Missed connection

[PeteD]

@txgoonie 53473 wrote:

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.

That reminds me of my favourite subdivision that I ever delivered pizza to: Lockwood Meadows…http://goo.gl/maps/PtlO4

[KLizotte]

@PeteD 53488 wrote:

That reminds me of my favourite subdivision that I ever delivered pizza to: Lockwood Meadows…http://goo.gl/maps/PtlO4

Those people must suffer every time they call a cab to go to the airport. Wow. There is a Lockwood Meadows Drive, Street, Circle, Way, Blvd, and Terrace!

[americancyclo]

@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.

Here’s the answer to the quiz: http://goo.gl/maps/z93FW

[DaveK]

@PeteD 53488 wrote:

That reminds me of my favourite subdivision that I ever delivered pizza to: Lockwood Meadows…http://goo.gl/maps/PtlO4

Ha… I did the transportation analysis for the design of the connection of Honore Ave to Lockwood Ridge Road by the developer that built the neighborhood. I’m absolutely not surprised that they still haven’t built the homes we did the work for. Hooray, Florida housing market. I also did some work for the shopping center at Fruitville Rd & Honore Ave when Walmart was threatening to build a store on that vacant land next door.

Memories…

[baiskeli]

I live at the end of a numbered street that dead ends. Lots of people think they can just get on a street and drive, like it’s a grid. They get a surprise when they come to my house in their way. I’ve thought about selling maps.

There’s a street in my neighborhood called Four Mile Run Drive that goes for exactly one block. It’s more than a mile past where the other Four Mile Run Drive ends at Columbia Pike.

[dasgeh]

I live on a similar street (you can turn onto a neighborhood street to go further into the neighborhood after our house, but not back to Lee Hwy, which everyone wants to do). We have a nice wide driveway. Breakfast- and Dinnertime entertainment is watching the parade of cars turn around in our driveway. It’s quite a study in psychology (how far into our driveway they pull, how fast they pull the maneuver, the few that pull over to look at a map, etc).

[TwoWheelsDC]

My in-laws live in a gated community in Richmond. To get to their nearest neighbors outside the community, is a 2.5 mile drive. It’s a 1 mile drive just to get to the gate, and then you have to drive another 1.5 miles around the community to get to the houses that are on county roads, which are only about 300 feet away as the crow flies. The loop through the neighborhood would probably good for intervals though, so there’s that…

[Tim Kelley]

@TwoWheelsDC 53514 wrote:

My in-laws live in a gated community in Richmond. To get to their nearest neighbors outside the community, is a 2.5 mile drive. It’s a 1 mile drive just to get to the gate, and then you have to drive another 1.5 miles around the community to get to the houses that are on county roads, which are only about 300 feet away as the crow flies. The loop through the neighborhood would probably good for intervals though, so there’s that…

Florida. Share a backyard, but are 7 miles apart by the road:

http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/02/28/sprawl-madness-two-houses-share-backyard-separated-by-7-miles-of-roads/

[DaveK]

@Tim Kelley 53518 wrote:

Florida. Share a backyard, but are 7 miles apart by the road:

http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/02/28/sprawl-madness-two-houses-share-backyard-separated-by-7-miles-of-roads/

I didn’t design those roads. I promise.

but I might have designed others that look just like them

[dbb]

And yet we still have roads unnamed. In Shirlington, what is the name of the road that connects South Four Mile Run Drive and South Four Mile Run Drive between George Mason and Walter Reed?

This is the short little road that the W&OD crosses that points at the rec center.

[krazygl00]

@dbb 53539 wrote:

And yet we still have roads unnamed. In Shirlington, what is the name of the road that connects South Four Mile Run Drive and South Four Mile Run Drive between George Mason and Walter Reed?

This is the short little road that the W&OD crosses that points at the rec center.

I guess that would also be South Four Mile Run Drive, since it is connecting South Four Mile Run Drive to South Four Mile Run Drive. Connecting a street to itself…it’s just a continuation of the street. There is another one down closer to S. Shirlington Rd.

I think having access roads that are named identically to the main roads they parallel is silly. Why not differentiate for clarity’s sake? Call it South “Four Mile Run Access”.

[americancyclo]

@dbb 53539 wrote:

And yet we still have roads unnamed. In Shirlington, what is the name of the road that connects South Four Mile Run Drive and South Four Mile Run Drive between George Mason and Walter Reed?

This is the short little road that the W&OD crosses that points at the rec center.

According to Open Street Maps, it’s “Way: 8795454”

[TwoWheelsDC]

You: like half a dozen guys seen riding without shirts this evening.

Me: Ugh.

[KLizotte]

@TwoWheelsDC 53599 wrote:

You: like half a dozen guys seen riding without shirts this evening.

Me: Ugh.

Me: Jealous

[jrenaut]

@KLizotte 53605 wrote:

Me: Jealous

You know the guys with their shirts off are almost never the guys anyone wants to see with their shirts off.

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