12-09-2018, 10:06 PM
(12-09-2018, 09:54 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-09-2018, 07:32 AM)Spokes Wrote: That's the thing I've always found ironic, it's annoying because we're always like, is it southbound or eastbound or what? But it's really neither.
Right. So I use the official directions. It's not significantly more "wrong" or "right" but at least then I'm indicating what's shown on the street signs.
That is definitely the correct thing to do. This is one of those “wouldn’t it be great if…” scenarios, as in “wouldn’t it be great if there was somebody who could decide which direction names to use for our streets, and publish it in some sort of document so we could follow it and be sure that we mean the same thing as other people do when they use the same words”. Some problems exist mostly because people refuse the use the existing, already near-optimal, solutions.
This is also why sometimes highway signs will say things like “Highway 5 South, 6 North”. It’s unusual but not unprecedented for opposite directions of two different highways to share the same direction of a common road segment.