Numbered street
Such forms are among the most common street names in North America, but also exist in other parts of the world, especially in Colombia, which takes the system to an extreme, and the Middle East.
All begin their names with either "West" or "East," depending on which side of Charles Street the block is located.
They use the numbered designations to the east of the expressway, and to the west, they merge into a six-lane road known as Druid Park Lake Drive.
All these streets start their names with NW, NE, SW, or SE, depending on where they are in relation to the center of Miami.
Similar numbering systems are used throughout the state of Florida, such as in Gainesville, Ocala, Panama City, and Jacksonville.
In Queens, the melding of various grids from pre-consolidation villages resulted in repeat numbers, for example, 31st Street, 31st Place, 31st Lane, and their perpendicular counterparts 31st Avenue, 31st Road, and 31st Drive.
The neighborhood of Broad Channel also has its own network of numbered roads, prefixed with East or West, relative to Cross Bay Boulevard.
Currently, only one unmarked block remains, currently used as a garbage truck access behind the Bloomfield Street Sanitation Depot.
[11][failed verification] Central Philadelphia was laid out by Thomas Holme in 1683[12] and was the first city to use numbered streets systematically.
In general, numbered streets northwest of the Schuylkill are not aligned with their counterparts across the river in South Philadelphia.
[15] In the early 20th century, many of Chestnut Hill's previously numbered streets were renamed for Native American tribes.
Number streets of St. Louis, Missouri, start at the Mississippi River and increase as they go west.
[20] Pierre L'Enfant's plan for Washington, D.C. includes both radial avenues and grid system consisting of both numbered and lettered streets.
The name is then followed with a directional suffix (NW, NE, SW, or SE), specifying a quadrant of the city (e.g. B Street Southwest).
As a result, addresses of buildings on numbered streets are worthless unless the quadrant (SW, NW, NE, SE) is indicated.
The grid is based on the Dominion Land Survey, with many of the main roads in the older areas of town (such as Crowchild Trail SW and 17th Avenue SE) following the lines that separate one DLS section from another ("section lines").
[citation needed] The gradual expansion of the city now extends it east and south of what is 1st (Meridian) Street and 1st (Quadrant) Avenue.
The city limits do not yet extend into where the southeast quadrant would be located, meaning addresses will be post-fixed with either NW, SW, or NE.
A grid system of numbered streets and avenues is used south of the Fraser River, in the municipalities of Delta, Surrey and Langley.
[citation needed] Many small towns and cities in Western Canada use numbered streets.
Occasionally main streets receive names, like El Dorado Avenue in the capital Bogota.
[citation needed] A notable example of a citywide numbered streets system in Portugal, is the city of Espinho.
Espinho, in the district of Aveiro, was mainly built in the late 19th century in a grid pattern, with its streets being numbered instead of being named.
[citation needed] Numbered streets are also occasionally used in other Portuguese cities, but only in specific areas within them and not as a citywide system.
[citation needed] With the notable exception of Milton Keynes, numbered streets are uncommon in the United Kingdom because cities and towns are generally not laid out in grids.
[citation needed] Another former mining settlement, the village of Horden in County Durham, has a series of numbered streets which were built to house workers at the local colliery, but today suffer from extreme poverty and high levels of crime.
[24] On Hong Kong Island, in the Sai Ying Pun neighbourhood, there are a series of streets named with numbers.
In the Fairview Park development in the northwestern New Territories many streets are numbered, with sections named by alphabets.
[25] A similar system is used in Hong Lok Yuen to the north of Tai Po New Town in northeastern New Territories.
In Tehran there are multiple sets of numbered streets running from west to east in various sections of the north side of town.
