For example, Milwaukee Street in Madison: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1002123,-89.2842053,2065m/data=!3m1!1e3
It points in the direction of Milwaukee as it goes eastward out of the city.
How common is this naming scheme?
Quote from: thspfc on October 03, 2021, 09:37:32 PM
For example, Milwaukee Street in Madison: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1002123,-89.2842053,2065m/data=!3m1!1e3
It points in the direction of Milwaukee as it goes eastward out of the city.
How common is this naming scheme?
All over New England.
Extremely common.
Very common. A lot of numbered routes in the Cincinnati area have names like that (Montgomery Rd for US 22/3, Reading Rd, Lebanon Rd for US 42, Hamilton Ave for US 127), list goes on. Sometimes, there are two city names in the road name, to show that it connects the two cities. An example is Cincinnati-Dayton Rd (former US 25).
Many roads in NJ are Town Road or Town-Town Road, such as Bridgeton Pike or Woodbury-Glassboro Road.
Pretty common in this part of North Carolina:
Raleigh (clockwise):
Wake Forest Road
New Bern Avenue
Garner Road
Wilmington Street
Fayetteville Street (doesn't go out of the city anymore)
Chapel Hill Road
Hillsborough Street
Creedmoor Road
Durham (clockwise):
Roxboro Street/Roxboro Road
New Raleigh Highway
* didn't include Miami Boulevard
Fayetteville Street/Fayetteville Road
Old Chapel Hill Road
Chapel Hill Street/Chapel Hill Road
Hillsborough Road
Elkhart, Indiana, has a ton of these.
Mishawaka Rd
Bristol St
Cassopolis St
Edwardsburg Rd
Goshen Ave
Nappanee St
Even a Toledo Rd
Mishawaka has a Bremen Hwy
Lake County has Indianapolis Blvd
Indianapolis has:
Allisonville Rd
Pendleton Pike
Brookville Rd
Rockville Rd
Crawfordsville Rd
Lafayette Rd
Westfield Rd
Madison has others, like Verona Rd, Stoughton Rd, etc.
In the Twin Cities:
Hudson Road
Wayzata Blvd
Stillwater Blvd
Minnetonka Blvd
Rockford Rd
White Bear Ave
Excelsior Blvd
Plymouth Rd
Some other extraneous ones I can think of around Minnesota
Shieldsville Blvd (MN 21 northwest of Faribault)
Morristown Blvd (MN 60 west of Faribault)
Lonsdale Blvd (MN 19 west of I-35)
Cloquet Road (not Cloquet Ave within that city itself)
Not quite as common in the Triad of North Carolina.
Greensboro (clockwise):
Burlington Road
Pleasant Garden Road
Randleman Road
Winston-Salem (clockwise):
New Walkertown Road
Reidsville Road
Old Greensboro Road
Waughtown Street/Kernersville Road
Thomasville Road
Clemmonsville Road
High Point
Jamestown Parkway
* uhh, Trinity Avenue doesn't go to Trinity but is pretty dad-gummed close to there
Lexington Avenue
As mentioned above, this is a very common naming scheme in some parts of the country, yet it's next to nonexistent in Oklahoma. Here, you're more likely to see streets named after the town that they are in than a town nearby.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 03, 2021, 10:12:24 PM
As mentioned above, this is a very common naming scheme in some parts of the country, yet it's next to nonexistent in Oklahoma. Here, you're more likely to see streets named after the town that they are in than a town nearby.
Québec is a strange hybrid, where such road names lead to and are the main street in a town (though the road in the town itself is often named Rue Principale, Main Street).
Quote from: thspfc on October 03, 2021, 09:37:32 PM
For example, Milwaukee Street in Madison: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1002123,-89.2842053,2065m/data=!3m1!1e3
It points in the direction of Milwaukee as it goes eastward out of the city.
How common is this naming scheme?
Extremely common in many, if not most areas of the country.
For example, in my home town of Bloomington IN, they have:
Bloomfield Rd., which is IN 45 west of I-69 and becomes 2nd St. in town.
Whitehall Pike, which is IN 48 west of I-69 and becomes 3rd St. in town.
Unionville Rd., which is IN 45 northeast of "the bypass" (IN 46; it has never had an official name) and spins off from 10th St.
Smithville Rd., which is an E-W county road between old IN 37 and the town of Smithville, south of Bloomington.
Nashville Rd., which is the former name of IN 46/3rd St. east of the IU campus and outside city limits. IIRC, it hasn't been signed as such since the 1970s.
In metro Phoenix, we have:
Glendale Ave., which is a major E-W thoroghfare that goes right through downtown Glendale.
Peoria Ave., another E-W thoroughfare that goes through downtown Peoria.
Scottsdale Rd., a major N-S thoroughfare that goes through downtown Scottsdale.
Carefree Hwy., an E-W thoroughfare that goes from I-17 to downtown Carefree.
Morristown-New River Hwy, the same road as Carefree Hwy, but runs west of I-17 to US 60 at Morristown. It is AZ 74.
Gilbert Rd., a major N-S thoroughfare that runs from the Salt River Indian Community, through east Mesa and downtown Gilbert, to the Gila River Community.
These are everywhere in Georgia. And when you get to whatever town they're named for, the name will usually change to the town you started in. In Atlanta proper we have Marietta St, Decatur St, Roswell Rd, Jonesboro Rd, Campbellton Rd, Buford Highway, and probably a couple more I'm forgetting.
If you get out of the city limits and explore the greater metro area, you'll find several Atlanta St/Rd/Hwys, another Roswell Rd, some more Marietta Rds, a couple Fairburn Rds, a few Fayetteville Rds, some Dallas Hwys, I think another Jonesboro Rd... and the list goes on. As you might imagine, this gets confusing pretty quickly if you aren't sure exactly what part of the metro is being referred to. The two Roswell Rds in particular get me all the time as they are both major highways pretty close to Atlanta - one carries US 19/GA 9, the other is GA 120.
The cool thing about this scheme is it's often a good way to identify old alignments of major routes that have now been moved to bypasses. Most of Marietta St/Blvd/Atlanta Rd/St between Atlanta and Marietta is the original US 41, which now connects those cities on the newer Northside Drive and Cobb Parkway. I'd have to look it up to be sure but I believe Decatur Street was the original US 78, which is now up on Ponce.
This scheme is also a thing in some parts of Utah, though you have to look a bit harder there as most highways will take on a grid-system number or "Main St" in towns and simply go by route number outside of them.
TX, I'm sure has many examples. A few I'm familiar with:
Amarillo --
* Fritch Hwy. (TX 136)
* Tascosa Rd. (RM 1061)
Athens --
* Corsicana St. (Bus US 175/Bus TX 31 (previous in-town routing of US 175 and TX 31))
* Palestine St. (Bus TX 19 (previous in-town routing of TX 19))
* Tyler St. (Bus TX 31 (previous in-town routing of TX 31))
Dallas --
* Denton Dr. (previous routing of US 77)
* Forney Rd.
* Fort Worth Ave. (historic Bus US 80; historic TX 1)
* Garland Rd. (TX 78 (historic routing of US 67))
* Greenville Ave. (part of previous routing of US 67)++
* Irving Blvd.
* Lancaster Rd. (part of previous routing of US 77)
* Plano Rd.
* Preston Rd. (TX 289; naming actually pre-dates the formation of the city of Dallas)
* Seagoville Rd. (previous routing of US 175)
Denton --
* Dallas Dr. (part of off-freeway US 77)
* Fort Worth Dr. (part of US 377)
Fort Worth --
* Mansfield Hwy. (Bus US 287 (previous pre-freeway routing of US 287))
Frisco --
* Preston Rd. (see the Dallas listing)
Grapevine --
* Dallas Dr. (previous routing of TX 114)
Jacksonville --
* Frankston St. (current naming for US 175, other than its last 3 blocks (might change when widening work is completed in the next few years (?)))
Plano --
* Parker Rd.
* Preston Rd. (see the Dallas listing)
Richardson --
* Plano Rd. (was portion of now-historic US 75/historic TX 5; name continuation of the one named above from Dallas)
Seagoville --
* Kaufman St. (previous routing of US 175)
Tyler --
* Troup Hwy. (TX 110)
++ -- The instances of "Greenville Ave." in Richardson and Allen are name continuations of the Dallas one, but only the Dallas one really was a 'pointer', of sorts, to Greenville when it was part of US 67.
There's one in St Joseph Co, MI - Centreville-Constantine Road. It has to be abbreviated to fit on street signs.
In Danville VA, US-58 just east of the city is South Boston Road. West of the city, it's Martinsville Highway.
In NC, Pikeville-Princeton road runs between Pikeville and Princeton. Another NC example is Old Mount Olive Highway between Goldsboro and Mount Olive.
Not only is this very common, but in some places the road's name will change when you cross county lines to refer to the town you just left. For example, Dirt Roads mentions the Durham area in North Carolina. Roxboro Road (US-501) is so named because Roxboro is the next town to the north. It's in the next county over. When you cross the county line, suddenly you're on Durham Road.
Very common around here, and sometimes the streets will skip a few towns or even not provide a direct route. Louisville has both Frankfort and Lexington designated on parts of US 60 heading east out of town, and Shelbyville doesn't get mentioned until the road is well out of downtown. And there's a Louisville Road in Lawrenceburg. It's KY 151, which connects to I-64 and US 60 in Franklin County, which are the routes one would take to get to Louisville.
A few in Northern Virginia (not intended to be exhaustive; these just came to mind off the top of my head):
Richmond Highway (US-1), which passes through Fredericksburg well before it reaches Richmond
Leesburg Pike (a good portion of VA-7), signed on some older street signs as Leesburg Turnpike
Centreville Road (secondary route 657), which no longer reaches Centreville
Dumfries Road (part of VA-234), which runs from near Manassas to near Dumfries
Honorable mentions:
Chain Bridge Road (portions run on VA-123) ends at Chain Bridge, which crosses the Potomac to DC.
I don't believe Arlington Boulevard (parts of US-50 in Fairfax City, Fairfax County, and Arlington County) is named because it runs to Arlington County but rather because it bisects Arlington County's street system into North and South. While it's still a major arterial, prior to the completion of I-66 in 1982 it was an even more important route from Fairfax County to Arlington than it is now.
Quote from: -- US 175 -- on October 04, 2021, 01:56:05 AM
TX, I'm sure has many examples. A few I'm familiar with:
* Greenville Ave. (part of previous routing of US 67)++
Got a cite for that? Old maps only indicate the direction of Greenville Avenue towards McKinney or Sherman. This has always bothered me, just like Burnet Rd. in Austin will get you nowhere even in the general direction of the town of Burnet.
Gettysburg, PA has a bunch.
Emmittsburg Road for US 15B South
Harrisburg Road for US 15B North.
York Road for US 30 East.
Chambersburg Road for US 30 West.
Hanover Street for PA 116 East
Hagerstown Road for PA 116 West.
Baltimore Pike for PA 97 South ( Old US 140 to Baltimore).
Carlisle Road for PA 34 North
Taneytown Road for PA 134 South.
Newark, NJ has Elizabeth Avenue going to Elizabeth via Hillside.
Springfield Avenue to Springfield via Irvington and Maplewood.
Bloomfield Avenue to Bloomfield.
Elizabeth, NJ has Westfield Avenue to Westfield via Route 28 that goes there.
Rahway Avenue for Route 27 that goes there.
Newark Avenue for Route 27 as well.
Not related but Morris Avenue does head toward Morristown as a coincidence as I believe it was named for a former NJ Governor.
Very very common in the Northeast. There must be about a half a dozen different Farmington Avenues in the Hartford area. Many of the roads switch to the other town's/villages name at the town line. For example, CT 364 switches from Kensington Rd to Southington Rd at the Southington/Berlin town line (Kensington is a section of town). CT 120 is Meriden Ave because it heads toward Meriden. CT 177 changes from Unionville Ave to Plainville Ave as you cross from Plainville into Farmington (Unionville being a section of town).
Quote from: I-35 on October 04, 2021, 10:02:31 AM
Quote from: -- US 175 -- on October 04, 2021, 01:56:05 AM
TX, I'm sure has many examples. A few I'm familiar with:
* Greenville Ave. (part of previous routing of US 67)++
Got a cite for that? Old maps only indicate the direction of Greenville Avenue towards McKinney or Sherman. This has always bothered me, just like Burnet Rd. in Austin will get you nowhere even in the general direction of the town of Burnet.
I'd have to scour the webosphere, but there have been at least 1 or 2 old maps I've seen online where US 67, in 1 of its earliest (1926 and after) iterations, shared Greenville Ave. with US 75 up to Park Ln., then split east to Fair Oaks Ln., then followed that NE. That is 1 of 4 paths I've seen on maps for US 67 between Dallas and Greenville. Even if I do find it (or some other helpful soul finds it first), I am not sure why none of the earlier US 67 routings (like Fair Oaks, Gaston, or Garland Rd.) were named "Greenville Ave." instead of the one that exists now.
Not super common out here but the City - City Road examples do exist. Kiowa-Bennett Road jumps to mind.
Chris
I wonder if the OP had a slightly different idea in mind for this thread. His example merely points towards Milwaukee, and it doesn't come anywhere close to reaching it. Most (if not all) of the other examples don't really fit that description. Perhaps this thread would be more interesting if we only regarded examples that don't reach the place they are named after.
An example of this would be Beaumont Highway on the east side of Houston. It points towards Beaumont, but doesn't reach it.
Quote from: CoreySamson on October 04, 2021, 11:34:39 AM
I wonder if the OP had a slightly different idea in mind for this thread. His example merely points towards Milwaukee, and it doesn't come anywhere close to reaching it. Most (if not all) of the other examples don't really fit that description. Perhaps this thread would be more interesting if we only regarded examples that don't reach the place they are named after.
An example of this would be Beaumont Highway on the east side of Houston. It points towards Beaumont, but doesn't reach it.
In that case, Cleveland Ave in Columbus could qualify. Though part of it is also part of OH 3, which does reach Cleveland (not under the "Cleveland Ave" name though).
Quote from: CoreySamson on October 04, 2021, 11:34:39 AM
I wonder if the OP had a slightly different idea in mind for this thread. His example merely points towards Milwaukee, and it doesn't come anywhere close to reaching it. Most (if not all) of the other examples don't really fit that description. Perhaps this thread would be more interesting if we only regarded examples that don't reach the place they are named after.
An example of this would be Beaumont Highway on the east side of Houston. It points towards Beaumont, but doesn't reach it.
What IS interesting about the OP's example, is that while Milwaukee Street does point toward Milwaukee, I don't think it was ever the way that traffic would actually take to get to Milwaukee from Madison.
It ends at a T-intersection just outside of the city, at pretty much the same spot it has always ended. It has never carried a US or state route designation either.
Quote from: CoreySamson on October 04, 2021, 11:34:39 AM
I wonder if the OP had a slightly different idea in mind for this thread. His example merely points towards Milwaukee, and it doesn't come anywhere close to reaching it. Most (if not all) of the other examples don't really fit that description. Perhaps this thread would be more interesting if we only regarded examples that don't reach the place they are named after.
An example of this would be Beaumont Highway on the east side of Houston. It points towards Beaumont, but doesn't reach it.
My first thought was Fayetteville Rd in Rockingham NC, which is US 1 north from that city, and I always thought that people use US 74 to US 401 to reach Fayetteville from Rockingham, but it turns out that Google Maps actually suggests a route that starts off using US 1.
Close into Charlotte, North Carolina, we don't see this so much. More prevalent around the outskirts. Going around the city twice to get all of the candidates.
Charlotte, near uptown(clockwise, twice around)
Statesville Avenue
Providence Road
Charlotte, way out of town(clockwise, twice around)
Statesville Road
Old Statesville Road
North Tryon Street becomes Concord Road
Albemarle Road
Seventh Street becomes Monroe Road/Old Monroe Road
Third Street becomes Providence Road
South Boulevard becomes Polk Street (in Pineville) then becomes Lancaster Highway
South Tryon Street becomes York Road (which zig-zags up into Lake Wylie before turning back south)
West Street becomes Steele Creek Road
The three that come to mind in Santa Clara County:
-Oakland Road, leaving San Jose pointing towards Oakland (this was CA-17; street renames upon entering Milpitas and beyond, and is no longer continuous with other portions of the historic route)
-Monterey Road/Highway, leaving San Jose pointing towards Monterey (this was US-101; although you have to leave US-101 to eventually get to Monterey)
-Saratoga Avenue, leaving Santa Clara pointing towards Saratoga (see below)
-Santa Cruz Avenue in Los Gatos qualified at one time as it continued onto Santa Cruz Highway, but the name now ends as it it merges with the CA-17 freeway/expressway.
Quote from: jayhawkco on October 04, 2021, 11:13:29 AM
Not super common out here but the City - City Road examples do exist. Kiowa-Bennett Road jumps to mind.
Chris
Santa Clara County used to have a lot of the City-City names, most of which have been re-named:
Saratoga-Santa Clara Road -> Saratoga Avenue
Santa Clara-Los Gatos Road -> Winchester Boulevard
San Jose-Los Gatos Road -> Bascom Avenue*
Los Gatos-Almaden Road -> same
Saratoga-Los Gatos Road -> same (cities reversed on portion)
Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road -> same (cities reversed on portion, portion re-named De Anza Boulevard)
Mountain View-Alviso Road -> CA-237 (freeway) (this name still exists on a BGS on US-101)
Alviso-Milpitas Road -> CA-237 (freeway)
Santa Clara-Alviso Road -> Lafayette Street
*the continuation of this street into Los Gatos, now called Los Gatos Boulevard, was previously called San Jose Avenue, which would have qualified. It was renamed around 1970.
Quote from: Dirt Roads on October 03, 2021, 09:52:35 PM
Pretty common in this part of North Carolina:
Raleigh (clockwise):
Wake Forest Road
New Bern Avenue
Garner Road
Wilmington Street
Fayetteville Street (doesn't go out of the city anymore)
Chapel Hill Road
Hillsborough Street
Creedmoor Road
Durham (clockwise):
Roxboro Street/Roxboro Road
New Raleigh Highway
* didn't include Miami Boulevard
Fayetteville Street/Fayetteville Road
Old Chapel Hill Road
Chapel Hill Street/Chapel Hill Road
Hillsborough Road
Similarly in
Chapel Hill/Carrboro:
Old Durham Rd
Farrington Rd
Raleigh Rd
Pittsboro St
(ends at Columbia St which continues toward Pittsboro)* didn't include Greensboro St
Old Greensboro Rd
Old Fayetteville Rd
(dead-ends at University Lake
Hillsborough Rd
Hillsborough St (ends at MLK Blvd which continues toward Hillsboro)
Quote from: Dirt Roads on October 03, 2021, 09:52:35 PM
Durham (clockwise):
Roxboro Street/Roxboro Road
New Raleigh Highway
* didn't include Miami Boulevard
Fayetteville Street/Fayetteville Road
Farrington Road
Old Chapel Hill Road
Chapel Hill Street/Chapel Hill Road
Hillsborough Road
Quote from: Evan_Th on October 04, 2021, 01:47:16 PM
Similarly in Chapel Hill/Carrboro:
Old Durham Rd
Farrington Rd
Raleigh Rd
Pittsboro St (ends at Columbia St which continues toward Pittsboro)
* didn't include Greensboro St
Old Greensboro Rd
Old Fayetteville Rd (dead-ends at University Lake)
Hillsborough Rd
Hillsborough St (ends at MLK Blvd which continues toward Hillsboro)
Great list. You picked up one that I forgot, except that Farrington Road should be included in the Durham list (as it branches off from Old Chapel Hill Road, then sneaks through the northeast corner of Chapel Hill that happens to be in Durham County). On the other hand, if you treat Chapel Hill like a metropolis then you ought to be able to include the other Farrington Road, which branches off US-15/US-501. That road starts out as Mount Carmel Church Road in Orange County, then changes names to Farrington Road at the Chatham County line. Unlike the Durham version, this one actually takes you down to Farrington and further to Farrington Point.
Chicagoland
IL-21, aka Milwaukee Av, from central Chicago to Gurnee IL, part of old trail to MKE.
IL-131 Green Bay Rd, used to connect to Clark St in Chicago, another old trail to WI.
IL-19, used to be called 'Chicago-Elgin Rd', now starts as Chicago St. in Elgin and Irving Park Rd, through burbs into city.
IL-58, Golf Rd, used to be known as 'Evanston-Elgin Rd'.
Old US-66, Joliet Rd before bypasses.
The few in Richmond for the most part goes to CDPs in the suburbs, and continues through them rather than just to them, so I don't think they're very good examples.
A surefire one is Williamsburg Rd, which is US 60 heading east towards Williamsburg.
Likewise, Williamsburg has Richmond Rd, which is US 60 heading west towards Richmond.
I'm not sure what we're looking for, but I'll throw this out: In Monroe County, Michigan there is Ida-Maybee Rd. Running south, it ends before it reaches Ida, MI. Running north, it goes west of Maybee, MI. Doesn't reach either municipality.
Only a handful of urban cases here that I can immediately think of:
Seattle: Bothell Way (SR 522)
Kirkland: Redmond Way
Tacoma: Puyallup Avenue (sort of)
Portland: Vancouver Avenue
Plenty of rural ones, especially with X-Y Road names.
In Baltimore:
Reisterstown Road (MD 140) goes northwest toward Reisterstown.
York Road (MD 45) goes due north toward York, Pennsylvania.
Belair Road (US 1) goes northeast toward Bel Air.
Bonus: Harford Road (MD 147) goes northeast into Harford County.
Quote from: Bruce on October 04, 2021, 04:26:29 PM
Plenty of rural ones, especially with X-Y Road names.
I wasn't including any of North Carolina's X-Y roads. Case in point, the main road between Durham and Chapel Hill (US-15/501) is Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard. Needless to say, that's the highway that replaced Old Chapel Hill Road/Old Durham Road. I've only encountered a few of these X-Y roads leaving the larger cities in North Carolina.
Quote from: epzik8 on October 04, 2021, 05:20:39 PM
In Baltimore:
Reisterstown Road (MD 140) goes northwest toward Reisterstown.
York Road (MD 45) goes due north toward York, Pennsylvania.
Belair Road (US 1) goes northeast toward Bel Air.
Bonus: Harford Road (MD 147) goes northeast into Harford County.
I followed MD 140 for an outing one time, and it was an interesting assortment of roads named for towns, most of which were the next relatively large town outbound from Baltimore (skipping over a couple of "Main St" names):
Reisterstown Rd
Westminster Pike
Baltimore Blvd
Taneytown Pike
Baltimore St
Taneytown Pike
Waynesboro Pike
All over the place here.
Quote from: CoreySamson on October 04, 2021, 11:34:39 AM
I wonder if the OP had a slightly different idea in mind for this thread. His example merely points towards Milwaukee, and it doesn't come anywhere close to reaching it. Most (if not all) of the other examples don't really fit that description. Perhaps this thread would be more interesting if we only regarded examples that don't reach the place they are named after.
An example of this would be Beaumont Highway on the east side of Houston. It points towards Beaumont, but doesn't reach it.
Some California examples:
Oakland Road (former US 101E, Route 17, later Route 238) in San Jose
San Jose Avenue (including a portion of former US 101/current Route 82) in San Francisco, which was the historic "San Jose Road"
Old San Francisco Road in Sunnyvale
San Mateo Avenue in South San Francisco/San Bruno
Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento & Elk Grove
Auburn Boulevard in northeast Sacramento/Citrus Heights/Roseville
Marysville Boulevard in Sacramento's Del Paso Heights and Robla areas
Concord Avenue in Brentwood
Don't forget all the freeways in California! Santa Monica Fwy; San Diego Fwy; Hollywood Fwy; Ventura Fwy; etc.
In Las Vegas, you have the Boulder Highway, which points towards Boulder City.
I'm thinking this is much more of an eastern US phenomenon because most city streets were laid out much more haphazardly before the mid 1800s, and a road simply connected two cities the best way possible. Once you got past the Mississippi River, towns were laid out more in grid patterns.
A bunch in New England, Kentucky, and Georgia.
Toledo Road on the east side of Elkhart, Indiana (former US 20).
Somewhat closer to home: Kansas City Road in the suburb of Olathe, Kansas.
Quote from: KCRoadFan on October 04, 2021, 08:51:08 PM
A bunch in New England, Kentucky, and Georgia.
"A bunch" in New England is an understatement, as I implied above. Just in MA alone, practically every town has a road named for a neighboring town that switches names at the township border.
Somewhat odd, here in Wayland NY: Lackawanna Street (NY 15 and part of NY 21), which runs due north-south. North is toward Springwater and Rochester, south is toward Hornell (21) or Cohocton/Bath/Corning (15). Lackawanna NY is to the west-northwest, next to Buffalo.
Where the street did go in the old days was the local station of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. So in that sense only, it was the way to Lackawanna.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on October 03, 2021, 10:04:07 PM
In the Twin Cities:
Hudson Road
Wayzata Blvd
Stillwater Blvd
Minnetonka Blvd
Rockford Rd
White Bear Ave
Excelsior Blvd
Plymouth Rd
Osseo Rd
Golden Valley Rd
Stillwater Ave/Rd in addition to Blvd above
Centerville Road
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 04, 2021, 07:42:38 AM
Not only is this very common, but in some places the road's name will change when you cross county lines to refer to the town you just left. For example, Dirt Roads mentions the Durham area in North Carolina. Roxboro Road (US-501) is so named because Roxboro is the next town to the north. It's in the next county over. When you cross the county line, suddenly you're on Durham Road.
U.S. 1 south of Washington, D.C. is Richmond Highway in several sections (and also Jefferson Davis Highway though that name is becoming disfavored)
U.S. 1 north of Washington is Rhode Island Avenue (an extension of its D.C. name), then Baltimore Avenue north to the north edge of Laurel, then Washington Boulevard most of the way to Baltimore. Then Southwestern Boulevard then Wilkens Avenue. Headed north from Baltimore, U.S, 1 is Belair Road starting in the city and keeps that name most of the way to Bel Air. Approaching Bel Air, Belair Road turns off onto Business U.S. 1 as it gets close to Bel Air suddenly becomes Baltimore Pike.
For added fun, U.S. 1 becomes Conowingo Road (probably in honor of the town that disappeared beneath the waves of the reservoir created when Conowingo Dam was built across the Susquehanna River) north of Bel Air.
It's somewhat common in NY for a road to be named for the towns it connects... Walworth-Ontario Road, for example.
NY 31 is also named Rochester Rd heading east out of Lockport, but it has various other names before it actually gets to Rochester.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on October 05, 2021, 09:46:05 PM
U.S. 1 north of Washington is Rhode Island Avenue (an extension of its D.C. name), then Baltimore Avenue north to the north edge of Laurel, then Washington Boulevard most of the way to Baltimore. Then Southwestern Boulevard then Wilkens Avenue. Headed north from Baltimore, U.S, 1 is Belair Road starting in the city and keeps that name most of the way to Bel Air. Approaching Bel Air, Belair Road turns off onto Business U.S. 1 as it gets close to Bel Air suddenly becomes Baltimore Pike.
Rhode Island Avenue sort of counts for this thread too, since US 1 does eventually go to Rhode Island!
Naperville, IL has a number of these types of streets.
Chicago Ave
Aurora Ave
North Aurora Rd
Plainfield-Naperville Rd
Naperville-Wheaton Rd
Warrenville Rd
Oswego Rd
I did find a Warner map of Naperville from 1870 online. According to that, Aurora Ave was High St and Chicago Ave was Water St.
Quote from: US20IL64 on October 04, 2021, 03:36:01 PM
Chicagoland
IL-21, aka Milwaukee Av, from central Chicago to Gurnee IL, part of old trail to MKE.
IL-131 Green Bay Rd, used to connect to Clark St in Chicago, another old trail to WI.
IL-19, used to be called 'Chicago-Elgin Rd', now starts as Chicago St. in Elgin and Irving Park Rd, through burbs into city.
IL-58, Golf Rd, used to be known as 'Evanston-Elgin Rd'.
Old US-66, Joliet Rd before bypasses.
Don't forget Vincennes Rd, Michigan City Rd, Lemont Rd and Plainfield Rd.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on October 05, 2021, 09:46:05 PM
U.S. 1 north of Washington is Rhode Island Avenue (an extension of its D.C. name), then Baltimore Avenue north to the north edge of Laurel, then Washington Boulevard most of the way to Baltimore. Then Southwestern Boulevard then Wilkens Avenue. Headed north from Baltimore, U.S, 1 is Belair Road starting in the city and keeps that name most of the way to Bel Air. Approaching Bel Air, Belair Road turns off onto Business U.S. 1 as it gets close to Bel Air suddenly becomes Baltimore Pike.
For added fun, U.S. 1 becomes Conowingo Road (probably in honor of the town that disappeared beneath the waves of the reservoir created when Conowingo Dam was built across the Susquehanna River) north of Bel Air.
For even more added fun: once across the border into PA, the old alignment of US 1 is also known as Baltimore Pike (and US 1 later returns to Baltimore Pike beyond the northeast end of the Kennett Oxford Bypass).
Albany, GA has Old Dawson Road that doesn't reach Dawson but head towards it as it at one time was US 82 that does head there.
Alabama has a bunch of roads named out of cities that never reach their named cities, but head there. Montgomery Highway in Birmingham comes to mind.
This happens way too commonly to try and make an exhaustive list. For starters, search for any instances of "Chicago St/Ave/Rd" in the Chicago suburbs. You can probably search for any instance of [big city] Street in the suburbs of that city.
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Quote from: US20IL64 on October 04, 2021, 03:36:01 PM
Chicagoland
IL-21, aka Milwaukee Av, from central Chicago to Gurnee IL, part of old trail to MKE.
IL-131 Green Bay Rd, used to connect to Clark St in Chicago, another old trail to WI.
IL-19, used to be called 'Chicago-Elgin Rd', now starts as Chicago St. in Elgin and Irving Park Rd, through burbs into city.
IL-58, Golf Rd, used to be known as 'Evanston-Elgin Rd'.
Old US-66, Joliet Rd before bypasses.
Don't forget Vincennes Rd, Michigan City Rd, Lemont Rd and Plainfield Rd.
And while there is Naperville Rd in Wheaton IL heading there. In Elgin, near Villa Olivia, is another "Naperville Rd", far from that 'ville'. ;-)
I forgot one not too far from where I live. Prestonsburg Street in West Liberty, Ky. US 460 does go to Prestonsburg, but it goes through Salyersville and Paintsville first.
US 36 in metro Denver is known as the Boulder Turnpike. (It WAS a turnpike back in the day, but wonder of wonders, it was actually paid off.)
SW Chicago suburb, Midlothian, has a 'free' Turnpike named for the town, ;-)
Quote from: US20IL64 on October 07, 2021, 12:53:43 AM
SW Chicago suburb, Midlothian, has a 'free' Turnpike named for the town, ;-)
As does VA, though I didn't count it in my post earlier because the VA one isn't a town.
My favorite example of this in my region are the various roads named for Camden, South Carolina, some of which are very old routes (Great Wagon Road) that pass by Revolutionary War historic sites. For example: If you drive south on South Tryon Street from Trade Street in Charlotte, you reach a fork in the road. Tryon goes right, Camden Road goes left. It is named that because it really did go all the way to Camden, but has long since been chopped up, rerouted, and renamed in many places.
Carrollton, MO has a Chillicothe Rd, which goes North\South. Chillicothe, MO is about 30mi North\Northwest of Carrollton, MO. According to some old Carroll County, MO plat maps, from 1914, this road once went North out of Carrollton, MO & was mostly replaced by US 65, which also goes to Chillicothe, MO.
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Quote from: DenverBrian on October 06, 2021, 05:57:07 PM
US 36 in metro Denver is known as the Boulder Turnpike. (It WAS a turnpike back in the day, but wonder of wonders, it was actually paid off.)
....but now contains a mix of free and toll lanes!
On another note, Santa Fe Drive in Denver may work for this thread. It's US-85, but the road in Denver and its southern suburbs does not actually make it to Santa Fe....some 400 miles away. Could this be the furthest city distance example?
Quote from: sandwalk on October 12, 2021, 02:13:10 PM
Quote from: DenverBrian on October 06, 2021, 05:57:07 PM
US 36 in metro Denver is known as the Boulder Turnpike. (It WAS a turnpike back in the day, but wonder of wonders, it was actually paid off.)
....but now contains a mix of free and toll lanes!
On another note, Santa Fe Drive in Denver may work for this thread. It's US-85, but the road in Denver and its southern suburbs does not actually make it to Santa Fe....some 400 miles away. Could this be the furthest city distance example?
I'm thinking that road was named for the Santa Fe Railroad, not the town in NM. But I could be wrong.
Quote from: thspfc on October 03, 2021, 09:37:32 PM
For example, Milwaukee Street in Madison: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1002123,-89.2842053,2065m/data=!3m1!1e3
It points in the direction of Milwaukee as it goes eastward out of the city.
How common is this naming scheme?
Likewise Waukesha has Madison Street which goes west out of the city in the direction of Madison. Milwaukee has Green Bay Road which goes north towards Green Bay and Fond Du Lac Ave with goes northwest towards Fond Du Lac. Also Beloit Road which goes southwest in the direction of Beloit. Cleveland has a Lorain Ave which goes west towards Lorain.
This is pretty common in Southern IL, as well
And typically, the road is named *town* Rd, but is referred to commonly as *town* Blacktop
Ava Rd, Herrin Rd, Johnston City Rd, Pyatt-Cutler Rd, Cambria Rd, Corinth Rd, Pittsburg Rd, Stonefort Rd, Elkville Rd, Royalton Rd, Cypress/Dongola Rd...to name a few. At least some of those have the suffix changed to "Blacktop" in common speech
Quote from: DenverBrian on October 12, 2021, 05:06:42 PM
Quote from: sandwalk on October 12, 2021, 02:13:10 PM
On another note, Santa Fe Drive in Denver may work for this thread. It's US-85, but the road in Denver and its southern suburbs does not actually make it to Santa Fe....some 400 miles away. Could this be the furthest city distance example?
I'm thinking that road was named for the Santa Fe Railroad, not the town in NM. But I could be wrong.
I recall Santa Fe Drive being in reference to the trail. Either way, it points to the city. There's also a Santa Fe Avenue in Fountain, Colorado that also fits the category. Just to the north of there is Las Vegas Street in Colorado Springs/El Paso County that points south towards Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Another Denver example is Brighton Boulevard. It begins in Denver and dead ends along the west side of US 6-85/Vasquez just south of I-76. This is not to be confused with Brighton Road which picks up on the east side of US 6-85/Vasquez and does head north to Brighton.
Finally, a point of personal privilege from my hometown of Wakeman, Ohio. There is a road named Florence-Wakeman Road. Its north end is in Florence at OH 113, but it ends about 1.5 miles north of the village limits.
Folsom Blvd in Sacramento because it was the previous alignment for US-50 before it moved to the El Dorado freeway and it heads to the Folsom city limits.
Napa-Vallejo Highway in American Canyon and Napa areas are where the route would lead to CA-29 to Vallejo.
Benicia Rd in Vallejo, CA leads into the Benicia city limits and is parallel to I-780.
Quote from: CoreySamson on October 04, 2021, 11:34:39 AM
I wonder if the OP had a slightly different idea in mind for this thread. His example merely points towards Milwaukee, and it doesn't come anywhere close to reaching it. Most (if not all) of the other examples don't really fit that description. Perhaps this thread would be more interesting if we only regarded examples that don't reach the place they are named after.
An example of this would be Beaumont Highway on the east side of Houston. It points towards Beaumont, but doesn't reach it.
Just in Sacramento, we have:
Franklin Blvd
Folsom Blvd
Auburn Blvd
Florin Rd
Fruitridge Rd
Jackson Rd
Sutterville Rd
Old Placerville Rd
... and that's not to include the roads that are named for their endpoints like:
Elk Grove-Florin Rd
Thornton-Franklin Rd
Hood-Franklin Rd
Florin-Perkins Rd
Ventura Blvd in Los Angeles because the street used to be part of US-101 before the route moved to the Freeway.
Santa Monica Blvd in Los Angeles goes in the direction of Santa Monica.Beverly Blvd from Los Angeles to Beverly Hills.
San Fernando rd is parallel to I-5 and was part of US-99 at one point before the Golden State Freeway was completed.
San Pablo Ave is CA-123 on the west side of Contra Costa and Alameda Counties is the former alignment of US-40 before the Eastshore Freeway was co signed with I-80 and I-5w in the Bay Area.
Long Beach, CA: Anaheim Street
Costa Mesa, CA: Santa Ana Avenue, Tustin Avenue, Orange Avenue
Los Angeles: Compton Avenue, San Pedro Street
This is quite common in Southern Ontario.
Kingston Road
Aurora Road
just two out of the many
I know exactly one example in Milwaukee that for sure goes to where it points to.
Fond Du Lac Avenue branches off of I-41 when I-41 curves to run straight south Northwest of Milwaukee, maybe by Germantown?
Pretty much, if you extend Fond Du Lac Avenue to the northwest, it actually hits Fond Du Lac.
Quote from: zzcarp on October 13, 2021, 12:45:54 AM
Quote from: DenverBrian on October 12, 2021, 05:06:42 PM
Quote from: sandwalk on October 12, 2021, 02:13:10 PM
On another note, Santa Fe Drive in Denver may work for this thread. It's US-85, but the road in Denver and its southern suburbs does not actually make it to Santa Fe....some 400 miles away. Could this be the furthest city distance example?
I'm thinking that road was named for the Santa Fe Railroad, not the town in NM. But I could be wrong.
I recall Santa Fe Drive being in reference to the trail.
Looks like it's named for
A Santa Fe Trail, but not
THE Santa Fe Trail. :D :D :D From Wikipedia:
QuoteSanta Fe Drive follows the path of an old trail from Denver to Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was called the Santa Fe Trail, although it is not part of the more well-known Santa Fe Trail leading to Missouri. From CO 470 to the I-25 interchange, Santa Fe also carries U.S. Route 85.