What examples can you think of where two or more streets with identical or similar names intersect or come close to one another? I can come up with several:
- All the variations on "Peachtree" in Atlanta (perhaps the best-known example)
- Southwest Boulevard and Southwest Trafficway in KC
- Layton Boulevard and Layton Avenue in Milwaukee
- Florissant Road and West Florissant Road in Ferguson, MO (confusingly enough, West Florissant Road is actually east of Florissant Road!)
- Minneapolis and Minnesota Streets in Wichita, KS - one block apart!
- North Boulevard and North Street in Baton Rouge, LA
- Any city with numbered streets running east-west and numbered avenues running north-south (or vice-versa), where a lot of pairs with the same number intersect (there are many such intersections in the east part of Minneapolis)
- North of the border: the intersection of Danforth Avenue and Danforth Road in Toronto
These are just the examples I can think of at this moment. What others might be out there? I'm sure there are many.
Grant and Grand intersect in Springfield, MO.
Norman, OK's major north-south arterials are all divisible by 12, so both sides of town have a 12th, 24th, 36th, 48th, etc. Despite the fact that they're miles apart, they can still be confused with one another.
From 7 years ago: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=9350.0
This rotary intersection...
Minnehaha Ave. heads north
Minnehaha Pkwy. heads west
Minnehaha Dr. heads south
And just south of the rotary is Minnehaha Park Dr. (though only a small section is still open to cars these days. Most of it is bike/foot traffic only now)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Minneapolis,+MN/@44.9165957,-93.2133185,300m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x52b333909377bbbd:0x939fc9842f7aee07!8m2!3d44.977753!4d-93.2650108
Irvine Avenue (Newport Beach, CA - connects to Campus Drive in Irvine, CA), Irvine Center Drive (Irvine, CA - connects to Edinger Avenue in Tustin, CA), and Irvine Boulevard (Irvine, CA - connects to 4th Street in Tustin, CA)
Mission Road (Los Angeles, CA and Alhambra, CA). The two are separated by approx. 2 miles and they connect to different parallel roads - Huntington Drive and Alhambra Avenue.
Chapman Avenue - Fullerton, CA and Orange, CA, parallel to each other by ~6 miles
Quote from: KCRoadFan on July 16, 2020, 10:12:47 PM
What examples can you think of where two or more streets with identical or similar names intersect or come close to one another? I can come up with several:
- All the variations on "Peachtree" in Atlanta (perhaps the best-known example)
- Southwest Boulevard and Southwest Trafficway in KC
- Layton Boulevard and Layton Avenue in Milwaukee
- Florissant Road and West Florissant Road in Ferguson, MO (confusingly enough, West Florissant Road is actually east of Florissant Road!)
- Minneapolis and Minnesota Streets in Wichita, KS - one block apart!
- North Boulevard and North Street in Baton Rouge, LA
- Any city with numbered streets running east-west and numbered avenues running north-south (or vice-versa), where a lot of pairs with the same number intersect (there are many such intersections in the east part of Minneapolis)
- North of the border: the intersection of Danforth Avenue and Danforth Road in Toronto
These are just the examples I can think of at this moment. What others might be out there? I'm sure there are many.
Numerous examples in Los Angeles County where between numbered streets might be an Avenue and a Place or Plaza (occasionally something else) with the same number. So, for instance, 97th Street and 97th Ave aren't even 100 m apart.
It's fairly common in Alameda County to name a cul-de-sac from Something Avenue as Something Circle or Something Ct.
As for examples where you might not reasonably say "Ah, that's chickenshit!", Southeast of Broadway in Sacramento, there is a whole slew of intersections of numbered Streets and numbered Avenues, especially in the 30s and 40s. It is a fairly common occurrence in Sacramento also to have a street that eventually goes to Nearby town called "Nearby Blvd" in town, then "Nearby Rd" a bit farther out and then "Nearby-Next City Rd". For instance, "Franklin Blvd" in town, become "Franklin Rd" a bit further out, then "Thornton-Franklin Rd". In this vein, Florin Rd intersects Elk Grove-Florin Rd (and, I believe, Florin-Perkins Rd).
Both Emeryville and San Francisco have a Powell Street. I am not sure, but they may have once been joined by ferry.
San Francisco and Oakland both have streets called "Embarcadero", basically on opposite sides of the Bay Bridge.
I'm trying to think of, but am not able immediately to recall, streets named basically the same thing in two different languages, but I would expect this to happen a lot on Sint Maarten/Sint Martin and Hispaniola. One would think that it should happen in California, Texas, and Florida a lot also.
There are "Panoche" and "Little Panoche" Rds separated by one exit on I-5.
Here in Spain sometimes a short side street will get the same name as the main throughfare it intersects at one end, like this one (https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3946982,2.1049044,3a,75y,334.43h,73.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf2Bnf_y3B2C1hlwBl59xEQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) (extra bonus: in this case the side street intersects the main one at both ends).
Also in Barcelona, while doing some research about their orthogonal bus network I was puzzled by the fact Vilamarà and Viladomat run parallel to each other 4 blocks apart (The Eixample allows for an "American" definition of "block", unlike many places in Europe), with Villarroel (notice Spanish Villa with 2 Ls, as opposed to Catalan Vila with only one) a further 3 blocks from Viladomat.
In any neighborhood where streets are named after composers you are more likely to get streets named after both Händel and Haydn. This happens at opposite ends of Zaragoza's Rosales del Canal. At least in that case they didn't name a street after CPE Bach...
This one is confusing as hell:
Willow Pond Dr, Weeping Willow Ct, Willow Run Ct, Diamond Willow Cir, Willow View Cir, Willow Grove Cir, Willow Creek Dr, Willow View Ln. (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5364556,-94.2163534,879m/data=!3m1!1e3)
Other examples from my area:
Southridge vs. Southview (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5364556,-94.2163534,879m/data=!3m1!1e3)
Mill Pond vs. Mill Creek vs. Millstone (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5890357,-94.1798257,437m/data=!3m1!1e3)
Fortunately all of the examples that I can think of (aside from numbers) don't impact any major roads, so there aren't usually issues. I will say that I've gotten very lost in the neighborhood of the first example trying to figure out which "Willow" someone lived on.
https://goo.gl/maps/H7sF9xf3BmQuefoS6
This has always bothered me and does cause confusion for locals. Mill St in Burlington MA becomes Hillside Way in Wilmington. For some reason, just down the street from Hillside, there is a dead-end road named Mill Rd. People are constantly driving down the dead-end Mill Rd to get into Burlington especially if they are trying to reach Mill St.
I know there are others around me, but this one actually causes specific confusion and aggravation.
Quote from: Big John on July 16, 2020, 10:42:07 PM
From 7 years ago: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=9350.0
Thread merge, please?
Central Parkway and Central Avenue run parallel to each other, only a block apart in Cincinnati, for almost 1 1/2 miles.
I think this type of thread has been had multiple times before, including the one previously mentioned
I posted this back in the "Funniest street names" thread 3 years ago: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=13488.msg2234570#msg2234570
Terra Cotta Rd and Terra Cotta Ave/IL 176 meet at a stoplight in the far Chicago NW Suburb of Crystal Lake, IL
I was going to mention the Virginia Avenue situation in the City of Falls Church and Fairfax County, but I see I mentioned it in the other thread linked above, so for once I won't repeat myself.
I live on Ross Court. One block east is Ross Street, off of which to the south runs Ross Place. One block west is Routt Street, then Routt Court, then Routt Way. Consistently, I'll get mail for my Routt Street counterpart address and vice versa.
Another one confusing on paper with more major streets: at 92nd Ave in Westminster, Wadsworth Boulevard begins one block east of Wadsworth Parkway. They end up diverging then running parallel approximately a half mile apart to Broomfield. Wadsworth Boulevard is the original alignment and is referred to by locals as "Old Wadsworth" but not signed that way there.
Just to the north in Broomfield, there is a business park development called "Interlocken" where there is an Interlocken Boulevard, an Interlocken Parkway, an Interlocken Crescent, and an Interlocken Loop.
Omaha has Gibson Road and Bob Gibson Blvd. going south on S 13th St. from I-80. Gibson Road goes down to the Omaha water treatment plant while Bob Gibson Blvd. goes next to where the old baseball stadium was on land now a part of Henry Doorly Zoo.
Portland will do this with numbered avenues at the 'half-block' -- SE 32nd Ave (3200) is followed by SE 32nd Pl (3250ish), then 33rd Ave (3300), 33rd Pl (3250ish).
Rarely, you'll see 'Court' fill the same role for streets. For example, a theoretical SE Woodward Ct (2950ish) would follow Woodward St (2900).
Down in Oak Grove and Jennings Lodge, SE River Rd has thematic naming off its 'spurs' -- SE River Forest Dr, SE River Edge St, etc.
In Ann Arbor, South 4th & 5th Avenues run north and south, just east of Main Street. South 4th and 5th Streets also run north and south, a few blocks west of Main Street.
https://goo.gl/maps/YQkKp44EAzQom6Jd9
M-24 in Michigan is often referred to as Lapeer Rd. (it travels from Pontiac to Lapeer). However, some jurisdictions, like Lake Oriōn, have an entirely separate road called Lapeer Rd., where the highway used to run.
M-21 used to continue beyond Flint to Lapeer, and it was also called Lapeer Rd. The two highways intersected in Lapeer.
Until my home county created a unified Emergency Dispatch Center, some of the dogleg roads that used to be part of the highway, had the same name as the road intersected, sometimes with or without a different extension. For example, there was Bayview Rd., and off it was Bayview Rd., which connected to a highway curve, about 1/4 mile away. Also, about 3 miles west, was a different road called Bayview Ave., with no relation to the other Bayview, except, it also intersected the highway. There was also a road that changed names a couple of times over its length (the name changed when the road changed from primarily N-S to E-W, and the addresses changed accordingly). From the west end to east it was Baby Island Dr., Saratoga Rd., Baby Island Ave., and Saratoga Road.
Lower Manhattan
1st St intersects 1st Ave
2nd St intersects 2nd Ave
Believe it or not, those are the only two official common street/ave number intersections.
Here in San Jose there are a number of duplicate street names; some changing suffixes to technically avoid outright replication (i.e., changing a "street" to "avenue" or "lane" or "road" on one of a pair). The most commonly "mistaken identity" incidents among these are Cottle Avenue and Cottle Road, which are actually about 5 miles apart -- but the latter hosts the largest Kaiser hospital complex in the region. I reside a couple of blocks from the former -- and people have actually stopped in front of my house while I'm mowing the lawn or trimming bushes and asked where the Kaiser Hospital is located. Invariably they're new to the area, so I point them toward CA 87 south to CA 85 south, which is the fastest way to get there. Hopefully the problem isn't an emergency!
Where I-15 passes through the Rancho Bernardo section of San Diego, CA, there are interchanges with West Bernardo Drive and Rancho Bernardo Road. Also nearby are Carmel Mountain Road and Carmel Valley Road.
At least half of the roads intersecting Waverly Road in Michigan are examples of this. Waverly road is the border between Ingham and Eaton counties. To the east, it's Ingham and and west to Eaton. Many roads have their street type names changed to Highway once you go through Waverly Road going west. For example, to the east of Waverly Rd, there's Holt Road, and to the west, there's Holt Hwy. You can scroll around Waverly Road on Google Maps to see it all.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6487026,-84.6034136,4294m/data=!3m1!1e3
Allendale and Alandale Avenuess intersect at the Albany/Schenectady county line at Central Ave/State Street.
The corner of Bellevue, Bellevue, and Bellevue...not in the city of Bellevue.
(https://i.imgur.com/77C1jBL.jpg)
Quote from: Rothman on July 19, 2020, 10:57:32 AM
Allendale and Alandale Avenues intersect at the Albany/Schenectady county line at Central Ave/State Street.
Do I even need to write out the joke here?
Another confusing one: Alderwood Mall Parkway and Alderwood Mall Boulevard in Lynnwood, WA (Maps link (https://goo.gl/maps/MmbsNrQWjUnzpjjo9)).
Boulevard mainly serves the southwest and runs parallel to I-5 with few pulloffs. Parkway starts at an I-5 ramp, serves the southeast side of the retail sprawl, runs along the east side of the mall proper, then continues north for a bit across SR 525.
In far east metro Atlanta, SR 124 has consecutive intersections with Rockbridge Rd and S Rockbridge Rd. 124 crosses the Dekalb/Gwinnett county line in between them, and S Rockbridge Rd in Gwinnett becomes Rockbridge Rd if you take it far enough:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7760848,-84.0774143,17z
When I first encountered this in the late 1990s, S Rockbridge Rd was still Rockbridge Rd, for maximum confusion. Dekalb Rockbridge goes mostly due west while Gwinnett Rockbridge goes northwest.
Michigan Rd in Indianapolis has a name change at 38th St to MLK St, and later on to West St, 3.8 miles from where the road intersects Michigan St.
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 17, 2020, 03:10:24 PM
I was going to mention the Virginia Avenue situation in the City of Falls Church and Fairfax County, but I see I mentioned it in the other thread linked above, so for once I won't repeat myself.
Considering it was the subject of this post, though, didn't you still repeat yourself? :-P
There are consecutive exits on I-10 north of Palm Springs and Cathedral City for Palm Drive and Date Palm Drive. Technically, the one exit is Palm Drive/ Gene Autry Trail, but it can still be confusing.
Breton & Burton (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9271789,-85.6091968,3a,26.7y,296.5h,91.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAFQ1TonYaBTPBWBrgnrD2Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) in Grand Rapids.
In Santa Barbara, CA, "Carrillo St" and "Castillo St" are consecutive exits (98A and 97) on US 101 southbound, with "Cabrillo Blvd" just a few miles up at 94B. (Northbound labels exit 97 differently)
They even intersect - you can start on Carrillo, turn on Castillo, and end up at Cabrillo.
Quote from: webny99 on July 21, 2020, 01:57:04 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 17, 2020, 03:10:24 PM
I was going to mention the Virginia Avenue situation in the City of Falls Church and Fairfax County, but I see I mentioned it in the other thread linked above, so for once I won't repeat myself.
Considering it was the subject of this post, though, didn't you still repeat yourself? :-P
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Coming into Albuquerque from the west on I-40, you'll pass "Atrisco Vista Blvd" and "Arroyo Vista Blvd" at consecutive interchanges.
The funny thing is Atrisco Vista Blvd used to be called Paseo del Volcan, but that was renamed to avoid confusion with a different Paseo del Volcan further north in Rio Rancho.
In Genesee County, Michigan there is a Miller Road that is a major street on the west side of Flint which actually turns into Lansing Road in Shiawassee County but has a small strip that ends at Sheridan Road (the county line).
About 6 miles south of this is another Miller Road (this one is in Shiawassee County, Ray Road in Genesee County). This Miller Road crosses Lansing Road several miles to the west before becoming Tyrrel Road it picks up again west of Morrice Road for about 3 miles and curves into Ruess Road. The Miller Road in Shiawassee County is different though, it's not a major road and it's very discontinuous such as dead ending for a train crossing and dead ending on both sides of I-69 then the road isn't there at all for about 3 miles between Vernon and Lemon Roads. It picks up one mor
I remember riding CUMTD buses through Urbana and Champaign, and between the University campus and downtown Champaign, there would always be a stop at the corner of "White and Wright." The names may look different when written down, but when announced by the speaker aboard the bus, it was always kind of amusing.
Another good one in Renton, WA (https://www.google.com/maps/@47.4970752,-122.1919164,1483m/data=!3m1!1e3):
NE Sunset Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard NE split off and serve two different exits on I-405. One being the former alignment of SR 900 and another being the current alignment.
Chicago has Wells Street and Ida B. Wells Dr. They intersect and they are both in the Loop. This was unnecessary as Ida B. Wells was a recent rename for Congress Pkwy. Being this close an in the most tourist prone part of the city is only bound to lead to confusion. IMO, it would have been better to have renamed and or dedicated a portion of the existing Wells street in her honor, or if it is deemed necessary to honor her with a unique street, dedicate something further away from Wells.
fort collins has center drive, and centre drive, and whats more fun is one turns into the other.
it's not a weird misspelling either. center, is on the n-s grid, and is an extension of center drive on the csu campus.
centre drive, refers to 'the centre for advanced technology' -- a business park thingy on the west side of town, and is on the e-w grid.
McGuire Road in Orlando. Though on opposite ends of the city( in fact one is technically in Ocoee) on traffic reports on radio, it can be confusing as both intersect Colonial Drive which is a major artery for Central Florida.
Many traffic reports use the eastern McGuire as a reference point for traffic on Colonial which can confuse visitors or locals on the Ocoee side.