Unique Public Roadway Types

[6a]

There's also Park Plaza near Boston Common, which sounds like the name of a plaza, not of a street.

See Omaha for an abundance of Plazas.

Charlotte dispensed with all that and just went with The Plaza.

[clef]

This neighborhood is quite possibly the least notable thing in Tallahassee named after the Seminoles 

A Tallahassee, FL neighborhood uses "Nene", a Seminole word for "trail". You can see these on the map here... here is someone's personal site explaining the term http://www.olary.com/nene.html

why yes, let's name a subdivision filled with rich white people after those who were forcibly deported.  lebensraum much?

[kj3400]

Has anyone mentioned US 50 in the Eastern Shore being the Ocean Gateway?

[CentralCAroadgeek]

Benicia, CA has Military West and a shorter Military East.

[Bruce]

I'll start off with WA-525:  Mukilteo Speedway.  It's a thouroughfare built as a bypass to go directly to Mukilteo and Whidbey Island from the freeways (I-5 and I-405).  Ironically enough, once you pass WA-99, there's lights and the speed limit is 25.   

WSDOT did plan for WA-525 to be relocated onto Paine Field Boulevard and through Japanese Gulch to a new, bigger ferry terminal on the waterfront. Too bad they can't just bulldoze all those buildings and build a real freeway.

[Scott5114]

This neighborhood in Oklahoma City has a few "stradas": https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Portofino+Strada&ll=35.330418,-97.559688&spn=0.00744,0.014302&hnear=Portofino+Strada,+Oklahoma+City,+Cleveland,+Oklahoma+73170&t=m&z=17

[vtk]

Columbus has North Broadway.  There is no South Broadway.  Addresses on this street look like 123 W North Broadway or 3210 E North Broadway.  Some map sources display the street name as North Broadway St.

We also have International Gateway, which runs from Cassady Ave across I-670 and into Port Columbus International Airport.

West of town is a little residential development in a rural area, with just one street called Scenic Darby View.  The street is about ¾ mile from Big Darby Creek, which is indeed scenic in places, but the houses on this street do not have a view of it.

In the retail/office development known as Easton, there's a street called The Strand.  A section of it is divided into two parallel streets, called The Strand E and The Strand W.

[NE2]

Seminole County, FL has a bunch of platted residential streets with no normal suffix, such as Trilby Branch, South Embrey, Stone Gate North, Windsor Isle, Lands End, and Surrey Knolls.

[Pete from Boston]

An unusual practice I've only seen in New England is appending the suffix of a street onto the name -- suffix and all -- of another street it is off of.  June Street Terrace in Worcester, MA, for example, or Bow Street Place in Somerville, MA.

[empirestate]

An unusual practice I've only seen in New England is appending the suffix of a street onto the name -- suffix and all -- of another street it is off of.  June Street Terrace in Worcester, MA, for example, or Bow Street Place in Somerville, MA.

A rather common version of that practice is "Foo Street Road", that being the name of the rural road that becomes Foo Street when it reaches a city line.

[right_said_ted]

In Lakewood OH there's "Sloane Subway"...no tunnels involved though. It just dips under a railroad bridge to connect Lake Road to Sloane Avenue.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sloane+Subway,+Lakewood,+OH&hl=en&ll=41.48449,-81.828527&spn=0.002279,0.005284&sll=40.365277,-82.669252&sspn=4.745725,10.821533&oq=sloane+subway&hnear=Sloane+Subway,+Lakewood,+Cuyahoga,+Ohio+44107&t=m&z=18

[NE2]

In Lakewood OH there's "Sloane Subway"...no tunnels involved though. It just dips under a railroad bridge to connect Lake Road to Sloane Avenue.

This was a common term for an underpass in the old days.

[doorknob60]

In Nampa, once ID-45, which goes through Downtown as 12th Ave S (in a diagonal grid), turns directly south and exits the numbered grid, it is called "12th Avenue Rd." People just call it "12th", but I found it a little strange. Map

[empirestate]

In Lakewood OH there's "Sloane Subway"...no tunnels involved though. It just dips under a railroad bridge to connect Lake Road to Sloane Avenue.

This was a common term for an underpass in the old days.

Many would be surprised to learn that there's a subway in Marysville, PA: http://goo.gl/maps/rJbdJ

[A.J. Bertin]

What exactly is a quay?

[1995hoo]

What exactly is a quay?

Generally synonymous with "wharf," although I think the word "quay" generally connotes a smaller structure (not necessarily because the word has that meaning, though).

[Pete from Boston]

In the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, there is a pedestrian-only way with a street sign reading "Hampstead Footway."  It is basically a very long staircase connecting Hampstead Street with South Street, but it is indeed a signed public way.
Post Merge: June 08, 2013, 02:31:11 PM
Also in Boston are numerous public ways called simply "Public Alley #xxx," with street signs declaring them as such.

[kphoger]

The signed alleys reminded me of Ogden, KS:  http://goo.gl/maps/wDCZC

[ChoralScholar]

Highway 465 in Missouri (just north of Branson) is called the Ozark Mountain Highroad

[D-Dey65]

There are a number of streets ending in path in Suffolk County on Long Island.  There's Straight Path (CR 2), Hubbards Path, Old Willets Path, and Bicycle Path.  Yes, Bicycle Path is the name of a street for cars.

Of course, that actually was originally for Bicycles.

If you want to talk paths, there's also "Paul's Path."


I believe if I dig out my beat-up old Hagstrom's Suffolk County Road Atlas, I might find a few streets on the east end of Long Island with some really weird names.

[briantroutman]

The '70s-'80s-era suburban-ish development I grew up in had a "Crossway", which I always thought was a logical and common-sounding designation, but I have yet to see another, anywhere.

Even the USPS official street suffix abbreviation index (http://1.usa.gov/14vp5TU), which includes some oddballs like "Arcade" and "Wall" (?!), doesn't account for "Crossway".

[2Co5_14]

Kansas City and surrounding areas have several major arterials with the suffix "Trafficway":
7th St Trafficway
SW Trafficway
Arrowhead Trafficway
N Oak Trafficway
N Chouteau Trafficway
etc...