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> In the southwest suburbs of Chicago, it's possible to live at the corner of 85th and 85th. What's so weird about that? Isn't that super common in any city w
by tablespoon 4y ago
> In the southwest suburbs of Chicago, it's possible to live at the corner of 85th and 85th.
What's so weird about that? Isn't that super common in any city with a grid of numbered streets?
- vidanay 4y agoTypically grids use numbers in one direction and names in the other direction.
- tablespoon 4y ago> Typically grids use numbers in one direction and names in the other direction. Some might, but that's far from universal. It's also pretty common to have one axis be numbered "avenues" and the other be numbered "streets." E.g. New York 2nd St and 2nd Ave: https://goo.gl/maps/uyGSvTh9CAyG7Sf27 https://goo.gl/maps/uyGSvTh9CAyG7Sf27 3rd St and 3rd Ave: https://goo.gl/maps/j8AG9yWJFULWrS3z6 https://goo.gl/maps/j8AG9yWJFULWrS3z6 5th St and 5th Ave: https://goo.gl/maps/puBaXRHJNMQVfUSZA https://goo.gl/maps/puBaXRHJNMQVfUSZA Also true of my not-so-famous hometown.
- retzkek 4y agoAnd then there's Minneapolis, which has four 2nd Sts and four 2nd Aves: N, S, NE, and SE. Although once you figure out it's a tilted quadrant system it's not too bad. While there's (up to) four "2nd and 2nd" intersections, both streets at the intersection have the same direction, telling you what quadrant it's in.
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoOh god, I forgot about that system. D.C. does it too. For New Yorkers, who typically identify corners by their cardinals, “I’m on the NW corner of X and Y” in D.C. gets parsed as X and Y NW, which regularly prompts hilarity.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoDon't forget the streets in Northeast (Nordeast?) named after Presidents, arranged in order of their presidency.
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- watwut 4y agoI would find it more logical to use different numbers for the two directions. Odd vs even, names vs numbers, whatever number was free.