Another suggestion from a reader: Where in Montreal do a street (“rue”) and avenue of the same name intersect?
Bonus half-points if you want to throw in streets and crescents, streets and boulevards, streets and terrasses, etc., which are much more common.
Alexandra Avenue and Alexandra Street
UPDATE: I should have excluded numbered streets and avenues (too easy). The answer I (and contributor Jean Naimard) had in mind was Alexandra St. and Alexandra Ave. in Little Italy. But I’m sure you can come up with others.
In Roxboro where 13e avenue meets 13e Rue, where 6e avenue is crossing 6e rue and the same with 11e, 4e and so many others it’s hard to get them all.
I should have disqualified numbered streets, but you are correct.
Alexandra street and Alexandra avenue connect together.
Boulevard Côte-Vertu and Place Côte-Vertu in Saint-Laurent.
Rue Larivière and Place Larivière near Ontario and Frontenac (as per the Quiz a few weeks ago.)
I have three to throw at you
Benny Avenue and Benny Crescent
Woodland Avenue in Verdun & Woodland Street in Cote St. Paul. They actually run into each other as they cross the aqueduct.
Rue Bernard and Avenue Bernard. They also run into each other as they cross Avenue du Parc.
this one is easy,
rue De la Savane and Place de la Savane, the area is already confusing as it is
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=de la savane et place de la savane&oe=utf-8
must point out that the signs say “street” nowhere on them, thus it is “rue alexandra”
Boul. de l’Acadie and Place de l’Acadie
Amherst Street and Amherst Square
Place Beaubien and Rue Beaubien
Borden Avenue and Borden Place
Decelles Ave and Place Decelles (CDN)
Does the alphabetical order give away the clue?
http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=1560,11779591&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
This isn’t “Avenue” and “Rue” but there’s the Boulevard du Mont Royal and Avenue Mont Royal that run into each other.
There are a few of these kinds of setups on the island, mostly because a street crosses into one city from another (or former cities now merged into Montreal). But the question was more about separate streets that intersect, not streets that continue under slightly different names.
Terrasse St-Denis angles down and intersects with rue St-Denis, just south of Sherbrooke (west side of the street).
Although I’ve noticed that Beaubien and Mont-Royal change denominations, never noticed the two Alexandras, though I frequently pass by there…
Terrasse St-Denis is definitely a seperate little street, or rather cul-de-sac.
Another Little Italy oddity is rue Bélanger, which is NOT the western end of Bélanger west of Drolet. The western extension of the longer Bélanger is avenue Mozart.
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=51.120025~-114.182796&style=r&lvl=15&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&where1=ranchland%2C%20calgary&encType=1
anecdote:
This is in Calgary, my friend gives direction and says from nose hill, right on ranchlands, then left on ranchview.
I say to myself, that’s easy right on ranch something then left on ranch something else. There are a few street names that start with ranch and differ then by street, road, blvd, crescent, way, circle, etc.
Within a stone’s throw of CDN and The Boulevard, there are four Ville de Montreal streets with near-identical names, and each intersects with one of its kin: Trafalgar Avenue intersects with Trafalgar Road, and Trafalgar Place intersects with Upper Trafalgar Place (ok, the “Upper” might disqualify this second example, but it’s pretty close in my books).
My favourite is the intersection of Rue Chomedey and Boulevard De Maisonneuve — not the same name, but named after the same guy.
The most “reactionary” corner in Montréal is the intersection of avenue Alexis-Carrel and boulevard Maurice-Duplessis, in Rivière-des-Prairies. La grande noirceur!