[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 8 April 2010 15:48, Lord-Castillo, Brett
<BLord-Castillo at stlouisco.com> wrote:
> One issue with using unabbreviated names, is sometimes the abbreviations are part of the official name.
> Examples here:
> 1st Community CU Dr (First Community Credit Union goes to a -different- address)
> River City Blvd/River City Casino Blvd; many people think the first is an abbreviation of the former. It isn't, two different streets that will route mail (and traffic) to two different sets of addresses
> St Louis Street, which is different from Rue St Louis, which is different from Saint Louis Street and Saint Louis Boulevard, which is still different from The Boulevard St Louis. In each of those cases, the non-type abbreviations are part of the name and expanding the abbreviations can turn them into different streets.

In "1st Community CU Dr" when you read it out, I guess you do say "...
CU Drive".

But the St Louis Street vs. Saint Louis Street? They're pronounced
exactly same way and I'm sure 90% people will write both of them as
"St Louis Street" in rush, are there seriously cases where these are
different addresses?  What do the people living at St Louis St say on
the phone when asked for address?

Cheers