Stupid street or road names

[jay8g]

How about N North Ave?

[national highway 1]

How about N North Ave?

That would probably fall under the 'redundant street names' category.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Pena Blvd. Seriously, who would name a street Pity (which is what pena translates to) Blvd? Better search for the ñ character (here I provide one) for copy, paste and spell correctly Peña Blvd.

[inkyatari]

Pena Blvd. Seriously, who would name a street Pity (which is what pena translates to) Blvd? Better search for the ñ character (here I provide one) for copy, paste and spell correctly Peña Blvd.

Be fair, wasn't it named after the secretary of transportation from the Clinton administrator?

[JKRhodes]

In Tucson, Arizona, the Avenues run North/South. The Streets run East/West. If the road runs diagonal, it's called a Stravenue.

[Max Rockatansky]

In Tucson, Arizona, the Avenues run North/South. The Streets run East/West. If the road runs diagonal, it's called a Stravenue.

I've heard the local slang...I don't think there is anything signed that way in the field though.  Even in Tucson there aren't a ton of diagonal routes, the one that comes to mind the most is AZ 210 or the Benson Highway which was AZ 86 and US 80.

[JKRhodes]

In Tucson, Arizona, the Avenues run North/South. The Streets run East/West. If the road runs diagonal, it's called a Stravenue.

I've heard the local slang...I don't think there is anything signed that way in the field though.  Even in Tucson there aren't a ton of diagonal routes, the one that comes to mind the most is AZ 210 or the Benson Highway which was AZ 86 and US 80.

Yes, very few, but they do exist. Fairland Stravenue lies along the southern edge of the massive rail yard adjacent to AZ 210.

Here's the street view of the sign:
https://goo.gl/maps/oRQ7BD3QwKA2

and a map of the general area:
https://goo.gl/maps/gexDoQQuHUm

One or two other stravenues exist in the city, none of which could be considered main roads.

Although if the state eliminates the interchange at Palo Verde and Irvington on I-10 in the future and builds a new one at Country Club as a recent study suggested, then Fairland Stravenue might end up more well known as it ties into Country Club by the rail yard, then links to 22nd Street near Kino Pkwy in a very awkward manner. But that's a conversation for another thread.

[halork]

Everybody's favorite in Hancock, Michigan: Kowsit Lats Rd.

(For you non-locals, that's Finnish-English for Cowsh*t Flats) 

[kphoger]

Pena Blvd. Seriously, who would name a street Pity (which is what pena translates to) Blvd? Better search for the ñ character (here I provide one) for copy, paste and spell correctly Peña Blvd.

Be fair, wasn't it named after the secretary of transportation from the Clinton administrator?

Yes, but he was also the mayor of Denver for a time.  His name is Federico Peña, not Pena, so why would it be fair to not include the tilde?  But that's beside the point, because signs include the tilde anyway.

[NE2]

As usual, CNGL is trying to be funny and failing miserably.

[coatimundi]

In Tucson, Arizona, the Avenues run North/South. The Streets run East/West. If the road runs diagonal, it's called a Stravenue.

I've heard the local slang...I don't think there is anything signed that way in the field though.  Even in Tucson there aren't a ton of diagonal routes, the one that comes to mind the most is AZ 210 or the Benson Highway which was AZ 86 and US 80.

Yes, very few, but they do exist. Fairland Stravenue lies along the southern edge of the massive rail yard adjacent to AZ 210.

Here's the street view of the sign:
https://goo.gl/maps/oRQ7BD3QwKA2

and a map of the general area:
https://goo.gl/maps/gexDoQQuHUm

One or two other stravenues exist in the city, none of which could be considered main roads.

Although if the state eliminates the interchange at Palo Verde and Irvington on I-10 in the future and builds a new one at Country Club as a recent study suggested, then Fairland Stravenue might end up more well known as it ties into Country Club by the rail yard, then links to 22nd Street near Kino Pkwy in a very awkward manner. But that's a conversation for another thread.

Fairfield Stravenue and most of the others are in the Pueblo Gardens neighborhood (where my wife went to school, at Utterback). "Stra." is a PO-accepted abbreviation and Tucson is home to the only examples (at least that I know of). The main post office in Tucson is actually addressed to "Cherrybell Stra.", a portmanteau of "Cherry" and "Silverbell".
Fairfield is actually a pretty good short-cut, if you need to avoid Kino and go to the sports fields (though no one plays there anymore) or further southeast.

[20160805]

Personally I think many street names in subdivisions are tacky or stupid, but there are some that are way worse than others, especially in larger cities where the good names are all taken.

The best ones from the Appleton, WI, area are probably in the newly annexed Apple Hill Farms subdivision, home to huge mansions for rich people, house numbers as high as 7510, and the street names such as Downs Ridge, Celtic Crossing, Highpond Crossing, Smoketree Pass, and the only through street, Apple Hill Boulevard (which is not a divided street, but rather a standard residential street with one lane total and a speed limit of 25 mph).  It's as though they just picked random words that sounded good, plonked them together, and called them street names.

There is also a Broadway Drive in Appleton (well, three of them actually).

And on the south side of Appleton, also in a newly built subdivision, there is a street called Bob-O-Link Lane.  A bobolink is a type of bird, but when I first saw the sign for the street, I thought it was pure nonsense words.

But the worst possible street name (which thankfully does not exist) would be Poop Avenue. 

[jlwm]

There's a street in the Lakes of Savannah subdivision south of Houston named Harbor Sham St. I looked up the definition of "sham" to be sure than I'm not interpreting the street name to mean a deceitful or insincere harbor or something involving a harbor and a pillow cover.   

[bing101]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_County_Routes_in_zone_G

Central Expressway in Santa Clara county is bland naming,

Capitol Expressway is an interesting one because San Jose used to be the Capital of California before Benicia and Sacramento got the Capital city status.

Central Freeway is bland sounding too like Main street.

[paulthemapguy]

If I had a nickel for every municipality that made this pun...

https://goo.gl/maps/5DPz1WAoPm32
https://goo.gl/maps/SMgWaGy9igw
https://goo.gl/maps/Jv8xBpGfaXt

[roadman]

if the road goes to an office park or mall, chances are it has a stupid name.

A common practice in Massachusetts is for the access road to a mall to be given the name of the mall, with "Drive" or "Road" added on to it.  It's the workaround developers use to get their mall name on the adjacent Interstate or freeway ("But it's a street name, so you have to sign it").

[vtk]

if the road goes to an office park or mall, chances are it has a stupid name.

A common practice in Massachusetts is for the access road to a mall to be given the name of the mall, with "Drive" or "Road" added on to it.  It's the workaround developers use to get their mall name on the adjacent Interstate or freeway ("But it's a street name, so you have to sign it").

In the 90s, northwest of Columbus, an existing section of Tuttle Rd was renamed Tuttle Crossing Blvd, and expanded to at least two lanes each way, in conjunction with the development of The Mall At Tuttle Crossing.  The mall developer did pay for the interchange with I-270, though, so it seems maybe reasonable that they sorta got the mall's name on the big green signs.

[JKRhodes]

"The Dirt Rd." Safford, Arizona:
https://goo.gl/maps/SQuoarvMa692

[marleythedog]

Y Road, also in Keymar (Because Y not? Never mind there are no other lettered roads here.)

Piqua, Ohio also has a Y Street without any other lettered streets. The blade has been replaced several times over the years, but they often spell out "Street" to fill space.

Between Piqua and Troy is Experiment Farm Road. No idea what that's supposed to mean.

Detour Road in Keymar, MD (What happens when they have to close it?)

Related: There's a town in the UP of Michigan called De Tour Village. MDOT distance signs are inconsistent on whether it's De Tour Village. DeTour Village, or Detour Village.

[bulldog1979]

Related: There's a town in the UP of Michigan called De Tour Village. MDOT distance signs are inconsistent on whether it's De Tour Village. DeTour Village, or Detour Village.

The community changed its name to include "Village" because previously, when rendered in all capital letters on highway signs as a destination, the name appeared as "DETOUR", confusing drivers.

[cl94]

Street Road outside of Philly might win this hands-down. Once upon a time when I was really little, I lived on Street Road.

There are a few streets in cities/towns along the Hudson named "Boulevard". Kingston and Queensbury/Hudson Falls are the ones that stick out and both are current/former alignments of NY 32.

[TR69]

Y Road, also in Keymar (Because Y not? Never mind there are no other lettered roads here.)

Piqua, Ohio also has a Y Street without any other lettered streets. The blade has been replaced several times over the years, but they often spell out "Street" to fill space.

There is an M Street in Louisville with no other single-letter named streets that I'm aware of.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/M+St,+Louisville,+KY+40208/@38.2092881,-85.7657508,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8869129d520f458b:0xae1db467c0519773!8m2!3d38.2092966!4d-85.7673923

[formulanone]

Detour Road in Lake Hamilton, Florida. It's a short parallel road alongside FL 17 (which was also formerly Alternate US 27 until 1997). I wonder how it got its name?

[Mrt90]

Half Day Road always kinda gave me an aneurysm.  Naming a road after a 12-hour period?  It doesn't take 12 hours to traverse the road...There's a road around Buffalo Grove, IL called Aptakisic Rd.  Good luck pronouncing that.
Naperville, IL has a Book Road.  Always thought that was dumb.

And now, something that REALLY bothers me.  There's a subdivision also in Naperville whose street names all start with "Royal."  Every street is "Royal ____ Drive."  As if that isn't pompous.  That should be all you need to know about Naperville, which I refer to as "noperville"...land of luxury cars, spray tans, and negligent money-grubbing parents who spoil their kids so hard that it's now become a heroin hub.

It is interesting that you complain about Half Day and Aptakisic, since they are both named after the same person.  The Chief of the Potawotami (sp?) tribe at the time the area was settled was Chief Aptakisic, and his name was translated into English as "half day."  There's also a story that Half Day (the village, which is now part of Vernon Hills) was a half day trip to Chicago at the time (and it sometimes feels that way now) but that isn't how it got it's name.

[theline]

^^ You came close on the spelling of Potawatomi. We have a Potawatomi Park and Zoo in South Bend: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.669512,-86.2204739,17z