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Tree avenue in Normandy, France An avenue at Alexandra Park, London. In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape ...
However other suffixes may be used elsewhere in the UK (for example "Terrace" and "Green" are common), and it is by no means unusual for a street to be called by a name alone, without any suffix. It is also common for different streets in the same immediate area to have the same name but to be distinguished by different suffixes.
In Northeast Minneapolis, avenues run east–west (15th Avenue NE) and streets run north–south (Taylor Street NE), except for the major east–west artery Broadway Street and the major north–south avenues Central and University. In rural Ontario, numbered concession roads form grids oriented to lakes and rivers. Usually each axis of the ...
Avenue (archaeology), a specialist term in archaeology referring to lines of stones; Avenue (store), a clothing store; The Avenue, a Rugby Union stadium in Sunbury-on-Thames, England; L'Avenue, a skyscraper in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Avenue, a GIS scripting language for ArcView 3.x; Avenues: The World School, school in New York City
Different types of local roads include residential streets, avenues, and alleys. They have the lowest speed limits and capacities in the hierarchy, but have the highest access to property. Local roads have at-grade intersections and have similar specifications to collector roads. Local roads may be unpaved in some cases.
The network structure of Radburn, New Jersey exemplifies the concept of street hierarchy of contemporary districts. (The shaded area was not built.) The street hierarchy is an urban planning technique for laying out road networks that exclude automobile through-traffic from developed areas.
A rider hands out a coconut as the over 1,100 riders of the Krewe of Zulu make their way down St. Charles Avenue on Mardi Gras Day with their 44-float parade entitled "Celebrations and Libations ...
Philadelphia's 10th Street written in English and Chinese. A numbered street is a street whose name is an ordinal number, as in Second Street or Tenth Avenue.Such forms are among the most common street names in North America, but also exist in other parts of the world, especially in Colombia, which takes the system to an extreme, and the Middle East.