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San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names

https://j-nelson.net/san-francisco-streets-with-similar-names/
14•SeenNotHeard•2d ago

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joegibbs•1h 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.
Benjammer•1h 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•38m 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•10m 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.
w-ll•1h ago
'Park Presidio Blvd. / Presidio St. / Presidio Blvd' is the only one thats legit. do able to understand but 2 are parallel and like half a mile apart
r0m4n0•1h ago
Used to drive me insane living in NYC. Funny that Google Maps even highlights both Gold street in Brooklyn and the Gold street in the financial district if you do a search and zoom out. I wonder if that’s intentional or not.
drsopp•1h ago
This is nothing compared to the peachtreestreets in Atlanta.
mlmonkey•56m 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•33m 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

menage•54m 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".
devmor•48m ago
Come on down to Atlanta and take the Peachtree industrial blvd to Peachtree Corners rd, or take a left on old Peachtree rd down to Peachtree ave and get back on Peachtree rd to the Peachtree connector over by Peachtree circle.
WalterGR•31m ago
Another confusing one - though at the city level - is Vancouver, Washington vs. Vancouver, British Columbia. It’s been a while since I’ve been in the Pacific Northwest, but I seem to recall I-5 signage giving those two options, one north and one south. I’ve always wondered how many drivers picked the wrong one at a glance and ended up at an international border.

Edit: Once I took a Lyft/Uber in midtown Sacramento. Midtown Sacramento is on a grid where north-south streets are numbered and east-west streets are lettered. The driver wasn’t familiar with the Latin alphabet. So what would seem like the simplest structure was, in that case, inscrutable.

scrame•22m 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.

2gremlin181•15m ago
A lesser known one (which makes it all the more confusing) is Cleary, right off similarly sounding Geary.
josnyder•8m ago
Sylvan Dr and Forest View Dr are two blocks from each other.

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