10-25-2017, 01:46 PM
(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?
Some places with numbered streets have, at least in principle, 8 of each number: 4 each of Ave. and St. for the two dimensions; for each there are 2 actual roads on either side of the Ave./St. numbering axis, then each of those starts in the middle at the St./Ave. numbering access and counts out from there.
So for example in Calgary you have the intersection of 32 St. NE with 32 Ave. NE. In principle, there would be 3 other intersections of “32 St.” with “32 Ave.” although in practice as far as I can tell those particular ones don’t actually exist.
Edmonton has a similar grid, but the axes run as far as I can tell along the east and south side parts of the ring road so almost the entire city is NW with a bit SW and as far as I can tell none in the “E”. On the other hand, they have an insane fixation on using the numbered street grid even in suburbs that are built with culs-de-sac and bays rather than a grid. As a result, many street numbers are broken into, and I swear I am not exaggerating, literally 10 or more pieces, and a single bay or cul-de-sac may have several street or avenue numbers along it.