While I agree accuracy is important in emergency situations, personally I think the Beltline is a little too big of an area if you want to get specific. Right now it covers most of the inner-city south of the tracks...that's a pretty big catch-all. I feel like my part of the Beltline is quite different than the one around the Saddledome. The use of "Victoria Park" is so ingrained in this city, that I don't think you'd get that much confusion....in fact, I think you'd get more confusion by calling that area something else. And changing people's minds is going to take a long time... Clinton in NY has been named that for years...yet, people will still call it what it is to them, Hells Kitchen.
And on a separate note, I don't actually mind these more colloquial names for neighborhoods..they give it more of a local touch. Places like Victoria Park or Kensington at least came to use in a somewhat organic fashion. What I can't stand is when some try-hard wants to force a hipster-doofus name on an area....like who ever came up with that moronic SODO. That guy needs to be flogged.
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