Longest urban drives in the US

[atadytic19]

Originally Posted by mike0421

Per the census, New Jersey is the only state that is classified as 100% urban. Every area is classified in a Metropolitan Statistical Area.

New Jersey isn't a state, it is a suburb.

[bluescreen73]

Originally Posted by atadytic19

Just because you have not heard other cities making those claims didn't mean it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Again this is a marketing gimmick. Cities make those TYPES of claims all the time. I have heard the same about Figueroa Street.

There is probably a dozen continuously built up streets in LA (Sepulveda is 42 miles, most of which is built up), Phoenix (baseline is 43 miles), SA (military drive is 32 miles), Houston (Clay road is an arterial street for its entire 42 mile length). Chicago( Cicero is about 45Miles). Raleigh (Blue Ridge is about 29 miles)

People need to research marketing claims before they spread them.

There has been many threads about city streets here on City Data. Here is a post that addresses Colfax directly :

Dozens of COMMERCIAL SURFACE STREETS all around the country are longer than Colfax. I bet LA, Houston and Chicago alone can come up with 20 longer commercial streets between the 3 of them.

While not really valid in the context of this thread, Colfax Avenue is officially ~50 miles long (not 26). It runs from Golden to Strasburg, and once you get east of Tower Road in Aurora it becomes very rural.

[atadytic19]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

While not really valid in the context of this thread, Colfax Avenue is officially ~50 miles long (not 26). It runs from Golden to Strasburg, and once you get east of Tower Road in Aurora it becomes very rural.

Most of that is highway. Was referencing the commercial city street part of the street. If we switch to highways then there are many that are longer.
Let's just face it, that Colfax thing is just city propaganda. Toronto did the same for Yonge Street.

https://www.civitatis.com/blog/en/th...-in-the-world/

This link claims to list the longest streets in the world. Dunno what criteria they use but none of them are that long. Just goes to show, you make up the criteria, you can come up with anything to be the top in something and market the heck out of it to where it is erroneously added to web articles proclaiming it to be something that is not. Even if you extend Colfax to 50 miles using highway that's still not the longest anything.
California, Florida and the East coast all have longer stretches. The population in Denver is just not there to maintain as long stretches of development as these areas periodt