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Redundant Street Names

Started by bassoon1986, September 21, 2011, 07:30:59 PM

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Quote from: sp_redelectric on January 11, 2012, 01:09:09 AM

Portland, Oregon is notorious for having redundant and duplicate streets - North Portland Road and Northeast Portland Highway are two very different streets.  Grant Street and Grant Avenue are not the same.
Clarification: In NE, just to the south of Grant High School, you have NE US Grant Place (does not follow the Court/Place alignment rule); in SE, you have SE Grant St and (one block south) SE Grant Ct. Courts (east-west) are the half-blocks on addresses (2250 South in this case); Places (such as SE 32nd Place) are the half-blocks going north-south. Both used to have different names (Kenilworth Ave in 32nd Pl's case).

NE Portland Hwy (Byp US 30) is also NE Lombard St (7500 North) between MLK (OR 99E) and Killingsworth St.
N Portland Rd is OR 120 between N Columbia Blvd and N Marine Dr.
N/NE Portland Blvd is now N/NE Rosa Parks Way (6500 North).
(SE) Portland Ave in Gladstone, mostly on Gladstone's address grid.

SE Harold St (5500 South).
SE Harold Ave in Oak Grove. I should note: The street grid starts running at a diagonal south of Oak Grove Blvd, but the address grid itself stays rigid down to the Clackamas River (the SE/S division line).

N Willamette Blvd (5400 North).
Willamette Dr (OR 43 south of Lake Oswego). Interestingly enough, you see traces of the Portland Metro address grid on OR 43 through West Linn.

SW Boones Ferry Rd -> SW Lower Boones Ferry Rd -> SW Boones Ferry Rd
SW Upper Boones Ferry Rd. Uh.... Thanks a bunch, Durham.

SE Oak St (300 South)
SW Oak St (200 South -- yes, that's correct. SW Ankeny is 50 South in downtown, not 100 South)
SW Oak St (10500 South) -- Tigard, Metzger

SE Harrison St (2000 South) gets confused with SE Harrison St (10800 South). One's in Portland; the other's in Milwaukie. They're on the same overall grid. And, just for fun, there's also Harrison St in Oregon City, but that's on its own grid and doesn't have the importance of the other two.

Speaking of Lombard...
SW Lombard Ave (appox. 12000 West) in Beaverton.

N Minnesota Ave (North 1200 West), the original street that I-5 largely replaced but still exists in sections... and (N) Minnesota Freeway, I-5 itself.

SW Kelly Ave (the diagonal between Front/Naito and Arthur St and the Ross Island Bridge), SW Kelly Ave (East 0200 West -- two blocks east of SW Water, the 0 on the West side where the river is too far east) on the south side of the Ross Island Bridge, SE Kelly St (3200 South), SE/NE Kelly Ave (400 East) in Gresham.

There's a lot more...



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