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Posted by SeenNotHeard 2 days ago

San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names(j-nelson.net)
27 points | 41 commentspage 2
mlmonkey 6 hours ago|
There are so many duplicate streets in the Bay Area.

The other day I entered my friend's address on Portola Ave in the Tesla, engaged FSD, and it took us to the address in South SF (a township just south of SF, hence "South SF"). We just let it drive, assuming it was somehow lost, but then as we neared the destination, we realized what had happened.

Taniwha 6 hours ago|
I lived on Dana St in Oakland at the Berkeley border, we continually found lost and confused people - the street continued down our block and stopped, reappeared after a jog a half block away, numbers got smaller as it went south, over the border numbers got smaller as the went north and the street disappears for 3 blocks as it crosses Telegraph Ave (literally where the telegraph was installed in a straight line) diagonally - 4-5 pieces with numbers going in opposite directions.

Even wore our portion was originally in Berkeley, the border was moved 100 years or so ago so that someone could open the closest bar to the campus when Berkeley had more stringent liquor licensing

myroon5 5 hours ago||
The intersection of Bellevue Place, Bellevue Court, and Bellevue Ave in Seattle:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/4RyEKj3ArdhoJYp69

Klonoar 4 hours ago|
I joke with my wife that this is the nexus of the universe.
nsowz 3 hours ago||
Kramer, stay alive! No matter what occurs, I will find you!!!
shalmanese 4 hours ago||
Not streets but an outsider to the Bay Area might be confused that a trip from Richmond to Inner Richmond is like an hour’s drive.
keiferski 4 hours ago|
That’s nothing compared to the drive from Mongolia to Inner Mongolia.
CPLX 4 hours ago|||
Wait until you hear about outer space and inner space.
dnnddidiej 3 hours ago|||
North pole to south pole. Pole is a big place!
joegibbs 7 hours ago||
There is a similar problem in Melbourne, where two suburbs close by will have streets with the same name. For instance Gipps St in East Melbourne is roughly a kilometre south of Gipps St in Collingwood, and they share street numbers.
menage 6 hours ago||
Not too far south of SF in Mountain View, "Mountain View Ave" runs adjacent to "Miramonte Ave" - and "Miramonte" can reasonably be translated from Spanish as "Mountain View".
2gremlin181 6 hours ago||
A lesser known one (which makes it all the more confusing) is Cleary, right off similarly sounding Geary.
scrame 6 hours ago||
Naw, just actually live here for a couple years and you'll figure it out. If you're just a jerkass ubering everywhere then it prolly won't bother you anyway since you're just clicking links from texts.

I get it can be confusing, but its no more confusing than Manhattan or seattle, which has a terrible vortex of 45ths and many many 15ths.

Division and Divisidero are generally not anywhere near each other. You can figure that out quickly. Similar to streets and avenues.

Welcome to living in a city.

dn3500 5 hours ago|
Seattle is crazy. I used to live on 1st Ave N, which is the same physical street as 1st Ave and 1st Ave S, but don't confuse them because they all have their own numbers and some of them overlap. It is however completely different from 1st Ave NE, which is way on the other side of town. And this isn't an aberration, most of the streets work the same way.
dnnddidiej 3 hours ago||
This is normal for anywhere.
josnyder 5 hours ago||
Sylvan Dr and Forest View Dr are two blocks from each other.
Benjammer 6 hours ago|
Now do Long Island City in Queens, where 44th Ave, 44th rd, and 44th st are all in a row of blocks parallel to each other.
CarVac 6 hours ago||
60th is worse: https://bsky.app/profile/gregorybrothers.bsky.social/post/3m...

Also in Brighton Beach there's 1st street, place, path, lane, terrace, walk, and court.

bpev 6 hours ago|||
I mean the opposite of that is like the one time where I was meeting a friend at something like 7th avenue (or some # I don't remember), and accidentally went to 7th street... on the other side of the city. You don't forget to pay close attention after that xD.
queenkjuul 4 hours ago||
Funny enough Omaha, Nebraska does this more or less citywide. Aves are always West of their corresponding Street, East of the next highest Street, and some of the subdivisions out west get real whacky with things like 178th ave/ct/place/lane/drive/road/trail/plaza/terrace/...
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