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Old August 26th 08, 10:34 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Peter Beale Peter Beale is offline
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Default Who names new roads?

Jon wrote:
On 24 Aug, 23:52, "Richard J." wrote:
Nick Leverton wrote:
In article
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Jon wrote:
the silly tendency [towards] road names with no suffix at all,
making ordinary suburban streets sound as if they are rural hamlets
too small to have street names as such.
Or alternatively as if they are in the dodgier estates of Bracknell !

Or alternatively as if they are in central London, such as Piccadilly,
Strand, Poultry, Kingsway, Queensway, Holborn, Cheapside, Cornhill,
Houndsditch, Millbank.


Those are mainly 'evolved' names with historical reasons for their
lack of suffix, not spurious ones invented by a marketer.

And in the case of most of them, effectively they have suffixes - King's
Way, Queen's Way, Cheap Side, Corn Hill, Hound's Ditch, Mill Bank.

Peter Beale