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From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.As early as 1903 (see section below), there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.
Street names are usually renamed after political revolutions and regime changes for ideological reasons. In postsocialist Romania, after 1989, the percentage of street renaming ranged from 6% in Bucharest, [16] and 8% in Sibiu, to 26% in Timișoara. [17] Street names can be changed relatively easily by municipal authorities for various reasons.
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Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.
Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada; Nelson, New Zealand; Nelson, Lancashire, England, named after a public house, itself named after Lord Nelson; Nelson, Caerphilly, Wales, a village named after a public house, itself named after Lord Nelson
Notwithstanding this, some street names historically and linguistically do not carry a suffix, e.g. Broadway, Rampart, Embarcadero. This list below has examples of suffix forms that are primary street suffix names, common street suffixes or suffix abbreviations, recommended by the United States Postal Service. [2]
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