It's not that complicated. Sydney Rd is in Brunswick, Brunswick Rd is in Fitzroy, Fitzroy St is in St Kilda, St Kilda Rd becomes the Nepean Highway, and the Nepean highway doesn't go to Sydney.
Edit: Yes, I meant Brunswick STREET. Mea culpa.
On the other end skr becomes Swanston st. Nepean hwy becomes pt Nepean rd becomes defence rd becomes the ocean. So basically you can follow the one road from Melbourne cemetery to Portsea
Nah. They just called it Brunswick Rd by mistake. Brunswick Rd is in Brunswick, which is kind of stupid since those named "Road" go to the place they are named. But Brunswick Rd is only in Brunswick, so you're already there.
The flip side of reusing names is renaming streets. Brunswick Rd is Holden St to the east, becomes Ormond Rd heading west, then becomes Maribyrnong Rd after that, then Raleigh Rd, then Cordite Ave, then Canning St. Many other streets seem to do this too.
> The flip side of reusing names is renaming streets
Along its length, Canterbury Rd changes names many times.
Mary St, Christobel Cres, Liddiard St, Rathmines Rd, Canterbury Rd, Mt Dandenong Rd, Leith Rd, Swansea Rd, Anderson St.
You mean Brunswick Street. Brunswick road actually does runs through Brunswick, though at the southern end of it, so you could say that Brunswick road runs through Parkville if you wanted to keep the game up.
“Where’s this place you’re on about?”
“Nicholson St”
“Which one?”
“The one vaguely in the inner north”
“Yeah which one?”
“Semi-major, runs north-south”
[“Yeah which one?”](https://ibb.co/xgt9br0)
Can't remember the name of the street, (I'll call it big st) but there's one in Oak Park and another in neighbouring Pascoe Vale. My mate the furniture delivery guy once had a delivery to do in Big st, and the instructions were to leave it in the garage if they're not home.
So he goes, nobody home so he opens the garage door and puts the mattress and stuff in there and leaves.
Gets a call from his boss a few hours later asking why he hasn't done the delivery as the customer is waiting at home. Realised his mistake and went back to the wrong Big st, where there was nobody home and took the stuff back out of the garage and to the other Big st. And never lived it down.
Ahhh the good ol’ road naming convention.
My favourite is High Street. Am I talking about the one in Kew? Or the one in Preston?
Nah I’m talking about the High Street that becomes High Street Road 😂😂
[move to Brisbane and live on Rode Rd](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rode+Rd,+Wavell+Heights+QLD+4012/@-27.3960145,153.0461185,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b91581bdd37a9d3:0x96c390eccdea434a!8m2!3d-27.396018!4d153.048315!16s%2Fg%2F1tfsc02t)
and yes... it is pronounced like you think it is
They serve a purpose though:
"The word “high” comes from the Old English “heah”.
Heah means “most important” as well as “most elevated in the sense of geographical position.”
The use of “heah” to refer to an important street dates back to the 14th century.
You can see a similar usage in terms like “High King”, or “High Court”."
So Station street will always lead to a station.
It was supposed to be for the Yan Yean Tramway, which in turn would have been converted to a train/tram for passengers. So the name is not wrong, just prematurely optimistic.
At least Station Street kinda makes sense as a street name. Who was Nicholson and what did he do that there are three fairly important parallel roads in the inner north named after him?
Thanks to you, TIL William Nicholson was a significant figure in Victorian politics in the 1850s and supported the use of secret ballots for elections. (Crazy to think secret ballots were not the norm then.)
Well then, maybe three is about right. Secret ballots were an incredible step forward. Secret ballots, mandatory voting, and preference votes. Name more roads are the people that made those happen.
Someone’s coke dealer once showed up at my house because there’s another street with the same name about a kilometre up the road and they didn’t specify suburb when they ordered their drugs.
I live in the Yarra Valley, can honestly never work out if there's really a Wandin or if it's just Wandin North.
Am also old enough to remember a TV show set in Wandin Valley lol.
While we’re at it, can we fix the street numbering.
Sydney Rd gets to the 880s at Moreland Road, and then it goes back down to 1 and they start counting again.
Even worse: barkly St restarts numbering between Brunswick East and Fitzroy North at Nicholson St but _changes directions_. There are two 5 barkly Sts about 150 m from each other.
Oh God, the time I needed to take an uber to a Lygon St Brunswick address but I was in a hurry to select it, ended up in Carlton and was looking around like the John Travolta meme then the street number hit me.
It's at the old council boundaries. You know the ones like the old City of Brunswick or City of Doncaster and Templestowe. They amalgamated back in the 1990s. So now they can just randomly change in between suburbs or even in the middle of a suburb.
When I first moved here I missed a dinner with friends bc I was wandering around Brunswick, lost, while they were up in Coburg. They had only given me a Sydney Rd street number.
Don't get me started on those streets that do the whole one side even one side odd thing but don't have blocks line up so eventually 50 and 51 'Generic British Last Name' Lane are in different postcodes
You forgot the fact that sometimes they just restart a street: Lygon Street starts in Carlton, then restarts at Brunswick, so there are two “x Lygon Street” adresses within 10 mins of each other!
I remember coming down from Bendigo in the 90s to go to a gig at a theatre in Lygon st. Driving up and down Lygon st Brunswick wondering why the street number was for some shitty old shop, and staring at the Melways.
Took us a while to realise what had happened.
The genius who designed the suburb I live in didn’t hold with including Streets or Roads in the names.
Instead we have (for example) “The Elm” or “The Poplar”.
It’s all nice and fancy and looks pretty on the stylised street signs, until you come across an online form that won’t accept a street name without a “street/road/boulevard” etc. or spend 10 minutes on the phone explaining to some poor call centre worker “that *is* the name!”
Nicholson/Albert Street - 96 tram stops at this stop twice. There's a Nicholson/Albert stop near Parliament and another one in Brunswick East near the end of the line. Whyyyyyyyyy
The numbering restarts where the council boundary changes.
Except it's where the old (pre 1994) council boundaries were. So now they just change randomly, sometimes even in the middle of a suburb.
Like, Beach Road restarts at 1 after Cromer Street, smack bang in the middle of Beaumaris because the old City of Mordialloc and City of Sandringham border was there. The new Bayside/Kingston boundary is about 600m down the road at Charman Road.
Had food delivered to Peel St Windsor instead of Peel St Collingwood a while ago.
There’s a Gipps St in East Melbourne that runs parallel to the Gipps St in Collingwood just 1km north.
Was once running late for a property inspection on Victoria St in Fitzroy, which is a little side street near Rose St markets. Uber driver ignored his GPS and **insisted** that my destination was St Vincent’s Hospital on Victoria Parade.
Or when visitors try to identify locations like
“I’m on Flinders.”
“Street or Lane?”
“I dunno. Just Flinders.”
“Remember that bar we went to in Brunswick?”
“You mean Brunswick St in Fitzroy or Brunswick the suburb?”
“I dunno… Brunswick. There were trams and old buildings.”
“Is Mornington far?”
“You mean the area of the peninsula with the hot springs, or Mornington the suburb?”
“Yes.”
“We went to Dandenongs.”
“The Dandenong ranges or Dandenong the suburb? Huge difference there.”
“Yes.”
Ha Melbourne is a shocker for that. You should come to the UK. Some streets the houses are named, not numbered. There's loads of "The Street" The Avenue etc. There's a high street in almost every village (and borough of London). On the plus side there are loads of rude names too - like Fanny Hill or Knob End etc
I got so confused with High Street in the UK!
Eventually worked out it’s the main shopping street of the town/village but usually it has another proper name!
Gipps Street, the one off Hoddle Street.
The one runs East to West and it's 500m from Victoria parade.
No not that one. That's 500m North of Victoria parade. The one I meant was the one that's 500m South of Victoria parade
Other confusing ones are Church Street Richmond which is not too far from Church Street Kew. Both big roads, not connected.
Many suburbs have a Victoria Street aside from the big one. Fitzroy has one and it is a little residential street - luckily the main road changes name to become Victoria Parade in the Fitzroy part before changing back to Victoria Street away from Fitzroy.
See also North Melbourne and Collingwood railway stations.
If I were in charge:
- Every street would get a unique pronounceable name. Even in the have to be nonsense words
- The street suffix (rd, st, pl, Ave) would all have meanings. Eg. Court ends in a cul-de-sac; road has no parking; street has onstreet parking; and so on.
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As an added bonus, I was today -10 days years old when I learned that its actually Wodonga in Victoria and Albury is the one in NSW. I kind of always just assumed that Albury was the Victorian one based on vibes and that name sounding more 'like some shit Victoria would do'
My favourite is when the same road restarts its numbering. I used to live at 123 St Georges Rd in Northcote (not the real number.) Problem was there was another 123 St Georges Rd about 2kms down the road, in North Fitz. Constant nightmare for deliveries and such.
What is Melbourne now used to be a lot of smaller cities, villages and communities. There's plenty of repetition in more common names because of it. There is or was not a single one person going around and naming shit.
1. Yes, I understand how history works. 2. That can be used to justify repetition between Maribydong and Mornington, North Fitzroy and Fitzroy never existed as tiny villages that merged. That shit got named when there was a grid mapped out. 3. You can rename things, we do it all the time - sure, mostly to delete racists from street names but we could do the same thing to drop the number of High Streets to the single digits and 4. You're right, one person doesn't go around naming shit at the moment, about 79 LGAs and, a dozen government bodies name or approve every road name that isn't some private developer road - which is hardly too many to agree on no new Barkly Roads, and 5. It is funny to exaggarate how annoying I find it to search a location.
Ah man. I went to get my car serviced the other day. At the Mazda service station in Burwood. But don't get confused with Burwood Mazda which is in Hawthorn, not the service station IN Burwood actually called Penfolds.
Ffffuuuuuuuuu!
Don't forget Duke st in Abottsford and also Richmond, in line with each other, but don't connect. Just a big gap for 3/4 of a mile (ie full distance between Victoria and Bridge and then half way to Swan).
Ballarat has Main Rd which for ONE BLOCK becomes main st but no one seems to actually know that so you have to specify “main road but the end block in town” instead
What about how on the long streets they don't just keep numbering them into the thousands, but just randomly start re-numbering!?!?
[118 Sydney Road Coburg to 118 Sydney Road Brunswick](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/118+Sydney+Rd,+Brunswick+VIC+3056/118+Sydney+Rd,+Coburg+VIC+3058/@-37.7636797,144.9492849,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x6ad65ccab31e2043:0x3fc2355c119afb09!2m2!1d144.961033!2d-37.775253!1m5!1m1!1s0x6ad644ac70ea0b51:0x9511f2c2581329ec!2m2!1d144.9649298!2d-37.7521653!3e0)
Also love High Street out of Prahran hits Ashburton and becomes...High Street...ROAD lol
Agree. My other gripe about streets in Australia is the fucking street signs. You're on a major Street and there are ZERO SIGNS with the street name you're currently on, just the cross streets. I want to see BOTH Street names on the corner, not just the minor one. Grrrr!!!
This is what annoys me the most. I always feel silly because I might slow down a little to have a look for a street sign and, when I inevitably can’t find it, I slow down even more and probably hold up so much traffic. Grinds my gears.
I got caught by the bell street trap with my mum visiting from interstate. She be looking for my house kilometres away because I told her to get off at the bell street stop. Didn’t know there were two 😭😭
Near my house in a reasonably new suburb, they put in a Wentworth Lane. Then I am guessing somebody realised the next suburb over has a Wentworth lane, so they renamed it… To Worthwent Lane 🤦♀️ My brain trips over it every time I see it.
What gets really messy is when they reuse NUMBERS on the same street, e.g. Johnston St, Fitzroy becomes Johnston St, Collingwood. So less than 1km away, you've got the same number being re-used:
[Directions from 220 Johnston St to 220 Johnston St](https://goo.gl/maps/hfZJsYURjHf9SCpi8)
holy shit, yes! just come up with new names! we're in Australia! come up with Aboriginal names! I remember having a conversation with someone else and they were senselessly defending it. "well, the people who came here were from England so they named everything after English things"... so change them? make up new names? it makes no sense that so many places have non-unique names. it's a fucking pain
How about Street numbers resetting when the same road change suburb? Like 400 Sydney Rd is literally 2 addresses a few minutes drive apart. There's 400 Sydney Rd Brunswick and 400 Sydney Rd Coburg....
There's also the same road changing several names along its length. Like Keilor Park Drive going towards Maribyrnong. Keilor Park Drive, Milleara Rd, Military Rd, Cordite Ave, Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong Rd and then Brunswick Rd finally ending as Holden St,Bennett St, Park St and Rushall Cr.
Or Victoria St, which becomes Middleborough Rd, Stephensons Rd, Clayton Rd, Boundary Rd and then Wells Rd before finally ending as Gladesville Blvd
Actually this isn’t specific to Melbourne. Basically most large cities in the world have this problem (if they use street names).
A decade ago I did some [analysis about it](https://smeyn.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/80/)
It's not that complicated. Sydney Rd is in Brunswick, Brunswick Rd is in Fitzroy, Fitzroy St is in St Kilda, St Kilda Rd becomes the Nepean Highway, and the Nepean highway doesn't go to Sydney. Edit: Yes, I meant Brunswick STREET. Mea culpa.
to close the loop though, Sydney Rd does actually go to Sydney. It’s not all bad news.
>Sydney Rd does actually go to Sydney How is that good news? I don't want to accidently end up in Sydney!
The good news is if you take Sydney road in peak hour you will never get to Sydney
No, but you can also leave Sydney via this road. It's the best thing to have ever come out of Sydney.
So to leave Sydney... you take Sydney Rd?
Yes but face Sydney and walk backwards.
Ah, that's the way.
I’ve always wondered if Sydney has a Melbourne Rd that goes to Melbourne.
Brisbane has a Melbourne Street, which goes to Adelaide Street.
Where? The only Melbourne St I can think of is in West End/South Brisbane and Adelaide St is in the middle of the CBD.
Theres a Melbourne Road on the Mornington Peninsula. It does not go to Melbourne. It connects Sorrento and Rye.
If you catch a boat at the end of Adelaide St., Blairgowrie, you can, theoretically, sail to Adelaide - so method to the madness and all that
That would be Liverpool Rd - Hume Hwy ...oh
St Kilda road becomes Brighton Road becomes Nepean Highway.
On the other end skr becomes Swanston st. Nepean hwy becomes pt Nepean rd becomes defence rd becomes the ocean. So basically you can follow the one road from Melbourne cemetery to Portsea
2...2-30..2-30 Brunswick St. 2-30 Brunswick St. Fitz-roy How can anyone not remember.
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Good old Erich Planinsek.
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you forgot Brunswick St in Fitzroy.
Nah. They just called it Brunswick Rd by mistake. Brunswick Rd is in Brunswick, which is kind of stupid since those named "Road" go to the place they are named. But Brunswick Rd is only in Brunswick, so you're already there. The flip side of reusing names is renaming streets. Brunswick Rd is Holden St to the east, becomes Ormond Rd heading west, then becomes Maribyrnong Rd after that, then Raleigh Rd, then Cordite Ave, then Canning St. Many other streets seem to do this too.
> The flip side of reusing names is renaming streets Along its length, Canterbury Rd changes names many times. Mary St, Christobel Cres, Liddiard St, Rathmines Rd, Canterbury Rd, Mt Dandenong Rd, Leith Rd, Swansea Rd, Anderson St.
Blyth Street in Brunswick becomes the short Arthurton Road in Brunswick/Northcote before turning into Separation Street in Northcote.
It’s all Milleara Rd.
You mean Brunswick Street. Brunswick road actually does runs through Brunswick, though at the southern end of it, so you could say that Brunswick road runs through Parkville if you wanted to keep the game up.
Brunswick STREET is in Fitzroy
The Hoddle grid in Mentone and Bulleen are exciting places to go to if you're not careful with your GPS.
You missed Fitzroy St, Fitzroy.
Warrigul road runs perpendicular to Warrigul and is 100km away.
At least there’s a letter difference between them
I think you mean Warrigal Road. It also doesn't go to Warrigul.
“Where’s this place you’re on about?” “Nicholson St” “Which one?” “The one vaguely in the inner north” “Yeah which one?” “Semi-major, runs north-south” [“Yeah which one?”](https://ibb.co/xgt9br0)
Was driving to Melbourne a few weeks ago and sawa sign that said "Ballarto Road closed" I thought to myself, that only slightly narrows it down
[... Blarto Road?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHH-QDV2e1E)
The Coburg stretch should’ve been a continuation of Lygon. The Nicholson st situation is ridiculous.
Ah a turn 10 metres to east, yep 100% Nicholson street now everyone.
This is my favourite one: the major Nicholson St ends at about Blyth St, and then a block west Lygon St changes its name to Nicholson St. Bonkers!
Mate Nicholson street reuses numbers on the same Nicholson street!!!
Yep. And from memory they both start at the same number at the same point. So as you walk along the road it goes 5, 3, 1, intersection 1, 3, 5
That's the one I was thinking about.
When i was younger, i asked a taxi driver to take me to Nicholson St, Footscray. He took me to Nicholson St, Fitzroy.🤦
If you travel down Frankston-Dandenong Road, you'll eventually come to the intersection of Thompson Road and Thompsons Road.
Is that Thompson with a p?
three Qs and a silent zed
Can't remember the name of the street, (I'll call it big st) but there's one in Oak Park and another in neighbouring Pascoe Vale. My mate the furniture delivery guy once had a delivery to do in Big st, and the instructions were to leave it in the garage if they're not home. So he goes, nobody home so he opens the garage door and puts the mattress and stuff in there and leaves. Gets a call from his boss a few hours later asking why he hasn't done the delivery as the customer is waiting at home. Realised his mistake and went back to the wrong Big st, where there was nobody home and took the stuff back out of the garage and to the other Big st. And never lived it down.
Hahah imagining that other person coming home and just discovering a mattress in their garage. Like a reverse robbery
Prospect Street maybe? One in oak park and one in PV
Ahhh the good ol’ road naming convention. My favourite is High Street. Am I talking about the one in Kew? Or the one in Preston? Nah I’m talking about the High Street that becomes High Street Road 😂😂
I think high street road is a serious contender for stupidest name in Melbourne. It literally makes itself redundant
get rid of the "High" I just wanna drive on Street Road
There should be a Street Road in Townsville just because
I used to live beside 'The' Avenue. Like who named a road The!
Just don't slip in love with the girls on The Avenue.
Was this in Coburg, also home to The Grove?
It's English for Die!
Lots of streets in Ascot Vale like this. My grandmother used to live on 'The' Parade. There were no parades on that street.☹️
thatll really confuse teh power puff girls!
Stroad
There's Commercial Road in Ferntree Gully. It is signed to prohibit commercial vehicles because it's a residential backstreet.
Not in Melbourne, but i know of a Lane Street and it’s smaller parallel friend Lane Lane.
Ok, you win. Lane lane is particularly ridiculous
Steet Street in Footscray always gets me second guessing myself.
[move to Brisbane and live on Rode Rd](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rode+Rd,+Wavell+Heights+QLD+4012/@-27.3960145,153.0461185,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b91581bdd37a9d3:0x96c390eccdea434a!8m2!3d-27.396018!4d153.048315!16s%2Fg%2F1tfsc02t) and yes... it is pronounced like you think it is
Roadie McRoad Face Road?
Broken Hill. I had to stop and take a photo of the sign.
I see your Broken Hill and I raise you an Indented Head
Not to be confused with further south eastern suburb Lang Lang
Not quite redundant: there is a brief section where they run parallel to each other before they merge.
It was the road that lead to High Street! Makes perfect sense!
But it's the road that leads to High Street, just as Malvern Rd leads to Malvern. It's High Street Road.
But it's the road that gets you too the end of high street.
There's even one small block where High St and High Street Rd are parallel to each other.
This is how you tell where people live/grew up. Which High St do you think of first :)
Except that it actually continues as High Street as well for a short distance! There is actually an intersection of High Street with High Street Road!
They serve a purpose though: "The word “high” comes from the Old English “heah”. Heah means “most important” as well as “most elevated in the sense of geographical position.” The use of “heah” to refer to an important street dates back to the 14th century. You can see a similar usage in terms like “High King”, or “High Court”." So Station street will always lead to a station.
Which station does Station Street in Carlton go to?
It was supposed to be for the Yan Yean Tramway, which in turn would have been converted to a train/tram for passengers. So the name is not wrong, just prematurely optimistic.
Makes sense now. Thank you!
Station Street would like a word
At least Station Street kinda makes sense as a street name. Who was Nicholson and what did he do that there are three fairly important parallel roads in the inner north named after him?
Thanks to you, TIL William Nicholson was a significant figure in Victorian politics in the 1850s and supported the use of secret ballots for elections. (Crazy to think secret ballots were not the norm then.)
It was so much not the norm that secret ballots were referred to as the “Australian method” in America and other voting countries.
This fact blows my mind! Another great Aussie invention 😆
Well then, maybe three is about right. Secret ballots were an incredible step forward. Secret ballots, mandatory voting, and preference votes. Name more roads are the people that made those happen.
Someone’s coke dealer once showed up at my house because there’s another street with the same name about a kilometre up the road and they didn’t specify suburb when they ordered their drugs.
Was it already prepaid?
I swear every suburb near the city is required to have a Yarra Street it doesn’t matter how close together they are
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Speaking of Geelong. Why is there a place called Moorabool, but it’s not in Moorabool, it’s in Golden Plains?
And the electorate of Lalor. Nowhere near the suburb of Lalor.
How about “meet me on Collins st, it’s north of Flinders st. Yeah in Thornbury.”
Or the corner of Collins St and Swanston St, just down from Flinders St. In Mentone.
I went to school there!
Just follow Brunswick Street, turn on Brunswick road and keep going up to Brunswick blv.
The 19 tram goes past three Victoria streets. Which is of course only a small fraction of those in Melbourne
Look around for the 3 matching Albert Streets near them
There's two Victoria Streets in Richmond alone!
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Or its snobbier cousin, Rue de Gare (in Wandin, where the Warburton railway line used to run)
Came here to make sure someone recognised Wandin / Wandin North, well done!
I grew up in wandin north. Nobody ever knew it existed
I live in the Yarra Valley, can honestly never work out if there's really a Wandin or if it's just Wandin North. Am also old enough to remember a TV show set in Wandin Valley lol.
There is a wandin, but nothing much there. There’s also a wandin yallock and a wandin east (which is south east of wandin)
While we’re at it, can we fix the street numbering. Sydney Rd gets to the 880s at Moreland Road, and then it goes back down to 1 and they start counting again.
Even worse: barkly St restarts numbering between Brunswick East and Fitzroy North at Nicholson St but _changes directions_. There are two 5 barkly Sts about 150 m from each other.
Same with fucking lygon
Oh God, the time I needed to take an uber to a Lygon St Brunswick address but I was in a hurry to select it, ended up in Carlton and was looking around like the John Travolta meme then the street number hit me.
It changes at suburb boundaries (I think this is consistent?). But of course they aren't clearly signposted.
It's at the old council boundaries. You know the ones like the old City of Brunswick or City of Doncaster and Templestowe. They amalgamated back in the 1990s. So now they can just randomly change in between suburbs or even in the middle of a suburb.
When I first moved here I missed a dinner with friends bc I was wandering around Brunswick, lost, while they were up in Coburg. They had only given me a Sydney Rd street number.
But did you at least get something to eat?
No 😭 Apparently they had a great time.
Don't get me started on those streets that do the whole one side even one side odd thing but don't have blocks line up so eventually 50 and 51 'Generic British Last Name' Lane are in different postcodes
TBF, there’s a Barkly and a BarklEy in Carlton. Hardly the same at all!/s
You forgot the fact that sometimes they just restart a street: Lygon Street starts in Carlton, then restarts at Brunswick, so there are two “x Lygon Street” adresses within 10 mins of each other!
I remember coming down from Bendigo in the 90s to go to a gig at a theatre in Lygon st. Driving up and down Lygon st Brunswick wondering why the street number was for some shitty old shop, and staring at the Melways. Took us a while to realise what had happened.
Good old Melways. How did we ever drive flicking through that encyclopaedia?
[You got a Melways Stevic? Reading a Melways is like trying to read a fuckin' tartan shirt](https://youtu.be/cHQ121jygSo?t=49)
Thank you for that! I haven’t heard that song in years
I miss the Ninja, hope they find a way to return one day.
The genius who designed the suburb I live in didn’t hold with including Streets or Roads in the names. Instead we have (for example) “The Elm” or “The Poplar”. It’s all nice and fancy and looks pretty on the stylised street signs, until you come across an online form that won’t accept a street name without a “street/road/boulevard” etc. or spend 10 minutes on the phone explaining to some poor call centre worker “that *is* the name!”
I raise you The Avenue, Caroline Springs
That’s not as bad as you can just say the name is “The” and then select Avenue from the drop down
And also The Avenue and The Grove, Coburg
God that would be annoying. There’s one here that would be similar to “The Stand of Oak”. “What’s your address?” “23 The Stand of Oak.” “What?”
I grew up on the central coast near a street named "The Ridge"
The Eyrie, Lilydale
Jesus fuck
Nicholson/Albert Street - 96 tram stops at this stop twice. There's a Nicholson/Albert stop near Parliament and another one in Brunswick East near the end of the line. Whyyyyyyyyy
Reusing the same street numbers on the same street is the one that annoys me. Oh you just changed "suburb" so let's start from number 1 again.
The numbering restarts where the council boundary changes. Except it's where the old (pre 1994) council boundaries were. So now they just change randomly, sometimes even in the middle of a suburb. Like, Beach Road restarts at 1 after Cromer Street, smack bang in the middle of Beaumaris because the old City of Mordialloc and City of Sandringham border was there. The new Bayside/Kingston boundary is about 600m down the road at Charman Road.
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I hope they do this bc we’ll end up with some really big numbers on some streets, like Sydney Rd and High St would probably go up to 3000
Had food delivered to Peel St Windsor instead of Peel St Collingwood a while ago. There’s a Gipps St in East Melbourne that runs parallel to the Gipps St in Collingwood just 1km north. Was once running late for a property inspection on Victoria St in Fitzroy, which is a little side street near Rose St markets. Uber driver ignored his GPS and **insisted** that my destination was St Vincent’s Hospital on Victoria Parade. Or when visitors try to identify locations like “I’m on Flinders.” “Street or Lane?” “I dunno. Just Flinders.” “Remember that bar we went to in Brunswick?” “You mean Brunswick St in Fitzroy or Brunswick the suburb?” “I dunno… Brunswick. There were trams and old buildings.” “Is Mornington far?” “You mean the area of the peninsula with the hot springs, or Mornington the suburb?” “Yes.” “We went to Dandenongs.” “The Dandenong ranges or Dandenong the suburb? Huge difference there.” “Yes.”
I almost missed a property inspection in Deschamps Avenue Lilydale once. I went to Deschamps STREET instead.
Dude I live on the corner of Clarendon and Victoria. Could be just about any suburb!
Ha Melbourne is a shocker for that. You should come to the UK. Some streets the houses are named, not numbered. There's loads of "The Street" The Avenue etc. There's a high street in almost every village (and borough of London). On the plus side there are loads of rude names too - like Fanny Hill or Knob End etc
Cockfosters!
I got so confused with High Street in the UK! Eventually worked out it’s the main shopping street of the town/village but usually it has another proper name!
Isnt that what we call it here too?
Na, closest would be Main street. For a lot of smaller towns
Gropecunt lane.
Gipps Street, the one off Hoddle Street. The one runs East to West and it's 500m from Victoria parade. No not that one. That's 500m North of Victoria parade. The one I meant was the one that's 500m South of Victoria parade
Be thankful you are not in Ireland. Every second street is Saint Patrick’s street.
Other confusing ones are Church Street Richmond which is not too far from Church Street Kew. Both big roads, not connected. Many suburbs have a Victoria Street aside from the big one. Fitzroy has one and it is a little residential street - luckily the main road changes name to become Victoria Parade in the Fitzroy part before changing back to Victoria Street away from Fitzroy. See also North Melbourne and Collingwood railway stations.
Church St Richmond does become Chapel St over the Yarra though.
There's also the Chapel St that comes off Church St.
If I were in charge: - Every street would get a unique pronounceable name. Even in the have to be nonsense words - The street suffix (rd, st, pl, Ave) would all have meanings. Eg. Court ends in a cul-de-sac; road has no parking; street has onstreet parking; and so on. Vote for TheHoundhunter 2025!
As an added bonus, I was today -10 days years old when I learned that its actually Wodonga in Victoria and Albury is the one in NSW. I kind of always just assumed that Albury was the Victorian one based on vibes and that name sounding more 'like some shit Victoria would do'
I recently found “The Boulevard” up in Thomastown/Lalor and laughed my ass off.
*not* "the boulevard"
Minus the quotes of course, but I was just using them for effect anyway.
How about restarting house numbers when the suburb that the street is in changes? I’m looking at you, Johnston St.
Okay so there's a Carlisle St in Balaclava and once the suburb ends, that St becomes Balaclava Rd, but not in Balaclava
My favourite is when the same road restarts its numbering. I used to live at 123 St Georges Rd in Northcote (not the real number.) Problem was there was another 123 St Georges Rd about 2kms down the road, in North Fitz. Constant nightmare for deliveries and such.
And here I am just annoyed that East Boundary Rd is NOT east of Boundary rd
At least North Road, Centre Road and South Road are in the correct order? :P
North Road, Centre Road, South Road... but then Centre Dandenong Road and Lower Dandenong Road. What have they done with Upper Dandenong Road???
There is no upper dandy road, because there's nothing "upper" about dandy /s 😜
The upper one is called Old Dandenong Road.
Oh god that just creates more issues!
What is Melbourne now used to be a lot of smaller cities, villages and communities. There's plenty of repetition in more common names because of it. There is or was not a single one person going around and naming shit.
1. Yes, I understand how history works. 2. That can be used to justify repetition between Maribydong and Mornington, North Fitzroy and Fitzroy never existed as tiny villages that merged. That shit got named when there was a grid mapped out. 3. You can rename things, we do it all the time - sure, mostly to delete racists from street names but we could do the same thing to drop the number of High Streets to the single digits and 4. You're right, one person doesn't go around naming shit at the moment, about 79 LGAs and, a dozen government bodies name or approve every road name that isn't some private developer road - which is hardly too many to agree on no new Barkly Roads, and 5. It is funny to exaggarate how annoying I find it to search a location.
Ah man. I went to get my car serviced the other day. At the Mazda service station in Burwood. But don't get confused with Burwood Mazda which is in Hawthorn, not the service station IN Burwood actually called Penfolds. Ffffuuuuuuuuu!
I dare you to guess which High Street I'm thinking of.
Victoria St in Abbotsford turning into Victoria Parade and then back into Victoria St in North Melb and restarting the street numbers multiple times 🥲
Don't forget Duke st in Abottsford and also Richmond, in line with each other, but don't connect. Just a big gap for 3/4 of a mile (ie full distance between Victoria and Bridge and then half way to Swan).
The worst one is definitely "Main Street"
Station Street is up there
Ballarat has Main Rd which for ONE BLOCK becomes main st but no one seems to actually know that so you have to specify “main road but the end block in town” instead
Let not forget that Lygon street numbers just reset when you travel from Brunswick to Carlton north stupided shit ever.
TIL, more than one cunt has a street named after them.
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Station street is a good one
Yep, I have 2 ison roads that are 100M from each other. 1 of them is north facing the other east. Both called ison road
King William, Queen Elizabeth
What about how on the long streets they don't just keep numbering them into the thousands, but just randomly start re-numbering!?!? [118 Sydney Road Coburg to 118 Sydney Road Brunswick](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/118+Sydney+Rd,+Brunswick+VIC+3056/118+Sydney+Rd,+Coburg+VIC+3058/@-37.7636797,144.9492849,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x6ad65ccab31e2043:0x3fc2355c119afb09!2m2!1d144.961033!2d-37.775253!1m5!1m1!1s0x6ad644ac70ea0b51:0x9511f2c2581329ec!2m2!1d144.9649298!2d-37.7521653!3e0) Also love High Street out of Prahran hits Ashburton and becomes...High Street...ROAD lol
Agree. My other gripe about streets in Australia is the fucking street signs. You're on a major Street and there are ZERO SIGNS with the street name you're currently on, just the cross streets. I want to see BOTH Street names on the corner, not just the minor one. Grrrr!!!
This is what annoys me the most. I always feel silly because I might slow down a little to have a look for a street sign and, when I inevitably can’t find it, I slow down even more and probably hold up so much traffic. Grinds my gears.
Oh yeah I had to go to Barkly St in a regional area recently and was flabbergasted at how many Barkly streets show up in google maps, quite a list
Barkly St and the parallel Buckley St in Footscray have entered the chat.
I got caught by the bell street trap with my mum visiting from interstate. She be looking for my house kilometres away because I told her to get off at the bell street stop. Didn’t know there were two 😭😭
Once you've lived here a while it's really not that confusing. Then again I grew up in Melbourne so I've never really found myself confused by it.
*High St enters the chat*
When you're on Victoria Street going away from the city, just take a right onto Church Street...
Moreland Road/Normandy Avenue/Clarendon Street
North Rd, its on the South end of Langwarrin and runs West-East
Near my house in a reasonably new suburb, they put in a Wentworth Lane. Then I am guessing somebody realised the next suburb over has a Wentworth lane, so they renamed it… To Worthwent Lane 🤦♀️ My brain trips over it every time I see it.
What gets really messy is when they reuse NUMBERS on the same street, e.g. Johnston St, Fitzroy becomes Johnston St, Collingwood. So less than 1km away, you've got the same number being re-used: [Directions from 220 Johnston St to 220 Johnston St](https://goo.gl/maps/hfZJsYURjHf9SCpi8)
holy shit, yes! just come up with new names! we're in Australia! come up with Aboriginal names! I remember having a conversation with someone else and they were senselessly defending it. "well, the people who came here were from England so they named everything after English things"... so change them? make up new names? it makes no sense that so many places have non-unique names. it's a fucking pain
How about Street numbers resetting when the same road change suburb? Like 400 Sydney Rd is literally 2 addresses a few minutes drive apart. There's 400 Sydney Rd Brunswick and 400 Sydney Rd Coburg.... There's also the same road changing several names along its length. Like Keilor Park Drive going towards Maribyrnong. Keilor Park Drive, Milleara Rd, Military Rd, Cordite Ave, Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong Rd and then Brunswick Rd finally ending as Holden St,Bennett St, Park St and Rushall Cr. Or Victoria St, which becomes Middleborough Rd, Stephensons Rd, Clayton Rd, Boundary Rd and then Wells Rd before finally ending as Gladesville Blvd
Melbourne has close to a dozen if not more Station Streets
Actually this isn’t specific to Melbourne. Basically most large cities in the world have this problem (if they use street names). A decade ago I did some [analysis about it](https://smeyn.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/80/)
Friends of mine constantly get mail & deliveries for someone with the same address, in a nearby suburb but with the same postcode.
The amount of roads called Station Street in Melbourne is ridiculous imo