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- There's a method to the madness of classifying roads.
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A street is a road but a road isn't always a street. A road can also be an avenue or a boulevard-it's the general term for anything that connects two points. From there, the names of roads can be shaped by their environment and/or the form of the road. A drive is a long winding road that can be shaped by mountains or a lake. Place is a narrow road with no throughway. And just as there is no rule book to building a city, these roads and other don't always correspond with their described classifications.
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Friend : " Yeah we'll just go down that road over there"
me: "Well ACTUALLY!....."
the one friend whos the most fun at parties ;)
Matthew Sukhram NOBODY ASKS YOU PATRIICEE
friend: F*ck you, that's why nobody wants to hang out with you
Matthew Sukhram hahahahhaha
Devon Elliott Ricketts
It's actually called a club :P
I wish I had the kind of brain that would just absorb all of this information in one sitting, however I know I'm going to forget all this in 15 minutes.
Dana B, I forgot everything immediately after he moved on to the next one 😂😂
there are ways to improve your memory... The best way for me is to repeat. After you heard or read something, repeat it in your head not just once or twice but until you know you will remember
Repetition alone is an awful way to memorize things, never mind understand.
I'd draw yourself a diagram of all the types of roads, with labels, definitions in your own words, and potentially even colour coded. Not only will this require you to digest and comprehend the information, but it will serve as a reference for later as well. Trying to express something as if teaching it to someone is a great way to come to understand something, after all.
Dana B agreed
seigeengine Of course that is a good way of memorizing. However i dont need to do that, repetition is all i need.
A Lemonade is a road near the water that is bordered by lemon trees.
@username_Sn1ped ➊ idk
bahahahahah
🌽E
No, Lemonade is a way through anger and resentment for your partners infidelity.
Ohh...you mean a Lemon-ahhhde. How glorious. 😂
0:13 Man, that taxi driver must have some insane parallel parking skills!
lol
Sideways wheels lol
😂😂😂😂
bahahahaha
😂😂😂
at first, i was confused by alley, road, lane, avenue, street. Now it's getting more complicated :))
Loool ikr 🤣
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My brain just melted because its boring and interesting at the same time.
Haha, love you, hope you have a good day!
mike conz So true lol
hahahaahahahaha
mike conz Exactly. =-()
1,000th like xD
I don't see how any of this makes anything simpler.
For a lot of them that's probably true. Having different names for different things is kind of how language works though.
Alon Knaan KNOWLEDGE!
If you really want to educate yourself. You'll make yourself understand this
I just think it makes road names more interesting. Imagine if every road was just called "Rd."
@@michaelroy6630 - Yeah? How about a seven-lane road called Mockingbord LANE? (No for real, the Dallas metroplex has an actual seven-lane road called Mockingbird Lane)
2:57 oh no they're going to crash!
2:58 well that solved itself alright
sammeboy11 I had to watch if multiple times before I saw it😂
sammeboy11 vvgggc
+Joe Nome Even though the dump truck is in front of it and going faster.
I think they did that on purpose for people like you who would catch it. Anyway, thanks for giving me a chuckle. XD
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My son just turned 7 and has been asking me for months about road names and all their variations! He is on the spectrum and was hammering me everyday with questions about this topic! We both loved the video! Thank you so much!
When you get a little addicted to Sim City.
But we can't name roads
@@mercame laughs in City Skylines
Rocket_man1234 cities skylines is a better game imo
This is definitely a City Skylines addict
TH-cam algorithm
The "circle or loop" you mentioned, is called a cul-de-sac
No, its a roundabout
Roundabouts I think are circular roads that branch off into regular roads, like the ones in the UK.
A Culdesac is a circle of asphalt at the end of a road inside a neighborhood.
What does cul de sac translate to?
Googled it, its French for "Dead End"
Someone needs to draw an accurate monopoly map ASAP.
AikoKayo Also taking into account £200 is nowhere near enough to live in London these days!
TheBespectacledN00b lol
£200,000 and you've probably got yourself a 1 bedroom flat
£350k and you can have a flat with a balcony or small paved yard
YES finally we're back to videos about other subjects. Screw the 2016 election.
Thank fck ayy, the election has just been exhausting
Glad the election is over.
it's hard to watch Vox after how they covered the election. They obviously had a biased view and it showed how out of touch they are from half the country. it's hard to watch them knowing that.
and you will come here to say that in all their vids instead of just going away and not watching them
Or perhaps half the country is out of touch with reality. Perhaps Vox was right and reality is about to smack half the country in the face.
I work at a call center and my job for 40 hours a week is to take people's addresses. It is very interesting to find out this information so thank you very much! Very nice visuals as well. Awesome video 😊
Ayla Samano agero?
Hm, that sounds like a decent job lol
Concentrix bro?
1:32 Groove Street ...
1 like rip
are we meeting at cjs, ryder's or sweet's house ?
Grove court
I watch u
Wow theirs like no likes at all
Were the makers of "Crossy Road" called in to animate this video? #HipsterWhale
BRB, gonna name my roads in Cities: Skyline
Nick cheung best game ever.
Crimson Corsair not anymore now that title belongs to Planet Coaster
That sounds sick, could you tell me what it is called.
Using the districts tool?
Bro do you even mods?
America has too many names for roads. I haven't seen half of these by me
we only have road and street in my country, which could be bad for navigation.
seen all them , east coast. nyc has several
Real education. And why didn't they teach us this in school?
I mean it doesnt really matter. I dont think it's so important?
Joan J kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkihyju
I’m literally being forced to watch this video for homework
no@@joanj3319
Because it's "more important" to know how to find the area of a non regular polygon or to understand old english in Shakespeare lol
As a non native english learner, this was very useful!
As a native english speaker, this still made little sense
same, though im not even living here
u'll hear three of those names in ur entire life.
The best display of useless knowledge known to man
My Clever Nothing
that is, until you need to navigate your way through areas undocumented by GPS.
My Clever Nothing If you're a city planner or civil engineer this is fairly elementary important information.
My life summed up in a sentence ^
The words "avenue" and "boulevard" both come from France, where they have meanings useful for urban designers. The Champs Elysees in Paris is visually terminated at one end by the Louvre (formerly the king's palace) and at the other by the Arc de Triomphe. Urban designers and street designers call this a "terminated vista."
The first avenues were out in the country at places like the king's palace in Versailles, where the avenues radiate out from the palace. At the other end, they might have vistas terminated by pavilions, obelisks, or the like, or they might have unterminated vistas. But they all look back at the palace, usually at the center of the palace.
'Avenue" comes from "à venir," which means "to come to."
"Boulevards" were originally built on the "bulwarks," or city walls ("bulwark" is an old Dutch word). Boulevards originated as "promenades" on top of the city walls. Since these circled around the city, they did not have terminated vistas.
Allées of trees were planted on the bulwarks to shade the walkers and shape the promenade. The avenues at the palaces and great country houses went through the woods, and the edges were also planted with regularly spaced allées.
When the French brought avenues and boulevards into the city, they kept the distinction that an avenue had a terminated vista (or two, one at each end), while boulevards did not. The English sort of kept this distinction, but Americans were very inconsistent. Jefferson built avenues at Monticallo, but in 1811 New York City platted north-south avenues that were usually unterminated.
When American graduates of the French Ecole des Beaux Arts came home and founded the City Beautiful movement, they revived the distinction. Traffic engineers and Organized Motordom later abandoned that, preferring Arterials, Collector Roads, and Cul de sacs.
Promenades do not have to be near water. Commonwealth Avenue in Back Bay Boston has a promenade. So does Central Park in New York, at the Poet's Walk. What they share with avenues and boulevards is that they have allées of trees.
Last but not least, we have multiway boulevards and avenues, which have through lanes in the center and local lanes on the sides. Paris has the most numerous examples and the most variety, but other cities like Barcelona have great avenues and boulevards, sometimes with promenades.
Anyone else has this urge to play City Skylines right now?
Same
Vepa Durdiyev Cities:Skylines *
The whole reason Im watching this video
YES
C:S videos are how I got here :p
BTW, all of you who really like this visually, this is Voxel animation. Kinda like crossy road.
In Britain these rule don't apply because our roads were made before people had compasses
The random things I learn on a Monday
This was really interesting and illuminating. Thanks!
Illuminati?
Your one of them!!!!
Jessica de Portland do u even know what illuminating means?!?!
Clearly she does because it was used correctly lol
Schrodinger's Cake Thanks
In england ive never heard anyone say that and when i googled it (uk) it didnt come up sooooo
"How streets, roads, and avenues are different" .... in america*
totaly, on the old continent here the cities where mad day to day without really thinking, so the differcence between a street and an avenue are just the size xD
in Indonesia we call it *jalan* as long it is a path that people can walk on it. it's not a path? not jalan. it is but you can't walk on it? not jalan.
And let's not forget the entire thing with Highways. We ain't got Freeways, or beltways or whatever we just have 2 very distinct kinds. Motorways, and Carriageways, and the rules and structures are put in place for both. Like you'd never find a Traffic Light Intersections out in the middle of a Motorway unlike what you'll find on some American highways
this is exactly what its like here in australia tho
It's also quite different in the UK.
Here in the UK we have streets, roads and avenues, which have no distinction I'm aware of. Our towns and cities aren't usually laid out in a grid so having N-S and E-W distinctions would be meaningless. But we do have closes, which are usually short residential streets which terminate at one end, so you have to drive out the same way you drove in. We also have lanes, which are usually in rural areas connecting villages.
EVEN MORE CONFUSING.
TOO MUCH FOR MY BRAIN UGHHHH!!!!!
Someone has to make a building a city game with those graphics
Lyon Willman
YES. maybe a mobile phone game?
linux750 yeah man I would jam that
Lyon Willman, Somebody could probably mod the older Sim City games since they already have the perspective down.
Anything but a mobile game...
Pocket city is close
god dammit, now I wanna play SimCity
Ara Nalbandian try cities skylines is better newer version
Ara Nalbandian Բարեւ!
nonosh eench bes es
Ara Nalbandian Shad lav. shnorhagal em! Eesg toon inchbes es?
Cities: Skylines*
This just made me want to play Sim city
Me too
Jorge Soto SimCity 4 pls
This makes me want to play City Skylines
LarryMyster, City Skylines and Planet Coaster. The two games that saved us from EA's and Atari's stupidity.
Jorge Soto x2
In Wellington, New Zealand, the main shopping street is Lambton Quay - due to land reclamation and earthquakes, its now 250 metres from the shoreline!
Now I know what to name cities skylines roads
sometimes you don't know what you don't know until you know.😊
I was literally talking about this with my dad yesterday... we were listing all the types of roads and trying to figure out the differences between them. Vox is watching me O.o
Finally!!! Ive been dying to know whats the difference between all this words (cos I am non native english speaker) and no one I came across really sums it up clearly and some differs (maybe cos there is no picture to give an example to)
I have two routes I can use to get to a nearby city from where I live. One is called a highway, the other is called an interstate. Now I have a basic understanding of the difference. They both generally allow the same speeds (both max out at 75) but physically they are structured differently. The highway passes through a few rural towns and doesn't have on/off-ramps, just standard intersections without stoplights. It's a really long two-lane road. The interstate has the on/off-ramps and is divided, like a freeway. It cuts through the middle of nowhere and has a couple small towns near it, but doesn't pass through them.
I live in a pretty small town with only one stop light, and so these names weren't ever really something I felt inclined to learn about. But recently, I had the chance to spend a bunch of time out of state in some pretty big towns, Wilmington NC. and Boulder/Denver CO. It had dawned on me that there was a difference between each of these road types now. As I was following a Ct road into a culdesac, and was now following St roads down city blocks. It's so neat finding out about all this
Playing SimCity 5 while watching this... this may actually help with my traffic problem.
Cities Skylines > SimCity
+MrC0MPUT3R True dat.
MrC0MPUT3R Yeah, I know, but I don't own Cities Skylines so....
uknwtheusername A most unfortunate situation
Bonquiqui Thethird I have SC4 too, but I got bored of it and I actually prefer SC 5 now. Aesthetics is such an important part of gameplay for these types of games, and I don't wanna stare at the pixelated 90s graphics of SC4 for hours anymore.
I wish they taught stuff like this in public schools
I'd rather have children learn about their transition from high school to the rest of the world. Or about... taxes.
linux750 much better thAn learning chemistry or calculus that you'll never use in life unless you go into those professions (.000001% of ppl lol)
Silent Assassin Yeah. My teacher says they are teaching us how to follow step-by-step processes when doing Alg. 2... so are you telling me that following PEMDAS ir doing substitution isn't a 'step-by-step' process? Making a pre-draft, rough draft, edited draft, and final draft isn't a 'step-by-step' process?
I get them trying to help us, but knowing what combinations of atoms make up Nitrate (and *much* more) have almost no real use to me.
I wish they taught us more about the Vikings
moXon460 dude same
Videos like these that made me resub
That dog though
This was actually so facinating. I grew up on a court, and the whole time I kept thinking "it's circular, it's circular" and it actually was. MIND BLOWN
halfway through this video my brain got the feeling of sitting in class in 8th grade algebra with good intentions but there comes a slipping feeling
same! :D
yeahh i think this is different in britain
Kitty Kitty Well, we don't use a grid system so the direction of a road doesn't matter; ways tend to be residential streets that give access to other residential streets; and we call our highways 'motorways' and don't use those other terms for types of highway (interstate etc.); but the rest pretty much holds true in the UK.
So quite a lot of differences for a video that purports to cover all the world.
Yeah I live on an "avenue" in the uk which is just another small narrow residential road
+Skyjet3 So we improved on road name definitions here in the US, just like we did with government. ;^)
Kitty you are correct work in the transport industry i can confirm this
Why dont these kind of videos start with a simple, humble "in America"
Because the world revolves around America.
ikr, is it that hard, so many British TH-camrs literally use American words so they don't 'get confused', yet Americans give 0 shits
Fox Smith Apparently so. Because you didn't have to click on this American corporation's channel, on an American corporation's website, to complain about how they're not making explicit that they're primarily talking about America.
Terrence Dayton, where does it even say this is american? are we just supposed to know that? the fact you even call yourself american is kinda stupid cause America is literally two continents
well like obviously you can't call yourself american, but candians, brazilians etc are equally american
Remus You’re a moron
This is a very US centric video I have never seen most of these types of roads in the UK.
or in anywhere else lol
So request the uploader to restrict playback in your country
Most of them are rare in america too. I didn't know a crescent, prominade, turnpike, and probably others even existed
ahh ive seen these and i live in Australia..
I've seen "street", "road", "way", "close", "crescent", "circle", "lane", "highway" in Britain, and not just one area. "Avenue" is less common. "Parkway", "turnpike" are very North American.
"Pike" and "turnpike" are more common in the Northeast US. (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania all have turnpikes.)
I need this for making my city in Animal Crossing lol
You said so many types of transportation methods that I forgot partway through watching it, might have to replay 100 times for me to remember.
0:15 No, they are most certainly not across the world.
so streets and avenues only exist in America?
Nope, but the rest do
We have roads, routes, streets and avenues outside america
BenjerminGaye No, but the naming scheme certainly does. For example, in the UK a "Parkway" is a train station with extensive car parking facilities, the idea being that people would get there by car and continue their commute to work from thereonwards.
I'd like to suggest that if you need to drive to a train station to take a train to work, you probably need to reconsider whether your commute is worth it.
+BenjerminGaye Kind of. At least in Europe, most cities are not grid-based, so the North-South/West-East distinction doesn't make sense.
this will help in cities: skylines
Still will get horrid back up no matter what.
Your still gonna have to put unrealistic amount of public transport tho.
Radio i got that one way road game on 100 tho so its not an issue
FrostyCreeper10 i got a 500k city with no public transport. my road system is very methodical and i have alot of tunnels connecting places around the city.
brenden whiteley In what way is it _methodical_. I'm actually curious
This is so important. I can impress my friends with this knowledge
I lost friends with this knowledge.
This is similar to the way interstate highways are numbered, in that if you're familiar with these guidelines and conventions, then you often won't even need to know anything about the local area to find your destination. If you know how the highways are numbered, then you can get a good idea of where you are, where you're going, and how to get there without knowing anything about the local geography. If you're near the interchange of I-95 and I-64, you don't need to know what city that is too know what part of the country you're in and which way you need to go to find your destination. That's really cool to know, and it feels good to know it, even if you never need that info.
In the UK a 'Way' needs to be connected to roads at each end, which is why the Fire Brigade objected to the original name of the 'Close' that I live in, they said it was deceptive to call it a 'Way'.
Where I live, in Toronto, the cross-section of streets and avenues is a little different then in most cities. The pattern seems to be that streets run through the downtown core (King, Queen, Dundas, Bloor, Yonge, Bathurst, etc.) whereas avenues run away from the downtown core (Eglinton, Finch, St. Clair, Islington, etc.) Of course there are exceptions to the rule, like Spadina Avenue which runs downtown, but basically it seems to matter less what direction the streets run in and more where it is within the city of Toronto.
I still dont get it.
therealshins same in confused
Do you not understand or do you just not remember which is which? Cause the latter is no biggy, for the former, basically the road type (Street, Road, Aveneue, etc.) is just determined by certain attributes of the road.
Most cities name streets and avenues, based on what direction they're going in. For example, they'll have 1st St go from east to west, and then they'll have 1st Ave, go the opposite direction as north to south. Or vice versa. That's one easy way of looking at it.
I think you overstated the "across the world" point. I only recognised Drive and plaza.
What about bypass or motorway?
I believe motorway is more of a British term, equivalent to highway in the US, and he's American.
DSQueenie America IS the whole world, OBVIOUSLY
I'm guessing these are only for road names that you might find in USA. British motorists have different names and maybe ways of naming the roads, as with every other country.
I live literally less than 30 minutes from the american border but outside of america. These naming conventions do not match my city in the least, I live on a street and my cross street is a street and up a bit is an avenue.
Beltway is Yank for bypass/ring road
In Germany it's like this:
Straße(street): Any road.
Allee(Avenue): Street with trees.
Weg(Way): Small street
Autobahn(Highway) Big important street.
Bundestraße(federal road): similar to Autobahnen.
Landestraßen(country road): A road which is in more than one district.
Kreisstraße(district street): Street which is in only one district.
In Australia, we don't have a certain classifications for how a street is a street or a road is a road. Where I live (Sydney) there are one lane (each side), two way roads that are called Avenues even though they should be called "Street" or "Road". There are even Crescents that have Cul-de-sac's or a Dead end. Excluding Motorways and Freeways which are only properly named..
Ahhhmm have you even seen your animals?
i love this
mugge47 yeah its so helpful
Me to
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hmm, I live in an avenue which has a dead end, however this video calls it a 'close' - is this because I live in England?...
nova forrest Well I live in England and it's called a close although I've seen them called a drive as well...
+Ricky Bay ah how confusing! I've seen them be called all three too
In Enlgand any streets with "close" at the end will be a cul-de-sac
nova forrest I live in an avenue that's a dead end too. I live in the States.
a lot of these conventions aren't even universal in the US. Avenues in my area are (mostly) used for busy streets, most of which (but not all) are 4 lane roads. Not every major road is an Avenue here though, at least 2 are streets. We don't have that perpendicular rule with Avenues and streets. we have streets crossing streets and avenues crossing avenues.
almost all of these terms or their uses sound distinctly american to me (uk). a lot of out our roads are named depending on the era they were built. a on road called x street was probably built by the romans but x way was probably built by germanic people
god damn germans
Alex Harris Most 'street's in the UK are as described in the video. Some old Roman roads are also called 'steet' even when they're not urban because the definition of the word changed; it used to mean any paved road, as opposed to a dirt road. Most 'way's I come across are modern residential streets that give access to other residential streets; not sure of any Germanic connection as the word 'way' comes from Latin 'via' (they pronounced Vs as we pronounce Ws) meaning road, path or way.
If there are autobahns in your country they were probably built by Germans.
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+Steve Wood In modern Germanic languages equivalents for way can be for example weg or väg, which in certain pronunciations are actually very close to way. Don't know about UK street name origins though.
In France, you have:
Within towns
Rue - Road, varying sizes. Usually go up to 3 lanes. E.g. Rue Phillippe Lebon
Avenue (Ave) - Avenue, again varying sizes. Larger than a 'rue'. E.g. Avenue Carnot
Boulevard (Bvd) - Long, wide roads going up to 4 lanes. E.g. Boulevard Lafayette
Viaduc - Section of a road raised above the ground. May have road running beneath it. E.g. Viaduc Saint Jacques
Cours - Long, wide road similar to a boulevard, but has more junctions. E.g. Cours Sablon
Outside towns
Autoroute (A) - Like motorways or freeways. The majority are toll roads. E.g. A89
Route Nationale (N) - Trunk roads or dual carriageways. E.g. N218
Route Departementale (D or RD) - Gradually transferred from routes nationales. E.g. D53
Route Communale (C) - Country/single track roads. E.g. C2
Missing from that video is what traditionally was named a street vs avenue. Usually avenues ran parallel to the main body of water around which the city was built, while streets ran perpendicular to it. Still holds true to this day in most cities with a river running through it or a lake besides it
In america, streets run north, south, east and west, meanwhile in the uk..
True but in the uk you don't have to deal with angry Americans with guns who drive like they are in a Fast and Furious movie.
I think that in UK there are not Interstate road. I thought that film was about american call system for Road.
@@mixelpl6066 The name 'interstate' is very unique to the US, as far as I can tell. It certainly wouldn't make sense for a country whose top-level subnational divisions aren't called 'states'. In Britain, major multi-lane roads that cover long distances between cities are called motorways.
I remember when my Grandmother lived on City Terrace Drive.
I used to live on the Southeast corner of Blacklidge Drive and Blacklidge Drive. That was always fun to explain. Tucson, AZ doesn't believe in these so called rules.
In Nottingham, England, there's an Avenue Road, which runs into Avenue Road Extension.
Amazing, fun video. Though, a running summary throughout the video or a summary at the end would have been helpful.
This video is the first thing that hasn't let me down in months.
In Singapore we also have "Walk", "Circle", "Quay", "Close", "Park", "Hill", "Garden", "Place" and "Jalan" too hahaha. Probably more too!
Vox videos like these bring me so much joy. I love learning new things. Thanks Vox!
Vox videos are so good When they leave out their liberal agenda
Damon Sidur gtfo
If this comment was an ironic one though, that would have been funny.
I also enjoy videos where they leave out their liberal agenda. Taking a read of it is a good way to pass the time when I get bored.
I know right.
Quick, someone tell me what the difference is between a street, a road and an avenue? You can't, can you?!
Road: connects 2 points. Street: connects 2 points but has buildings on both sides. Avenue: connects 2 points, has buildings on both sides but are perpendicular to streets.
Kyrodes but then streets are perpendicular to avenues. its relative isnt it
0:29 Road
0:34 Way
0:39 Street
0:45 Avenue
1:01 Boulevard
1:09 Lane
1:14 Drive
1:22 Terrace
1:26 Place
1:32 Court
1:36 Plaza / Square
1:47 Frontage/Access Road
1:54 Highway
2:00 Interstate
2:14 Turnpike
2:18 Freeway
2:23 Beltway
2:28 Parkway
2:47 Junction
2:54 Causeway
3:03 Crescent
3:11 Alley
3:16 Esplanade / Promenade
Please tell me if I missed anything.
here in St. Louis we name almost all of our residential streets avenues and every couple boulevards is named a boulevard while the rest are avenues
How the hell did I end up here?
Daniel Andrade its called a subscription
oh, right I forgot!
Thanks :) !
+Daniel Andrade :)
Now i wanna play simcity again!
Hahaha same!
@Golden Gamer TV I'm surprised you like it in the first place, it's so limited and boring, and waiting an hour to make a skyscraper buildable manually unlike the PC Simcity were you make parks and they plan to upgrade automatically, and since many people agree with me, how are you alive?
@Golden Gamer TV At the time I'm commenting this, I'm becoming ten in eight days, and I kinda said a popular opinion, and I know that opinions are allowed, thanks for the facepalm.
What road would you drive on to pickup some Grey Poupon?
I like how they’re all nice unique names and then there’s a place
Way to go Vox for answering the questions I never found the answers to
and if you are from the UK its none of these.... haha
UK speaks British English so the terms are different
Jacob D Wrong some are from the City of England.
or anywhere else in the world apart from america ahaha
Jamison Eddington so true 😂
The street names are used here in Australia
Mind-blown! how is this not taught in drivers education?
what use would that have? You don't have to learn a map of a place you drive either.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS
This is my favorite kind of fact. The kind that’s so useless you’re highly unlikely to ever use it even in like a trivia competition but I’m totally going to remember it because it’s so freaking interesting.
*It’s almost 1am and idk why I clicked on this but I find it informative. Though I’d have to rewatch it later when my brain is able to process all of it.*
Someone in your art department's evidently familiar with city simulator games...
...although of course, they follow a different convention to the US in real life: Streets are light grey and low capacity, roads are bitmac and have higher capacity (each one tile width), one way roads have a higher capacity (as both lanes are heading in the same direction), avenues are similar to boulevards and are effectively a parallel pair of one way roads heading in opposite directions, while highways are the highest capacity roads with limited access and no frontages.
Then I don't know about other countries, but there's no not much of a naming convention in the UK, with the possible exception of the self-descriptive crescent, square, court, terrace and walk (the latter usually doesn't allow motorised traffic). Some lanes are also narrow rural roads, but others have been upgraded while others have been built from scratch to a high standard.
In Phoenix AZ, avenues and streets both go north and south, but the wester you go, the higher number avenue, and the easter you go, the higher number street, and in the middle east to west is: 3rd street, 2nd street, main street (or central avenue), 2nd avenue, 3 avenue, and so on
With the exception of Grand Avenue (US-60), which goes northwest
Tuxedo Productions wester? easter? more west. more east. you're welcome.
In the Maricopa County address system, Grand Avenue is numbered as going East and West. Even on Easter.
I used to live in a numbered avenue in Phoenix. You read my mind.
Renegade5130 Well if you don't want them I'll eat your easter eggs then. Mmm more east eggs.
I got lost in the first 30 secs
Me: hey, a seemingly simple video with everyday information i should know
Vox: **laughs maniacally**
I love this video so much. Watching it has made me so happy. Thanks for taking the time to break things down and explain them so clearly!
Anyone else thinking of Cities:Skylines while watching this video?
rjh00 That and simcmty 4.
Yup.
Of course
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You and me both.
My house is on a road despite the video saying it should be a way. It's a dead end and doesn't connect to two points, but it's still called a road by the sign.
They are conventions, not rules.
What's the difference between Street and Avenue then; if both are perpendicular to each other and both have trees / building on both sides? Are they interchangeable?
And if road can be anything that connects two points, all others terms explained in the video are one or the other forms of "road", right? i.e. all streets are road, but not all roads are streets etc?
LMAO. nocontext.
Hmm... A street is narrow and may not have a median (one to two lanes on each side). An avenue is usually wider (two or more lanes) plus a median. They may be interchangeable by links, short type of roads and even more streets.
Roads is probably a name that will be used because well, it may be the first road to use that name of the road, while streets may be used because a road has the name of the road already so... sorry I think I confused you.
+SG Transit Evolution Most of the roads in my city are avenues. I live on an avenue. Certainly it doesn't have a median.
All the east-west roads are avenues and half the north-south ones are also avenues. The other half are streets. Except the exceptions, of course.
Originally, an "avenue" approached something in a city or town, while a "street" usually passed through a city or town. It's no longer true in that respect, but some cities in Britain still have that convention. Some American cities (New York's Manhattan Island) have an "avenue" direction that approaches water (New York Harbor/Upper Bay). Others, especially Chicago, Boston, and Washington DC, have avenues that are approach diagonals to a street grid system. In Seattle, avenues approach the centre city/downtown, while streets cross it; the grid keeps that distinction even away from the core area. In Los Angeles, avenues and boulevards both approach the Pacific, while streets *may*, but are generally just throughways.
What got me was when he said a street and avenue are perpendicular to each other while showing a map where they're parallel, the opposite of perpendicular. Clearly he didn't do well in basic geometry.
The Simcity/Tropico themes are perfect for these city building vids!
I thought this was goin to be just an explanation of roads, streets and avenues but then it turnes out to be much more complicated yet great explanation, thanks anyway.
I'm guessing this only appys for the us, Britain seems to be real random with road names.
No. British road names are probably related to the history of town planning. It is the same for other European cities. In Paris, "boulevard" is the name of the wide streets that replaced the old ramparts of the city (and French invented this word). If the name of a street seems strange to you, this street has a story to tell. I find it much more funny to have road names that tells us the history of a city rather than the very academic definition of this video. And yes this only apply to US, but Europe is older than 250 years
bex w Hence Fleshmarket Square in London or the various streets in York ending "-gate". And the wonderful Hull dialect for alley, a tenfoot
I learned this by playing SImcity and City Skylines.
My street is called a trail (trl)
Casually watching this when it gets to court and nails my street's design right on the head! Fascinating!
Thanks for the camera noises. They really helped me focus on the video and not look for someone trying to take my picture