Streets with directional prefixes - addresses increase in the opposite direction

[KCRoadFan]

On a visit to Dallas in 2004, I remember staying at a hotel with an address of 2370 West Northwest Highway or something like that. Given that name, I expected to see the addresses decrease as we drove east on that road the next morning - but no, they were going up instead! I later discovered that that was a local quirk of sorts in north Dallas - as we proceeded into the city along Lemmon Avenue (following JFK's motorcade route from that fateful day in 1963), I recall passing West Lovers Lane and West Mockingbird Lane. In each case, the addresses on those streets increase going east - fitting the city's street grid but completely defying common sense (at least as those who aren't familiar with the area might come to expect).

Looking at Google Maps, I see that West Northwest Highway, West Mockingbird Lane, and West Lovers Lane all lose there respective "West" prefixes east of the Dallas North Tollway; later on, past the Central Expressway (US 75), they all gain an "East" prefix. (Further confusing matters, while the addresses on both the "West" and "East" sections of Lovers Lane and Mockingbird Lane increase going east, they actually decrease going east in the middle unprefixed section through University Park!)

Another example of this phenomenon that comes to mind is in Buffalo, NY. To the east of Main Street, the addresses on East Ferry Street and East Delavan Avenue increase from zero going east; to the west of Main, they are called - naturally enough - West Ferry and West Delavan. To an outsider, one might expect that the addresses on those streets would increase going west from Main, but do they? No! Instead, the addresses on West Ferry Street and West Delavan Avenue start at Niagara Street, in the west, and increase going east (up to about 1000) until they reach Main Street - only to reset to zero as the "East" sections begin on the other side of Main. I can only imagine this confusing the you-know-what out of someone who's not familiar with the city (and given that West Delavan Avenue goes right near Canisius College, I'm sure there are a lot of folks in that situation every year!)

Aside from the examples I've mentioned, where else might there be roads with directional prefixes where the addresses increase, instead of decrease, when you go in the opposite direction (e.g. driving east on a road with a "West" prefix) - thus running completely counter to intuition and common sense?

[kphoger]

Any city where the directional prefix refers to the quadrant of the city rather than its position relative to the zero point.