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Old 08-07-2013, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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What exactly is a "stravenue"? Nearest I can tell, it is a road that runs northwest-southeast, rather than one that runs along the usual gridded east-west (street) or north-south alignment (avenue).
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Old 08-07-2013, 11:52 PM
 
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yeah, that could be....obviously a contraction of "street" and "avenue"....since avenues and streets run in opposite directions in Tucson, some wacky city planner back in the olden days probably came up with the distinctive name when some developer created confusion with his diagonal roads....
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Old 08-08-2013, 09:00 AM
 
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Stravenue

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A stravenue is a type of road particular to Tucson, Az. The USPS officially supports the abbreviation STRA for stravenues. A Stravenue runs "diagonally between and intersects a Street and an Avenue. In a few areas of Tucson, primarily around the central part of the city, which is divided by railroad tracks running diagonally from southeast to northwest, builders created small subdivisions of roads and houses that also are laid out on a diagonal basis rather than the normal east-west or north-south. Most of these subdivisions are located near either Benson Highway or Aviation Highway, which also run southeast to northwest. "The word Stravenue was originally coined by Roy Drachman when he was delevoping the subdivision called Pueblo Gardens," perhaps in the 1950s or 1960s


Seems rather unique to Arizona, because a few other cities here use the term also. If one can believe everything (or anything) found on the internet.
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