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I was noticing in Houston there is roadway titled Speedway likes it's a race track open for spectators of auto racing.
Quote from: roadman65 on November 14, 2024, 05:43:35 PMhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/54135094646
I was noticing in Houston there is roadway titled Speedway likes it's a race track open for spectators of auto racing.
The inclusion of term "Speedway" in Buffalo Speedway isn't obviously associated with anything related to speed.
You can read this discussion (https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/topic/9416-where-buffalo-speedway-got-its-name/) for some conjecture about the origin of the name.
Some ideas are
1. There was some kind of race track near the street around 100 years ago or before. This was reported in a Houston Chronicle article, and it seems like the most plausible explanation.
2. When a section was originally built in an undeveloped area, it was used a a drag strip.
3. Native Americans used the corridor to herd buffalo into a slaughter zone near Buffalo Bayou.
Austin has a street named simply "Speedway" though most of it was converted to a pedestrian mall in 2015. It was the original streetcar route between Downtown Austin and Hyde Park, the city's first "streetcar suburb".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Speedway