I was just thinking about how in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, the main street is called...Kirkwood Road.
Throughout the country, what other cities and towns can you think of in which the main street of town has the same name as the town itself? I know that US 20 through Mentor, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, is named Mentor Avenue, while Friendswood Drive is the main street in Friendswood, Texas, a Houston suburb. Meanwhile, the main street of Wendover, Utah/West Wendover, Nevada, is called Wendover Boulevard - and of course, also in Nevada, the predominant north-south road in Vegas, which includes the Strip, is officially named Las Vegas Boulevard.
Aside from the ones mentioned above, what other such examples can you think of? I believe it's a pretty common thing out west, especially.
Altamonte Drive in Altamonte Springs, FL.
Though locals call it four thirty-six, that is its route number, nonetheless it's not Semoran Boulevard like the rest of FL SR 436.
In New England, it's much more common for street names to be of adjacent towns, where the street name tells you which town it goes to.
Does South Boulder Road, ever actually touch Boulder?
The highway I live on (CO 14) is also known as Poudre Canyon Highway. so.. sorta close.
What if the reverse were true? Towns named after the road they're on? Nunn, CO could be just as simple as "US85sburg" or something.
Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas. Similarly Boulder City Parkway/Highway (Old US 93) is the main road through nearby Boulder City.
Santa Monica Blvd in Santa Monica, CA.
The main street of Rehoboth Beach, DE is called Rehoboth Avenue.
Quote from: 1 on June 07, 2023, 06:14:20 AM
In New England, it's much more common for street names to be of adjacent towns, where the street name tells you which town it goes to.
From that perspective, a street named after "yourself", like Fremont Boulevard in Fremont, California, seems a little conceited in comparison
In Indiana, South Bend, Mishawaka and Elkhart all have eponymous streets, but none are really major streets in those cities.
Buffalo Street in Buffalo is a short dead-end residential street.
Quote from: roadman65 on June 07, 2023, 08:38:11 AM
Santa Monica Blvd in Santa Monica, CA.
Very appropriate that you in particular would get that one given your autosignature!
Twin Cities examples
Minnetonka - Minnetonka Blvd
Chaska - Chaska Blvd
Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center - Brooklyn Blvd
Quote from: zachary_amaryllis on June 07, 2023, 07:47:47 AM
Does South Boulder Road, ever actually touch Boulder?
South Boulder Road goes through the Boulder city limits, but I wouldn't consider it Boulder's main street. Broadway and Canyon would be Boulder's main streets.
Here in Westminster, we extended Westminster Boulevard as our "Main Street (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8584151,-105.0612955,3a,31.7y,238.12h,86.82t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1saldj8zQD8PhYAdXoAeegjA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Daldj8zQD8PhYAdXoAeegjA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D99.68515%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)" through our new "downtown (https://www.downtownwestminster.us/)".
I'd say Thornton Parkway counts as well. While there is no real downtown Thornton, city hall is right off of Thornton Parkway (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Thornton+City+Hall/@39.869864,-104.9843313,15z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x876c770e88ea3797:0x28598b67f063f8cd!8m2!3d39.869864!4d-104.9843313!16s%2Fg%2F1tnms6hm?entry=ttu).
There is a Baltimore St in Baltimore that is pretty important downtown along with its one-way partner Fayette St, and it also serves as the north-south divide for the city's address system. As Charles St is the east-west divide, the intersection of Charles St & Baltimore St could be considered the "center" of Baltimore. But I don't know if I'd call it the "main" street, as there are plenty of other equally busy streets throughout the area (among others, the Pratt-Lombard & Calvert-St. Paul one-way pairs come to mind).
Carson Street in Carson City, Nevada, currently Business US 395 and, prior to the construction of the I-580 bypass, the main line of US 395 and (as to South Carson Street) US 50.
We have "Carson" naming after Kit Carson all over the place, including Carson Valley (a bit ironically, Carson City is in Eagle Valley, not Carson Valley) and Carson Pass.
Happens a few times in the Philly area with the various old "pikes" and their associated small towns.
Sumneytown Pike
Dublin Pike
Skippack Pike
Quote from: roadman65 on June 07, 2023, 12:49:50 AM
Altamonte Drive in Altamonte Springs, FL.
Never heard of it.
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Though locals call it four thirty-six, that is its route number, nonetheless it's not Semoran Boulevard like the rest of FL SR 436.
Ah, right, I suppose it actually does have a name. (my signature says I lived in Orlando, but my apartment was really in Altamonte Springs)
US 69 in Ankeny, IA is Ankeny Blvd.
This is actually pretty common all across North Texas. One of the big east-west roads in Plano is Plano Parkway. Other suburbs have taken to naming major thoroughfares after themselves. Seems to be the big thing in municipal planning these days.
Quote from: 1 on June 07, 2023, 06:14:20 AM
In New England, it's much more common for street names to be of adjacent towns, where the street name tells you which town it goes to.
Michigan does that too where the name of the road will be the name of a town it goes through. The name usually changes in town though.
Quote from: Chris19001 on June 07, 2023, 04:52:20 PM
Happens a few times in the Philly area with the various old "pikes" and their associated small towns.
Sumneytown Pike
Dublin Pike
Skippack Pike
I know Dublin Pike (PA 313) becomes Main Street in the borough of Dublin but it is called Dublin Pike on both sides outside the borough limits.
There's also a Chicago Avenue in Chicago that is very important, which serves as the northern boundary of the Magnificent Mile and links the North and West Sides together. As far as being the "main" street of Chicago is concerned, there obviously are several, but the namesake street really isn't one of them. Michigan Avenue, Cermak Road, Archer Avenue and many others are far more important ones.
Best example I can think of in the Chicago suburbs is Palatine Road through Palatine, IL.
Then there are a few where the road with the town name goes through the downtown area but isn't really the "main" street:
* Algonquin Road through Algonquin - the perpendicular Main Street seems to be more of the main street.
* Arlington Heights Road through Arlington Heights - debatable if there is even a main street for Arlington Heights.
* Deerfield Road through Deerfield - the perpendicular IL 43/Waukegan Road seems to be the main street.
* Roselle Road through Roselle - the perpendicular IL 19/Irving Park Road seems more like the main street.
In the Madison, Wisconsin area, the main street in Verona is Verona Avenue, and the main east-west street in Cottage Grove is Cottage Grove Road (though the north-south Main Street is probably more important). Both names come from Madison streets, though Verona Avenue isn't the same street as Verona Road in Madison anymore thanks to the US 18/151 bypass.
Madison does have a Madison Street, but it's a side street on the west side.
There's Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, CA. While the "main" road is arguably Rodeo Dr. or Sunset Blvd., palm-tree-lined Beverly Dr. is often used as an establishing shot for the city in movies. More famously, it was shown in the opening credits of The Beverly Hillbillies TV series. (Not to be confused with Beverly Blvd., which only stub-ends into the city. That road might be more familiar as the location of CBS's Television City, and the address if you ever tried to get "The Price is Right" tickets. The show recently moved to Glendale.)
A few Seattle suburbs have a main street or major road with the same name:
Bellevue Way - arguably the most important north-south street in the city
Edmonds Way - carries SR 104 and most highway traffic into downtown Edmonds
Kirkland Way - the old east-west route into downtown
Redmond Way - the same road as above and also the old way into downtown
Everett Avenue - relatively minor but does carry freeway-bound traffic
And beyond the Puget Sound region:
Yakima Avenue
Kennewick Avenue
Burlington Blvd
Henrietta NY has two: West Henrietta Road (NY 15) and East Henrietta Road (NY 15A).
In the very old days, before suburbanization, West Henrietta Rd went through the hamlet of West Henrietta (intersection of Erie Station Road), while East Henrietta Rd went through the hamlet of Henrietta (intersection of Lehigh Station Road).
Carson, CA has a main artery named Carson Street.
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Carson, CA has a main artery named Carson Street.
I bet the traffic's a nightmare. Everyone wants to ride Carson, daily.
Quote from: Bruce on June 08, 2023, 02:27:26 AM
A few Seattle suburbs have a main street or major road with the same name:
Bellevue Way - arguably the most important north-south street in the city
Edmonds Way - carries SR 104 and most highway traffic into downtown Edmonds
Kirkland Way - the old east-west route into downtown
Redmond Way - the same road as above and also the old way into downtown
Everett Avenue - relatively minor but does carry freeway-bound traffic
And beyond the Puget Sound region:
Yakima Avenue
Kennewick Avenue
Burlington Blvd
Also:
Seattle Blvd (a not-that-major connector at the south end of downtown)
Vashon Hwy (on Vashon Island, heading to the ferry dock)
Bothell Way (in Bothell, one of the main streets through downtown and heading out of town)
Woodinville Dr (a minor street on the edge of town)
Snoqualmie Pkwy (the major street in the newer part of Snoqualmie)
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Carson, CA has a main artery named Carson Street.
I bet the traffic's a nightmare. Everyone wants to ride Carson, daily.
"Hi, I'm Carson Daly, and I'm a massive tool."
In Maryland, there are a lot of these within a relatively small area.
- Greenbelt Rd. (Route 193) runs through Greenbelt
- Crofton Parkway circles Crofton
- Gambrills Rd.
- Crownsville Rd.
- Odenton Rd., but it's not really the town's main artery in either direction.
- Millersville Rd.
- Pasadena Rd.
- Ferndale Rd.
- Marriottsville Rd.
Zipping on over to Michigan, in suburban Detroit, Oak Park Blvd. runs through the suburb of the same name.
Some West Virginia examples:
- Part of US 250 in Fairmont is Fairmont Avenue
- Part of US 19/US 52 in Bluefield is Bluefield Avenue
- WV 10 in Logan is Logan Blvd
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Quote from: roadman65 on June 07, 2023, 08:38:11 AM
Santa Monica Blvd in Santa Monica, CA.
Very appropriate that you in particular would get that one given your autosignature!
In my area, just about all cities, towns, and settlements except the very largest ones have a main street with the entity's name:
Fremont Blvd in Fremont.
Alvarado Blvd in the Alvarado settlement
Niles Ave in the Niles settlement
Union City Blvd in Union City
Warm Springs Blvd in the Warm Springs District.
Milpitas Blvd in Milpitas.
Calaveras Blvd through the Calaveras settlement.
Campbell Ave through Campbell
Los Gatos Ave through Los Gatos
Alviso Rd through the Alviso settlement
Belmont Ave through Belmont
Milbrae Ave through Milbrae
Foster City Blvd through Foster City
Livermore Blvd through Livermore
Tracy Blvd in Tracy
Rio Linda Blvd in Rio Linda
Capitol Ave and Capitol Mall in Sacramento. Sacramento Blvd was renamed (and was *A* main street, but certainly not as main as Capitol Ave or Mall)
Florin Rd through the Florin settlement
Are there more? ... Think about it! .... and make a wish!
... and that's not including any of the ThisTown-NextTown roads
Munising, Michigan, has Munising Avenue that carries M-28 and H-58 along Lake Superior, but the main street of downtown is Superior Street.
Los Angeles Street is not the most important street in LA, but it still is a key route in downtown and has an exit off of the US 101 segment of the Santa Ana Freeway and of I-10 on the Santa Monica Freeway.
Long Beach, Whittier, Santa Ana, Anaheim also have key roads with the city name going through them. If we go even further to districts/communities, Van Nuys comes to mind in this category too.
In NorCal, michravera brought up a lot of the examples I am familiar with already. Some others:
Burlingame Avenue in Burlingame
San Carlos Avenue in San Carlos
San Bruno Avenue in San Bruno
Woodside Road in Woodside
Daly City has John Daly Boulevard (mostly former Route 1) as a major east-west corridor, though Mission Street is probably the much more important road
Virginia Beach Blvd. is the City of Virginia Beach main E-W artery carrying US 58 across it.
Here on Long Island, we've got:
* Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101) in Port Washington
* Mineola Boulevard in Mineola
* New Hyde Park Road (Nassau CR 5B) in New Hyde Park
* Merrick Avenue (Nassau CR 4) and Merrick Road (Nassau CR 27) in Merrick
* Jericho Turnpike (NY 25) in Jericho
* Deer Park Avenue (NY 231) in Deer Park
* Commack Road (Suffolk CR 4) in Commack
* Ronkonkoma Avenue in Ronkonkoma
* Montauk Highway (NY 27) in Montauk
Quote from: 1 on June 07, 2023, 06:14:20 AM
In New England, it's much more common for street names to be of adjacent towns, where the street name tells you which town it goes to.
That's a common convention everywhere. In Green Bay, Shawano Avenue goes to Shawano and Bay Settlement Road goes to Bay Settlement. In Milwaukee, Green Bay Road goes to Green Bay and Watertown Plank Road went to Watertown. In NOVA, Leesburg Pike goes to Leesburg and the Richmond Highway goes to Richmond. Et cetera, et cetera.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 07, 2023, 02:04:05 PM
Twin Cities examples
Minnetonka - Minnetonka Blvd
Chaska - Chaska Blvd
Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center - Brooklyn Blvd
You can also add Wayzata Blvd, Burnsville Parkway, and Woodbury Drive, amongst others.
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Quote from: Chris19001 on June 07, 2023, 04:52:20 PM
Happens a few times in the Philly area with the various old "pikes" and their associated small towns.
Sumneytown Pike
Dublin Pike
Skippack Pike
I know Dublin Pike (PA 313) becomes Main Street in the borough of Dublin but it is called Dublin Pike on both sides outside the borough limits.
Good catch, as you appear to be correct. Google Maps has it mislabelled within the Dublin borough. The street addresses do roll up to Main Street (which is obviously far more common). Scratch that one from the list.
CT 4, the main road through Farmington, is Farmington Ave for most of its length.
US 5 through the northern part of Enfield is Enfield St (as seen on exit signage at the CT/MA border on I-91)
CT 159 through the southern part of Windsor is Windsor Ave (becomes Broad St as you get near the center of town)
CT 69 through Wolcott is Wolcott Rd (changes to Wolcott St after crossing into Waterbury)
US 6 through the village of Terryville (in the town of Plymouth, but most people often consider the whole town Terryville) is Terryville Ave
Arizona examples:
In the Phoenix area, most of the main streets are on a grid. Some of these streets go through or border multiple cities.
Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale
Glendale Avenue in Glendale
Gilbert Road in Gilbert
Peoria Avenue in Peoria
Avondale Boulevard in Avondale
Mesa Drive in Mesa and Queen Creek Road in Queen Creek are major arterial streets, but may not necessarily be the "main" street in their corresponding town.
In Tucson, Tucson Boulevard is the main street near Tucson Airport, but a few miles north, it's more of a minor street. On the Tucson city grid, Tucson Boulevard is the 1/2 mile between Campbell Avenue and Country Club Road.
Quote from: michravera on June 09, 2023, 06:55:45 PM
In my area, just about all cities, towns, and settlements except the very largest ones have a main street with the entity's name:
I have a couple of notes/errata about some of these:
Quote from: michravera on June 09, 2023, 06:55:45 PM
Calaveras Blvd through the Calaveras settlement.
There's no Calaveras settlement/place/etc., so not sure what you're referring to here?
Quote from: michravera on June 09, 2023, 06:55:45 PM
Los Gatos Ave through Los Gatos
Los Gatos Boulevard (former CA-17) is an arterial street, but not
the main street of Los Gatos (which would be Santa Cruz Avenue, and perhaps Main Street itself)
Quote from: michravera on June 09, 2023, 06:55:45 PM
Alviso Rd through the Alviso settlement
There's no Alviso Road in Alviso itself; there is an Alviso Street a few miles away in Santa Clara. There did use to be the ThisTown-NextTown streets: Mountain View-Alviso Road, Alviso-Milpitas Road (now both part of CA-237), San Jose-Alviso Road (now First Street), Santa Clara-Alviso Road (now Lafayette Street).
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Meanwhile, I'll add what could be a new thread - streets with the city name that are not in any way main streets. For example: San Jose Avenue in San Jose is a half-mile-long back street in an industrial area a few miles south of downtown. While it does end at Monterey Highway (former US-101), I can't see that it was ever of much importance (didn't use to be longer, didn't mark the south city limits, etc.).
Since we've expanded to whether the road is important or not:
Bloomington: Bloomington Ave and Bloomington Road (the latter's surviving section not obliterated by MSP expansions and/or I-494 was part of old TH 5)
Ramsey: Ramsey Blvd
Rogers: Rogers Drive
Eden Prairie: Eden Prairie Road (fairly important)
Scandia: Scandia Trail (TH 97)
Stillwater: Stillwater Blvd (former TH 212)
Stacy: Stacy Trail
Burnsville: Burnsville Pkwy
Maple Grove: Maple Grove Pkwy
Golden Valley: Golden Valley Rd
Mounds View: Mounds View Blvd
Wayzata: Wayzata Blvd
One of the main streets through Morristown NJ is Morris Street / Ave (different sections), though I guess that doesn't quite count.
In my hometown, Route 53 is locally called Bolingbrook Drive and it is definitely the "main" road through town.
VA 337 is Portsmouth Blvd in Portsmouth.
US 360 in unincorporated (but heavily populated) Mechanicsville, VA is Mechanicsville Turnpike.
US 60 in unincorporated (but heavily populated) Midlothian, VA is Midlothian Turnpike.
By virtue of localities in Virginia renaming segments of Jefferson Davis Highway, a segment of US 1/301 in Richmond, VA is Richmond Highway.
In Salisbury, MD:
US 13 BUS is Salisbury Blvd
US 50 BUS is Salisbury Pkwy
In neighboring Fruitland:
US 13 BUS is Fruitland Blvd.
Off the top of my head, a few in the Cincinnati area:
Reading Rd (US-42) in Reading.
Loveland Ave in Loveland.
Montgomery Rd (US-22/OH-3) in Montgomery.
There is a Blue Ash Rd in Blue Ash, and a Wyoming Ave. in Wyoming, but in both cases, I would say they are not the main streets of their respective towns.
In New Jersey you have Bloomfield Avenue that transits Bloomfield which starts in Newark as one of a few streets named for a road leading to its namesake.
The thing is Bloomfield Avenue continues beyond Bloomfield from Newark and extends to Denville. Though in Montville and Parsippany is concurrent with US 46 with street blades reflecting the route number and businesses using Route 46 as an address.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 12, 2023, 06:58:00 PM
Since we've expanded to whether the road is important or not:
Bloomington: Bloomington Ave and Bloomington Road (the latter's surviving section not obliterated by MSP expansions and/or I-494 was part of old TH 5)
Ramsey: Ramsey Blvd
Rogers: Rogers Drive
Eden Prairie: Eden Prairie Road (fairly important)
Scandia: Scandia Trail (TH 97)
Stillwater: Stillwater Blvd (former TH 212)
Stacy: Stacy Trail
Burnsville: Burnsville Pkwy
Maple Grove: Maple Grove Pkwy
Golden Valley: Golden Valley Rd
Mounds View: Mounds View Blvd
Wayzata: Wayzata Blvd
Lots of Twin Cities mentions but not a sniff of Little Canada Road.
Ooh Ooh!
Berthoud Parkway, FKA CR 17, near and in Berthoud, CO.
In Vestal, NY (a suburb of Binghamton), the main street is called the Vestal Parkway (NY 434, former NY 17). Before the parkway was built, the main road through town was Vestal Rd. (also former NY 17).
Close to that, in the town of Conklin, the main road is Conklin Rd (NY 7).
This might be less applicable, but the road through the hamlet of Union Center is called the Union Center Maine Hwy (NY 26).
Some Chicagoland examples:
The main street through La Grange, IL, is La Grange Road (carries US Routes 12, 20, and 45).
The main east-west street crossing the river in Algonquin, IL, is Algonquin Road.
The main east-west street in Palatine is Palatine Road.
Cicero Avenue is certainly the most heavily-traveled north-south thoroughfare in Cicero, though it isn't centrally located.
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Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 12, 2023, 06:58:00 PM
Since we've expanded to whether the road is important or not:
Bloomington: Bloomington Ave and Bloomington Road (the latter's surviving section not obliterated by MSP expansions and/or I-494 was part of old TH 5)
Ramsey: Ramsey Blvd
Rogers: Rogers Drive
Eden Prairie: Eden Prairie Road (fairly important)
Scandia: Scandia Trail (TH 97)
Stillwater: Stillwater Blvd (former TH 212)
Stacy: Stacy Trail
Burnsville: Burnsville Pkwy
Maple Grove: Maple Grove Pkwy
Golden Valley: Golden Valley Rd
Mounds View: Mounds View Blvd
Wayzata: Wayzata Blvd
Lots of Twin Cities mentions but not a sniff of Little Canada Road.
*shrug* I guess I can also self-flagellate Afton Blvd, Dellwood Road, and White Bear Avenue.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 07, 2023, 02:04:05 PM
Twin Cities examples
Minnetonka - Minnetonka Blvd
Chaska - Chaska Blvd
Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center - Brooklyn Blvd
Also
Scandia - Scandia Trail
Forest Lake - Forest Boulevard, even though that goes through some other cities.
Quote from: Molandfreak on June 25, 2023, 05:56:59 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 07, 2023, 02:04:05 PM
Twin Cities examples
Minnetonka - Minnetonka Blvd
Chaska - Chaska Blvd
Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center - Brooklyn Blvd
Also
Scandia - Scandia Trail
Forest Lake - Forest Boulevard, even though that goes through some other cities.
Also,
Coon Rapids - Coon Rapids Blvd
Lake Elmo - Lake Elmo Ave
Andover - Andover Blvd
Lexington - Lexington Ave
Martin Lake - Martin Lake Rd
Nowthen - Nowthen Blvd
Quote from: andarcondadont on June 26, 2023, 08:40:55 PM
Quote from: Molandfreak on June 25, 2023, 05:56:59 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 07, 2023, 02:04:05 PM
Twin Cities examples
Minnetonka - Minnetonka Blvd
Chaska - Chaska Blvd
Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center - Brooklyn Blvd
Also
Scandia - Scandia Trail
Forest Lake - Forest Boulevard, even though that goes through some other cities.
Also,
Coon Rapids - Coon Rapids Blvd
Lake Elmo - Lake Elmo Ave
Andover - Andover Blvd
Lexington - Lexington Ave
Martin Lake - Martin Lake Rd
Nowthen - Nowthen Blvd
Also, Excelsior Boulevard in Excelsior!
In Illinois Monmouth street is US 67 in Good Hope and does go to Monmouth where it's used to be Main Street and now is the Monmouth bypass which is now busier than the nominal Main Street.
There is also a Monmouth Blvd in Galesburg that has never connected to the nearby town of Monmouth and used to be a major street but no longer is.
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Quote from: andarcondadont on June 26, 2023, 08:40:55 PM
Quote from: Molandfreak on June 25, 2023, 05:56:59 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 07, 2023, 02:04:05 PM
Twin Cities examples
Minnetonka - Minnetonka Blvd
Chaska - Chaska Blvd
Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center - Brooklyn Blvd
Also
Scandia - Scandia Trail
Forest Lake - Forest Boulevard, even though that goes through some other cities.
Also,
Coon Rapids - Coon Rapids Blvd
Lake Elmo - Lake Elmo Ave
Andover - Andover Blvd
Lexington - Lexington Ave
Martin Lake - Martin Lake Rd
Nowthen - Nowthen Blvd
Also, Excelsior Boulevard in Excelsior!
Four more examples in the Twin Cities:
Centerville - Centerville Rd
St. Francis - St. Francis Blvd
St. Anthony - St. Anthony Blvd
Victoria - Victoria Dr
The street through downtown Mena, Arkansas is called Mena Street. Part of it is AR 88 and part of it is old AR 8. The locals call it "Main Street". I don't remember anybody calling it Mena Street when I was growing up very often.
Another one in West Virginia: The main street in Winfield is called Winfield Road, which runs all the way from US-60 in Kanawha County to the Mason County Line.
Quote from: pianocello on June 07, 2023, 05:55:57 PM
US 69 in Ankeny, IA is Ankeny Blvd.
And IA 141 through Grimes is Grimes Boulevard.
Clive's main thoroughfare was known as Clive Road at one point, but it's now known as 86th Street with "Historic Clive Road" signage posted.
Urbandale has an Urbandale Avenue, but I wouldn't call it a "main thoroughfare"; it's a westward continuation of the street of the same name in Des Moines. It curves northward and turns into 70th Street just after entering the Urbandale city limits.
Kenilworth, NJ has Kenilworth Blvd. However, the locals don’t call it that. Just “ The Boulevard “ or just “ Boulevard.”
The street blades just use the latter, but only maps refer to it by its proper name.
Most of Front Street in Wilmington was souped up and redesignated as Wilmington Blvd in the late 1970s or so, but in 1987 was renamed MLK Blvd.
Salisbury, Maryland's main thoroughfares are Salisbury Blvd. and Salisbury Parkway, but at least part of its older Main Street still exists. Salisbury Blvd. becomes Fruitland Blvd. as US 13 Business crosses from Salisbury into Fruitland.
There is an Elsmere Blvd but it's not really a major street and half of it is in Wilmington.
In Chesterfield County, there is:
- Chester Road (VA 144 and VA 145), it goes through the center of Chester, and carries many neighborhoods, however it does not go through "downtown" .
- Midlothian Turnpike (US 60), it goes.. well through Midlothian. Theres actually not much to say about this highway.
- Meadowville Road (SR 618), it goes through the residential areas of Enon (it is actually still under construction)
Others nearby I know;
- Richmond Highway (US 1 and US 301), it is one of the replacements of Jefferson Davis Highway. Fun fact: there are portions of Richmond Highway in Northern Virginia.
- Mechanicsville Turnpike (US 360?)
- I think I've heard Fredericksburg Turnpike? (My guess is VA 2)
Oxnard Blvd (former CA 1) is the dividing E-W street in Oxnard
Ventura Ave (former US 399) is the dividing E-W street in Ventura
San Fernando Rd (former US 99) is a main street in San Fernando
A few in Utah:
St George Blvd (SR 34, former US 91) is the main drag through downtown St George
Riverdale Rd (SR 26, former US 91) is the biggest road in Riverdale
Vernal has Vernal Avenue (US 191 north of the center) as their north-south axis street
Hyde Park Lane is the east-west axis for Hyde Park and the main way to get there from US 91
Tremont Street, while not a particularly important road, is the north-south axis street for Tremonton
Some more Denver area ones that come to mind:
Parker Road
Highlands Ranch Parkway
Sheridan Boulevard
Littleton Boulevard
Thornton Parkway
These are all major roads if not the major road.
In the Rochester, NY area there are:
Chili Ave (NY 33A) which is the main road that runs through the town.
Penfield Rd. (NY 441) which is the main road that runs through the town and is also one of the busier roads in Monroe County.
Webster Rd. (NY 250) which is the main N/S road through the Village of Webster.
West and East Henrietta Rds. (NY 15 and 15A) were mentioned upthread.
Commerce Township, (Oakland Co) Michigan has Commerce Rd, E Commerce Rd and S Commerce Rd.
S Commerce Rd runs n/s.
Commerce Rd runs e/w, east of S Commerce.
E Commerce Rd also runs e/w, west of S Commerce, on a line 1/2 mile north of Commerce Rd.