kclug 11-21-00

[Monty J. Harder]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:06:35 -0600 Brian Densmore
<DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> writes:

>   I was using 35th as a reference. Look at a KC map sometime. You 
> have
> streets like 35th Terrace, it runs for two blocks and stops. It then 
> picks
> up again three blocks later, but it is one or more blocks North or 
> South of

  Well, the name itself is a clue to this.  Terraces, Places, Plazas,
Courts, etc. are streets secondary to Streets and Avenues.  As a general
rule, you can expect 35th Terr, Pl, Plz, or Ct to fall =between= 35th and
36th Street/Ave, with the specific order of the secondaries varying with
municipality, neighborhood developer, and the phase of the moon when the
signs went up.

  There are always some odd critters, like Southwest Boulevard, but the
name is again not one, but =two= clues:  "Boulevard" tells you that it
isn't likely going in a straight line, and "Southwest" gets more specific
about where it does go.

> where it was. KC is littered with streets like that. One minute 
> you're on
> one street and then ... BAM ... you're on another street and you 
> haven't
> taken any turns or even changed lanes. It's like my old college in

  This is true, but it happens mostly in the 'burbs, where only the major
arteries pretend to follow the cardinal compass points, and the rest
curve about, seemingly at random.  (Even there, the mile/half-mile
section roads are well-defined and don't change names on you.) Downtown,
the streets go pretty much straight, and are in order, too, which made
the original complaint all the more odd IMO.

> back. No, I avoid metro KC whenever possible, even though now I 
> gotten used
> to most of the strange streets.
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