I've been riding my bicycle around east Vancouver USA almost every day. Being a quirky kinda guy, I tend to notice oddities and anomalies. I've started to collect intersections of streets that should not meet. I amuse myself, what can I say?
Carol and I have said for many years that Vancouver streets were laid out by some guy on LSD. This proves it. As a citizen and resident who is trying to navigate his home town, I have a right to anticipate and expect that the Avenues run north and south, the Streets run east to west, and that they run parallel to one another in numerical order. If you're on 92nd Avenue, and you make a right turn (at an intersection) onto another street, you expect it--if it's numbered--to be a Street . You don't expect it to be another Avenue, and you sure don't expect it to be 90th Avenue! Check it out...

New!! This is the topper! The corner of 18th St. and 25th St.!

The corner of 92nd Ave, 92nd Ave, and 90th Ave...

Our house? You can't miss it! It's right at the corner of 147th Ave and 148th Ave!

It's one thing when a major thoroughfare does a quick dog leg, e.g. 136th Ave jogging over and becoming 138th Ave. That I can understand. In this case, Vancouver put in a new street over a quarter mile long connecting the intersections of 136th Ave/4th Street and Hearthwood Blvd/1st Street. Another town might have given it a name and called it a Boulevard, but apparently Vancouver has completely run out of names! So instead, it's as though someone grabbed the end of 4th St in one hand and 1st St in the other and pulled them together like ropes of taffy...
Okay, who said that?! I do not have an overactive imagination!












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My favorite intersection here is Clinton & LaHarpe & Scott & Markham. It's only two streets, mind you, but each corner is a different pairing.
Would it be more confusing with no signs at all? Perhaps not. :)
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