Some Cool Street/Road/Highway/Freeway NAMES

[1995hoo]

Winston-Salem has a 4½th Street:

Virginia Beach has a 24 1/2 St and Hopewell, VA has a 3 1/2 Ave.

13 1/2 Street NW in the District of Columbia is a very useful street because left turns are not permitted from westbound Pennsylvania Avenue to southbound 14th Street. Instead you go left onto 13 1/2, which then after half a block hooks 90 degrees right onto D Street. That ends at a light at 14th and you can go left there. It's not a very well-known shortcut these days. It was more heavily-used in the days prior to the Reagan Building's construction when there was a huge car park there. I suspect people stopped going that way largely because there is an entrance to the underground parking garage in the middle of 13 1/2 Street and the security presence makes people think the road isn't open to the public.

[Takumi]

A neighborhood near me has a street called Bear Chase Court. It got its name due to an actual chase of a bear through the area before the neighborhood was built in the 80s.

[Alps]

Going through Nassau County routes now to try to map what NYSDOT says is the definitive list of county maintained roads with route numbers. Noticing some interesting names in doing so, like Dutch Broadway.

[cpzilliacus]

Winston-Salem has a 4½th Street:

Virginia Beach has a 24 1/2 St and Hopewell, VA has a 3 1/2 Ave.

The  District of Columbia has a 13 1/2 Street, N.W. (Google Maps here).

And there are Half Street, S.W. and Half Street, S.E.

[cpzilliacus]

Winston-Salem has a 4½th Street:

Virginia Beach has a 24 1/2 St and Hopewell, VA has a 3 1/2 Ave.

13 1/2 Street NW in the District of Columbia is a very useful street because left turns are not permitted from westbound Pennsylvania Avenue to southbound 14th Street. Instead you go left onto 13 1/2, which then after half a block hooks 90 degrees right onto D Street. That ends at a light at 14th and you can go left there. It's not a very well-known shortcut these days. It was more heavily-used in the days prior to the Reagan Building's construction when there was a huge car park there. I suspect people stopped going that way largely because there is an entrance to the underground parking garage in the middle of 13 1/2 Street and the security presence makes people think the road isn't open to the public.

Former District of Columbia Mayor-for-Life Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. used to have his security detail park his limousine on 13 1/2 Street, N.W. (which is adjacent to the John Wilson Building, f/k/a the District Building, the municipal city hall of the District of Columbia).

Not sure if the current mayor even uses a limo.

[cpzilliacus]

There's a Red Toad Road that crosses I-95 (JFK Highway) in Harford County, Maryland.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

In Seaside, there's a Lightfighter Drive along CA-1 (Exit 406).

On CA-46 near the junction with CA-33, there's a Brown Material Road (abbreviated as Brown Mat. Road on the signs).

On I-10 in the Arizona desert, there's a Sore Finger Road.

[Tarkus]

South Park Avenue in Friendship Heights, Maryland. I keep picturing Cartman yelling at passing drivers.

Interestingly, "South" is spelled out on the sign and not abbreviated to "S" like you'd expect if they were distinguishing it from another park of Park Avenue preceded by "North."

Even funnier . . . Northwest South Parc Drive in the Bethany area of unincorporated Washington County, Oregon.  The fact that it's "Northwest South" is funny enough.  But notice the "c"--the development went in right around the time the South Park cartoon started in the late-90s, and as it was intended to be a relatively well-to-do "luxury apartment" development, they didn't want anyone to make that association.  So they misspelled "park" as "parc".  Later developments in the same basic area also took on the same spelling as well ("Bethany Parc").

[roadman65]

7th North Street in Syracuse, NY instead of North 7th Street.  Also the rest of the grid as this is only one street like this of a few.

Some cities use 1/2 for service alleys in between full numbered streets.  Mitchell, SD has some.

Frelinghuseyn Avenue in Newark, NJ is cool because unless you know the street, you will most likely have trouble pronouncing it.  Free-ling-high-sen is how you say it.

Boulevard of the Allies in Pittsburgh is cool as its name has the descriptor first.

[Mr_Northside]

Frelinghuseyn Avenue in Newark, NJ is cool because unless you know the street, you will most likely have trouble pronouncing it. 

I've never actually seen it spelled out, but I was able to guess it.  Though I have to give the vast majority of the credit of that guess to The Sopranos.

Boulevard of the Allies in Pittsburgh is cool as its name has the descriptor first.

I'll second that.

[JustDrive]

There's a "Las Pulgas Road" in Camp Pendleton in California.  It's Spanish for "the fleas."  And right at the Otay Mesa border crossing, there's a "Siempre Viva Road," which means "always alive" (though it refers to a plant).

[CentralCAroadgeek]

Along I-37, there's a Coughran Road at Exit 106. Not to be confused with Cochrane Road in Morgan Hill (just wanted to add this)

[oscar]

I just spotted this afternoon Ragged Ass Road, a short side street in the Old Town section of Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territories.

Supposedly, this started as an unofficial name, but it was later officialized by the city, and street signs were erected.  The signs were, of course, frequently stolen.  Now the street name is marked only on a sign firmly bonded to a large hard-to-steal boulder.  Replicas of the original street blades can be purchased at a local souvenir shop about two blocks away from Ragged Ass Road. 

[roadman65]

Metuchen, New Jersey has a Westinghouse  Street and an Electric Street just a block apart from each other.

Freehold Township, New Jersey has two roads intersecting US 9 with cool names: Schibanoff Road and Schank Road.

Oh, and you cannot forget the local name for US 1 in Ormond Beach, Florida: Yonge Street.

[Michael in Philly]

Frelinghuseyn Avenue in Newark, NJ is cool because unless you know the street, you will most likely have trouble pronouncing it. 

I've never actually seen it spelled out, but I was able to guess it.  Though I have to give the vast majority of the credit of that guess to The Sopranos.

....

You still haven't seen it spelled out.  (It's "Frelinghuysen."  Now you have.)

[vtk]

6½ Av in NYC

[sandwalk]

Bloody Gulch Road - Dixon, Illinois
Bloods Point Road - Belvidere, Illinois

[Rick1962]

Paris, Arkansas has a Klan Street.

In a lighter vein, there's Demonbreun Street in Nashville, Tennessee.

Then there's Tulsa's "X" streets:  Xyler, Xenophon & Xanthus.

[Jordanah1]

besides having a High Ave., we have a Bong Ct. there is a 400 block on high ave, making there a potential for a 420 High Ave.
up north while traveling on US45, you will come across an intersection of two local roads, named 'Now Rd, and Old 26 Rd.' the sign aproaching them says:

Now Rd.
Old 26 Rd.

i have always found this to be somewhat funny.

[roadman65]

In Orange County, FL there is a Meadowmouse Lane in the Deerfield Subdivision.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

Voice of America Road in Dungeness, WA.

[EmeraldCoast93]

Boulevard of the Champions in Shalimar, FL

[Road Hog]

Sherman, TX has an Easy Street, a Wall Street, and an intersection of Brockett and Crockett.

[roadman65]

NJ Route 47 is called Delsea Drive as it goes from the Delaware River to the Atlantic Ocean.  I think that is neat.

[ftballfan]

First Choice St, Second Choice St, and Third Choice St in Chase, MI http://goo.gl/maps/OlrGK