Street Sign Name Game

oscar · April 26, 2017, 09:39:17 PM

Quote from: Eth on April 26, 2017, 09:35:38 PM
Quote from: oscar on April 26, 2017, 04:08:41 PM
Oak Creek Cir.

And this, Cherokee County, is why you shouldn't have used squeezed Series B on that sign. (The name was "Oak Crest", ending in a T.)

Yeah, sorry about that, I should've scrolled up a little more to read what you said the sign said.

7/8 · April 26, 2017, 09:59:00 PM

Airline Highway to East Mint Place (in Winnipeg, taken today through a dirty windshield)

MNHighwayMan · April 26, 2017, 10:02:19 PM

So, what now? Everything since the screw up is invalid, or are we just rolling with it?

If we're going back, I proffer this:

Oak Crest Circle → Thomas Beck Road (Des Moines, IA)

If we're rolling with it I'll just delete this post.

1995hoo · April 26, 2017, 10:07:08 PM

Why don't we treat this last picture as though it had been played after Eth and before Oscar? That way, Oscar's post and everything after it would have been valid and the next play is a "t" from what 7/8 posted.

Going with that idea, I'll play East Mint Place ---> Telegraph Road (signs on the Outer Loop of the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia)

MNHighwayMan · April 26, 2017, 10:23:23 PM

If we do that, then... my picture above is also a T and thus would be valid.

1995hoo · April 26, 2017, 10:45:24 PM

Quote from: MNHighwayMan on April 26, 2017, 10:23:23 PM
If we do that, then... my picture above is also a T and thus would be valid.

My point was that we would treat yours as coming after Oak Crest and prior to Ka Uka because it would fit perfectly right there in terms of making the sequence work correctly. Oscar simply misread Oak Crest as "Oak Creek" and thus played the wrong letter.

MNHighwayMan · April 26, 2017, 10:57:57 PM

Oooh, I misunderstood you entirely.

This solution works for me. Carry on then! (My pick of using Thomas Beck Rd was completely coincidental, by the way–I'm not smart enough to have thought of it the way 1995hoo did.)

Edit — so I will continue:

Telegraph Road → Holmes Street (Des Moines, IA)

7/8 · April 27, 2017, 12:17:51 AM

Holmes Street to Chemin St. Anne's Road (in Winnipeg, MB)

MNHighwayMan · April 27, 2017, 12:55:52 AM

Chemin St. Anne's Road → Star View Street (Des Moines, IA)

(Isn't Chemin ____ Road redundant? I looked up chemin and found that it means "path" or "way" in French, so wouldn't adding "road" be superfluous? Or is that a quirk of Canada/Canadian French? Or is it something akin to "Third Street Court" where the name has two suffixes because it's derivative of "Third Street"?)

oscar · April 27, 2017, 01:59:03 AM

Quote from: MNHighwayMan on April 27, 2017, 12:55:52 AM
(Isn't Chemin ____ Road redundant?

It's just being bilingual, with the road type in both French and English. The Canadian provinces adjacent to Quebec are best at bilingual road signs, but it's used to a lesser extent elsewhere.

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This one, like one I posted awhile ago from Colorado, shows a street blade with a mini-route marker preceding the street name. The city of Falls Church has lately been adding them on numbered highways passing through the city.

Star View St. => North Washington Street (US 29 in Falls Church VA):

MNHighwayMan · April 27, 2017, 02:20:57 AM

Quote from: oscar on April 27, 2017, 01:59:03 AM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on April 27, 2017, 12:55:52 AM
(Isn't Chemin ____ Road redundant?
It's just being bilingual, with the road type in both French and English. The Canadian provinces adjacent to Quebec are best at bilingual road signs, but it's used to a lesser extent elsewhere.

Ah, okay. As someone not used to seeing bilingual signs, it caught me off-guard.

N Washington Street → Nash Drive (and with this play, I have now played every named N____ street within Des Moines city limits)