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Why do street names change so frequently?
I mean, I'll be riding on Main Street, cross an intersection and then Main Street becomes Sycamore Street, then go some more blocks and then Sycamore Street becomes Evans Street?
My city is bad about that but I know of others that are also bad about that.
Why don't City officials keep the names more the same?
SethH
(170 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,106 posts)The street names change every few blocks.
Warpy
(111,529 posts)Streets were given their names between landmarks that aren't there any more like many streets in Europe were named. Plus the town was laid out by cows and drunken sailors.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The names of certain streets and roads will just change randomly with no warning. Not only that, but there are a number of business and apartment complexes that are their own addresses, even though they are on streets with other names.
maveric
(16,451 posts)With the city-councilman who has Hollywood ties.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Goonch
(3,629 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)two or three separate small communities grow into each other. One town's Spring ST. happens to line up with the next community's Maple St., and so when the two communities meet in the middle the street name changes.
Another cause is when two roads don't initially connect, like when they are on opposite sides of a river or railroad track. The two street have two different names, but later, when a bridge is built across the river, or the railroad tracks are removed, the two streets with different names becomes one.
Igel
(35,404 posts)Or it's the same street name through several townships, except that they start the numbering over and over.
250 Bloomfield Avenue? Which one. ("The one in Orange." "East or West?" Arggghhhhh.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)that crosses itself.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)They have streets with the same name that don't connect to each other.
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