I just hope the house numbers aren’t similar!
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I wonder if developers do this out of spite.
All it does is make it to where there is a HIGH chance for packages and mail to be misdelivered. Nobody wants this… whoever was the developer needs to have someone else do it if they are that lazy.
Naw. The house numbers don’t repeat between street names.
Actually they do.
What in the ever living hell…
What in the actual fuck
And coming soon our new expansions: Archers Wood Street, Terrace, Boulevard, Crescent, Mews, Brow, Parkway, Place and Square.
Check out Drive, Way, Cove, and Lane… creativity off the charts.
Person ordering pizza: “My house is definitely on Fallingbrook Dr.”
Narrator: it was not.
Trying to decide if this is better or worse than countries that don’t use street names. On one hand there’s no confusion, but on the other the addresses get pretty long.
No confusion you say
N 6th E St
E 6th N St
Yeah, not a fan.
That intersection looks awful also. E 8th N is right there. Imagine trying to follow directions:
“Go South on N 6th St E and as soon as you pass E 8th N turn west on E 6th St N.”
Go home N 7th E St, you’re drunk
makes you wonder who designed this. R2-D2?
Pretty sure that’s Salt Lake City, Utah, US.
Soooo… the f*ing Mormons. They wanted people to know where they were in relation to the center of their blessed town, which is of course where the main tabernacle (church) is.
Soooo… the f*ing Mor
mons.FTFY
It’s actually Mountain Home, Idaho. I have no idea who came up with that system. When I lived there 20 years ago they were talking about changing it. But it still remains to this day.
Even still, at least you have a chance of finding the street if you drive around enough. I have no fucking clue how anyone found anything before smartphones when street signs just don’t exist. Imagine living at this random little street and trying to give directions to get there
So, I’m old enough to have driven in that forgotten time before smartphones. A lot of directions were based on landmarks. Like…
Go down the street until you see the house with the big tree with a swing in it. Take the second left after that and follow until you get to the corner where the Stop and Go used to be (it’s a 7-11 now). If you hit the highway you went too far.
Basically if you couldn’t read a map well, you got lost a lot. That and you could pull into any gas station or even better a pizza place and ask them for directions.
Isn’t the problem here just that whoever is speaking in OP’s title has failed to say Road, Drive, Avenue, etc? As long as they do that there shouldn’t be any problem with the streets having similar first parts of their names.
Yes, but I can see situations where someone who isn’t aware that there are a dozen Fallingbrooks might see the first one and assume the person gave them the wrong street type.
But no one gives half a street name when sharing their address
I buy a lot stuff on buy and sell websites, so I’m picking up at people’s homes quite often.
You’d be surprised how many people give out the wrong address. Like saying road instead of street, or not saying that their home is the north section of that street.
In an area where all streets are named similarly, it causes confusion. Even delivery drivers, a.k.a professional address finders, can get messed up.
Even when someone says “123 john street” and you don’t realize there’s a john street in every municipality around you, you’re basically guessing unless you caught this missing detail. 😂
Fair enough. I guess I’m expecting people to be more sensible than some are! 🤣
I guess - although in this day and age with Google/Apple maps, it seems like it shouldn’t be an issue really, as long as the recipient has said the full street name in the first place.
Maybe it’s just a geographic thing, but it’s pretty common round my way to have this sort of thing. For example I live in ********* Terrace, but there’s also ********* Avenue, ********* Drive and ********* Grove, and the overall neighbourhood is known as *********.
And then nearby there’s the ######## neighbourhood with ######## Drive, ######## Road, ######## Terrace, ######## Loan, ########Gardens, ######## Crescent, ######## Place, ######## Park and ######## Avenue! :-)
No problem as long as everyone’s memory is perfect. If I lived there I’m sure people would get it wrong or get confused very frequently. I definitely have people I know whose street name I remember, but can’t recall for certain if it is “st” or “rd” or “dr”
Least idiotic suburban planning.
This is extremely common in Calgary.
I was thinking the same thing! Our packages are always getting delivered to a Rise, Place, etc
DoorDash must love constantly issuing refunds to neighborhoods like this.
Doxxed
Gottem boys
My hometown has an intersection of Miller Ave and Miller Ave.
That’s just the road continuing in a weird way.
Try this one, Seyton Dr. intersecting with Seyton Dr.
In San Francisco, 15th St changes into 8th St before intersecting with 16th.
In Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the streets King and Weber intersect 3 times.
Shit like that blew my mind first time I really travelled outside of Tulsa, OK. If you’re not too bright, it might take me 20-minutes to explain the whole grid. ONE page of instructions will land you anywhere you want to go. Numbers crossed by names. Even the numbers crossed by numbers make sense.
Clearly marked signs, everywhere. A quick glance will tell you which direction you’re travelling. On a side street 1 block west of Harvard? Yeah, Marion runs all the way through town, and it’s always 1 block west of Harvard.
Travelling doing Y2K updates, “Fuck you mean the corner of Green and Grass?! How the hell am I supposed to know where that it?”
“Just turn right on Miller, and you’re there!”. 😂
Reminds be of living in and near Atlanta GA and trying to find Peachtree.
The problem with Atlanta is that it’s an hour from Atlanta, anywhere in Atlanta.
It’s a 200 story arcology, how could anyone miss it.
You need to add some street numbers. You can do this by walking around with street complete and entering data.
This was google maps, and it was being used though my municipal traffic cam website, so it’s quite a stripped down version of gmaps (not even store names show up 😂).
Ah, my bad
just put the last part in all caps when you otder pizza
Working as a delivery driver in A Wrinkle in Time?
A few years ago I was driving in Atlanta and had to turn onto Peachtree from Peachtree, and then make another turn onto Peachtree. But I missed my turn (turned on Peachtree instead), so I had to go back around via Peachtree to Peachtree to Peachtree (but not Peachtree) to get where I was going.
Glad I didn’t turn onto Peachtree, though. That street is one-way and I’d have to go all the way down to Peachtree to get back.
