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Street numbers might not be unique, or continuous, on a given piece of road. Dumbarton Road in Glasgow is contiguous with Dumbarton Road in Clydebank, but some

Street numbers might not be unique, or continuous, on a given piece of road. Dumbarton Road in Glasgow is contiguous with Dumbarton Road in Clydebank, but somewhere along the line where one becomes the other the numbers reset. So, there are two 181 Dumbarton Roads, a few miles apart, as I found when I worked in a shop there in the late 90s.

madcaptenor 4y ago
I seem to recall this also happening across the Cambridge-Somerville border in Massachusetts, maybe on one of the streets that runs from Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge up towards Davis Square in Somerville, although I'm having trouble finding it now.
- madcaptenor 4y ago
  Found it! Google Maps walking directions from 38 Cameron Avenue, Cambridge to 38 Cameron Avenue, Somerville: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/38+Cameron+Avenue,+Cambridge,+MA/38+Cameron+Ave,+Somerville,+MA+02144/@42.3990736,-71.1303421,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e3771c6d03b453:0x56bbc210b2076366!2m2!1d-71.1288362!2d42.3983958!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e3771c390b68e7:0x9b1f4243ea4952d8!2m2!1d-71.1274405!2d42.3996922 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/38+Cameron+Avenue,+Cambridge... If you zoom in it looks like both cities start numbering from 1 at the "beginning" of the street with numbers going up until they reach the city line.
loudmax 4y ago
The street I used to live on in the suburbs of Portland, OR was not contiguous. To get from one part of the street to the other, you had to drive down at least two other other streets. Or another way to look at it was that there were two distinct nearby streets with precisely the same name. At least the house numbers were unique. This was a source of frustration and confusion, especially before GPS's became common.
- madcaptenor 4y ago
  This is common in Philadelphia. There's a roughly square grid of streets, but then some parts of the grid are subdivided with north-south streets and some are subdivided with east-west streets, and which ones are which seems to be random. Streets that are in the same position in the street grid will have the same name, even if not contiguous. Various segments of Camac Street (which runs between 12th and 13th, roughly where "12+1/3 street" would be) are a good example: https://goo.gl/maps/eKGrA1ByHAbmWSx16 https://goo.gl/maps/eKGrA1ByHAbmWSx16

madcaptenor 4y ago

I seem to recall this also happening across the Cambridge-Somerville border in Massachusetts, maybe on one of the streets that runs from Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge up towards Davis Square in Somerville, although I'm having trouble finding it now.

madcaptenor 4y ago
Found it! Google Maps walking directions from 38 Cameron Avenue, Cambridge to 38 Cameron Avenue, Somerville: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/38+Cameron+Avenue,+Cambridge,+MA/38+Cameron+Ave,+Somerville,+MA+02144/@42.3990736,-71.1303421,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e3771c6d03b453:0x56bbc210b2076366!2m2!1d-71.1288362!2d42.3983958!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e3771c390b68e7:0x9b1f4243ea4952d8!2m2!1d-71.1274405!2d42.3996922 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/38+Cameron+Avenue,+Cambridge... If you zoom in it looks like both cities start numbering from 1 at the "beginning" of the street with numbers going up until they reach the city line.

loudmax 4y ago

The street I used to live on in the suburbs of Portland, OR was not contiguous. To get from one part of the street to the other, you had to drive down at least two other other streets. Or another way to look at it was that there were two distinct nearby streets with precisely the same name. At least the house numbers were unique. This was a source of frustration and confusion, especially before GPS's became common.

madcaptenor 4y ago
This is common in Philadelphia. There's a roughly square grid of streets, but then some parts of the grid are subdivided with north-south streets and some are subdivided with east-west streets, and which ones are which seems to be random. Streets that are in the same position in the street grid will have the same name, even if not contiguous. Various segments of Camac Street (which runs between 12th and 13th, roughly where "12+1/3 street" would be) are a good example: https://goo.gl/maps/eKGrA1ByHAbmWSx16 https://goo.gl/maps/eKGrA1ByHAbmWSx16