One-way patterns changed to serve brothels

[bandit957]

Are there any other instances like this?

Monmouth Street and York Street in Newport, Ky., used to both be two-way. But I read an article that said that in the 1950s, York became one-way south and Monmouth became one-way north. The reason for that was to make it easier for politicians, businessmen, and clergymen from Cincinnati to drive to Newport on their lunch hour, eat at the restaurants on York, and then visit prostitutes on Monmouth. To this day, Monmouth and York make up the one-way pair for US 27.

I noticed some other interesting one-way setups on the Cincinnati inset of some old Ohio highway maps starting in 1941. Similar to the Monmouth/York split, the map shows that US 27 south used the Central Bridge, while US 27 north used the L&N Bridge. This lines up fairly well with the above split.

The map also shows that US 25/42 south used the Roebling Suspension Bridge into Covington, while US 25/42 north used the C&O Bridge. This means that traffic was actually driving on the left side of the one-way pair. But I think most of the restaurants were on Madison, and most of the brothels were on Main, so this makes sense.

In both the Newport and Covington cases, I don't think the bridges themselves were one-way, but the route numberings were, in an effort to improve traffic flow for the brothels.

[Scott5114]

You can probably find some instance of this in small-town Nevada if you want to do the research.

[Rothman]

There was a musical about this that takes place in Texas.