who decides on the name of streets?

[cookiepuss]

I must have missed this day in school.....seriously though, who? Contractors? City council? Mayor?

I wanna know cause some are damn stupid names.

for example" I know of a street called : "No Name Lane". what clever oxi-moron and all but...pretty lame.

let's all share the name of some streets that we think are rediculous....

[rirv]

I decide on all street names. Email me if you have issues with the names I've chosen.

[Ace42X]

City council?


In the UK, yes, city council.

[cookiepuss]

would you wanna live on Albatross Way?



ALBATROSS!

[Ace42X]

i know a street called "gypsie lane"
and "bell end"

An aquaintance of mine, as I have remarked before, has holiday photos of him standing infront of streets called "Suk", "Mai" and "Dong."

[zorra_chiflada]

there was a "nigger lane" somewhere around here, but they changed the name.

[marsdaddy]

Civil Engineers....and old, dead people.

[TurdBerglar]

all the streets in my hood are mostly named after tree species

[marsdaddy]

for example" I know of a street called : "No Name Lane". what clever oxi-moron and all but...pretty lame.Was this area built AFTER the U2 song?

We have Gough street, but it's pronounced gof. WTF?

[hitmonlee]

in australia the local government gets to decide.

Was this area built AFTER the U2 song?

We have Gough street, but it's pronounced gof. WTF?

isn't the english language funny :)
how would you pronounce enough?
rough?
tough?

[adam_f]

If I had my choice Lionel Ritchie would be my neighbor on 'Clarence Gilyard Ave'

[marsdaddy]

isn't the english language funny :)
how would you pronounce enough?
rough?
tough?True but I always thought it was named after the pretty well known painter. Maybe it is to point out the quirky official language of the US?

[Freebasser]

There's a road back home called Slag Lane.

[Medellia]

There's a street named after a great great uncle of mine in Louisiana. There's only two houses on it though.

[jabumbo]

i go down 40th street every day



weird, i know

[CrankItUp!]

there was a "nigger lane" somewhere around here, but they changed the name.
Sure it wasn't "sand nigger lane" instead ? :D

[hitmonlee]

True but I always thought it was named after the pretty well known painter. Maybe it is to point out the quirky official language of the US?

vincent van gogh

no "u"

:)

[Matt]

In my city, all streets going east to west get named after a tree, and all streets going north to south get a number. I live on Orange off 11th.

[Sarky Devotchka]

I live on a street named after a tree!

the most confusing street name is North Ave around here. yeah yeah, go west on North until you hit Milwaukee. MILWAUKEE THE ROAD! NOT THE CITY!

milwaukee runs diagonally. MORE CONFUSION!

also there's the street Goethe. which I suppose is a famous person, but I thought it sounded like "goath", but it's "gertah". german jerks.

[Matt]

also there's the street Goethe. which I suppose is a famous person, but I thought it sounded like "goath", but it's "gertah". german jerks.

I read it as "Goth"

[Documad]

Lots of times, the landowner/developer who subdivided the land gets to name the road.

You know what I really hate? 1/2 streets.

[Matt]

Lots of times, the landowner/developer who subdivided the land gets to name the road.

"What do you want to name this road?"
"VAGINALAND!"

[hitmonlee]

i like street names that are actual words
i'm looking for a place to live, and there's a place i want, on constitution street
i just think its a cool word

[Matt]

are you saying Vaginaland isn't a word?

[Documad]

I was recently working with a developer who subdivided a huge tract of land. He named almost all of the streets after himself in some form or another. I made fun of him.

That reminds me that we have one newer suburb that bugs the shit out of me. The streets in each neighborhood all start with the same letter of the alphabet. If guess if all the homes are going to look alike (except for the wide variety of color choice going all the way from buff to beige) then the streets might as well have strikingly similar names.

In another suburb, all the streets have very English-sounding names. That's also hilarious to me because the matching mac-mansions are so tacky and in no way resemble a proper English neighborhood.

[discopants]

There's a road back home called Slag Lane.

That's Wigan for you.

[Leonie]

here some streets are called names of war hero's but some weird names too.. I have no idea who coems up with them..

[b-grrrlie]

I live on Tuesday Street.
This area is called the weekday-area, but Thursday's missing. They lengthened Monday street a few years ago when they built some new houses there, and then renamed the street from my corner forward to the new houses to Holyday street and I was like WTF?

[cookiepuss]

I saw one today on our address lists that was "Happy Valley Rd". how gay is that? :rolleyes:

[CrankItUp!]

I saw one today on our address lists that was "Happy Valley Rd". how gay is that? :rolleyes:
Get an i sticker to put over the a in Happy on it. :D

[Monsieur Decuts]

my good buddy gets to do just this very thing...he's a town planner....gravy job these days.

[cookiepuss]

my good buddy gets to do just this very thing...he's a town planner....gravy job these days.


oh good, will you please tell him to name the streets after like awesome bands or kick-ass songs or something?

[fucktopgirl]

my father steal(or just happen to find) street plate and put them on the trees at is summer camp.So you walk in the wood and there is this street sign.should make an awsome photo.

[hitmonlee]

my friends live in the country, they got to name their own road.

its called rocky road

lol

[paul jones]

I must have missed this day in school.....seriously though, who? Contractors? City council? Mayor?

I wanna know cause some are damn stupid names.

for example" I know of a street called : "No Name Lane". what clever oxi-moron and all but...pretty lame.

let's all share the name of some streets that we think are rediculous....


I heard it was Adolf Hitler who named all the streets