[talk-au] Most insanely dissected street ?

[Franc Carter]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Tim Challis <Tim.Challis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/06/11 20:50, Franc Carter wrote:
>> Hi - one for amusements sake
>>
>> One of my pet peeves is the way that some streets have (over time I
>> hope), been chopped up in to separate segments in a way that finding a
>> house number without a gps is maddening.
>>
>> I'm curious - what's the worst case of Dissected Street Syndrome(tm)
>> that people have come across ?
>
> For my money, Parramatta Road in Sydney would have to rank pretty highly
> in terms of numbering systems restarting every time a suburb boundary is
> crossed (and sometimes even reversing order and counting down again - I
> recall there being two properties side-by-side with identical street
> numbers [somewhere near Stanmore?])

Good call - I'm actually planning to map the numbers on that soon
because it's such a mess.

>
> Mind you, for sheer municipal perversity, there is a section of Ballina
> Road in Lismore that has had at least three numbering schemes applied to
> the same houses.

;-)

>This is probably in a different category to what you
> intended?

Yep, I was thinking about things like near where I grew up where there
is a 40 foot cliff between one house number and the next. But other
road insanity is just as interesting

>
>        Cheers,
>                Tim.
>



-- 
Franc