# Long road names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502 "2018-12-03T16:52:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/21 "2018-12-04T16:12:13Z")
One of the main roads in Daytona Beach, FL that passes by Daytona Int’l Speedway is called “International Speedway Boulevard”. There’s a road in Birmingham, AL called “Richard Arrington, Jr. Boulevard”. And of course, the ubiquitous “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard” that can be found in just about every town. When I lived in Tallahassee, I lived off of “Old St. Augustine Road”, which I always thought seemed long. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/22 "2018-12-04T16:46:32Z")
Best I could come up with for a UK contribution is the oddly hyphenated (oddly-hyphenated?) “St. Martin-in-the Fields Church Path”. I double checked on Google Street View and that is indeed how it’s spelled. It’s a pedestrianised thoroughfare though, so I don’t know if it counts as a road as per the OP’s title. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/23 "2018-12-04T18:12:56Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > I once lived on Run of the Oaks. . . > Apparently in memory of all those oak trees that were cut down to build cheap apartment buildings. No…we didn’t cut down those oak trees…they ran away in the middle of the night…I think that loud chainsaw noise you heard must have scared them…they’re probably in a forest right now having a good time with their other tree friends…I tell you what, we’ll even name the street after them. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/24 "2018-12-04T18:39:15Z")
According to this site ([https://atkinsbookshelf.blog/tag/longest-street-name-in-us/](https://atkinsbookshelf.blog/tag/longest-street-name-in-us/) ) the longest street name in US is **Northeast Kentucky Industrial Parkway** in Northeast Kentucky, but they don’t say how they found or verified that, so it might be incorrect. According to this site ( [The longest street name discovered in Gramsbergen » The Windmill news articles » goDutch](http://www.godutch.com/newspaper/index.php?id=1374) ) the two longest street names in the world are **Clos des Compagnons Batisseurs** , a street in Evere near the Belgian capital and the slightly longer **Burgemeester Baron van Voerst van Lyndenstraat** in Gramsbergen, Overijsssel (sic, all three s’s) Again, it’s not obvious to me that these are correct. But the _are_ long. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/25 "2018-12-04T18:41:53Z")
According to this site ( [What is it with Atlanta and overly long street names?? (Jackson: to buy, school) - Georgia (GA) - City-Data Forum](http://www.city-data.com/forum/atlanta/1130104-what-atlanta-overly-long-street-names.html) ), Atlanta Georgia is home to a lot of long-winded street names: \*\*Rev. Dr. Joseph E Lowery Boulevard Andrew Young International Boulevard Benjamin E Mayes Drive Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway Hamilton E Holmes Drive Hosea L. Williams Drive Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard James P. Brawley Drive Jesse Hill Jr Drive John Wesley Dobbs Avenue Joseph E. Boone Boulevard Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard William Holmes Borders Drive \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/26 "2018-12-04T20:11:13Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Berkeley renamed one of its streets Martin Luther King Jr Way, usually contracted in writing to “MLKJ Way,” and in speech to “Milky Way”. > > Kind of loses something in contraction, I think… I could swear I once saw a city where the similar street was the full title “Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.” which would be hard to fit on a sign. The longest street name I ever saw was when I lived in NC; I frequently drove along NC-54 west of Chapel Hill, and was always amused by “Bethel Hickory Grove Church Road”. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/27 "2018-12-04T21:10:50Z")
Houston has Staff Sergeant Macario Garcia Drive, abbreviated(it would have to be) on street signs as: **S/Sgt** Macario Garcia **Dr.** Google misinterprets the “S” for _Staff_ as _South_. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/28 "2018-12-05T02:17:25Z")
I live on Waimaauou Road in Hawaii, its just off the Old Mamalahoa Hwy. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/29 "2018-12-05T02:36:54Z")
My Swiss friend lived on _Chemin de Pfaffenwil_, AKA, _Pfaffenwilerweg_, since this was the bilingual canton of Fribourg/Freiburg. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/30 "2018-12-05T06:20:54Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Best I could come up with for a UK contribution is the oddly hyphenated (oddly-hyphenated?) “St. Martin-in-the Fields Church Path”. I double checked on Google Street View and that is indeed how it’s spelled. > > It’s a pedestrianised thoroughfare though, so I don’t know if it counts as a road as per the OP’s title. Named after the famous London Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields (which used to be in the country some distance outside the city walls before London grew around it). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/31 "2018-12-05T08:29:23Z")
In Portsmouth, UK, there’s a street that was renamed “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” in honour of Neil Gaiman’s book of the same title (Neil Gaiman spent part of his early life in the area). The council actually had trouble naming the street in their systems, because the ‘lane/road/street/avenue/etc’ suffix of the road names is usually stored in a separate database field, so this road would have been called ‘The Ocean at the End of the’, ‘Lane’. There was much debate about breaking database conventions, but I think in the end, they accepted it has no suffix, and ‘Lane’ is part of the name. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/32 "2018-12-05T08:51:57Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > Named after the famous London Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields (which used to be in the country some distance outside the city walls before London grew around it). To be fair, it was only ever a mile from the centre of the City, so not exactly the boondocks. It’s now right at the very heart of London - London’s geographical centre is measured from Charing Cross, which is practically next door. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502/33 "2018-12-05T10:52:45Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > We have, “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive”. That’s a mouthful. There are more than 900 streets named after the good doctor, according to Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > …In 2014 he estimated that there were over 900 streets named after King in 41 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-road-names/825502.md?page=1)