House numbering

[ctgirlscout]

All interstates in the US that run north/south are odd numbers, i.e. I-95, which runs from Maine to Florida. Even numbers run east/west. And most of the interstates do have exits that coincide with the mileage markers. I-4 has recently changed to this system. The ring roads, or beltways, usually go around a city, and connect up with a highway of a similar number. I95 has beltways that are numbered 195, 295, 395, etc.

[andreah]

Can anyone explain this?

We are buying on High Grove. Our road name is Caribbean Breeze way, there are about 23 properties in the road. Why is our house number to be 16644?

We can't believe the number and have asked to confirm this three times.

Andrea

[blott]

The reason for the numbering is that there may be other roads in other communities with the same road names (or so I was told!) and the numbers avoid confusion at the Post Office.

So, if that theory's true Andrea, then there should be another Caribbean Breeze somewhere and they pinched all the lower numbers!

[steph_goodrum]

"Another thing I noticed (seeing as we are on to roads) is that on main roads, the junction numbers (which must have been changed recently I think) coincide more or less with mileage. This means there isn't a 6, 7, 8, 9 etc. You might have 3, 9, 11, then a 45a and 45b. Am I right"

Its so logical when you think about it isn't it, planning a trip is much easier if you can see that you join the I4 at say, junction 58 and where you are going is at junction 78 , you know there is approx 20 miles to the turn off so can judge it more easily.

[Quanah]

What about the roads that run south to north and west to east?[msnscared][msnwink]
sorry but i couldn't resist[msnsmile]
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by hayter
Another bit of useless information, although it seems to work! Odd numbered roads in the US travel basically North-South (i.e. US27) whereas even numbers travel East - West. At least that is what I was told by a work friend in the US. It just gets confusing when you have something like the I275, which is basically a ring road.
But generally it works.
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[Ray&Sarah]

LOL!

[LesleyB]

Slightly off subject and not sure whether it is the same on all communities, but on ours all the villa mailboxes are on one side of the street, we were told it was for the convenience of the mailperson as they deliver from the driver's window without getting out of their car.

Lesley

[Carla]

Have you also noticed that when they build a cul-de-sac, they always have a large circular area at the bottom? This is for the postman so that he can easily sweep around to the mail boxes without having to back up or turn round. There's 8 homes in our cul-de-sac and 4 have odd and 4 even numbers - all in the 100s and 10 numbers apart. The first number is 104 which seems a really strange one to start with!!!

I love the way that they build all the roads on a development and put in all the services before they build any homes. It looks a bit strange though until they do start on the houses!! Roads going nowhere!!

[Ray&Sarah]

They do that in Portugal as well, we were amazed to come across a beatifully laid out development of roads, with street lights etc. but no houses yet.

[porky]

My home is in a huge cul de sac and there are only 3 houses. The first one is number 2118, and mine the last is number 2126.[?]You tell me. I was born with the pointed ears but I don't posses their logic.

Jacqui