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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

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