Ironic street names

[hm insulators]

Most of Old Country Rd. in Nassau County runs through urban areas.

Rural Road through Tempe, Arizona is the same way.

Atlantic Blvd./Ave. through the Los Angeles area runs from Alhambra all the way to Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach--right on the Pacific Ocean.

[kphoger]

I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the opposite.  Here in Bellingham, there's a street that's divided into West North Street and East North Street.  Perhaps it's better that it can't be confused with Westnorth (as opposed to Northwest) but it does come dangerously close to short circuiting my brain.

And for extra brain-twisting fun, there's this intersection that I wasn't aware existed until I pulled up the Goog. http://goo.gl/maps/xQ8Nf  West North Street & West Street.  (No directionals for West Street.)

I guess it just makes more sense to me not to have an East East street.  That might come from having lived in Chicagoland, where North Avenue is a hugely important east-west corridor across the metro area.

what

My translation:

The problem is that world now has become too political
Politics, bad.  Can't we all just get along?

and its meaning is looked at quite differently than it was years ago.
It's called progress, man.  Get hip to this jive.

Technical definitions are a thing of th past for some words and the norm now is politically correct.
Words should mean whatever the heck people want them to; you wouldn't want to hurt someone's feelings by telling them they're wrong, would you?

You have have to learn that many of us here in this world and especially here on this forum are quite politically motivated.
Politics, bad.  Can't we all just get along?  Commas are of the devil.

You will get some conversations that can become quite interesting I must say.
Can't we all just get along?

[Alps]

I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the opposite.  Here in Bellingham, there's a street that's divided into West North Street and East North Street.  Perhaps it's better that it can't be confused with Westnorth (as opposed to Northwest) but it does come dangerously close to short circuiting my brain.

And for extra brain-twisting fun, there's this intersection that I wasn't aware existed until I pulled up the Goog. http://goo.gl/maps/xQ8Nf  West North Street & West Street.  (No directionals for West Street.)

I guess it just makes more sense to me not to have an East East street.  That might come from having lived in Chicagoland, where North Avenue is a hugely important east-west corridor across the metro area.

what

My translation:

The problem is that world now has become too political
Politics, bad.  Can't we all just get along?

and its meaning is looked at quite differently than it was years ago.
It's called progress, man.  Get hip to this jive.

Technical definitions are a thing of th past for some words and the norm now is politically correct.
Words should mean whatever the heck people want them to; you wouldn't want to hurt someone's feelings by telling them they're wrong, would you?

You have have to learn that many of us here in this world and especially here on this forum are quite politically motivated.
Politics, bad.  Can't we all just get along?  Commas are of the devil.

You will get some conversations that can become quite interesting I must say.
Can't we all just get along?

It's ironic that this thread was derailed by a discussion of irony.

^ The above is not ironic at all, but it's ironic that someone with a thorough grasp of irony, after a thread full of explanation as to proper usage thereof, would state it.

[SP Cook]

West Virginia:

Capitol Street in Charleston.  The Capitol that was there burned down in the 1920s, and the "new" Capitol is two miles away.  There is no Capitol on Capitol Street.

College Avenue in Logan.  Marshall opened a community college branch in an abandoned high school building there in 1960, which got the street renamed.  The school, now an independent college, got its own building elsewhere in town decades ago.   There is no college on College Avenue.

John Marshall Drive in Huntington.  The pseudo-address from all mail to Marshall's main campus.   Like all former streets on the inner campus, you can't drive on John Marshall Drive.

James River Turnpike.  An important legal issue in WV right of way law (Virginia reserved land for such an road, and said ROW passed to WV and continues to form the ROW of, mostly US 60 in certain parts of the state).  It was never really built as such, but a street named James River Turnpike exists in many parts of WV, but is neither a turnpike, nor has anything to do with the James River.

[theline]

Most of Old Country Rd. in Nassau County runs through urban areas.

Rural Road through Tempe, Arizona is the same way.

Atlantic Blvd./Ave. through the Los Angeles area runs from Alhambra all the way to Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach--right on the Pacific Ocean.

That reminded me of Rural Street in Indianapolis, which AFAIK runs exclusively in the heart of the east side. It has an exit from I-70.

[theline]

^^ Sorry, not ironic. Just a puzzling street name. If, for example, the street is in Los Angeles, then the name would be ironic. 

[roadman65]

I find it ironic that Jersey City, NJ has an Ocean Avenue when its nowhere near the Ocean.  Usually you will find that named street in ocean side communities mostly the street closest to the ocean running parallel to the shoreline.

[Brandon]

Most of Old Country Rd. in Nassau County runs through urban areas.

Rural Road through Tempe, Arizona is the same way.

Atlantic Blvd./Ave. through the Los Angeles area runs from Alhambra all the way to Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach--right on the Pacific Ocean.

That reminded me of Rural Street in Indianapolis, which AFAIK runs exclusively in the heart of the east side. It has an exit from I-70.

I've noticed quite a few Rural Streets and Avenues that are well into a city or town, and often in the older parts of town that haven't been rural for at least 110 years or more.

[roadman65]

Most of Old Country Rd. in Nassau County runs through urban areas.

Rural Road through Tempe, Arizona is the same way.

Atlantic Blvd./Ave. through the Los Angeles area runs from Alhambra all the way to Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach--right on the Pacific Ocean.

That reminded me of Rural Street in Indianapolis, which AFAIK runs exclusively in the heart of the east side. It has an exit from I-70.

I've noticed quite a few Rural Streets and Avenues that are well into a city or town, and often in the older parts of town that haven't been rural for at least 110 years or more.

That is why the State of Texas changed some of their Farm-to-Market Roads to Urban Roads, however local residents did not want the change to be seen.  The shields still say F.M or FARM ROAD, but legislatively they're named Urban Roads.

The irony is even in the fact that locals still do not want to give up tradition and keep the name as is even though the urban area F.M roads no longer function as Farm to Market purposes, yet the state road agencies want to change it on paper that no one will see.

[lordsutch]

Almost none of the "Fall Line Freeway" is actually built to freeway standards.  And the parts that are either (a) weren't intended to be part of it originally and/or (b) predate the rest of the road by decades.

[lepidopteran]

In northeast Columbus, OH, there's an intersection that's ironic if you're a Brady Bunch fan: Reed & Henderson.  (Mike Brady was played by Robert Reed, and Carol Brady by Florence Henderson)

[Mr. Matté]

Wouldn't that be ironic if you hated the Brady Bunch?

[theline]

Once again ironic is confused with coincidental.

We have had plenty of examples of truly ironic names. Thanks to all who played! 

[roadman65]

The name "Quickway" for NY Route 17 is ironic as it does not seem too quick to travel between I-87 at Harriman to the City of Binghamton.  I always thought it was a boring ride especially west of Monticello and that may contribute to it seeming like a long journey, but it does raise the question of its name conception of what it is to be a quicker route of.

[Bruce]

The "Tomahawk Turnpike" in Marysville, WA is just a small feeder road for the local high school, whose mascot is the Tomahawk.

[vtk]

Lockbourne, OH: Commerce St has no businesses on it. The last store closed about a year ago.

Powell, OH: Seldom Seen Rd is seen by tens of thousands of commuters each day.

Columbus, OH: Cleveland Ave doesn't go to Cleveland; after crossing I-270 between two roads that do go to Cleveland, it dead-ends in southern Delaware County.

All of these names were un-ironic when they were first applied, I believe.  As a not-so-wise cartoon character will eventually say, time makes fools of us all.

[empirestate]

The name "Quickway" for NY Route 17 is ironic as it does not seem too quick to travel between I-87 at Harriman to the City of Binghamton.  I always thought it was a boring ride especially west of Monticello and that may contribute to it seeming like a long journey, but it does raise the question of its name conception of what it is to be a quicker route of.

Quicker than old NY 17, which it replaced. Remember that the Catskills was for many years a high-traffic summer playground for New Yorkers, traditionally Jewish, in particular (the so-called Borscht Belt).

Though this era has faded, I still can't think of anything nearly as quick for getting through the area today. I-84 and I-81 might be an option, but traffic is much lighter on the Quickway, and it skips Scranton besides. Granted, the Orange County portion is fast becoming a suburban thoroughfare, but that's east of where I-84 provides any option. Also, if one stretch is more boring than another, I would think it would be east of Monticello; west of it, you have some relatively dramatic Castkill Park scenery, culminating in the Hancock area.