Some Cool Street/Road/Highway/Freeway NAMES

[Michael]

^^ 
I LOL'd!

[Revive 755]

These from Nebraska City, NE, might be more odd to some than cool or funny:

* Instead of having a N 1st Avenue and a S 1st Avenue, when the numbered east-west street reset at Central Avenue, everything to the south is "Corso".  Example sign:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.675642,-95.853717&spn=0,359.994507&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.675679,-95.853833&panoid=YovANa_KhTPAG2_uoiDS6g&cbp=12,327.58696906786656,,0,9.833984374999996

* 9 1/2 Street

[Urban Prairie Schooner]

In Baton Rouge, we have North Street and North Boulevard which run parallel exactly five blocks apart, extending from downtown into the Mid-City area. These are both major thoroughfares.

Also, for funny names, we have a roadway in the southeast of the parish named Hoo Shoo Too Road.

[Bryant5493]

Well, of course, in Atlanta there are several roads with the word "Peachtree" in it.

Examples:

Peachtree Street
Peachtree Road
Peachtree Industrial Boulevard
Peachtree Parkway
West Peachtree Street
Peachtree Battle Avenue
Peachtree Memorial Drive
Old Peachtree Road
Peachtree Place

Those are the only ones that I can think of off of the top of my head.


Be well,

Bryant

[Chris]

^^ There are 71 in metro Atlanta. 

[mightyace]

^^ There are 71 in metro Atlanta. 

Man, I knew there are a lot.  But as the cow said, "That's udderly ridiculous!"   

[mightyace]

One near the path of TN 840 in Williamson County is Bending Chestnut Road

[Scott5114]

Way out in the eastern rural areas that Oklahoma City has annexed, there is a Triple X Road.

In Kansas City, "Trafficway" (abbreviated Trfwy.) is used in the same way St., Rd., etc. are used, though when they are used for numbered streets, "St." is usually still included. One of I-35's last exits in Kansas is to 7th St. Trfwy. And if that's not bizarre enough, there is a street in Springfield, Mo. called "Trafficway Street".

Speaking of Springfield, they have a few other interesting street names. They have both a Grant and a Grand, which (naturally) intersect. There is a Sunset and a Sunshine. There is an East11th Street–or that's what the sign says, anyway, not East 11th or E. 11th, but East11th–despite the fact there is no East10th, nor East12th, or any other numbered street in town, for that matter. Oh, and there's a Cozy Street. And a Bob Barker Boulevard. (Yes, that Bob Barker.)

[algorerhythms]

In Morgantown, WV, there is Don Knotts Boulevard (some of the kids may not remember who he was, though).

[Bryant5493]

^^ Ol' Barney Fife.


Be well,

Bryant

[hm insulators]

Here in the Phoenix, Arizona area, we have a lot of interesting street names. Phoenix itself has Camelback Road (named for a mountain that actually looks like a kneeling camel), Indian School Road and Bethany Home Road, perhaps the only street in the US named for a (former) tuberculosis sanitarium.

In addition to the aforementioned Easy Street, the outlying suburb of Carefree has Tranquil Trail, Up & Down Place (which runs off Nonchalant Avenue), Ho Road, which intersects with Hum Road, No More Road, and for you golfers, Foursome Way, Double Eagle Road and Short Putt Place. You can access Carefree via Carefree Highway, made famous in a Gordon Lightfoot song. In Sun City West, my mother lives on Gunsight Drive.

Elsewhere, in a town called Kalaheo on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, there is a little bitty street, scarcely a quarter mile long, called Polaris Street. The name itself is not unusual (it's the astronomer's name for the North Star), but on an island where about 98% of the streets, roads and highways have Hawaiian names (Kuhio Highway, Maluhia Road, Kapaa Road), Polaris Street definitely stands out.

Honolulu has an interesting mix of non-Hawaiian (King Street, Bishop Street, Farrington Highway, Nimitz Highway) and Hawaiian (Keeaumoku Street, Piikoi Street, Kamehameha Highway, and the tongue-twisting Kalanianaole Highway). Most roads in Hawaii, though, use Hawaiian names, especially on the outer islands. Many of the major highways (Kamehameha Highway on Oahu, Kaumualii and Kuhio Highways on Kauai, Queen Kaahumanu Highway on the Island of Hawaii, aka the "Big Island") are named for Hawaiian royalty from back in the day.

[Greybear]

Greenville, Texas has some interesting street names:

Upthegrove St.
Horsely St.
Bois D'Arc St.
Utilis St.
Pickett St.
Bonnie Lea St.
Gee St.
Sayle St.
Tipps Dr.

[Chris]

How about the name of this freeway interchange in Bern, Switzerland? 

[Scott5114]

Triple X Road.

That is all.

[Mr. Matté]

The road that runs around the north side of Rutgers U.'s Busch Campus is still Hoes Lane, even after the whole Don Imus thing (although it's a town or county road, not the school's).

[Hellfighter]

Detroit has some pretty cool street names!

The List:
Charlivoix Avenue
Livernois Avenue
Schoenerr Road
Conant Avenue
Caniff Street
Dequindre Road
Chene Street
Kercheval Avenue
Beaubian Street
Winder Street
Maddelein Avenue

Around Detroit:
Quarton Road
Voorheis Road
Groesbeck Highway
Frazho Road
Hines Drive
Ecorse Road
Ready Road 
Godfredson Goad
Wiard Road
Hyne Road
Grand River Avenue
and of course, Big Beaver Road! 

[jdb1234]

Some that I know of:

I-85 North of Atlanta has an exit for Beaver Ruin Road
I-985 Exit 8 is for Friendship Road in Buford, GA
Rattlesnake-Hammock Road in Naples, FL
Exit 123 on I-75 in Estero, FL is for Corkscrew Road

[allniter89]

Hard Luck Road near Albany, GA
Poverty Creek Road in Okaloosa County, FL
Mary Esther Cutoff, Fort Walton Beach & Mary Esther, FL

[allniter89]

Recently while delivering the new AT&T yellow pages, I came found these Home At Last Lane, Hinote Rd, Cracker Jack Lane, Popcorn Lane, Wee Acres Rd, Tabacco Rd, Boy Scout Rd & Girl Scout Rd all in rural Okaloosa & Walton counties FL.

[Scott5114]

Maybe not exactly funny, but my best friend and her ex were driving around Norman with me and we stumbled onto two streets bearing their last names, and they intersected. Needless to say when they were going out pictures of the blade signs at that intersection were plastered all over their MySpaces.

[Darkchylde]

There's a Beaver Ball Road that spurs off from Fish Hatchery Road near Lacombe. Yes. "Beaver Ball."

[algorerhythms]

Maybe not exactly funny, but my best friend and her ex were driving around Norman with me and we stumbled onto two streets bearing their last names, and they intersected. Needless to say when they were going out pictures of the blade signs at that intersection were plastered all over their MySpaces.

Thinking of Norman, there's a part of town where the street naming theme is assassinated presidents (i.e. the streets are named Lincoln Ave., Garfield Ave., and McKinley Ave.) Where the pattern breaks down, though, is they never renamed George Ave. for Kennedy...

[mapman]

Man, am I jealous of the rest of you.  I grew up in a town (Santa Cruz, CA) with mostly boring street names, such as:
Water Street 
River Street 
Ocean Street 
Bay Street 
Mission Street  (named after the old Catholic mission)   

About the only interesting street names are Soquel Avenue (pronounced 'soh-KEL', named after an indian tribe that lived in the area) and Gharkey Street (I'm guessing someone's last name?).

[Scott5114]

Maybe not exactly funny, but my best friend and her ex were driving around Norman with me and we stumbled onto two streets bearing their last names, and they intersected. Needless to say when they were going out pictures of the blade signs at that intersection were plastered all over their MySpaces.

Thinking of Norman, there's a part of town where the street naming theme is assassinated presidents (i.e. the streets are named Lincoln Ave., Garfield Ave., and McKinley Ave.) Where the pattern breaks down, though, is they never renamed George Ave. for Kennedy...

Really? Where's that at?

[algorerhythms]

Really? Where's that at?

Near the OU campus, bordered by Jenkins Ave. on the west, Lindsey St. on the north, and the railroad on the east.