I'm talking about what the road is actually called. i.e., Avenue, Boulevard, Road, Street, Court, etc.
What are some unique ones?
I'll start off with WA-525: Mukilteo Speedway. It's a thouroughfare built as a bypass to go directly to Mukilteo and Whidbey Island from the freeways (I-5 and I-405). Ironically enough, once you pass WA-99, there's lights and the speed limit is 25. :pan:
Harlem River Driveway.
Fenway. Riverway. Arborway. Fellsway. Charlesgate.
In Green Bay, there is a road renamed early last decade to Brett Favre Pass. After 2008, the signage is often vandalized to cover up or remove the "P"
Baltimore City, Maryland has a street called The Alameda (the southern end is Md. 542).
Richmond, Virginia has Boulevard (Va. 161).
New York City with "Bowery."
In South Bend, we have an Erskine Manor Hill. That's "Hill," instead of Avenue or Street. Here it is: http://goo.gl/maps/JmCdt (http://goo.gl/maps/JmCdt)
"Hill" is a common road type designation in the UK, and surprised it isn't used more often here. Also, there are several examples in New Jersey of a street being called just "Boulevard," Madonna-style.
Quote from: motorway on January 02, 2013, 09:17:44 PMAlso, there are several examples in New Jersey of a street being called just "Boulevard," Madonna-style.
There's one here in Bellingham as well. Google Maps insists on calling it Boulevard Street though.
The Paseo may be unique in Kansas City, MO. Our members may know otherwise.
There's a residential street in Charlottesville, across from the University of Virginia's Central Grounds, called "Gildersleeve Wood." I've always liked that name.
A residential street a few miles from my house is called simply "The Parkway." I laugh when I see it because my car's sat-nav, which omits road type designations (e.g., Constitution Avenue appears as just "Constitution"), displays it as merely "The."
I know of a "Tinner's Hill" in the City of Falls Church and a "Brockett's Crossing" in Fairfax County.
"Avenue Road" in Toronto confounded me when I first encountered it because I wondered whether it was a road named "Avenue" or an avenue named "Road."
Quote from: cpzilliacus on January 02, 2013, 09:02:03 PM
Baltimore City, Maryland has a street called The Alameda (the southern end is Md. 542).
Alameda can mean "tree-lined avenue" in Spanish (according to Google). (The county and city in California probably refers to its polar grove meaning as well.) There's a road in San Jose, CA, called 'The Alameda' as well.
A similar popular one out in the west is 'The Embarcadero" which means wharf. Oakland and San Francisco have these.
Hyden, Ky., home of former UK and NFL quarterback Tim Couch, has Tim Couch Pass. It's KY 118, the connector route between the Hal Rogers Parkway and US 421.
A subdivision outside Winchester, Ky. has Shalamar Rue and Lamond Ruelle.
Waterfowl Flyway, in a Chesterfield subdivision called Woodland Pond.
Although most reknowned for one specific example (El Camino Real), the usage of "Camino" as a road type is not uncommon in California (i.e. Camino Capistrano).
Which makes El Camino Avenue in Sacramento delightfully redundant.
In North Sacramento, the new (as of the early 2000s) road linking Garden Highway and Arden Way is the Arden-Garden Connector.
New York State Thruway.
Columbia, Maryland has a slew of street names that are taken from English literature. The signs in Columbia sometimes exclude the "type" of street, or there is not one at all. Some examples:
Torrent Row (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=kilimanjaro+road+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.208431,-76.835868&spn=0.009361,0.01929&sll=39.166953,-76.85385&sspn=0.009366,0.01929&gl=us&hnear=Kilimanjaro+Rd,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21045&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.208393,-76.835753&panoid=ZsCpfnU6CdN5BmOF5sKBpQ&cbp=12,266.15,,1,9.31)
Jacob's Ladder (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=jacobs+ladder+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.206918,-76.847713&spn=0.009294,0.01929&sll=39.207008,-76.847745&sspn=0.009361,0.01929&gl=us&hnear=Jacobs+Ladder,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21045&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.207008,-76.847745&panoid=lr0v0HvVa3kMfMzZPhy0lg&cbp=12,223.55,,1,3.35)
Billingsgate Row (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Billingsgate+row+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.214234,-76.889405&spn=0.009293,0.01929&sll=39.214304,-76.889298&sspn=0.00234,0.004823&gl=us&hnear=Billingsgate+Row,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21044&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.214305,-76.889299&panoid=-pnJeXyKsiLJSVeSM_8oAA&cbp=12,28.73,,1,4.76)
Sunny Spring (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Billingsgate+row+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.210959,-76.885307&spn=0.00936,0.01929&sll=39.214304,-76.889298&sspn=0.00234,0.004823&gl=us&hnear=Billingsgate+Row,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21044&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.210978,-76.884908&panoid=SD-oAy9G6ubAr7x90OzBXA&cbp=12,84.69,,0,-10.81)
Grand Concourse in the Bronx is one that I think is not emulated elsewhere:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Grand+Concourse,+Bronx,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.856344,-73.899193&spn=0.018989,0.027595&sll=37.269174,-119.306607&sspn=10.222803,14.128418&oq=Grand+Concourse&hnear=Grand+Concourse,+Bronx,+New+York&t=m&z=15
Mesa Arizona
Outside of Major Mile Streets (University Dr, Broadway Rd ...ECT) Numbered Streets, Numbered Avenues, Center Street & Main Street/Apache Trail, All named streets have no titles (Extension, Longmore, Horne ...ect)
How about some towns and cities in Utah
2300 North
1100 South
6500 West
2200 East
For Example
"2300 North" is just a Utah-ized way of saying "N. 23rd St.".
Quote from: mapman1071 on January 03, 2013, 12:06:21 AM
How about some towns and cities in Utah
2300 North
1100 South
6500 West
2200 East
For Example
Most numbered streets and avenues are based off of the address grid. I think it makes sense and makes getting around town easier. If you want to go to 5922 15th Ave NE (arbritrary address -- I have no idea what it really is...) in Seattle, you'll know it's along 15th Ave NE between NE 59th St. and NE 60th St. without looking at a map. I guess Utah skips making it a street and avenue and just numbers the road off of the addresses.
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 02, 2013, 09:43:20 PM
There's a residential street in Charlottesville, across from the University of Virginia's Central Grounds, called "Gildersleeve Wood." I've always liked that name.
Speaking of cool streets in university towns, the main drag in Cambridge, UK is called King's Parade (it runs past King's College)...always sounded very royally festive to me :).
Thought of two others:
"Cavalier Corridor" in the Lake Barcroft neighborhood in Fairfax County, Virginia.
"Rebel Run" is a street running past Fairfax High School in Fairfax City. The school's teams are called the Rebels.
Similar to "Rebel Run", I know of a "Rebel Ridge", also in Chesterfield County.
There's a number of "Slip"s in NYC, too.
Also, I know of a residential street in Jackson, NJ called "Rue Monet". (As if he'd ever done anything bad to them ;-) )
Street Rd (PA 132)
Quote from: cpzilliacus on January 02, 2013, 09:02:03 PM
Richmond, Virginia has Boulevard (Va. 161).
Also a "Boulevard" in Atlanta.
Then a "Boulevard Ave." in Bismarck ND.
There is a road in Vicksburg National Military Park that is signed as merely "Mission 66".
I assume it was named for this NPS program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_66
Not sure how that got translated into a roadway name; maybe the road was constructed around that time?
Jacksonville Florida has "Possum Trot" and "Noroad"
Quote from: hbelkins on January 02, 2013, 10:15:28 PM
Hyden, Ky., home of former UK and NFL quarterback Tim Couch, has Tim Couch Pass.
If Cleveland named a road for Couch, it would probably be Tim Couch Sacked. :-(
Downtown Baltimore has Fallsway. Google Maps insists on adding a 'The', though.
Quote from: TheStranger on January 02, 2013, 11:39:25 PM
Grand Concourse in the Bronx is one that I think is not emulated elsewhere:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Grand+Concourse,+Bronx,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.856344,-73.899193&spn=0.018989,0.027595&sll=37.269174,-119.306607&sspn=10.222803,14.128418&oq=Grand+Concourse&hnear=Grand+Concourse,+Bronx,+New+York&t=m&z=15
The Complete Name Is
Grand Boulevard and Concourse
Some Signs use the complete name and others use Grand Concourse
There's a "No Name Uno" in Santa Clara County near Gilroy.
Quote from: KEK Inc. on January 03, 2013, 03:53:58 PM
There's a "No Name Uno" in Santa Clara County near Gilroy.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.044392,-121.575308&spn=0.00781,0.016512&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=37.044392,-121.575308&panoid=PbBkSv0OCTYMF4X4CallfQ&cbp=12,306.73,,2,-2.35
Weird. I guess they needed a name for a new frontage road, but...
Quote from: Big John on January 03, 2013, 01:06:12 PM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on January 02, 2013, 09:02:03 PM
Richmond, Virginia has Boulevard (Va. 161).
"Boulevard" also exits in the south end of Kingston, NY (NY 32)
Also a "Boulevard" in Atlanta.
Then a "Boulevard Ave." in Bismarck ND.
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 03, 2013, 09:12:51 AM
"Rebel Run" is a street running past Fairfax High School in Fairfax City. The school's teams are called the Rebels.
Surprising that UNLV hasn't used this for the name of any roads around their campus.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on January 02, 2013, 11:17:33 PM
Columbia, Maryland has a slew of street names that are taken from English literature. The signs in Columbia sometimes exclude the "type" of street, or there is not one at all. Some examples:
Torrent Row (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=kilimanjaro+road+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.208431,-76.835868&spn=0.009361,0.01929&sll=39.166953,-76.85385&sspn=0.009366,0.01929&gl=us&hnear=Kilimanjaro+Rd,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21045&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.208393,-76.835753&panoid=ZsCpfnU6CdN5BmOF5sKBpQ&cbp=12,266.15,,1,9.31)
Jacob's Ladder (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=jacobs+ladder+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.206918,-76.847713&spn=0.009294,0.01929&sll=39.207008,-76.847745&sspn=0.009361,0.01929&gl=us&hnear=Jacobs+Ladder,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21045&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.207008,-76.847745&panoid=lr0v0HvVa3kMfMzZPhy0lg&cbp=12,223.55,,1,3.35)
Billingsgate Row (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Billingsgate+row+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.214234,-76.889405&spn=0.009293,0.01929&sll=39.214304,-76.889298&sspn=0.00234,0.004823&gl=us&hnear=Billingsgate+Row,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21044&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.214305,-76.889299&panoid=-pnJeXyKsiLJSVeSM_8oAA&cbp=12,28.73,,1,4.76)
Sunny Spring (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Billingsgate+row+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.210959,-76.885307&spn=0.00936,0.01929&sll=39.214304,-76.889298&sspn=0.00234,0.004823&gl=us&hnear=Billingsgate+Row,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21044&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.210978,-76.884908&panoid=SD-oAy9G6ubAr7x90OzBXA&cbp=12,84.69,,0,-10.81)
There are a couple of streets ending in row on Long Island. There's Cottage Row in Glen Cove and Forest Row in Great Neck.
There are a number of streets ending in path in Suffolk County on Long Island. There's Straight Path (CR 2), Hubbards Path, Old Willets Path, and Bicycle Path. Yes, Bicycle Path is the name of a street for cars.
Also, in Upstate New York, there's the Northway and the Quickway.
Alberta has several "trails" as a road type - which can be anything from street to full freeway - Calgary Trail/Edmonton Trail, MacLeod Trail, Deerfoot Trail, Airport Trail, Beddington Trail, Stoney Trail, Barlow Trail, Crowchild Trail/Bow Valley Trail, Sarcee Trail, Bow Trail, Glenmore Trail.
Quote from: dgolub on January 03, 2013, 06:52:08 PM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on January 02, 2013, 11:17:33 PM
Columbia, Maryland has a slew of street names that are taken from English literature. The signs in Columbia sometimes exclude the "type" of street, or there is not one at all. Some examples:
Torrent Row (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=kilimanjaro+road+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.208431,-76.835868&spn=0.009361,0.01929&sll=39.166953,-76.85385&sspn=0.009366,0.01929&gl=us&hnear=Kilimanjaro+Rd,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21045&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.208393,-76.835753&panoid=ZsCpfnU6CdN5BmOF5sKBpQ&cbp=12,266.15,,1,9.31)
Jacob's Ladder (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=jacobs+ladder+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.206918,-76.847713&spn=0.009294,0.01929&sll=39.207008,-76.847745&sspn=0.009361,0.01929&gl=us&hnear=Jacobs+Ladder,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21045&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.207008,-76.847745&panoid=lr0v0HvVa3kMfMzZPhy0lg&cbp=12,223.55,,1,3.35)
Billingsgate Row (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Billingsgate+row+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.214234,-76.889405&spn=0.009293,0.01929&sll=39.214304,-76.889298&sspn=0.00234,0.004823&gl=us&hnear=Billingsgate+Row,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21044&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.214305,-76.889299&panoid=-pnJeXyKsiLJSVeSM_8oAA&cbp=12,28.73,,1,4.76)
Sunny Spring (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Billingsgate+row+columbia+md&hl=en&ll=39.210959,-76.885307&spn=0.00936,0.01929&sll=39.214304,-76.889298&sspn=0.00234,0.004823&gl=us&hnear=Billingsgate+Row,+Columbia,+Howard,+Maryland+21044&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.210978,-76.884908&panoid=SD-oAy9G6ubAr7x90OzBXA&cbp=12,84.69,,0,-10.81)
There are a couple of streets ending in row on Long Island. There's Cottage Row in Glen Cove and Forest Row in Great Neck.
There's a Barracks Row (http://www.barracksrow.org/) along 8th Street, S.E. in Washington, D.C., but that Row is not a street name, just a designation for a segment of 8th Street near the Marine Barracks Washington (http://www.barracks.marines.mil/) (that's the oldest active Marine post).
Quote from: TheStranger on January 03, 2013, 07:21:09 PM
Alberta has several "trails" as a road type...
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=glacier,+wa&ll=48.929069,-122.138411&spn=0.003827,0.010568&hnear=Glacier,+Whatcom,+Washington&gl=us&t=h&z=17 (Sorry, I couldn't get the Short URL checkbox to work for some reason)
I once considered moving to the neighborhood here, which has three Trails, a Cut, and a Corner.
Quote from: dgolub on January 03, 2013, 06:54:40 PM
There are a number of streets ending in path in Suffolk County on Long Island. There's Straight Path (CR 2), Hubbards Path, Old Willets Path, and Bicycle Path. Yes, Bicycle Path is the name of a street for cars.
Also, in Upstate New York, there's the Northway and the Quickway.
Also in New York is an obscure street named Broadway:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi48.tinypic.com%2Fspzsef.png&hash=668f2e91b9c3efb3eac5b80868330b997ed47d02)
Quote from: theline on January 03, 2013, 08:29:16 PM
Quote from: dgolub on January 03, 2013, 06:54:40 PM
There are a number of streets ending in path in Suffolk County on Long Island. There's Straight Path (CR 2), Hubbards Path, Old Willets Path, and Bicycle Path. Yes, Bicycle Path is the name of a street for cars.
Also, in Upstate New York, there's the Northway and the Quickway.
Also in New York is an obscure street named Broadway:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi48.tinypic.com%2Fspzsef.png&hash=668f2e91b9c3efb3eac5b80868330b997ed47d02)
Never heard of it.
The town I grew up in–Atwood, KS–had only street names, no "suffixes". Therefore my old address was simply 806 S First. When we would order things for mail order, the person on the other end would often ask us:
"First what?"
"Just First."
"I mean, First Street, First Avenue, or what?"
"No. Just First."
"I have to put something in that field on the computer."
"Then just put in whatever you want."
"Well, is it Street, or Avenue...?"
"It doesn't matter. Just do whatever you need to."
Another one form Atlantic Beach FL is Barefoot Trace
We have a Trace here in south Florida--Indian Trace in Weston, FL
Tucson has stravenues.
Part of US 250 in Sandusky, Ohio is named 'Sycamore Line.' Also, a road in nearby Norwalk, Ohio is named 'Terry Arcade.'
Oh yeah. In Chicago, near the University of Chicago, is 'Midway Plaisance.'
I live on a street that ends with 'Terrace', which I didn't think was terribly unusual until I tried telling people my street name and it throughly confuses them. And I'm not sure what most people would define a Terrace as, but this one is exactly like every other street in the neighborhood that ends in 'Ave'.
(Edited to fix "terribly"; was written incorrectly as "terrible")
Lafayette, LA has several "rues". I can't think of any of those elsewhere in the U.S., even in the northernmost parts.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Lafayette,+Louisiane,+%C3%89tats-Unis&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&ll=30.190189,-92.009168&spn=0.012631,0.01929&sll=45.558042,-73.730303&sspn=0.677891,1.234589&oq=Lafa&hnear=Lafayette,+Louisiane,+%C3%89tats-Unis&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=30.190299,-92.009049&panoid=2TMUxHW_aBcGnDLyFOt7jQ&cbp=12,299.83,,0,10.01
EDIT: Right. Read too fast. Winchester, KY and Jackson, NJ. Very odd to see that generic there.
There's Calle Mayor (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.81342,-118.36948&hl=en&num=1&t=h&z=17) that runs (roughly) east-west through Torrance, California, and intersects Ca. 1 (Pacific Coast Highway).
Quote from: jeffandnicole on January 04, 2013, 08:15:26 AM
I live on a street that ends with 'Terrace', which I didn't think was terrible unusual until I tried telling people my street name and it throughly confuses them. And I'm not sure what most people would define a Terrace as, but this one is exactly like every other street in the neighborhood that ends in 'Ave'.
I can think of a number of streets whose names end with "Terrace." I never thought it was unusual. Go figure. But on the other hand, I'm used to spelling street names that seem perfectly clear to me yet seem to confuse the heck out of people on the phone.
Another unusual one, a completely unique one as far as I know, is Queen's Stroll SE in Washington, DC. When HM the Queen visited the city in 1991 she toured a fairly rough neighborhood in far Southeast DC and the media, especially the British press, were shocked when a black lady named Alice Frazier hugged the Queen. The city renamed the part of the street the Queen walked to "Queen's Stroll," but most maps don't show it because the rest of the street is Drake Place (and indeed "Queen's Stroll" might be an "honorific name," although I don't know for sure as it's not in an area I've ever visited).
Quote from: dgolub on January 03, 2013, 06:54:40 PM
There are a number of streets ending in path in Suffolk County on Long Island. There's Straight Path (CR 2), Hubbards Path, Old Willets Path, and Bicycle Path. Yes, Bicycle Path is the name of a street for cars.
Also, in Upstate New York, there's the Northway and the Quickway.
A bunch of my relatives live in the Breezy Point neighborhood in Queens (site of the huge fire during Hurricane Sandy) and the majority of the streets there are named "Walk," such as "Fulton Walk" (devastated by the fire), "Suffolk Walk" (my great-grandparents had a house there), "Lincoln Walk," etc. I'm not sure these necessarily count for purposes of this thread because they're not vehicular streets–when they say "Walk," they mean the houses front on a "street" that consists of a sidewalk. You park your car in a community lot and walk to your house. They're also not technically "public" streets because the neighborhood is a co-op. But the Post Office recognizes all the addresses and the mailman has to walk down all the streets to get to the houses....anyway, outside of that neighborhood, I've never heard of an address that uses "Walk."
Buffalo Speedway in Houston.
Speedway in Austin, which is anything but.
Quote from: KEK Inc. on January 03, 2013, 04:14:10 AM
Quote from: mapman1071 on January 03, 2013, 12:06:21 AM
How about some towns and cities in Utah
2300 North
1100 South
6500 West
2200 East
For Example
Most numbered streets and avenues are based off of the address grid. I think it makes sense and makes getting around town easier. If you want to go to 5922 15th Ave NE (arbritrary address -- I have no idea what it really is...) in Seattle, you'll know it's along 15th Ave NE between NE 59th St. and NE 60th St. without looking at a map. I guess Utah skips making it a street and avenue and just numbers the road off of the addresses.
Once, when I was in Salt Lake City, some people in my party said that they found that system confusing. It immediately made perfect sense to me.
North Hollywood has a Campo de Cahuenga leading to Universal City.
When I formerly worked at IL DOT, a developer got so frustrated with me and my access permit review that he re-named a proposed street "Paper Chase". The development was built and the street still remains with that name, on the north side of Normal, IL off of old US 66.
Quote from: jeffandnicole on January 04, 2013, 08:15:26 AM
I live on a street that ends with 'Terrace', which I didn't think was terribly unusual until I tried telling people my street name and it throughly confuses them. And I'm not sure what most people would define a Terrace as, but this one is exactly like every other street in the neighborhood that ends in 'Ave'.
I have lived on a Terrace for much of my life.
I have also lived on a Place and a Drive and an Avenue at varying points. Never on a Street.
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on January 04, 2013, 11:39:02 AM
Lafayette, LA has several "rues". I can't think of any of those elsewhere in the U.S., even in the northernmost parts.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Lafayette,+Louisiane,+%C3%89tats-Unis&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&ll=30.190189,-92.009168&spn=0.012631,0.01929&sll=45.558042,-73.730303&sspn=0.677891,1.234589&oq=Lafa&hnear=Lafayette,+Louisiane,+%C3%89tats-Unis&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=30.190299,-92.009049&panoid=2TMUxHW_aBcGnDLyFOt7jQ&cbp=12,299.83,,0,10.01
EDIT: Right. Read too fast. Winchester, KY and Jackson, NJ. Very odd to see that generic there.
Rue is much more common than you think, even in the frozen north. Right here in South Bend, IN we have multiple Rues in the Park Jefferson Apartments: http://goo.gl/maps/3MyqC (http://goo.gl/maps/3MyqC). For an even more faux French name, I lived years ago on
N. Le Blvd. de la Paix, in the same complex. That was a huge pain in the ass to spell out over the phone.
Upthread I had mentioned Manhattan's Broadway as an example of the road without a type. I forgot all about Lincolnway in South Bend and nearby Mishawaka. It's often specified as Lincolnway East or Lincolnway West, but those are cardinal directions rather than types.
Quote from: theline on January 05, 2013, 01:56:35 AM
It's often specified as Lincolnway East or Lincolnway West, but those are cardinal directions rather than types.
Greenbelt, Maryland has a Southway (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=southway+greenbelt+md&hl=en&sll=38.999376,-76.887732&sspn=0.018644,0.038581&t=h&hnear=Southway,+Greenbelt,+Prince+George%27s,+Maryland+20770&z=16) and a Westway (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=westway+greenbelt+md&hl=en&ll=38.998325,-76.882625&spn=0.009322,0.01929&sll=38.99722,-76.880004&sspn=0.009322,0.01929&t=h&hnear=Westway,+Greenbelt,+Prince+George%27s,+Maryland+20770&z=16).
Quote from: theline on January 03, 2013, 08:29:16 PM
Also in New York is an obscure street named Broadway:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi48.tinypic.com%2Fspzsef.png&hash=668f2e91b9c3efb3eac5b80868330b997ed47d02)
Hardly unique, though, of course. It's not even the only one in the city.
And as for obscure, though you place tongue in cheek, it is in fact a much less whelming experience to encounter Broadway in parts of Midtown than it used to be, before all the pedestrianizations and whatnot. It functions much as a side street now, one that people cross freely without much regard for the signals.
more Boston: Central Artery, Northern Artery, Southern Artery
Tuckers Grade near Punta Gorda, FL.
Deer Path in Mountainside, NJ.
The Esplanade in Orlando, FL.
there are a few "Rows" in my neighborhood as well. I'd never heard of that one before I moved to Texas: Cobblestone Row, Kings Row. Also a Regal Row in Dallas and one called Empire Central.
Before I was on AA Roads, I'd never heard of Trafficway like the ones in Kansas City.
"Northstar Course" in Fort Collins, CO.
You can find "The Prado" in Atlanta near Piedmont Park.
How about the Alligator Alley in Florida's Everglades? Alley is not that common, especially among freeways.
Park Row in NYC.
Central Park N-S-W in NYC.
Lincoln Park for the east end of Clinton Avenue in Newark, NJ.
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 04, 2013, 12:05:53 PM
A bunch of my relatives live in the Breezy Point neighborhood in Queens (site of the huge fire during Hurricane Sandy) and the majority of the streets there are named "Walk," such as "Fulton Walk" (devastated by the fire), "Suffolk Walk" (my great-grandparents had a house there), "Lincoln Walk," etc. I'm not sure these necessarily count for purposes of this thread because they're not vehicular streets—when they say "Walk," they mean the houses front on a "street" that consists of a sidewalk. You park your car in a community lot and walk to your house. They're also not technically "public" streets because the neighborhood is a co-op. But the Post Office recognizes all the addresses and the mailman has to walk down all the streets to get to the houses....anyway, outside of that neighborhood, I've never heard of an address that uses "Walk."
Pilgrim Walk, Stamford, CT (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pilgrim+Walk,+Stamford,+CT&hl=en&ll=41.070018,-73.526076&spn=0.00419,0.007703&sll=40.697488,-73.979681&sspn=0.539331,0.986023&oq=pilgrim+walk,+s&hnear=Pilgrim+Walk,+Stamford,+Fairfield,+Connecticut+06906&t=m&z=17). Only one house faces the street, but still.
For another one, try Ponus Ridge (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Ponus+Ridge,+New+Canaan,+CT&hl=en&ll=41.150934,-73.523169&spn=0.033478,0.061626&sll=41.074207,-73.519564&sspn=0.016888,0.030813&oq=ponus+r&hnear=Ponus+Ridge,+New+Canaan,+Fairfield,+Connecticut+06840&t=m&z=14). Technically Ponus Ridge
Road, but for whatever reason most signs omit the suffix.
And then for a Pass which isn't football related, Trinity Pass (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Trinity+Pass,+Stamford,+CT&hl=en&ll=41.176231,-73.554969&spn=0.016732,0.030813&sll=41.150934,-73.523169&sspn=0.033478,0.061626&oq=trinity+pass,+&hnear=Trinity+Pass,+Stamford,+Fairfield,+Connecticut&t=m&z=15). Stamford, at least, knows the road officially as just "Trinity Pass". The suffix road apparently theoretically exists for New Canaan and Pound Ridge, but again, you won't find a sign that includes it.
Quote from: roadman65 on January 05, 2013, 08:08:49 PM
Central Park N-S-W in NYC.
Lincoln Park for the east end of Clinton Avenue in Newark, NJ.
Also various Squares in NYC. Not terribly uncommon, but certainly less common than their circular brethren.
Quote from: Kacie Jane on January 05, 2013, 10:18:21 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 05, 2013, 08:08:49 PM
Central Park N-S-W in NYC.
Lincoln Park for the east end of Clinton Avenue in Newark, NJ.
Also various Squares in NYC. Not terribly uncommon, but certainly less common than their circular brethren.
The District of Columbia has a fair number of squares, but buildings that face the squares usually have street addresses of the streets that make up the squares, not the square itself. One exception is Seward Square, S.E. (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=seward+square,+washington+dc&hl=en&ll=38.886072,-76.999526&spn=0.002334,0.004823&sll=38.886542,-77.00001&sspn=0.001175,0.002411&t=h&hq=seward+square,+washington+dc&z=18), which does have rowhouses facing it with street addresses on that square.
Quote from: NE2 on January 02, 2013, 08:20:05 PM
Harlem River Driveway.
Fenway. Riverway. Arborway. Fellsway. Charlesgate.
Don't forget Jamaicaway!
I passed a "Townsend West" (http://goo.gl/maps/Mi97F) in Nashua, NH the other day.
There's also Park Plaza (http://goo.gl/maps/qoASe) near Boston Common, which sounds like the name of a plaza, not of a street.
I've noticed a lot of downright strange names, and things like omitting suffixes, but I can't think of more off the top of my head.
One thing about Central Park in NYC, it allows Fifth Avenue to retain its name along Central Park, but 59th Street and Eighth Avenue along with 110th Street (although it changes to Cathedral Parkway west of Central Park) have to be the side of the park.
Anyway, not unique, but rare.
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on January 06, 2013, 12:22:40 AM
There's also Park Plaza (http://goo.gl/maps/qoASe) near Boston Common, which sounds like the name of a plaza, not of a street.
See Omaha for an abundance of Plazas.
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 04, 2013, 12:05:53 PM
A bunch of my relatives live in the Breezy Point neighborhood in Queens (site of the huge fire during Hurricane Sandy) and the majority of the streets there are named "Walk," such as "Fulton Walk" (devastated by the fire), "Suffolk Walk" (my great-grandparents had a house there), "Lincoln Walk," etc. I'm not sure these necessarily count for purposes of this thread because they're not vehicular streets–when they say "Walk," they mean the houses front on a "street" that consists of a sidewalk. You park your car in a community lot and walk to your house. They're also not technically "public" streets because the neighborhood is a co-op. But the Post Office recognizes all the addresses and the mailman has to walk down all the streets to get to the houses....anyway, outside of that neighborhood, I've never heard of an address that uses "Walk."
Bunch more of those in Ocean Beach, on Fire Island: http://goo.gl/maps/JDwge (as well as in neighboring FI towns and probably not unique amongst barrier island communities)
One in a weird neighborhood of East Rochester, NY: http://goo.gl/maps/oxHSn
And in Mt. Gretna, PA there is a whole section of car-less streets like this, but which aren't actually called "walks" but rather "streets" and "avenues": http://goo.gl/maps/5U1Ji
Quote from: InterstateNG on January 04, 2013, 12:22:10 PM
Buffalo Speedway in Houston.
Speedway in Austin, which is anything but.
There's a Speedway in Tucson, too.
Southern California has a number of streets that start with the word "Via," as in "Via Verde' off the I-10 Freeway in the San Dimas area. The word "Paseo" shows up, as in "Paseo Del Mar" in Rancho Palos Verdes, I believe.
Long Beach, California has a street called "Los Coyotes Diagonal."
Found some more in north Baltimore.
Northway, Westway, Eastway, Greenway and Kerneway, off of Cold Spring, between MD 139 (Charles St) and MD 45 (York Rd.): http://goo.gl/maps/HZMMj
Quote from: hm insulators on January 07, 2013, 02:28:56 PM
There's a Speedway in Tucson, too.
It's Speedway Boulevard, though. (My brother and sister-in-law used to live on it.)
Quote from: Kacie Jane on January 02, 2013, 09:23:35 PM
Quote from: motorway on January 02, 2013, 09:17:44 PMAlso, there are several examples in New Jersey of a street being called just "Boulevard," Madonna-style.
There's one here in Bellingham as well. Google Maps insists on calling it Boulevard Street though.
Consider it fixed. Should be updated in the next weeks.
Quote from: motorway on January 02, 2013, 09:17:44 PM
"Hill" is a common road type designation in the UK, and surprised it isn't used more often here. Also, there are several examples in New Jersey of a street being called just "Boulevard," Madonna-style.
There are quite a good numbers of "Hills" (
côtes) in Québec City too. The city has been built on a cape : Côte Ross, Côte du Verger, Côte à Gignac or Kilmarnock's Hill, Côte de Sillery, Côte Gilmour Hill, Côte de la Montagne, Côte du Colonel-Dambourgès, Côte de la Canoterie, Côte Dinan, Côte du Palais, Côte de la Potasse, Côte d'Abraham, Côte Badelard, Côte Salaberry, Côte Sherbrooke, Côte de l'Aqueduc, Côte de la Pente-Douce, Côte Saint-Sacrement. There also were Côte Sauvageau and Côte à Coton, but they were closed in the late 1970's.
Québec City also got unique particles, such as
Allée in "Grande Allée" (which means "Broadway", more than "Big Alley") and Quai Saint-André (
quai means "quay").
Côte can also be literaly translated ("rib", yeah, that kind), as the rural land subdivision mimicked that body part at times. Montréal island was given
côtes (ribs) instead of
rangs (lines) by the clerical landlords (sulpicians, etc.). Some names still subsist today (Côte-Saint-Luc, etc.).
Montréal also has "Voie Camilien-Houde", which is unique today (the province of Québec used to have more of these).
Voie translates in "Way", Camilien Houde was a mayor in the 30's.
Is montée similar to those? I'm thinking of, for example, Montée Ryan, which leads from the Trans-Canada Highway to Mont-Tremblant. My French—English dictionary says "montée" means "ascent; rise; climb." So it's not literally "Ryan Hill"–does it perhaps instead denote a road leading TO a mountain? (Joe Ryan was the man primarily responsible for construction of the original Mont-Tremblant ski resort.)
Regarding quai, I know that's used in some cities in Europe. The "Piscine" section of the Monaco Grand Prix circuit runs along Quai Albert 1er and Quai des États-Unis, for example.
Quote from: kj3400 on January 07, 2013, 02:58:22 PM
Found some more in north Baltimore.
Northway, Westway, Eastway, Greenway and Kerneway, off of Cold Spring, between MD 139 (Charles St) and MD 45 (York Rd.): http://goo.gl/maps/HZMMj
And there's a Fallsway (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=fallsway+%26+North+Gay+Street,+baltimore,+maryland&hl=en&ll=39.292843,-76.608524&spn=0.009283,0.014591&sll=39.292345,-76.605005&sspn=0.009283,0.014591&t=h&hnear=The+Fallsway+%26+N+Gay+St,+Baltimore,+Maryland+21202&z=16) (adjacent to I-83) in Baltimore City.
here I thought "côte" meant coast? or does it mean both?
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 07, 2013, 03:23:20 PM
Is montée similar to those? I'm thinking of, for example, Montée Ryan, which leads from the Trans-Canada Highway to Mont-Tremblant. My French–English dictionary says "montée" means "ascent; rise; climb." So it's not literally "Ryan Hill"—does it perhaps instead denote a road leading TO a mountain? (Joe Ryan was the man primarily responsible for construction of the original Mont-Tremblant ski resort.)
Montée had no direct link to whatever ascent. It was, under seigneurial cadastral system, the designation for a perpendicular link between two
côtes or
rangs, parallel to the tenure of the lots. Since most parcels were perpendicular to the Saint-Laurent river, the back of the first row (
rang) was generally "higher" than the rest, or higher along affluent streams and rivers, so that is probably why it got that climbing flavor in its designation.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcq.org%2Fcode%2Fmedias%2Fimages%2Fgp%2Fmcq_illustration_seigneurie.jpg&hash=309cef180b92449447e08144071401a11394ed5d)
The name has been kept under township cadastral system, and designates a mostly north-south road.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 07, 2013, 03:51:35 PM
here I thought "côte" meant coast? or does it mean both?
It means "coast", "rib" AND "hill".
That's gotta get confusing, especially if all three land features happen to be in the same proximity, if that's even possible.
I think of Rang as a ladder "rung" and Montée as "climbing the ladder." Although it's not what the words translate to, it makes it really simple to visualize. Thinking of Côtes as ribs also helps equate them to rungs.
Now, the most common urban street names are Rue and Chemin. Chemin sorta means "path" but they both sorta mean "street" and "road" interchangeably. I tend to Anglicize along those lines.
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 04, 2013, 12:05:53 PM
Quote from: jeffandnicole on January 04, 2013, 08:15:26 AM
I live on a street that ends with 'Terrace', which I didn't think was terrible unusual until I tried telling people my street name and it throughly confuses them. And I'm not sure what most people would define a Terrace as, but this one is exactly like every other street in the neighborhood that ends in 'Ave'.
I can think of a number of streets whose names end with "Terrace." I never thought it was unusual. Go figure. But on the other hand, I'm used to spelling street names that seem perfectly clear to me yet seem to confuse the heck out of people on the phone.
I concur. There's Richmond Terrace on Staten Island, as well as a whole batch of them on Long Island and some numbered terraces in Queens. They're not as common as streets, avenues, or roads, but they're not all that unusual.
Quote from: mapman1071 on January 03, 2013, 03:33:08 PM
Quote from: TheStranger on January 02, 2013, 11:39:25 PM
Grand Concourse in the Bronx is one that I think is not emulated elsewhere:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Grand+Concourse,+Bronx,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.856344,-73.899193&spn=0.018989,0.027595&sll=37.269174,-119.306607&sspn=10.222803,14.128418&oq=Grand+Concourse&hnear=Grand+Concourse,+Bronx,+New+York&t=m&z=15
The Complete Name Is
Grand Boulevard and Concourse
Some Signs use the complete name and others use Grand Concourse
There's also Merchants Concourse on Long Island, so that one is not unique, although it certainly seems uncommon.
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 04, 2013, 12:05:53 PM
Quote from: dgolub on January 03, 2013, 06:54:40 PM
There are a number of streets ending in path in Suffolk County on Long Island. There's Straight Path (CR 2), Hubbards Path, Old Willets Path, and Bicycle Path. Yes, Bicycle Path is the name of a street for cars.
Also, in Upstate New York, there's the Northway and the Quickway.
A bunch of my relatives live in the Breezy Point neighborhood in Queens (site of the huge fire during Hurricane Sandy) and the majority of the streets there are named "Walk," such as "Fulton Walk" (devastated by the fire), "Suffolk Walk" (my great-grandparents had a house there), "Lincoln Walk," etc. I'm not sure these necessarily count for purposes of this thread because they're not vehicular streets–when they say "Walk," they mean the houses front on a "street" that consists of a sidewalk. You park your car in a community lot and walk to your house. They're also not technically "public" streets because the neighborhood is a co-op. But the Post Office recognizes all the addresses and the mailman has to walk down all the streets to get to the houses....anyway, outside of that neighborhood, I've never heard of an address that uses "Walk."
There's also a bunch of walks in Long Beach, New York, as well. Similar to what you describe, they're not open to vehicular traffic, although they do get street signs.
Quote from: empirestate on January 05, 2013, 11:56:38 AM
And as for obscure, though you place tongue in cheek, it is in fact a much less whelming experience to encounter Broadway in parts of Midtown than it used to be, before all the pedestrianizations and whatnot. It functions much as a side street now, one that people cross freely without much regard for the signals.
I've not made it to the Great White Way, though I have seen David Letterman make enough fun of the mayor's "improvements" to make me feel I've been there. After seeing many much smaller cities convert main streets in their downtown areas to complete or partial pedestrian malls in the '70s and restore traffic to them since, it's odd to see it happening now in NYC.
Quote from: theline on January 07, 2013, 11:51:36 PM
Quote from: empirestate on January 05, 2013, 11:56:38 AM
And as for obscure, though you place tongue in cheek, it is in fact a much less whelming experience to encounter Broadway in parts of Midtown than it used to be, before all the pedestrianizations and whatnot. It functions much as a side street now, one that people cross freely without much regard for the signals.
I've not made it to the Great White Way, though I have seen David Letterman make enough fun of the mayor's "improvements" to make me feel I've been there. After seeing many much smaller cities convert main streets in their downtown areas to complete or partial pedestrian malls in the '70s and restore traffic to them since, it's odd to see it happening now in NYC.
I suspect that one big difference in New York is that on a relative scale, given the number of people in the city, automobile travel is significantly less important there than it is in most other cities and a lot of the people heading to locations along the pedestrianized segments of Broadway will be arriving via means other than the car. Put differently, I recall all the debate about whether the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville was a dud because it hadn't become the thriving mecca they had hoped. I have no doubt that part of that is that 90% or more of the people who might head there would get there by car and park in one of the municipal garages nearby. When you have to drive to the pedestrian mall, it becomes just as easy to drive to another destination that has easier parking (and better traffic flow, in Charlottesville's case) and perhaps a roof overhead (i.e., a shopping mall). So many of the smaller cities are (like Charlottesville) not the sort of place where people do a lot of walking from one place to another. Anyone who's spent much time in New York, on the other hand, knows well the importance of walking and knows how a lot of the time in Manhattan it can be faster to walk 10 or 20 blocks than it is to take a cab or the subway.
Long way of saying, I agree with your point about it being amusing, but it's fair to recognize that New York is unique among North American cities in a lot of ways and this sort of thing might be one of them.
There's Lincolnway in Cheyenne and Appleway in Spokane.
In Florida you have a road named Dale Mabry Highway, but locals and FDOT refer to it simply as "Dale Mabry" and Hillsborough County, FL has the highway descriptor on street signs in relatively small lettering.
I know many folks refer to many roads in their communities by name minus descriptor, however businesses along Dale Mabry just give address number with only "Dale Mabry" in advertisements as well as legal stuff and is accepted as a legal street name in correspondence.
In Orlando we have John Young Parkway referred to as "John Young" by many via word of mouth, but in writing and correspondence it is given a full name with descriptor such as 13, 000 South John Young Parkway for a funeral home in Hunters Creek subdivision.
This is a rarity for a road to be completely name only other than Broadway and Bowery in NYC.
Quote from: Mark68 on January 12, 2013, 03:36:43 AM
There's Lincolnway in Cheyenne and Appleway in Spokane.
But in those sorts of cases, surely the descriptor is "Way", even though it's elided into one word. "Way" is not at all a unique type.
Quote from: empirestate on January 12, 2013, 10:23:40 AM
Quote from: Mark68 on January 12, 2013, 03:36:43 AM
There's Lincolnway in Cheyenne and Appleway in Spokane.
But in those sorts of cases, surely the descriptor is "Way", even though it's elided into one word. "Way" is not at all a unique type.
But the fact that it is officially combined with the name is.
Quote from: empirestate on January 12, 2013, 10:23:40 AM
Quote from: Mark68 on January 12, 2013, 03:36:43 AM
There's Lincolnway in Cheyenne and Appleway in Spokane.
But in those sorts of cases, surely the descriptor is "Way", even though it's elided into one word. "Way" is not at all a unique type.
We did allow Fenway and Arborway. By your argument, Parkway is just Park Way.
Quote from: Steve on January 12, 2013, 11:30:32 AM
Quote from: empirestate on January 12, 2013, 10:23:40 AM
Quote from: Mark68 on January 12, 2013, 03:36:43 AM
There's Lincolnway in Cheyenne and Appleway in Spokane.
But in those sorts of cases, surely the descriptor is "Way", even though it's elided into one word. "Way" is not at all a unique type.
We did allow Fenway and Arborway. By your argument, Parkway is just Park Way.
Well, the topic I believe was looking for unique instances of what are sometimes called descriptors: road, street, avenue and so on. Usually you have a proper name followed by one of these descriptors. But in cases like Fenway and Arborway, those single words are the whole name of the road. If you submit those as examples of descriptors, you could argue that the descriptor portion of the one-word name is either the "-way" portion within that name, or some other null value, but it's tough to argue that the entire name is the descriptor–after all, surely the whole idea of a descriptor is that it modifies the name, rather than itself being the name.
Now, those names are still noteworthy in their uniqueness and well worth pointing out for that, if not exactly answering the question being raised. Unless, of course, I'm misreading the spirit of the topic, which is also fine.
As for words like Parkway and Highway, those often stand alone as descriptors in their own right: King's Highway, Ocean Parkway. If the name of a road were simply "Parkway", then it would fall into the same class as Fenway. Conversely, if there were a road called "Johnson Fenway", then "Fenway" would indeed become quite a unique descriptor!
Quote from: empirestate on January 12, 2013, 10:10:07 PM
Quote from: Steve on January 12, 2013, 11:30:32 AM
Quote from: empirestate on January 12, 2013, 10:23:40 AM
Quote from: Mark68 on January 12, 2013, 03:36:43 AM
There's Lincolnway in Cheyenne and Appleway in Spokane.
But in those sorts of cases, surely the descriptor is "Way", even though it's elided into one word. "Way" is not at all a unique type.
We did allow Fenway and Arborway. By your argument, Parkway is just Park Way.
Well, the topic I believe was looking for unique instances of what are sometimes called descriptors: road, street, avenue and so on. Usually you have a proper name followed by one of these descriptors. But in cases like Fenway and Arborway, those single words are the whole name of the road. If you submit those as examples of descriptors, you could argue that the descriptor portion of the one-word name is either the "-way" portion within that name, or some other null value, but it's tough to argue that the entire name is the descriptor–after all, surely the whole idea of a descriptor is that it modifies the name, rather than itself being the name.
Now, those names are still noteworthy in their uniqueness and well worth pointing out for that, if not exactly answering the question being raised. Unless, of course, I'm misreading the spirit of the topic, which is also fine.
As for words like Parkway and Highway, those often stand alone as descriptors in their own right: King's Highway, Ocean Parkway. If the name of a road were simply "Parkway", then it would fall into the same class as Fenway. Conversely, if there were a road called "Johnson Fenway", then "Fenway" would indeed become quite a unique descriptor!
There are Parkways here in NJ. I believe Bloomfield has one, for example.
Cannery Row in Monterey.
I don't know how common "Row" is used as a road suffix though...
Quote from: CentralCAroadgeek on January 13, 2013, 11:12:08 PM
Cannery Row in Monterey.
I don't know how common "Row" is used as a road suffix though...
Relatively uncommon in the U.S., at least. Park Row is a prominent one here in NYC.
Quote from: empirestate on January 12, 2013, 10:10:07 PM
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As for words like Parkway and Highway, those often stand alone as descriptors in their own right: King's Highway, Ocean Parkway. If the name of a road were simply "Parkway", then it would fall into the same class as Fenway. Conversely, if there were a road called "Johnson Fenway", then "Fenway" would indeed become quite a unique descriptor!
As I mentioned somewhere earlier in this thread, there's a street a few miles from where I live called "The Parkway," which is pretty close to what you suggest–I mentioned before that the map on my sat-nav, which omits street type designators, shows that street as a line with the word "The" next to it (i.e., it considers it a parkway named "The").
This might be slightly off-topic, but do anyone think it's weird that Florida Turnpike is spelled "Florida's Turnpike"?
To me it sounds like some branding.
"Florida's very own, new and improved turnpike, with now 147% more sodium!" :pan:
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 14, 2013, 01:31:12 PM
Quote from: empirestate on January 12, 2013, 10:10:07 PM
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As for words like Parkway and Highway, those often stand alone as descriptors in their own right: King's Highway, Ocean Parkway. If the name of a road were simply "Parkway", then it would fall into the same class as Fenway. Conversely, if there were a road called "Johnson Fenway", then "Fenway" would indeed become quite a unique descriptor!
As I mentioned somewhere earlier in this thread, there's a street a few miles from where I live called "The Parkway," which is pretty close to what you suggest–I mentioned before that the map on my sat-nav, which omits street type designators, shows that street as a line with the word "The" next to it (i.e., it considers it a parkway named "The").
In a way, that's sort of correct. An article ("the", "a") serves the same adjectival function as a word like "red" or "grand" or "Johnson's". "Johnson" is of course a noun, and a proper one, but when you append another noun like "parkway", the noun "Johnson" is implicitly derived from its possessive sense, "Johnson's", and thus takes on an adjectival function, as it modifies and particularizes the noun "parkway".
And articles do the same, but to a greater ("the") or lesser ("a") degree of specificity. So in our construct of "name" + "descriptor" where the first is an adjective (or adjectival noun) and the second is a noun, then your machine is parsing it right, technically.
(This points up the fact that "descriptor" probably isn't the right word for the noun part of the construct, since that noun is the thing being described, not the one doing the describing.)
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Quote from: webfil on January 14, 2013, 02:02:07 PM
This might be slightly off-topic, but do anyone think it's weird that Florida Turnpike is spelled "Florida's Turnpike"?
To me it sounds like some branding.
"Florida's very own, new and improved turnpike, with now 147% more sodium!" :pan:
Didn't notice this last message before posting, but that's a great example of adjectival function. Many other Turnpikes are named similarly, except that they've devolved the name into noun form rather than possessive form. After all, "Massachusetts's Turnpike" is rather unwieldy!
All valid points. "The Parkway" is sort of an odd one, however, because (aside from my sat-nav) nobody would tell you, for example, "Take Telegraph south and then make a left on The," whereas with other more normal names they might ("Take Telegraph south and make a right on Climbhill" if referring to Climbhill Road, for instance).
Actually, my sat-nav wouldn't ever say to make a left on "The" because it doesn't speak street names, only numbers. But you know what I mean.
Quote from: webfil on January 14, 2013, 02:02:07 PM
This might be slightly off-topic, but do anyone think it's weird that Florida Turnpike is spelled "Florida's Turnpike"?
To me it sounds like some branding.
"Florida's very own, new and improved turnpike, with now 147% more sodium!" :pan:
Garden State's Parkway
New York's Thruway
Pennsylvania's Turnpike
Bloomfield's Avenue
Pulaski's Skyway
Newark's Liberty Airport
Chicago's O' Hare Airport
LA's X
I see what you mean.
Quote from: roadman65 on January 16, 2013, 05:28:19 PM
Quote from: webfil on January 14, 2013, 02:02:07 PM
This might be slightly off-topic, but do anyone think it's weird that Florida Turnpike is spelled "Florida's Turnpike"?
To me it sounds like some branding.
"Florida's very own, new and improved turnpike, with now 147% more sodium!" :pan:
Garden State's Parkway
New York's Thruway
Pennsylvania's Turnpike
Bloomfield's Avenue
Pulaski's Skyway
Newark's Liberty Airport
Chicago's O' Hare Airport
LA's X
I see what you mean.
Though Dulles's Toll Road sounds pretty bad.
Dulles Toll Road (and Dulles Access Road and Dulles Greenway) have a much better "sound."
Quote from: cpzilliacus on January 16, 2013, 06:50:37 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 16, 2013, 05:28:19 PM
Quote from: webfil on January 14, 2013, 02:02:07 PM
This might be slightly off-topic, but do anyone think it's weird that Florida Turnpike is spelled "Florida's Turnpike"?
To me it sounds like some branding.
"Florida's very own, new and improved turnpike, with now 147% more sodium!" :pan:
Garden State's Parkway
New York's Thruway
Pennsylvania's Turnpike
Bloomfield's Avenue
Pulaski's Skyway
Newark's Liberty Airport
Chicago's O' Hare Airport
LA's X
I see what you mean.
Though Dulles's Toll Road sounds pretty bad.
Dulles Toll Road (and Dulles Access Road and Dulles Greenway) have a much better "sound."
There is some semantic history behind names like these, which I've gotten into in other threads and apparently is of more interest to me than I at first realized. :-)
I wouldn't say that "Pulaski's Skyway" is quite the same as "Bloomfield's Avenue", because the skyway doesn't belong to Pulaski, but refers to him. And the avenue doesn't belong to Bloomfield, but leads to it. By contrast, a road that originally passed through property settled by Farmer Johnson might have been called "Johnson's Road", but since evolved into simply "Johnson Road".
Still, the adjectival function seems to hold up, as: The skyway, in remembrance of Pulaski. The avenue, leading to Bloomfield. The road, belonging to Johnson. A road name is a slightly more elaborate grammatical construct than a simple proper name, like yours or mine. Yes, we could say "the person, who is known as Jim", but that doesn't convey any further information than simply "Jim".
Florida's Turnpike was originally called the Sunshine State Parkway. (Why is there no sign on www.aaroads.com/shields/thumbs.php?state=FL ?) Signs also said "Turnpike":
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gribblenation.com%2Fflpics%2Fvintage%2Ff28.jpg&hash=f36e5d93e70c74f73826ab93aa0fd3a05c2cad60)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gribblenation.com%2Fflpics%2Fvintage%2Ff197.jpg&hash=f6e34c9b61ed1f92045b59f032f674be13fd2ef1)
Michael Summa pics from http://www.gribblenation.com/flpics/vintage/
I would guess that it was unofficially known as "Florida's Turnpike", and later this name was adopted officially.
Quote from: empirestate on January 14, 2013, 02:55:11 PM
After all, "Massachusetts's Turnpike" is rather unwieldy!
Even without the "'s" it's unwieldy enough that no one uses that term around here. It's the MassPike...so often used that even the signage at some of the smaller toll booths uses that term rather than the full-length "Massachusetts Turnpike."
Quote from: NE2 on January 16, 2013, 11:12:40 PM
Florida's Turnpike was originally called the Sunshine State Parkway. (Why is there no sign on www.aaroads.com/shields/thumbs.php?state=FL ?) Signs also said "Turnpike":
I'll be damned; I could've sworn I had some SSP shields up there... well, next time, I can upload some.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 17, 2013, 12:49:13 PM
Quote from: NE2 on January 16, 2013, 11:12:40 PM
Florida's Turnpike was originally called the Sunshine State Parkway. (Why is there no sign on www.aaroads.com/shields/thumbs.php?state=FL ?) Signs also said "Turnpike":
I'll be damned; I could've sworn I had some SSP shields up there... well, next time, I can upload some.
I have not driven Florida's Turnpike when it was called the Sunshine State Parkway, but seeing images of the shields from that era would be very, very cool.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on January 17, 2013, 02:40:50 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 17, 2013, 12:49:13 PM
Quote from: NE2 on January 16, 2013, 11:12:40 PM
Florida's Turnpike was originally called the Sunshine State Parkway. (Why is there no sign on www.aaroads.com/shields/thumbs.php?state=FL ?) Signs also said "Turnpike":
I'll be damned; I could've sworn I had some SSP shields up there... well, next time, I can upload some.
I have not driven Florida's Turnpike when it was called the Sunshine State Parkway, but seeing images of the shields from that era would be very, very cool.
*scrolls up three posts*
Why yes, yes it would.
If you take a look at the Gousha map thread you'll see a 1956 map showing the SSP as then proposed–northeast to Jacksonville.
I always find it interesting to see old maps showing plans that never came to be and that one is no exception.
Here, this is definitely a unique roadway descriptor: http://goo.gl/maps/4f2O1
:-)
There is a McAllen Pass in Austin TX - not many streets named "Pass" in this non-mountainous area of Texas.
Quote from: US81 on January 21, 2013, 12:33:26 PM
There is a McAllen Pass in Austin TX - not many streets named "Pass" in this non-mountainous area of Texas.
Every third new subdivision in my part of the state has at least one "Pass," it seems.
Driving through DC last night prompted me to recall that when I was growing up, there was a minuscule diagonal street (ridiculously short and more in the nature of a driveway that linked to two streets) behind the National Archives building linking 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW; its name was "Market Space NW." It's gone now, but it remains the only street I know of named "Space."
Apparently once upon a time the slave market was located in that general area, which probably explains both the name's origin AND the reason for its eventual demise!
A Tallahassee, FL neighborhood uses "Nene", a Seminole word for "trail". You can see these on the map here (http://goo.gl/maps/33i8n)... here is someone's personal site explaining the term http://www.olary.com/nene.html
This week, I saw a "Sunnyview Oval" in Edison, NJ, which is a quite unique designation for a residential street ; I would have expected bleachers.
Quote from: clef on February 07, 2013, 11:08:48 PM
A Tallahassee, FL neighborhood uses "Nene", a Seminole word for "trail". You can see these on the map here (http://goo.gl/maps/33i8n)... here is someone's personal site explaining the term http://www.olary.com/nene.html
why yes, let's name a subdivision filled with rich white people after those who were forcibly deported. lebensraum much?
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 08, 2013, 09:54:25 AM
why yes, let's name a subdivision filled with rich white people after those who were forcibly deported. lebensraum much?
And put an "Optimist Park" right in the middle :bigass:
Actually it's close enough to downtown that it could be anywhere from rich white to poor awesome.
Quote from: NE2 on February 08, 2013, 10:37:51 AM
Actually it's close enough to downtown that it could be anywhere from rich white to poor awesome.
when a land developer gets to choose all the street names in his subdivision, I think of a very specific type of suburban development.
Quote from: empirestate on January 14, 2013, 12:54:26 AM
Quote from: CentralCAroadgeek on January 13, 2013, 11:12:08 PM
Cannery Row in Monterey.
I don't know how common "Row" is used as a road suffix though...
Relatively uncommon in the U.S., at least. Park Row is a prominent one here in NYC.
We've got a 'Washington Row' in the downtown of my hometown of Sandusky, Ohio:
http://goo.gl/maps/H7tg6
as long as they don't have a "row" and a "road" of the same root name in close proximity to one another.
Quote from: sandwalk on February 08, 2013, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: empirestate on January 14, 2013, 12:54:26 AM
Quote from: CentralCAroadgeek on January 13, 2013, 11:12:08 PM
Cannery Row in Monterey.
I don't know how common "Row" is used as a road suffix though...
Relatively uncommon in the U.S., at least. Park Row is a prominent one here in NYC.
We've got a 'Washington Row' in the downtown of my hometown of Sandusky, Ohio:
http://goo.gl/maps/H7tg6
Geez, how could I have forgotten Washington Mews, also in NYC?
http://goo.gl/maps/35sDR
Quote from: empirestate on February 08, 2013, 12:56:52 PM
Quote from: sandwalk on February 08, 2013, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: empirestate on January 14, 2013, 12:54:26 AM
Quote from: CentralCAroadgeek on January 13, 2013, 11:12:08 PM
Cannery Row in Monterey.
I don't know how common "Row" is used as a road suffix though...
Relatively uncommon in the U.S., at least. Park Row is a prominent one here in NYC.
We've got a 'Washington Row' in the downtown of my hometown of Sandusky, Ohio:
http://goo.gl/maps/H7tg6
Geez, how could I have forgotten Washington Mews, also in NYC?
http://goo.gl/maps/35sDR
You're telling me there has been more than one Mew?
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.bulbagarden.net%2Fupload%2F9%2F9b%2FMew_M08.png&hash=a7123e6ec8e8d233b0884e9f8acaae307727034d)
Quote from: kphoger on January 06, 2013, 08:42:05 AM
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on January 06, 2013, 12:22:40 AM
There's also Park Plaza (http://goo.gl/maps/qoASe) near Boston Common, which sounds like the name of a plaza, not of a street.
See Omaha for an abundance of Plazas.
Charlotte dispensed with all that and just went with The Plaza.
This neighborhood is quite possibly the least notable thing in Tallahassee named after the Seminoles ;-)
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 08, 2013, 09:54:25 AM
Quote from: clef on February 07, 2013, 11:08:48 PM
A Tallahassee, FL neighborhood uses "Nene", a Seminole word for "trail". You can see these on the map here (http://goo.gl/maps/33i8n)... here is someone's personal site explaining the term http://www.olary.com/nene.html
why yes, let's name a subdivision filled with rich white people after those who were forcibly deported. lebensraum much?
Has anyone mentioned US 50 in the Eastern Shore being the Ocean Gateway?
Benicia, CA has Military West and a shorter Military East.
Quote from: KEK Inc. on January 02, 2013, 08:14:05 PM
I'll start off with WA-525: Mukilteo Speedway. It's a thouroughfare built as a bypass to go directly to Mukilteo and Whidbey Island from the freeways (I-5 and I-405). Ironically enough, once you pass WA-99, there's lights and the speed limit is 25. :pan:
WSDOT did plan for WA-525 to be relocated onto Paine Field Boulevard and through Japanese Gulch to a new, bigger ferry terminal on the waterfront. Too bad they can't just bulldoze all those buildings and build a real freeway.
This neighborhood in Oklahoma City has a few "stradas": https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Portofino+Strada&ll=35.330418,-97.559688&spn=0.00744,0.014302&hnear=Portofino+Strada,+Oklahoma+City,+Cleveland,+Oklahoma+73170&t=m&z=17
Columbus has North Broadway. There is no South Broadway. Addresses on this street look like 123 W North Broadway or 3210 E North Broadway. Some map sources display the street name as North Broadway St.
We also have International Gateway, which runs from Cassady Ave across I-670 and into Port Columbus International Airport.
West of town is a little residential development in a rural area, with just one street called Scenic Darby View. The street is about ¾ mile from Big Darby Creek, which is indeed scenic in places, but the houses on this street do not have a view of it.
In the retail/office development known as Easton, there's a street called The Strand. A section of it is divided into two parallel streets, called The Strand E and The Strand W.
Seminole County, FL has a bunch of platted residential streets with no normal suffix, such as Trilby Branch, South Embrey, Stone Gate North, Windsor Isle, Lands End, and Surrey Knolls.
An unusual practice I've only seen in New England is appending the suffix of a street onto the name -- suffix and all -- of another street it is off of. June Street Terrace in Worcester, MA, for example, or Bow Street Place in Somerville, MA.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on May 05, 2013, 04:17:40 PM
An unusual practice I've only seen in New England is appending the suffix of a street onto the name -- suffix and all -- of another street it is off of. June Street Terrace in Worcester, MA, for example, or Bow Street Place in Somerville, MA.
A rather common version of that practice is "Foo Street Road", that being the name of the rural road that becomes Foo Street when it reaches a city line.
In Lakewood OH there's "Sloane Subway"...no tunnels involved though. It just dips under a railroad bridge to connect Lake Road to Sloane Avenue.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sloane+Subway,+Lakewood,+OH&hl=en&ll=41.48449,-81.828527&spn=0.002279,0.005284&sll=40.365277,-82.669252&sspn=4.745725,10.821533&oq=sloane+subway&hnear=Sloane+Subway,+Lakewood,+Cuyahoga,+Ohio+44107&t=m&z=18
Quote from: right_said_ted on May 05, 2013, 10:35:43 PM
In Lakewood OH there's "Sloane Subway"...no tunnels involved though. It just dips under a railroad bridge to connect Lake Road to Sloane Avenue.
This was a common term for an underpass in the old days.
In Nampa, once ID-45, which goes through Downtown as 12th Ave S (in a diagonal grid), turns directly south and exits the numbered grid, it is called "12th Avenue Rd." People just call it "12th", but I found it a little strange. Map (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=12th+ave+rd&ll=43.551534,-116.573009&spn=0.051631,0.132093&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=12th+Avenue+Rd,+Nampa,+Idaho&gl=us&t=m&z=14)
Quote from: NE2 on May 05, 2013, 10:39:01 PM
Quote from: right_said_ted on May 05, 2013, 10:35:43 PM
In Lakewood OH there's "Sloane Subway"...no tunnels involved though. It just dips under a railroad bridge to connect Lake Road to Sloane Avenue.
This was a common term for an underpass in the old days.
Many would be surprised to learn that there's a subway in Marysville, PA: http://goo.gl/maps/rJbdJ
What exactly is a quay?
Quote from: A.J. Bertin on May 08, 2013, 10:35:38 AM
What exactly is a quay?
Generally synonymous with "wharf," although I think the word "quay" generally connotes a smaller structure (not necessarily because the word has that meaning, though).
In the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, there is a pedestrian-only way with a street sign reading "Hampstead Footway." It is basically a very long staircase connecting Hampstead Street with South Street, but it is indeed a signed public way.
Post Merge: June 08, 2013, 02:31:11 PM
Also in Boston are numerous public ways called simply "Public Alley #xxx," with street signs declaring them as such.
The signed alleys reminded me of Ogden, KS: http://goo.gl/maps/wDCZC (http://goo.gl/maps/wDCZC)
Highway 465 in Missouri (just north of Branson) is called the Ozark Mountain Highroad
Quote from: dgolub on January 03, 2013, 06:54:40 PM
There are a number of streets ending in path in Suffolk County on Long Island. There's Straight Path (CR 2), Hubbards Path, Old Willets Path, and Bicycle Path. Yes, Bicycle Path is the name of a street for cars.
Of course, that actually
was originally for Bicycles.
If you want to talk paths, there's also "Paul's Path."
I believe if I dig out my beat-up old Hagstrom's Suffolk County Road Atlas, I might find a few streets on the east end of Long Island with some really weird names.
The '70s-'80s-era suburban-ish development I grew up in had a "Crossway", which I always thought was a logical and common-sounding designation, but I have yet to see another, anywhere.
Even the USPS official street suffix abbreviation index (http://1.usa.gov/14vp5TU (http://1.usa.gov/14vp5TU)), which includes some oddballs like "Arcade" and "Wall" (?!), doesn't account for "Crossway".
Kansas City and surrounding areas have several major arterials with the suffix "Trafficway":
7th St Trafficway
SW Trafficway
Arrowhead Trafficway
N Oak Trafficway
N Chouteau Trafficway
etc...