Missed connection

[krazygl00]

@SerialCarpins 53224 wrote:

ME: Riding from Bethesda to Mt. Vernon on CCT, then the Mt. Vernon trail….longest ride of my life, thus far….

YOU: The guy heading towards me on the Mt. Vernon Trail about 1.5 miles before the end of the trail who saw that I looked beat after my 28 mile bike ride…you looked at me, smiled, and yelled, “Don’t worry! The end is near”

You helped me ride that last 1.5 miles with a smile on my face, and hope in my heart. THANK YOU.

I think there was some serial killer who used to say that to his victims just before “the end”.

You’re welcome.

[krazygl00]

@JeffC 53285 wrote:

If this does not show how messed up No Va street names are nothing will. For one, there is of course also a Westmoreland Street in Fairfax County as well as the aforementioned one in Arlington. The prize for the lamest street name ever has to be West Westmoreland Road in Falls Church City about 2 miles away from the one in Arlington. Yet another Westmoreland with the awkward West before Westmoreland, extraordinarily lengthy name to write, duplicates two existing neighboring jurisdictions and the road itself is a cul de sac that picks up on the other side of a creek, plus at that location when you look at Lee Highway the sign says that on one side of the road in Fairfax County and on the Falls Church City side, it says Washington Street. More evidence that Falls Church City planners are sad excuses for human beings. How do newcomers pick up on this?

A close second in the “Confusing to Newcomers” street awards would be Braddock and West Braddock roads. Braddock is west of West Braddock, and the two do not connect. But I get it, NoVA! Joke’s on me! Good one!

[ShawnoftheDread]

@krazygl00 53456 wrote:

A close second in the “Confusing to Newcomers” street awards would be Braddock and West Braddock roads. Braddock is west of West Braddock, and the two do not connect. But I get it, NoVA! Joke’s on me! Good one!

It gets even worse as Braddock approaches Centreville. There are two other disconnected Braddocks once the main Braddock becomes New Braddock.

[creadinger]

@krazygl00 53456 wrote:

A close second in the “Confusing to Newcomers” street awards would be Braddock and West Braddock roads. Braddock is west of West Braddock, and the two do not connect. But I get it, NoVA! Joke’s on me! Good one!

Did anyone mention the problem Arl/Alex has with Glebes? In the Potomac Yard area, East and West Glebe are south of South Glebe, and they’re all within a mile or two of one another making for WAY too many Glebe Roads within a small area.

[Popsicleian]

You: Guy fishing in sewage-infested 4 Mile Run yesterday by the Rt. 1 underpasses. I stopped to make sure you had heard about the sewage spill and the notice to avoid the water. You said you had, and that everything was fine because you were wearing latex gloves.

Me: Thoroughly grossed out, but at least able to ride on with a clear conscience.

[consularrider]

@Popsicleian 53461 wrote:

You: Guy fishing in sewage-infested 4 Mile Run yesterday by the Rt. 1 underpasses. I stopped to make sure you had heard about the sewage spill and the notice to avoid the water. You said you had, and that everything was fine because you were wearing latex gloves.

Me: Thoroughly grossed out, but at least able to ride on with a clear conscience.

I’m hoping it was catch and release.

[Popsicleian]

@consularrider 53463 wrote:

I’m hoping it was catch and release.

He said it was. Perhaps I’m a wuss, but it still grosses me out.

[baiskeli]

@creadinger 53460 wrote:

Did anyone mention the problem Arl/Alex has with Glebes? In the Potomac Yard area, East and West Glebe are south of South Glebe, and they’re all within a mile or two of one another making for WAY too many Glebe Roads within a small area.

Even, better, they intersect!

[jrenaut]

If you want missed connections, you can’t do much better than this. My old realtor lived on 26th St N and it took me half an hour to find her house for the first time. Click that link and see how many roads, places, or streets named 25th you can find that don’t connect to each other.

[dasgeh]

I’m from Charlotte. I have no sympathy for street naming wusses. One of the main intersections is Providence-Providence-Queens-and-Queens — where you change streets if you go straight. And don’t get me started with the Sharons this map doesn’t do them justice(Sharon Rd, Sharon Ln, Sharon Rd West, Sharon View, all of which are major roads that you have to turn at least once to stay on).

[txgoonie]

@jrenaut 53468 wrote:

If you want missed connections, you can’t do much better than this. My old realtor lived on 26th St N and it took me half an hour to find her house for the first time. Click that link and see how many roads, places, or streets named 25th you can find that don’t connect to each other.

I used to live on 12th St. S.http://goo.gl/maps/TF0LL The 12th St. S that intersects with Columbus St. Not the one that connects with S. Frederick. And continuing West…not the one that connects with Quincy or S. Glebe or Courthouse Rd. or S. Queen or S. Hayes or S. Eades. Between Rte. 7 and the Potomac you could hit a dozen 12th St. Souths that I didn’t live on.

I could not get food delivered.

[ebubar]

@jrenaut 53468 wrote:

If you want missed connections, you can’t do much better than this. My old realtor lived on 26th St N and it took me half an hour to find her house for the first time. Click that link and see how many roads, places, or streets named 25th you can find that don’t connect to each other.

Thats right in the same area as Marymount, my place of gainful employment! I’m here every day and never knew the roads were so weird. Luckily I stick with my Glebe to Chain Bridge.

[KLizotte]

@jrenaut 53468 wrote:

If you want missed connections, you can’t do much better than this. My old realtor lived on 26th St N and it took me half an hour to find her house for the first time. Click that link and see how many roads, places, or streets named 25th you can find that don’t connect to each other.

Were the street designers afraid of running out of numbers or something?! I’d be worried about my house burning down because the fire department was trying all of the xx streets looking for me.

[rcannon100]

@jrenaut 53468 wrote:

If you want missed connections, you can’t do much better than this. My old realtor lived on 26th St N and it took me half an hour to find her house for the first time. Click that link and see how many roads, places, or streets named 25th you can find that don’t connect to each other.

It’s an entrance exam for Yorktown HS. In order to go to school, you have to first successfully navigate to the door.

[dbb]

From the ArCo website

Street Naming System
Understanding the system for naming and numbering streets will make it much easier to find your way around Arlington County. Arlington Boulevard (Route 50)divides the north and south sections of the County, except for the few streets between Fort Myer Military Reservation and Arlington Boulevard, which are designated North even though they are south of Arlington Boulevard. North (N) and South (S) designations precede named streets and follow numbered streets. For example, North Lincoln Street and 31st Street South. Named streets generally run north-south and are alphabetized starting at the Potomac River. Progressing westward, this is the alphabetizing sequence:

• One-syllable names (Ball Street to Wayne Street)
• Two-syllable names (Adams to Woodrow)
• Three-syllable names (Abingdon to Yucatan)
• Four-syllable names (Arizona being the only street in this sequence)

Named streets with the designation “Road” (instead of “Street”) usually follow early winding routes and are excluded from the alphabetized pattern. Numbered streets generally run east-west, parallel to Arlington Boulevard. When numbers are repeated, the designation sequence is: Street, Road, Place.
“Boulevard” and “Drive” generally are major diagonal thoroughfares with historic names. Boulevards usually run east-west and Drives run north-south and are so designated only when they appear on both sides of Arlington Boulevard.

Got it?

The ArCo Library reports http://library.arlingtonva.us/2013/01/15/do-you-know-what-your-street-used-to-be-named-back-pages/ that it used to be even more confusing:

“However, these new developments sprang up with little to no coordination or central planning, and by 1932, this was beginning to create problems. The developments formed what was, in effect, a confusing archipelago of small, unconnected towns, and street names were frequently repeated throughout the county. There were, by one account, as many as twenty-five different roads named “Arlington,” for example, as well as many roads known as “Washington,” “Virginia,” and “Lee.”

Visitors found the county difficult to navigate, neighborhood names had to be attached to mailing addresses to ensure that letters arrived at the right building, and some DC-area businesses even refused to deliver to customers in Arlington. There were also concerns about the Fire Department being dispatched to a house at the same address in the wrong subdivision.”

Don’t feel bad about finding the streets confusing. Not long after President Clinton was elected, the Secret Service stepped up their protection of VP Elect Gore, who lived up near Arlington Ridge on one of the many “Roads” in Arlington. A different stretch of that road dead-ended at my house and that fall, there were no shortage of dark unmarked sedans (typically with two well dressed serious looking gentlemen wearing sunglasses) loitering at the stop sign while they checked their street maps.

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