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Re: Ldraw cannon —Paulo Caparica Junior

(...) One thing that drives me crazy at USA is the street with a 0 in the midle, things like 1558 N 51st St. #41 And of course there is: 1558 S 51st St. #41 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Steve Bliss

(...) Some towns really have fun with this. In one place I lived, all roads are numbered (not named). Roads which run East-West are called streets. Roads which run North-South are called avenues. The numbering system starts with 1 at a central (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Wouter van Wageningen

(...) <snip> (...) In a town in Holland (Zoetermeer), they made a new part where all the roads are color-coded. You have a blue quadrant, a red quadrant, etc. So the road between the blue and red is called the 'blue-red street'. And within the green (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Todd Lehman

(...) Seriously?! That's so great to hear!!! One thing we're looking at for the LUGNET community map(s) is color-coding the boundary markers for a sense of overall location. Numbers alone just don't cut it. At first it was going to be four main (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Jeff Stembel

Will people get to pick the color of their 'Home'? 'Cause, if so, I want Dibs on where ever Pine Green is (if that's okay). :) Jeff (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Todd Lehman

(...) Yes, the houses have red, yellow, or blue roofing. Hmm, Pine Green, eh? I think that's at about W4,S3 (West 4, South 3). That might wind up being inside the reserved area at the center. Then again it might not... Maybe the coloring should (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Wouter van Wageningen

(...) They just vary the names. All signs are blue with white lettering. I don't know if there is a sysyem in the color names. My knowledge of those names is almost non-existant so I don't know if a green-street near the blue quadrant has a blue-hue (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Fred M. Sloniker

(Yes, I know this is an old message, but I just saw it.) (...) Um, *what* community map(s)? This sounds... well, interesting. (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Todd Lehman

(...) That's OK -- that's one of the reasons the messages stay here so long. (Instead of expiring after 2 weeks.) (...) (URL) out the links near the bottom of the page and the text in the first few areas at the top... --Todd (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Fred M. Sloniker

(...) Wow. I may not have been here in time to watch the foundation being poured, but it looks like I have plenty of time to help stack a few bricks. (:3 (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Jasper Janssen

(...) Yeah. Weg naar de Wetenschap. Main arterial road between the university complex and the freeways and the city. Always liked that one, myself. Jasper (26 years ago, 3-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Paulo Caparica Junior

(...) Living there would drive me crazy for sure! I remember that in Atlanta ,where all the streets are called peachtree. There are one of the peachtrees lane, street, road, whatever that E and W where parallel streets a block away from each other. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon) —Chris Moseley

Paulo Caparica Junior <paulocjunior@hotmail.com> wrote (...) In NZ we have a rule that the main street in every town is called Queen St. From memory something like 1 in 10 towns do this. And nearly as many use High St instead. Moz (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Ldraw cannon —Wouter van Wageningen

(...) What about: 1558 NE 51st St. 1558 NE 51st Pl. 1558 NE 51st Av. 1558 NE 51st Ct. Or a street that starts as NE 31st St. but after a slight curve becomes 239 NE Ct. or Main Street starting in Seattle, then on the other side of Lake Washington (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Ldraw cannon —Chris Barnes

(...) We have them here in Grand Prairie, Texas. Main and Center bisect the town and then SW 1st NW 1st SE 1st NE 1st SW 2nd NW 2nd SE 2nd NE 2nd out to SW 19th NW 19th SE 19th NE 19th etc. etc. chris barnes (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Ldraw cannon —Richard Dee

(...) Of course, you could have the English street/road naming convention..... As these roads have been in use since Roman times, many streets have as many as 5 names.... For instance, many roads going into London are often referred to as London (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Ldraw cannon —Jesse Long

Richard Dee wrote in message ... (...) many (...) I was in England once. I thought that once you get out of London none of the roads has a name, under the assumption that if you don't know where you are then you don't belong there anyway. Jesse (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Ldraw cannon —Steve Bliss

(...) Arkansas is like that. Once you are off the main highways & out of the city, you better have some solid directions. Steve (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)