Streets With Similar Names Within Close Proximity of Each Other

[EmeraldCoast93]

Here in Shalimar, FL, most of the roads are numbered in a grid pattern, but the only difference is the suffix at the end (e.g. 10th Ave. intersects 10th St., etc.) and also Port Dixie Blvd. is broken up in three different sections which causes major confusion for pizza deliveries and even police calls.

[agentsteel53]

CA-56 westbound has a terrifying next-three-exits sign: Carmel Valley, Carmel Mountain, Carmel Creek.  There are at least three more Carmels in the area, but I try not to think about it.

the words Torrey, Mira, Vista, Sorrento, and Mesa are also badly overused in the same general region of San Diego County, and La Jolla insists on naming everything La Jolla X Drive.

[mgk920]

43rd Av, 43rd Rd, 44th Av, 44th Rd, 44th Dr, 45th Av, 45th Rd, 46th Av, 46th Rd, 47th Av & 47th Rd, Long Island City, NY.

And 43rd though 47th Streets all exist directly across the East River, but in the opposite geographic order, in Manhattan, NYC.

('Long Island City' is a postally named 'city' neighborhood in Queens, NYC.)



Mike

[PHLBOS]

Salem, MA

Washington Sq. N (part of it is MA 1A)
Washington Sq. W (all of it is MA 1A)
Washington Sq. S
Washington Sq. E
All of the above-streets evelop Salem Common

Lafayette St. (part of it is MA 1A & 114) & Lafayette Pl. (the latter terminates at the former)

Marblehead, MA (my hometown)

Oak St. & Oak Cir. (the latter terminates at the former)
Martin St. & Martin Ter. (the latter terminates at the former)
Laurel St. & Laurel Ct. (the latter terminates at the former)
Maple St. & Maple Cir. (the latter terminates at the former)
Rockaway Ave. & Rockaway St. (these two are located at opposite ends of the town & do not intersect)

[ftballfan]

More Michigan goodness:

Millbrook St and Millbank St (Grand Rapids) intersect after running parallel for a short distance: http://goo.gl/maps/kIqJ

Also in Grand Rapids: North Ottillia St and South Ottillia St, along with West Blaine Ave and East Blaine Ave: http://goo.gl/maps/QjHA

Over in Kentwood: The entire Bailey's Grove subdivision is full of this. There are too many to mention on here: http://goo.gl/maps/UJHv

Flushing: Mount Morris Rd and Morrish Rd: http://goo.gl/maps/Ivpc

Beecher: North Cornell Ave and South Cornell Ave: http://goo.gl/maps/fQuF

On a side note, Burton/Breton is a major intersection on the southeast side of Grand Rapids.

[mgk920]

In Washington, DC there are N Capitol, E Capitol and S Capitol Streets.  They radiate from....

In Salt Lake City, UT there are streets named North Temple, South Temple and West Temple.  West Temple St is a north-south street, North Temple St and South Temple St are east-west streets, they all surround the block where the LDS' Salt Lake Temple is located and extend deep into the city.  (Note, what would be 'East Temple St' is instead named 'Main St'.)

Mike

[pianocello]

Another one in Fowlerville, MI: Grand Street and Grand River Avenue intersect in the center of town. (it's possible that Grand River Ave intersects other Grand Avenues elsewhere in Michigan, but this is the only example I can think of off the top of my head)

[flowmotion]

My favorite was when US-10 was rerouted a mile north in Minnesota.  The old hwy was named "county 10".  Nothing like a little confusion there.

Businesses there have addresses like "1234 Highway 10". Think of all the money which was saved because they didn't have to buy new stationary. 

edit:
In San Francisco, they are constructing the new "Presidio Parkway" (US101), which intersects with "Park-Presidio Blvd." (CA 1). In practice, most people will probably just use the numbers.

[bulkyorled]

Sun Valley, CA has Arcola, Sancola and Ferncola.

And actually pretty much any of the main streets in LA are repeated a lot in other cities surrounding the actual city but don't connect, going off the Beverly name. Highland, Western, Alameda, Wilson, Laurel

[hm insulators]

If you spend any time in the Phoenix metropolitan area (which sprawls like Los Angeles), you have to watch your numbered streets and avenues. Central Avenue runs north and south from downtown Phoenix. West of Central Avenue, the paralleling numbered streets are avenues (1st Ave, 2nd Ave and so forth). East of Central, you have 1st Street, 2nd Street and so on. It's one thing to look for a business on 3rd Avenue when it's on 3rd Street, but another to look for something on say, 75th Avenue and it's on 75th Street. You're about twenty miles from where you need to be at that point!

And some of the Phoenix suburbs have numbered streets of their own, such as Tempe, Scottsdale and Mesa.

[PHLBOS]

In Carlisle, PA; adjacent to the Fairgrounds:

Calvary St. ends on Calvary Rd. (the latter ends on US 11)

[DBrim]

[Bigmikelakers]

There's a Culver Dr and Culver Bl exit on the 405 in Irvine and Culver City respectively. I know both exits are 46 miles from each other but, I'm sure someone has been confused by it.

[golden eagle]

In Jackson, there's Northside Drive and Northside Circle. In the same general area, there's Hanging Moss Drive and Hanging Moss Circle. In northeast Jackson, there's Old Canton Road and Canton Mart Road.

[Scott5114]

There's a Culver Dr and Culver Bl exit on the 405 in Irvine and Culver City respectively. I know both exits are 46 miles from each other but, I'm sure someone has been confused by it.

Brings up a similar occurrence on I-35 in the Oklahoma City metro... Oklahoma City's S.E. 15th Street has an interchange at Exit 125 (ish...for hysterical raisins NB is Exit 125B but SB is 125D), then there's one further north for Edmond's S.E. 15th Street at Exit 140. A difference of only 15 miles. It was enough to confuse me as a little kid. I threw a fit because my parents went on past Exit 140 once. (125B/125D/125Æ/whatever was our exit at the time.)

[blawp]

There are a couple of Mountain Avenue exits off the 210.

[apeman33]

Fort Scott has three Huntington Boulevards. I once saw an old map where it appeared that it was supposed to be a street that surrounded the fairgrounds on all sides. Instead, there's a north-south Huntington on the west side of the fairgrounds that's four blocks long, an east-west one one block long between U.S. 69 and the National Ave. extension (more on that in a moment), and another east-west one a half-block long off of Margrave. The north-south stretch and the first east-west stretch are within four blocks.

And then there's the three National Avenues. There's the one that was Old U.S. 69 (with a section of U.S. 54 on it) which goes from the north end of town, then angles toward and joins the 69 bypass in front of the car dealer, an extension off the curve before 69 which goes south about 2 1/2 blocks, and East National (to distinguish it from the others) which begins at the original National and goes to National Cemetery No. 1. At one point, I believe that the north-south National curved to become East National but over time the sections south of that curve were added on. I'm certain that this causes confusion along one stretch because this means there are two 1800 blocks of South National.

[mightyace]

I know I've mentioned this in another thread:
The intersection of Sand Run Road and Sand Run Parkway in Akron, OH.
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=41.133644,-81.585116&spn=0.017648,0.045447&t=h&z=15

[roadman65]

World Center Drive in Lake Buena Vista, FL.  Matter of fact both intersect, but one really is a phony as I believe it was chosen by Marriot for the entrance drive into the World Center Marriot spite the fact Orange County designated FL 536 and the connector to FL 417 as it as well.

Then again, many first response agencies have had zoning people give non existing street names to properties with multiple buildings on them to help emergency personel find a specific location easier.  Example, the Westgate Lakes Resort in Orlando is on Turkey Lake Road.  Yet each timeshare dwelling uses street names that do not exist with address numbers referring to these like Orange Gate Drive and Westgate Lakes Boulevard.  On paper they are legal, but in reality they do not exist.

[WarrenWallace]

Just north of Friendship, WI and south of Roche A Cri State Park off of WI-13.  There is a Czech Ave, Czech Dr, Czech Ct, S Czech Ct, Czech Ln Ct, Czech Ln, and S Czech Ln.  And they all don't intersect with each other.  The same area also has a lot of the same for Cypress.

[Compulov]

Very often in NJ streets are named either a) by the town they are heading to (Fredon Road, for example) or b) for the towns at both ends of the road. (Fredon-Springdale Road would be an example, and it does intersect Fredon Road.) So you get a LOT of this occurring, like Burnt Mills Rd. intersecting Burnt Mills (or Mill, possibly) Rd.

This didn't bother me too much when I lived in Jersey, but it took some time to get used to it when I moved to PA. Here in Bucks County we have a Bristol Rd, an Oxford Valley Rd, and a Bristol-Oxford Valley Rd.
Then there's discontinuous roads... like Byberry Rd, which ends just south of Parx's back entrance and picks back up on another alignment south of the US1/PA-63 Interchange. Buck Road also has multiple discontinuous alignments as well. I noticed this sort of thing a lot when my parents moved to Phoenix. You can't always guarantee that just because you know a road exists in Glendale and it exists in Scottsdale, that you can take that road all the way across the valley. Though in fairness to Phoenix, at least their road names tend to stick to the same horizontal or vertical alignment, so if they ever wanted to complete the road, they could.
To add to the comment about Phoenix and the Ave/St stuff, you also run into smaller, probably privately built, extensions of their grid numbers where the developer decided to name it with Place, Drive, Way, whatever. Even roads that are on (or start on) the same alignment as an existing numbered St or Ave.

[roadman]

Southbridge Street and Southbridge Road in Worcester, MA.

Best part is that these two streets leave US 20 at the same intersection.

[mgk920]

IN the north Chicagoland suburbs, on one side of Lake-Cook Rd it is 'Sanders Rd' and on the other side it is 'Saunders Rd'.

Mike

[roadman65]

Shunpike Road in Summit, NJ and Shunpike Road in Springfield, NJ are real close to each other. 

Raritan Road between Clark, NJ and Roselle, NJ is in close proximity to the Raritan Road in Scotch Plains, NJ.  They once were connected via Westfield Avenue, Old Raritan Road, and Lamberts Mill Road many years ago.

Featherbead Lane in Clark, NJ and Edison, NJ are two miles apart, but years ago they once were connected via Raritan Road and Oak Ridge Road.  The part of Raritan Road in Clark that originally was not Raritan Road (south of Westfield Avenue) was part of it.

[DandyDan]

In Omaha, there is Gibson Road and Bob Gibson Drive and both intersect south 13th Street.  Gibson Road goes over the railroad tracks to an industrial area next to the Missouri River, while Bob Gibson Drive goes along the north side of what used to be Rosenblatt Stadium, naturally enough (Bob Gibson was the big baseball star from Omaha).

One really annoying feature of the Omaha numbering system is that you can have Xth Street, and then one block west of that have Xth Avenue.  More than one time, I have had people tell me they live on "60th" or some such street and it turned out it was really the Avenue and not the Street.