Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas)

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Chubb Cove is one for the books. I wonder what the street names are in Dildo Nfld?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5qirWGuYPq449c5e9

There's a Head Rd., and a Backside Rd.

But otherwise looks fairly innocent.

Prettys Hill, Frank Prettys Lane, Prettys Lane, and Prettys Rd. must make for some confusion.

[Gresto]

Originally Posted by phone

There are a number of newish street names here that are basically just weird though...

Pringle Bend
Pepper Bend
Fast Lane
Laycock Cr, Dickson Cr, Chubb Cove, and Assaly St all branching off the same road...
Feheregyhazi Blvd (try saying that to 911)
Beef Research Rd
Glacial Shores Manor
St. Henry Ave (one of the lesser known saints, I suppose)

There are probably others..

Edit... how can I forget the infamous corner of Rusholme Road and Ave P (Rusholme and P)... both of which are collectors or arterials, so it is an actual intersection that may be referred to earnestly... Aaand right at the corner of Leif Erikson Park, too...

"Beef Research Rd" is hilarious. Just combine two unrelated words, or is there a Bovine or Meats department at the local uni?
In Toronto, Avenue Rd has always rightly been a recipient of bemusement and derision. They should change the name of the 401 to "Highway Freeway". At least Toronto has almost no numbered streets, for which I am thankful. So there's no, "Meet me at 81st Ave. and 136th St."

And the good people of Fucking, Austria finally opted to have that town's misbegotten name changed. It's now called Fugging.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by Gresto

"Beef Research Rd" is hilarious. Just combine two unrelated words, or is there a Bovine or Meats department at the local uni?
In Toronto, Avenue Rd has always rightly been a recipient of bemusement and derision. They should change the name of the 401 to "Highway Freeway". At least Toronto has almost no numbered streets, for which I am thankful. So there's no, "Meet me at 81st Ave. and 136th St."

And the good people of Fucking, Austria finally opted to have that town's misbegotten name changed. It's now called Fugging.

In St. Thomas there's a South Edgeware Rd. I always found that one funny, evoking a corporate name though it probably doesn't refer to one in reality. And I've never seen a "north Edgeware" or non-directionally named companion (though apparently the name exists in other places too)

I dislike numbered streets too, though they're great for wayfinding. In Hamilton many of the "north-south" residential streets in the older part of the central southern section of the city have numbered names (i.e., "on the mountain"... another example of a thing outsiders find funny).

I wonder how many English names are odd or amusing in other languages?

[Five Four]

In Charlottetown there's an issue where signs for Beer Street get constantly stolen.

[Five Four]

Speaking of Charlottetown, 3rd and 4th street are on other ends of the city from 1st and 2nd street.

[Architype]

Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

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I dislike numbered streets too, though they're great for wayfinding....

Maybe it's better if the numbers don't go in both directions.


https://maps.app.goo.gl/LsaFCaMtX18DvtMR7

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Dear God! Without any forewarning!

I almost turned to stone.

Just keeping everybody on their toes. On Thursday I had to go all over Laval. My god it's ugly and in the winter there is the added bonus of Tempo's

[MolsonExport]

Beef Research Road?


My god. You can't make up this shit. It has to be real. Nobody would ever believe it otherwise.

[phone]

Originally Posted by Gresto

"Beef Research Rd" is hilarious. Just combine two unrelated words, or is there a Bovine or Meats department at the local uni?
In Toronto, Avenue Rd has always rightly been a recipient of bemusement and derision. They should change the name of the 401 to "Highway Freeway". At least Toronto has almost no numbered streets, for which I am thankful. So there's no, "Meet me at 81st Ave. and 136th St."

And the good people of Fucking, Austria finally opted to have that town's misbegotten name changed. It's now called Fugging.

Perhaps it's no surprise, but the University of Saskatchewan is home to a large agricultural college.

Saskatoon has a balance between numbered streets, civilized like 8th Street East (always the ordinal)--not like Edmonton with its abominations like 137a Av NE or whatever... named streets, and lettered avenues (all the way up to Ave Y -- there's room to spare for Ave Z but for whatever reason the next street was named "Witney Ave").

Pretty much the only area in the city where you encounter numbered streets intersecting with numbered avenues is Downtown, which is somewhat unfortunate, but the fact that the downtown streets run from 19th St E to 26th St E gives it somewhat more character than if it was 1st to 8th... or am I out to lunch on that one?

As for "Highway Freeway", our (mostly controlled access) ring road is called "Circle Drive"...

[phone]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Beef Research Road?


My god. You can't make up this shit. It has to be real. Nobody would ever believe it otherwise.

It's real. Even has a signalized intersection...

[phone]

Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5qirWGuYPq449c5e9

There's a Head Rd., and a Backside Rd.

But otherwise looks fairly innocent.

Prettys Hill, Frank Prettys Lane, Prettys Lane, and Prettys Rd. must make for some confusion.

Is the Wicked Witch of the West a Dildonian?

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by phone

It's real. Even has a signalized intersection...

That dirt lane doesn't look none to promising. Perhaps "Beef Research" is a euphemism for "Slaughterhouse"?

[phone]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

That dirt lane doesn't look none to promising. Perhaps "Beef Research" is a euphemism for "Slaughterhouse"?

It's a gravel road heading out to an Agricultural College research facility located on University endowment lands. Beef is researched there, I imagine.

The slaughterhouse is elsewhere...

[TorontoDrew]

I came across this today in Rosedale.

2025-06-09 by Andrew Moore, on Flickr

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by Architype

Maybe it's better if the numbers don't go in both directions.


https://maps.app.goo.gl/LsaFCaMtX18DvtMR7

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https://maps.app.goo.gl/ikYNMZcGVoJ8BAGE8

Thankfully most places use "street" and "avenue" or some difference, but still yeah that's confusing. The Alberta examples must be among the worst ever.

[megadude]

Originally Posted by Gresto

"Beef Research Rd" is hilarious. Just combine two unrelated words, or is there a Bovine or Meats department at the local uni?
In Toronto, Avenue Rd has always rightly been a recipient of bemusement and derision. They should change the name of the 401 to "Highway Freeway". At least Toronto has almost no numbered streets, for which I am thankful. So there's no, "Meet me at 81st Ave. and 136th St."

And the good people of Fucking, Austria finally opted to have that town's misbegotten name changed. It's now called Fugging.

Yeah I don’t like numbered roads either.

[megadude]

Here is an example of what modern, colourless architecture looks like in a barren winterscape. Well, at least there’s some trees. And yeah, there’s bars over the window for some reason. And this is a new build, not a reclad of an old bungalow. I’d be interested to see what it looks like now. This is from three years ago up in the escarpment part of Burlington.

Neighbour across the street has a much more inviting house.

[MolsonExport]

Modern bungalows are often fugly and austere. In fact, a lot of modern architecture is really uninviting.

[megadude]

Rexdale, Etobicoke. The definition of "tired looking". It does however have a small power centre anchored by Walmart across the street and a Costco next door.

[phone]

Originally Posted by megadude

Rexdale, Etobicoke. The definition of "tired looking". It does however have a small power centre anchored by Walmart across the street and a Costco next door.

I love places like that. Disposable structures that build up a patina over the decades that they were never meant to have. 7/10 of them have some kind of amazing hole in the wall restaurant.