<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Val Kartchner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:val42k@gmail.com">val42k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":1g3">In my area I know of two separate streets named "E Avenue" and an "E<br>
Street". </div></blockquote></div><br>Boston has E St, intersecting W 1st St, between D St and F St as you'd expect. But W 1st St *crosses* E 1st St at the grid discontinuity (extends one block east of the oblique intersection with).<div>
<div><br></div><div>When a street further onto made-land than W 1st St was built, it was named New Cypher St of course (cypher being an old word for zero). <div><br></div><div><a href="http://osm.org/go/ZfIvnWyD">http://osm.org/go/ZfIvnWyD</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>(I'd love to get planning approval for Negative One St beyond New Cypher St, but the new Convention Center fills the space.)</div><div><br></div><div>We also have a St James St, less well known since Greyhound moved their terminal from there into a shared multi-mode hub.</div>
<div><br>-- <br>Bill<br>@n1vux <a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><br>
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