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I lived on a house in Oakland on the Berkeley border - the street crossed Telegraph Ave (which is a diagonal across the grid) - our street had 4 segments, most

I lived on a house in Oakland on the Berkeley border - the street crossed Telegraph Ave (which is a diagonal across the grid) - our street had 4 segments, most of which didn't touch the main streets (one bit touched Alcatraz, another was broken by Telegraph but didn't come out on to it) - at out corner the street numbers from Berkeley which increased going southward met the numbers from Oakland that increased going northwards. We'd often find confused people staring at the street signs .... at one point we put up a sign "So you are lost ...."

s0rce 9y ago
I live not far from there and I'm confused just reading your post. What street are you referring to? I can't seem to find a street that intersects Alcatraz and is broken by telegraph (not sure what you mean but doesn't come out on to it).
madcaptenor 9y ago
On east/west streets, numbers in Berkeley increase heading east, and in Oakland they increase heading west. So if you follow Alcatraz itself from east to west the numbers: - at first decrease, from Claremont to College (in Berkeley) - jump down and then increase, from College to Dover (in Oakland) - jump back up and then decrease, from Dover to Essex (in Berkeley) - jump back down and then increase, from Essex to San Pablo (in Oakland) It's really just dumb luck that the numbers don't collide somewhere. (I have ignored Emeryville, like everyone does, but I think its addresses follow Oakland's?)