Posts tagged Street Naming
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Breakfast links: Tackling weighty issues
Fatter Americans mean heavier buses; Dealing with paratransit; MD vehicular manslaughter bill advances; Gilliland becomes manager of CaBi; Weaver, Biddle top GLAA rankings; Former PG Exec influencing development?; Gray will let Brodsky go; A developer who believes; And…. Keep reading…
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DC grid isn’t Maryland’s only street name pattern
Yesterday, I discussed the extension of DC’s alphanumeric street naming system into Maryland. But there are other naming systems which are perhaps less logical but quirky enough to deserve mention. Bowie, Maryland has a quasi-systematic set of named streets. Most of the suburban style housing built in the post war era falls in to sections where each street starts with… Keep reading…
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Maryland’s systemic streets
Last year, I mapped Washington’s street-naming system and state-named avenues. But the logical organization of street names doesn’t end at the DC line. The alphabetical and numerical naming of streets continues into Maryland (and Arlington). Washington’s numbered streets run north-south and increase in number as distance from the Capitol increases. Keep reading…
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Arlington’s systemic streets
Earlier this year, we explored the nature of Washington’s street-naming system. Across the Potomac, Arlington County also has rhyme and reason to street names. While Arlington was originally part of the District of Columbia (until 1846), it was not incorporated in the plan of Pierre L’Enfant. Unlike its larger neighbor, Arlington’s streets don’t… Keep reading…
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Washington’s state-named avenues
Last week, I wrote about the system of street naming in Washington. From A Street to Verbena Street and from Half to Sixty-Third, our lettered and numbered streets make it difficult to get lost with their logical progressions. But our transverse diagonal avenues confound everyone from tourists to suburban motorists. Not only do they break all the grid rules, they even manage… Keep reading…
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Washington’s systemic streets
Visitors and residents of Washington, DC know, to one degree or another, about the city’s street naming conventions. Most tourists know that we have lettered and numbered streets. And to some degree, they know there is a system, but it doesn’t stop them asking us directions. But most out-of-towners and even many residents don’t understand the full ingenuity… Keep reading…