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#27498 04/27/01 04:41 PM
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What names are there for a public thoughfare?
(don't answer this with a question)

These to start off with:

street
road
way
alley
drive
crescent
close
parade
court
boulevard
highway
freeway
speedway
causeway

What others are there? Are there places called '... Passage' perhaps?



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The only one I can see you've left off is Penny LANE. WAY to go!


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how 'bout circle?

and while i'm thinking of it, can someone remind me the name of that harrowing one on the Champs-Elysées? is it Place d'Etoiles?

oh, and around my house there's tons of "parkways". it only just occurred to me that most of them border parks. neat coincidence.

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place is pretty common in NY

and Parkway-- as one word-- (Grand Central Parway, Pelham Parkway)

and -- there are some unique names-- Centeral Park West and Central Park South are just that-- Not any of the above (avenue, street, etc.)

And knoll.


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If you want to include the rustic, there are two-tracks. If you're going to pay, tollroads and tollways.
If you are on foot, include sidewalks, walkways, slidewalks, paths, tracks and dirttracks.


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One that's common here in Wellington (but nowhere else in NZ) is "grove". Short, dead-end street, usually.



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Location. As in Hart's Location ... a few houses ... up in the NH White Mountains. They're the ones who open the polls at 00:01 and vote ... always the first 100% reported vote in any Presidential election.
What does "Close" usually mean in UK? Pronounced as it is in "I am close to my destination."
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Close as in Close the door--

a kind of dead end or cul de sac-- (did that make the list?)-- a road/street that is closed off (no way to exit except as you came in)


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?Close as in Close the door--

I have only heard it pronounced like close (as in propinquity).


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The famous circle in Paris is Place de l'Etoile. I have fond memories of driving around it, not at rush hour thank God.

In Baltimore, one of the most common words/names is 'avenue' -- there are more of them than 'streets'. There are also:
lane
garth
mews

Garth and mews are used by developers of tony, would-be high class housing developments and denote a cul-de-sac, or dead end (as we call it here), as do 'close 'and 'court'.

Actually, some of the names have specific connotations. 'Street' is used generally for thoroughfares in the mid-city area, and always for numbered streets, e.g., 33rd Street. You don't have 15th Ave. or 22nd Lane.
An avenue is located usually out of city center and is presumed to be wider than a street, although there are plenty of avenues narrower than, say, Saint Paul Street or Charles Street, which are two of the principal streets in the city. A parkway, and we have a number, such as Gwynns Falls Parkway, Northern Parkway, etc., are main traffic arteries, usually 6 lanes with a generous median, usually with trees, in the center. 'Lane' denotes a street which was originally a country lane which became a regular throughfare after being absorbed into the city, such as Cold Spring Lane, Bowleys Lane, etc.

Than, finally, we have a uniquely named street: The Alameda -- just that; one's address might be 5955 The Alameda. For part of its length, it's a parkway, for the rest, an avenue.


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