Can anyone think of two roads that have the same name or a very similar name and those two intersect?
I found an example in Genesee County, Michigan, north of Flushing and west of Mount Morris, where Morrish Rd and Mount Morris Rd intersect.
West Peachtree Street and Peachtree Street; Peachtree Battle Avenue and Peachtree Street; Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and Peachtree Parkway; and the list goes on...
Be well,
Bryant
There are a number of places around Seattle and the suburbs where similar numbered streets intersect. 124th Ave NE intersecting NE 124th St, etc.
Fort Wayne, IN:
St Joe Rd. and St. Joe Center Road
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=fort+wayne,+in&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=53.696917,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Fort+Wayne,+Allen,+Indiana&ll=41.129409,-85.09954&spn=0.025213,0.038581&z=15
There's also St. Joe River Rd. and several other St. Joe-named roads in Fort Wayne.
I think you need to limit the question to major roads (arterial or the like) because I'm sure it's extremely common for residential streets to fall within this category. I can think of a Spicewood Court that branches off Spicewood Drive not far from here, for example.
If I walk down a path through the woods near my parents' neighborhood I'll emerge at the corner of Colesbury Place and Colesbury Place. The street loops around and meets itself, complete with two street signs both bearing the same name (no Google Street View available, though).
In terms of more significant roads, I live not too far from the intersection of Kingstowne Boulevard and Kingstowne Village Parkway. My neighborhood is named Kingstowne, so those names are hardly surprising.
Tremont St. at Tremont St. in Boston.
Brown Rd. at Brown Rd. (old US-395) in Inyokern, though that is just the road making a very sharp bend.
also, here in San Diego, any number of streets that start with La Jolla (La Jolla Drive, La Jolla Village Blvd, etc...) and Carmel (Carmel Mountain Road, Carmel Valley Road, etc...)
Down in Durham, North Carolina, Chapel Hill Street meets Chapel Hill Road at a T-intersection (going straight on "Street" there, the name changes to Duke University Road). To the east of there, Chapel Hill Street intersects Duke Street (oddly, that's further away from the Duke grounds). Chapel Hill Road in turn passes over Durham—Chapel Hill Boulevard and then meets University Drive (which doesn't run past any university, unlike Duke University Road which does). There is also a Chapel Drive nearby on the Duke grounds. It doesn't intersect any of these other streets and is named because it's directly in front of the famous Duke Chapel.
can anyone figure out what Laval Road is doing here?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=laval+road,+wheeler+ridge,+ca&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.268266,59.414063&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Laval+Rd,+California&ll=34.985812,-118.945498&spn=0.00763,0.022681&t=h&z=16
it made a lot of sense before the freeway was built, but why call the on-ramp that curls north from the east Laval Road, and also the cut-off west segment Laval Road as well? the west segment should have been renamed to something else, as there is no direct connection between the two halves of Laval Road.
Another one from Michigan: Custer Rd and North Custer Rd come very close to each other at the Manistee/Mason county line.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on May 05, 2011, 12:07:48 PM
can anyone figure out what Laval Road is doing here?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=laval+road,+wheeler+ridge,+ca&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.268266,59.414063&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Laval+Rd,+California&ll=34.985812,-118.945498&spn=0.00763,0.022681&t=h&z=16
it made a lot of sense before the freeway was built, but why call the on-ramp that curls north from the east Laval Road, and also the cut-off west segment Laval Road as well? the west segment should have been renamed to something else, as there is no direct connection between the two halves of Laval Road.
Agentsteel: I see a similar situation in Mason County, Michigan, where Deren Rd curves north (and doesn't change names) along the US-31 freeway to end at Meisenheimer Rd. It used to connect to Deren Rd west of the US-31 freeway before it was built, but it no longer does so.
Two Custers in Monroe County as well:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Raisinville,+MI&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.555061,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Raisinville,+Monroe,+Michigan&ll=41.934019,-83.462405&spn=0.022444,0.038581&z=15
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 05, 2011, 10:56:08 AM
I think you need to limit the question to major roads (arterial or the like) because I'm sure it's extremely common for residential streets to fall within this category. I can think of a Spicewood Court that branches off Spicewood Drive not far from here, for example.
Indeed. I've seen subdivisions where the deeper one goes into the subdivision, the road names change by adding additional suffixes to the name of the main road into the subdivision. So you could start with Flower Dr, then turn on Flower Drive Ln, then Flower Drive Lane Ct and so on as needed. It's really annoying.
Quote from: triplemultiplex on May 05, 2011, 02:18:08 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 05, 2011, 10:56:08 AM
I think you need to limit the question to major roads (arterial or the like) because I'm sure it's extremely common for residential streets to fall within this category. I can think of a Spicewood Court that branches off Spicewood Drive not far from here, for example.
Indeed. I've seen subdivisions where the deeper one goes into the subdivision, the road names change by adding additional suffixes to the name of the main road into the subdivision. So you could start with Flower Dr, then turn on Flower Drive Ln, then Flower Drive Lane Ct and so on as needed. It's really annoying.
I suppose it would be a whole 'nother thread, but this brings to mind the question of oddly-themed subdivisions you've seen.
There's one in Burke, Virginia, that has Prince Caspian Lane, Prince Caspian Court, Rilian Court, Narnia Court, and Digory Court (oddly, nothing named for Aslan or for the Pevensies). All the other names in the area have nothing to do with CS Lewis other than being British-themed (the area is called Kings Park and most of the streets have names like Parliament, Cromwell, Piccadilly, Southampton, Thames, etc.).
There's another in Chantilly, Virginia, with the horrible name "The Friendly Village of Dulles." All the streets except for the main drag (Airline Parkway) are named after airlines, a number of them defunct: BOAC Circle, Braniff Circle, Icelandic Place, Iberia Circle, Lufthansa Circle, Lake Central Drive, Northwest Place, Northeast Place, Lanica Circle, National Drive, United Drive, Trans World Avenue, Swissair Place, Panagra Place, and Pan Am Avenue. Ugh.
I know of another subdivision with alphabetical names, but I doubt that's at all unusual.
(Come to think of it, the Narnia-themed subdivision fits into this thread because Prince Caspian Court is a stub that branches off Prince Caspian Lane.)
I saw an article recently about some of the odd named streets in Lake Jackson, TX. They have This Way, That Way, Center Way, Circle Way, West Way, Parking Way and a few others. This Way and That Way intersect, which makes for an interesting street sign.
This is in Austin, Texas. I suppose the names count as "similar."
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Until 5 years ago or so, in Indianapolis, the 465 had an interchange with itself on the NW side of town. INDOT finally saw the ridiculousness of that and renamed the spur section to I-865.
Queens Road & Queens Road in Charlotte! :)
Would the intersection of Chocolate and Cocoa Avenue's in Hershey, PA be eligible for the topic? :pan:
Grant and Grand in Springfield, MO
Santa Barbara has a Castillo and Carillo Streets that intersect.
My brother used to live on Manhattan Cir in Oswego IL. At the end of the block, Manhattan Cir meets Manhattan Cir. Kind of looks like a sideways 6.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
Zoom in to the West side north of Mill Rd and west of Rt 31.
Charter Ave, Charter Road, Stafford Springs, CT.
This is where town road (charter) x w/ Route 140 which east of the X is PARK STREET, and west of the X is charter road.
The original plan had a road that's unmarked (old rockville trolley bed) slated as Charter Hghts, which would have been off Charter Ave.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=charter+ave,+charter+road+stafford+springs&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.177128,114.169922&ie=UTF8&hq=charter+ave,&hnear=Charter+Rd,+Stafford+Springs,+Tolland,+Connecticut+06076&ll=41.953985,-72.31935&spn=0.011841,0.027874&t=h&z=16 You can see where 140 is charter road to the west and park street to the east of the intersection w/ Charter Ave.
For numbers, 42 and 42S (state routes) intersect in Coquille. 42S is the original US 101 from Coquille to Bandon. No other state route in Oregon has N/S/E/W suffixes anymore other than former US 99E/99W.
Rick
downtown Nashville has something like US-31, 41, 41A, 341, 431, 441 all on the same gantry
In Baton Rouge they have North St. and North Blvd as seperate streets.
UNIVERSITY PWKY and UNIVERSITY LN in Aiken.
STORM BRANCH RD and STORM BRANCH LEG between Aiken and Jackson.
GREGG HY and GREGG ST in Graniteville.
It's fairly common for a name to make a turn at an intersection (i.e. two legs have the same name). But how about three legs? Boggy Creek Road ends at Boggy Creek Road south of Orlando International Airport, right on the Orange-Osceola County line. In other words, all three legs of the T intersection have the same name, and they all go in different directions (it's not a loop ending at itself).
GSV of the street sign (posted by Osceola County) (http://maps.google.com/maps?sll=35.865385,-82.300081&sspn=0.02904,0.082397&ll=28.348032,-81.309857&spn=0.015769,0.041199&t=k&z=16&layer=c&cbll=28.348039,-81.309733&panoid=yAKmlCQMugv283j6Kg8cgA&cbp=12,135.93,,0,3.7)
Church Road and Church Street in Mount Laurel, NJ
The intersection on Sand Run Road and Sand Run Parkway in Akron, OH and Sand Run Road forms the western border of Sand Run Metro Park!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Akron,+OH&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.977057,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Akron,+Summit,+Ohio&ll=41.133579,-81.58708&spn=0.003741,0.009645&t=h&z=17
Burnt Mills Rd., NJ: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bedminster+nj&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.185946,64.423828&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bedminster,+Somerset,+New+Jersey&ll=40.634815,-74.685531&spn=0.007051,0.015728&z=16
Two Bridges Rd., Wayne, NJ: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=two+bridges+rd+wayne+nj&aq=&sll=40.634815,-74.685531&sspn=0.007051,0.015728&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Two+Bridges+Rd,+Wayne,+Passaic,+New+Jersey&ll=40.897753,-74.272476&spn=0.001756,0.003932&z=18
I forgot about Wacker Drive in Chicago.
(North Wacker, South Wacker, East Wacker and West Wacker)
Quote from: Henry on May 06, 2011, 10:09:54 AM
I forgot about Wacker Drive in Chicago.
(North Wacker, South Wacker, East Wacker and West Wacker)
Don't forget Upper Wacker, Lower Wacker, and the third level (does it have a name?).
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 06, 2011, 10:12:34 AM
Quote from: Henry on May 06, 2011, 10:09:54 AM
I forgot about Wacker Drive in Chicago.
(North Wacker, South Wacker, East Wacker and West Wacker)
Don't forget Upper Wacker, Lower Wacker, and the third level (does it have a name?).
I meant to include those too! :)
The village of Vermontville, MI, has two Main Streets which intersect in its downtown (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=N+Main+St+%26+E+Main+St,+Vermontville,+Eaton,+Michigan+49096&aq=&sll=41.835857,-85.662853&sspn=0.010008,0.01472&ie=UTF8&geocode=FUR4igIdD6Du-g&split=0&hq=&hnear=N+Main+St+%26+E+Main+St,+Vermontville,+Eaton,+Michigan+49096&ll=42.629191,-85.02476&spn=0.009883,0.01472&z=16). I even posed the question asked in this thread's subject as a caption in a photo illustrating the peculiarity (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66649422@N00/3302027771). There was also an issue with White Pigeon Street & White Pigeon Road in Constantine (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=White+Pigeon+Street+at+White+Pigeon+Road,+Constantine,+MI&aq=&sll=41.836076,-85.663126&sspn=0.005004,0.00736&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=White+Pigeon+Rd+%26+White+Pigeon+St,+Constantine,+St+Joseph,+Michigan+49042&z=16), but officials decided last July not to make any change (http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/07/constantines_white_pigeon_stre.html).
the Grand Rapids (MI) area has the intersections of Burton and Breton as well as Fulton and Fuller. All four are major streets in the area.
In Iowa City, IA there is a Dubuque Street and a Dubuque Road, but they don't intersect. I'm guessing the reason behind the naming is because Dubuque Road implies that the road goes to Dubuque (it did at one time) and used to be the name of the street outside the city limits, whereas Dubuque Street has always been inside the city. This might be the same case with the White Pigeon discrepancy mentioned above.
Boston is absolutely full of examples of this. Apart from the actual streets that share the same name however, it seems that most examples are just small cul-de-sacs or dead ends off of roads that share their same name.
For example, my sister lived near the intersection of Carlton and Monmouth in Brookline until recently, and a block away on Monmouth was the intersection of Monmouth St and Monmouth Ct (IIRC), Street being the through road and Court being the dead-end off of it.
Going south out of Deerfield, MI (Lenawee Country), Rodesiler Hwy comes to a T intersection, where Rodesiler Hwy goes to both the east and the west! The eastern leg goes about 1/4 mile and ends at County Line Rd. The western leg goes west about 1/2 mile where it turns south and continues south to the OH state line.
Has anyone mentioned Temple St meeting Temple St in downtown Salt Lake City, UT?
Quote from: NE2 on May 06, 2011, 03:12:33 AM
It's fairly common for a name to make a turn at an intersection (i.e. two legs have the same name). But how about three legs? Boggy Creek Road ends at Boggy Creek Road south of Orlando International Airport, right on the Orange-Osceola County line. In other words, all three legs of the T intersection have the same name, and they all go in different directions (it's not a loop ending at itself).
GSV of the street sign (posted by Osceola County) (http://maps.google.com/maps?sll=35.865385,-82.300081&sspn=0.02904,0.082397&ll=28.348032,-81.309857&spn=0.015769,0.041199&t=k&z=16&layer=c&cbll=28.348039,-81.309733&panoid=yAKmlCQMugv283j6Kg8cgA&cbp=12,135.93,,0,3.7)
I'm always thrown by that when I drive to MCO from the south (192 - Narcoossee - Boggy Creek). I'm sure there's some interesting history behind it. Do you have any knowledge on why it ended up that way?
Atlanta is loaded with them. Just for starters there are over 20 different streets with the name "Peachtree" in the metro area, and some of them intersect (e.g. - Peachtree St. intersects with West Peachtree St.).
Swainsboro, GA that once had the nickname "Where Main Streets meet" you have N-S Main Street intersect E-W Main Street. So basically you have four Main Streets that come together at one intersection in the middle of town.
Orlando, FL has a World Center Drive what is the local street name for FL 536 and its continuation east of FL 535 into FL 417, and the roadway leading into the Marriot World Center Resort is also called World Center Drive as well. They both intersect each other, although FL 536 is called "SR 536"at that intersection's road signs.
Here in Jackson, there's Ridgewood Road and Ridgewood Court. Ridgewood Court was built as a short cut to get the Northpark Mall on County Line and the relieve traffic that would've otherwise been put on the other streets.
There's also Old Canton Road and Canton Mart Road, as well as East County Line and North County Line roads on the outskirts of town.
Quote from: realjd on May 17, 2011, 02:36:12 PM
Quote from: NE2 on May 06, 2011, 03:12:33 AM
It's fairly common for a name to make a turn at an intersection (i.e. two legs have the same name). But how about three legs? Boggy Creek Road ends at Boggy Creek Road south of Orlando International Airport, right on the Orange-Osceola County line. In other words, all three legs of the T intersection have the same name, and they all go in different directions (it's not a loop ending at itself).
GSV of the street sign (posted by Osceola County) (http://maps.google.com/maps?sll=35.865385,-82.300081&sspn=0.02904,0.082397&ll=28.348032,-81.309857&spn=0.015769,0.041199&t=k&z=16&layer=c&cbll=28.348039,-81.309733&panoid=yAKmlCQMugv283j6Kg8cgA&cbp=12,135.93,,0,3.7)
I'm always thrown by that when I drive to MCO from the south (192 - Narcoossee - Boggy Creek). I'm sure there's some interesting history behind it. Do you have any knowledge on why it ended up that way?
Most likely each county named the road after Boggy Creek without realizing or caring that the names matched. In Orange County the name was in use by the late 1920s, when the county paved the road.
Quote from: Henry on May 06, 2011, 10:09:54 AM
I forgot about Wacker Drive in Chicago.
(North Wacker, South Wacker, East Wacker and West Wacker)
But the street's name is simply "Wacker Dr" on the signs and they are one continuous street (even the Upper, Middle, and Lower parts).
Quote from: nexus73 on May 05, 2011, 08:01:33 PM
For numbers, 42 and 42S (state routes) intersect in Coquille. 42S is the original US 101 from Coquille to Bandon. No other state route in Oregon has N/S/E/W suffixes anymore other than former US 99E/99W.
Rick
Gotta correct you on that...
The 'S' doesn't mean south, it means 'Spur'.
OR 18S - McMinnville (not signed in the field)
OR 42S - as mentioned
OR 86S - Halfway (couldn't say if it's signed or not)
OR 104S - near Warrenton
OR 422S - Chiloquin
Green Springs Highway and Green Springs Avenue intersect just south of downtown Birmingham.
Chuckanut Drive (SR 11/old 99) south of Bellingham intersects Chuckanut Crest Drive, Chuckanut Heights Road, and Chuckanut Ridge Drive.
Chuckanut Lane and Chuckanut Shore Road are also in the area, and intersect each other, but are connected to Chuckanut Drive by Yacht Club Road.
http://osm.org/go/ZWD3yU_1T- (http://osm.org/go/ZWD3yU_1T-)
- West leg: 4-lane boulevard, Hayden Run Road
- East leg: 4-lane boulevard, Hayden Run Boulevard
- South leg: 4-lane undivided road, Hayden Run Road
- North leg: residential Spring River Avenue
- And the whole thing is a 4-way stop. Presumably, it will be made into a traffic light when Hayden Run Boulevard actually goes somewhere.
Also, Columbus also has the following:
- 4th St & 4th Ave
- 5th St & 5th Ave
- 6th St & 6th Ave
Finally, on the east side, there's Havens Corners Road which parallels Havens Road less than a mile away. Havens Corners Road intersects both Taylor Road and Taylor Station Road a couple of miles apart. Taylor Station Road intersects a
different Taylor Road about a mile away from where it intersects Havens Corners Road. If one Taylor Road were extended east a couple of miles, it would intersect the other Taylor Road! Needless to say, drivers in this area can become quite confused.
San Jose: Yerba Buena Avenue and Yerba Buena Road:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Yerba+Buena+Avenue+and+Yerba+Buena+Road,+san+jose+ca&client=safari&oe=UTF-8&gl=us&z=16
Quote from: Bryant5493 on May 05, 2011, 09:43:46 AM
West Peachtree Street and Peachtree Street; Peachtree Battle Avenue and Peachtree Street; Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and Peachtree Parkway; and the list goes on...
Be well,
Bryant
I was in Atlanta last week for a conference, and we got directions to a bar that was at the corner of West Peachtree and Peachtree. The hotel the conference was at was on Peachtree Center. The hotel we stayed at was on Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd* (had to take the MARTA train to get to the conference each day, to Peachtree Center station). I take it from all of this that Atlanta really likes their peach trees.
*correction: upon looking at a map, I see it was actually on Hammond Rd just east of Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd.
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 05, 2011, 03:45:39 PM
This is in Austin, Texas. I suppose the names count as "similar."
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Either that name is inaccurate, or that street is really short.
In Santa Barbara, there is Castillo Street which intersects both Carrillo Street and Cabrillo Boulevard within a few blocks.
The major intersection in downtown Saratoga, CA is between Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road, Saratoga-Los Gatos Road, and Saratoga Avenue.
Spring Brook Road and Spring Brook Avenue both intersect Spring Creek Road at the same intersection in Rockford, Illinois. Then of course you have the numbered avenues (east/west) intersecting the numbered streets (north/south) on the southeast side of town.
The Chicago area has a ton of them. There's a few in the southwest suburbs (where the north-south streets are numbered as well as the east-west streets) and in Broadview where they still use Chicago's north-south numbering system but have their own east-west numbering system...in Solon Mills, there is a North, South, East, and West Solon Road (leaving the town in their respective directions)...in Crystal Lake there is Terra Cotta Ave and Terra Cotta Rd...outside of Cary, there is Rawson Bridge Rd and Rawson Bridge Rd (it doesn't loop around)...in Harmony there is Harmony Rd and Hampshire Rd (but Hampshire Rd continues as Harmony Rd when it crosses the county line a half mile south of the intersection)...in Barrington Hills there is Dundee Rd and Dundee Ln (which continues as Dundee Ave when going into Barrington)...plus many many others