the sections near me, but the number shows up again at intervals up to 7 miles away without ever being an arterial.