10-19-2016, 09:04 PM
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One of the Nine
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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Regarding weird road stuff in the city one thing that bothers me a lot is when two streets intersect each other. 22 Street should not intersect with 23 Street. Another weird one is where 48 Street NW intersects itself. Looking at the maps from near my house I also never noticed that 48 St NW is actually west of 49 St NW by Market Mall.
Northmount Drive is a road that baffles me. I've always only known Northmount Drive as the section between 14th Street and Northland Mall. It wasn't until a couple of years ago when I drove down 4th street to avoid traffic and found Northmount Dive way up north of McKnight BLVD by that old Safeway.
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The universe has two nexuses? 
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10-19-2016, 10:30 PM
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#22
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: 555 Saddledome Rise SE
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Don't even get me started on there being two Sarcee Trails...
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10-19-2016, 10:38 PM
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#23
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
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This is now my favourite old Calgary photo.
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10-20-2016, 12:08 PM
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#24
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Not Taylor
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary SW
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Quote:
Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Another weird one is where 48 Street NW intersects itself.
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Wow, yeah, that's a weird one - https://goo.gl/maps/cr41dvVMDKG2
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10-20-2016, 12:25 PM
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#25
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Split this into it's own thread- figured this was an interesting conversation on its own.
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10-20-2016, 12:39 PM
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My face is a bum!
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4st NW meets Centre St N in Huntington.
4st NE in the same area is a few hundred metres of 4 lane boulevard that takes didn't really connect to anything until Beddington Trail got built. Apparently designed to be a major N/S corridor until Deerfoot changed things I think.
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10-20-2016, 12:46 PM
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First Line Centre
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Crazy streets and intersections [Split from Ring Road]
For some reason in Evanston they actually planned to have four distinct streets called evansborough way (it's a square essentially)...you should see the endless looks of despair trying to find any house on those roads.
This is a brand new community, just can't fathom why it's so hard to call one 'road', one 'vista', one 'drive'...
Last edited by Ace; 10-20-2016 at 12:51 PM.
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10-20-2016, 12:47 PM
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#28
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Another 'fun' aspect of this is being on the phone with folks who don't realize that the road they are on has more than one component, and they don't know which one they are on.
"I'm on Barlow Tr."
"Which one?"
"There's only one!"
"No, there's actually three..."
"Then I'm on the one that I'm on!"
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10-20-2016, 12:49 PM
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I believe in the Pony Power
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The worst intersection in the city is where you turn into Motel Village from 16th Avenue. No one knows what the hell they are supposed to do there, and who has the right of way.
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10-20-2016, 01:08 PM
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#30
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
The worst intersection in the city is where you turn into Motel Village from 16th Avenue. No one knows what the hell they are supposed to do there, and who has the right of way.
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And then make your way onto 23st NW. The road that aligns with the street with no name as opposed to itself.
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10-20-2016, 01:17 PM
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#31
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Calgary
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One of my favourites? Woodbine Blvd intersects itself, but the continuing roads on the other sides of the intersection are not named Woodbine Blvd.
https://goo.gl/maps/TPTZ4mhxEUn
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10-20-2016, 01:19 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
The worst intersection in the city is where you turn into Motel Village from 16th Avenue. No one knows what the hell they are supposed to do there, and who has the right of way.
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It's a quick tight turn to get to the McDonalds
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10-20-2016, 01:21 PM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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can there be one 17th Ave?
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10-20-2016, 01:21 PM
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#34
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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Bowness Road, 3rd Ave NW, Parkdale Blvd, Memorial drive...
All within 2 Km's of each other.
https://goo.gl/maps/yDwLjHprdFK2
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10-20-2016, 01:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Regulator75
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And then Bowness Road mysteriously re-appears again east of Crowchild but is not a main road anymore but rather a residential sidestreet now. Then it ends for good at 14 Street. I suppose it used to be the main road, you can see that when you look at Google maps but it's still odd to see.
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10-20-2016, 01:38 PM
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#36
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My face is a bum!
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
can there be one 17th Ave?
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I don't get it. There are two.
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10-20-2016, 01:41 PM
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#37
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
This is now my favourite old Calgary photo.
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That cow is clearly very disappointed in all of us.
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10-20-2016, 01:44 PM
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#38
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
The worst intersection in the city is where you turn into Motel Village from 16th Avenue. No one knows what the hell they are supposed to do there, and who has the right of way.
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Apparently that traffic light is there only because of there McDonalds, and there is some agreement that it won't go away.
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10-20-2016, 01:45 PM
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#39
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
4st NW meets Centre St N in Huntington.
4st NE in the same area is a few hundred metres of 4 lane boulevard that takes didn't really connect to anything until Beddington Trail got built. Apparently designed to be a major N/S corridor until Deerfoot changed things I think.
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There is a reason the southern part of 4th st NE is called "Edmonton Trail".
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10-20-2016, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Ctr Street North turns into Harvest Hills Blvd, then Ctr Street once again when you cross Stoney Trail.
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