street names

[Kendric Beachey]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Monty Harder wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:06:35 -0600 Brian Densmore
> <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> writes:
>   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.

Heh heh, and then there's Southwest *Trafficway*, which isn't the same thing at
all.  Took me a year to straighten that out in my mind.  :-)
  
> > 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.

Actually, there's quite a bit of name-switching and block-jumping in the Plaza
area, as well as the stretch between there and downtown.  You can stay on one
single road from KC North to the Plaza, but its name will be US-169, Broadway,
Penn Valley Drive, Broadway again, and finally JC Nichols Parkway.  If you hop
over two blocks to find Broadway again instead of staying on JC Nichols
Parkway, you'll find that a couple of blocks later it turns into Wornall.

It's a nice drive though, if you ignore all of that.  :-)

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Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com