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Originally Posted by Xelebes
Edmonton also has Kingsway. It literally means Kings' Way so it doesn't need that extra indicator.
As for roads that change names, there is Whyte Avenue to look at.
At Lindbrook: Highway 630
After Range Road 220: Township Road 515
After Intersection at Sherwood Forest Estates: Highway 630
After Intersection north of Edgar T. Jones Natural Area: Wye Road
After Anthony Henday Drive: Sherwood Park Freeway
After 71st Street: 82 Avenue NW
After 114th Street: University Avenue
After Saskatchewan Drive: Groat Road
After 118th Avenue NW: St. Albert Trail
After 137th Avenue NW: Mark Messier Trail
After 156th Street NW: St. Albert Trail
After a minor intersection north of Ross Road: Highway 2
After Highway 18: Range Road 253
Terminus west of Analta, short of Armstrong Lake.
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Yes, but ours is called Kingsway Ave. Vancouver's is literally just the Kingsway. Only equivalents I can think of are Toronto's Queensway and American cities with a Broadway.
In practical day-to-day traveling in Edmonton, the most annoying name-changer is probably Manning Drive - Fort Road - Wayne Gretzky Drive - Capilano Freeway - 75 Street - 66 Street. It's the same road and has 6 names. Whyte Ave at least sort of makes sense with a lot of its name changes and the names out in Lindbrook or Analta aren't really relevant as they're beyond Edmonton. Whyte Ave is actually 82 Ave so that makes sense and it makes sense going east that it turns into the Sherwood Park Freeway. Westward, it changes to University because the old diagonal University Ave which is cut off but still exists in residential McKernan lines up with it. The Groat Rd/St Albert Trail/Mark Messier Tr part makes the least sense, though. Pick one, people!
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Originally Posted by CanadianCentaur
Actually, that's not true. Fort St. John is yet another city with the same kind of street numbering as Edmonton's and GP's.
Dawson Creek also has streets which are almost entirely numbered, but it's a bit different. Streets and avenues run the same directions as in Edmonton, but avenues increase in numbers in the opposite direction, and streets are centered at 10 St instead of "100 St" in the downtown core.
In fact, having most, if not all, streets numbered instead of named is a pretty common feature in many towns across the Peace in Alberta/BC. Some are a bit different, and others are the same as Edmonton's and GP's.
Outside of that, the only cities in Canada with similar street numbering systems on a large scale like that I know of are all in Metro Vancouver in Delta (North Delta, actually), Surrey, Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge. Some newer neighbourhoods in North Delta have mainly named local streets though. Surrey's street numbering system like Edmonton's, but "Streets" increase in number to the east. In Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge and Langley, the street numbering system there are basically an extension of Surrey's.
Even in Edmonton, you do get entire neighbourhoods with named instead of numbered streets. You will see this mainly in SW Edmonton between the North Saskatchewan (and some just west of that) and Whitemud Creek and right down to city limits west of Calgary Trail. The two largest communities outside Edmonton within Metro Edmonton, Sherwood Park and St. Albert, have entirely named streets.
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Woah, I never even thought of the BC Peace Region. That area really is just an extension of Alberta in so many ways.
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