Why do street names change so frequently?

[raccoon]

Why do street names change so frequently?

I mean, I'll be riding on Main Street, cross an intersection and then Main Street becomes Sycamore Street, then go some more blocks and then Sycamore Street becomes Evans Street?

My city is bad about that but I know of others that are also bad about that.

Why don't City officials keep the names more the same?

[SethH]

1. to keep us on our toes

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Take a walk in London some day.

The street names change every few blocks.

[Warpy]

3. Try Boston some time

Streets were given their names between landmarks that aren't there any more like many streets in Europe were named. Plus the town was laid out by cows and drunken sailors.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Boston is terrible that way!

The names of certain streets and roads will just change randomly with no warning. Not only that, but there are a number of business and apartment complexes that are their own addresses, even though they are on streets with other names.

[maveric]

4. Just yesterday my street's name changed to "Mark Hamill Way". Luke Skywalker was there.

With the city-councilman who has Hollywood ties.

[NightWatcher]

5. You should go to Atlanta, they're all named Peachtree

[Goonch]

6. Changed to Anthracis Blvd

[Binkie The Clown]

7. I've seen this happen where...

two or three separate small communities grow into each other. One town's Spring ST. happens to line up with the next community's Maple St., and so when the two communities meet in the middle the street name changes.

Another cause is when two roads don't initially connect, like when they are on opposite sides of a river or railroad track. The two street have two different names, but later, when a bridge is built across the river, or the railroad tracks are removed, the two streets with different names becomes one.

[Igel]

10. That's so northeast Jersey.

Or it's the same street name through several townships, except that they start the numbering over and over.

250 Bloomfield Avenue? Which one. ("The one in Orange." "East or West?&quot Arggghhhhh.

[Control-Z]

8. There's one road in my area

that crosses itself.

[marylandblue]

9. Queens, NY has the opposite problem

They have streets with the same name that don't connect to each other.