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Originally Posted by ssiguy
I hate numbered streets. Always seemed sterile and utilitarian.
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Totally agree, and Alberta cities are the worst for it. Edmonton used to have named streets but then citizens voted in a 1914 plebiscite to move to numbers.
http://avenuehistory.org/2013/05/a-h...-street-names/
Now in some of the old neighborhoods they are actually bringing back signs that list the street name under the number. The numbers made a certain amount of rational sense as it helped people find addresses more easily, though sometimes you end up with an address like 101-10011 111 Street, which looks like its in binary code and can get very confusing! Now that we have GPS and google maps, however, numbers make less sense and I hope we can move back to names, which have so much more character to them.