Re: OT: Place name constituents

Dana Nutter wrote:
>
> Back when I was working in Irvine, Ca.  I used always
> confused people when they said they were location by
> the intersection of Main and McArthur by asking "which
> one?"  The two streets both curve and actually meet
> twice so someone searching for that intersection could
> end up at the wrong one.

This is a problem in Detroit. Outer Drive snakes through
the metropolitan Detroit area, but it basically is a giant
horseshoe, starting from the Detroit River on the south
and ending at the Detroit River on the north. So it cuts
across many major roads twice, including two freeways.

--Ph. D.

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