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Vahabbayani Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Ave. St. Dr. Blvd.

What's the difference between avenue, street, boulevard, and drive?
  

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Originally, boulevards had a divider (planted with trees and shrubs, usually) between opposite-bound lanes. However, nowadays that is no longer necessarily the case, and all of those street names that you list are arbitrary and at the mercy of the city planner's office.

— Mister Micawber

  • Originally, boulevards had a divider (planted with trees and shrubs, usually) between opposite-bound lanes.
  • However, nowadays that is no longer necessarily the case, and all of those street names that you list are arbitrary and at the mercy of the city planner's office.
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Originally, boulevards had a divider (planted with trees and shrubs, usually) between opposite-bound lanes. However, nowadays that is no longer necessarily the case, and all of those street names that you list are arbitrary and at the mercy of the city planner's office.
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All four words mean "road," and in practice there no surefire way to distinguish between them. Technically speaking, a street should be the smallest of the four, with avenue the next largest, drive the next biggest, and boulevard the biggest, but there are streets out there that are bigger than some boulevards. Also, avenue, drive, and boulevard, in approximately that order, are supposedly "clas
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AnonymousTechnically speaking, a street should be the smallest of the four, with avenue the next largest, drive the next biggest, and boulevard the biggest,
I'm curious as to your source for this statement.
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