Welcome Guest!
In order to take advantage of all the great features that Waterloo Region Connected has to offer, including participating in the lively discussions below, you're going to have to register. The good news is that it'll take less than a minute and you can get started enjoying Waterloo Region's best online community right away.
or Create an Account




Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts
(10-25-2017, 11:26 AM)Canard Wrote: And how do they do it in other cities?  I always, always ignore the suffix because I figured it was stupid.  I didn't realize it had to do with addressing.  Is that really a "thing" everywhere in the world?

Not everywhere.  I lived three years in Panama without knowing for sure the name of my street (it did have one) or the street number (it didn't have one - in the absence of a postal delivery service, towers in Panama have names, not numbers).  It is a running joke in San Jose, Costa Rica that street directions run along the lines of "its left at the Pollo Alegre and 100 metres beyond the big tree that they cut down last year".  Many cities in South America have a system of numbered "avenues" that run in one direction and "streets" that run in another - every house address is sort of a trianglation of the two, with individual number for the houses, as in Canada.  God help you if they also have diagonals!  

Isn't Calgary divided into directional quadrants?  In that system, you need to know the directional suffix to even get to the right part of town.
Reply
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »



Messages In This Thread
RE: Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts - by panamaniac - 10-25-2017, 12:07 PM
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - by timc - 05-29-2017, 10:02 AM
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - by timc - 05-29-2017, 11:17 AM
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - by embe - 08-09-2017, 08:39 PM

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 2 Guest(s)

About Waterloo Region Connected

Launched in August 2014, Waterloo Region Connected is an online community that brings together all the things that make Waterloo Region great. Waterloo Region Connected provides user-driven content fueled by a lively discussion forum covering topics like urban development, transportation projects, heritage issues, businesses and other issues of interest to those in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and the four Townships - North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot, and Woolwich.

              User Links