Street Sign Name Game

[oscar]

Nassau Dr. => Upper River Road (somewhere in SW Oregon):

[Eth]

Upper River Rd -> Riverside Pkwy (Lawrenceville, GA; a completely different road from the other "Riverside" I played a while back)

[oscar]

Riverside Pkwy => East Fork Road (Sunnyvale TX, referring to the nearby East Fork of the Trinity River):

[Scott5114]

East Fork Rd → Kansas Expressway (Springfield, MO)

[7/8]

Kansas Expressway to Sunnidale Road (in Barrie, ON)

[jbnv]

Sunnidale -> Exchequer (Baton Rouge)


Exchequer by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[Eth]

Exchequer Dr -> Ridge Rd (near Campbellton, GA)

[oscar]

Ridge Rd.=> Eleven Thousand Four Hundred South (Murray UT -- this is a typical format for Utah street names):

[Scott5114]

E...Hundred South → Dysart Avenue (Springfield, MO)

[7/8]

Dysart Avenue to Twenty-Six Mile Road (on I-94 in Michigan)

[jbnv]

26 Mile -> East River (Splendora, TX)


East River (2) by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[oscar]

East River Dr. => Rancho Del Oro Drive (Oceanside CA), between the Mission San Luis Rey that was my family's parish church, and the high school campus I attended in my junior and senior years:

[jbnv]

Rancho del Oro -> Ole Colony (Lafayette, LA)


Ole Colony by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[Scott5114]

Ole Colony Rd. → Yale Ave. (Tulsa, OK)

[oscar]

Yale Ave. => Enrico Fermi Drive (Otay Mesa CA), the temporary east end of CA 11 until the new freeway is extended to a future Mexico border crossing:

[1995hoo]

Enrico Fermi Drive ---> Ian's Way (near the post office in Kingstowne, Virginia)

[7/8]

Ian's Way to Shadeland Avenue (on I-465 in Indianapolis)

[oscar]

Shadeland Ave. => Drew Road (El Centro CA):

[jbnv]

Drew -> Webb (Lafayette, LA)

This is the road that I lived on for most of my childhood.


Joy & Webb by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[MNHighwayMan]

Webb Street → Bent Ridge Court (Des Moines, IA — one of my favorite local street names, just because it is a tad silly.)

[paulthemapguy]

Webb Street → Bent Ridge Court (Des Moines, IA – one of my favorite local street names, just because it is a tad silly.)

I swear that, when they build new subdivisions, they just choose two pieces of a compound name randomly from a street name generator.  Sometimes they don't even make sense!

First choose from:
Forest-Oak-Elm-Maple-Pine-Prairie-Park-Willow-Briar-Birch-Grand-Bent-Brook-Green-Hill-River-Glen-Fox-Mill

Then choose the ending:
Ridge-Hill-View-Side-Hurst-Field-Wood-Brook-Valley-Crest-Meadow-Chase-Tree

Voila!  You have just found how to make like 55% of new residential street names.

[MNHighwayMan]

Webb Street → Bent Ridge Court (Des Moines, IA — one of my favorite local street names, just because it is a tad silly.)

First choose from:
Forest-Oak-Elm-Maple-Pine-Prairie-Park-Willow-Briar-Birch-Grand-Bent-Brook-Green-Hill-River-Glen-Fox-Mill

Then choose the ending:
Ridge-Hill-View-Side-Hurst-Field-Wood-Brook-Valley-Crest-Meadow-Chase-Tree

I don't think it's even that complicated, given that the cross street in my photo above is Grand River Dr, and both of those words are in your first pool.

[oscar]

Bent Ridge Ct. => El Toro Road (Laguna Woods CA):

[paulthemapguy]

El Toro >> Oak Meadow Ct (Homer Glen, IL)


20170620_105400 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[MNHighwayMan]

Oak Meadow Court → Wakonda View Drive (Des Moines, IA — a rare example of a street name beginning and ending with W)