Meet me at the corner of Circle and Oval Street.
Walk and Don’t Walk.
Bluff Lake, Bluff Lake and Bluff Lake.
This map doesn’t do it justice, but I keep forgetting to take a photo of the road sign pole, with all three signs indicating Bluff Lake Road.
Grinn & Barrett, 45069
I’m always amused by the intersection of Hollywood and Broadway in Chicago.
Once I lived at the corner of 171st and 171st. That was *not *amusing - people just can’t grok it when you give them directions to a place like that. To top it off, I had a phone number in the pattern 112-1111; everyone I met thought I was trying to blow them off.
Imperial & Walker.
Jamacha Rd. and Jamacha Blvd. in San Diego
That’s idiotic to the extreme. They are all roads, as well, and while one is West, the others aren’t East. What do the locals refer to these roads as when they need to differentiate them? Or is there really no reason to point anyone out that way (i.e., nothing but undeveloped land)?
You could meet me where Lafayette Avenue; Bennett Road; West Palisade Avenue & Tenafly Road all intersect. It’s a big monument in the middle of a traffic circle
Woodrow and Wilson (Wilson, NC)
and just southwest of that is Chicken Drive. Barbecue Street was proposed to intersect it but it was Floyded by 8 feet of water in the Hurricane before being built.
What I found worse were those streets in developed cites (D.C., I’m pointing at you!) where a road is named all along it’s length. But - it has lacunae while going through the city. There’s no separate name for any of the sections, so 31[sup]st[/sup], forex, had these huge gaps that no one warns you about. And so some poor schlub (Yours truly) sees the road his sister is living on, or so he thinks, and turns on to it a little early… and ends up with an hour long tour of one of the few cities in North America deliberately designed to avoid a rectangular grid. :mad:
Go north on Clinton for a mile and you’ll hit President Street.
It feels like it’s 50 below, so how’s about Portage and Main ?
What happens if you go south on Clinton?
>Peachtree and Peachtree (Atlanta)
Drewbert, this is confusing, because there are four such intersections within one block, or at least there were years ago.
How about Main and Main, in Houston, Texas? There’s only one such intersection there.
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[li]Pico and Alvarado, where the damned electrician still hasn’t shown up![/li][li]Dude and Catastrophe, where there’s always enough spare change for a hell of good dinner out.[/li][li]Church and Turing and McCarthy, which is only a Y-junction if you look at it upside-down.[/li][/ul]
No one remembers what important event happened at Bush and Burritt? Hint: it’s in San Francisco.