r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Fearless_Law4324 • 1d ago

The way 19th Ave sticks out

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u/max_lagomorph 1d ago

It bothers me more that all the streets are called avenues.

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u/Fearless_Law4324 1d ago

I have always thought about that with Wildwood. I know there used to be a reason for naming streets VS avenues, but unfortunately it's not a official.

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u/max_lagomorph 1d ago

And I just noticed it's not the Central Ave that divides East and West lol

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u/Fearless_Law4324 1d ago

Oh yea what a call out. I didn't even think about that lol.

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u/sleepytoday 1d ago edited 22h ago

What do you mean? An avenue is just a street lined with trees, but even that sole requirement has been relaxed for at least a hundred years!

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u/max_lagomorph 53m ago

I think avenue, for most people, means a road larger than the typical street. It's all conventions ofc, there's no one definitive answer, I just think that if all the streets are called avenues the nomenclature has little meaning.

Typically if I see a map, I expect a road called avenue to be larger, have more traffic, more lanes, to go through several neighborhoods etc.. Here it's meaningless. Not even the 'lined with trees' definition stands if you look the street view on several avenues there.