Whats the difference between a street, a road, an avenue, a boulevard, etc.?
Dear Will: Whimsy? Lesser minds might describe it as whimsy. I see it as evidence of the same confusion that got us involved in a war in the Balkans. Whatever scarcities we may have in this world, a shortage of street-name suffixes isn’t one of them. The possibilities include but are not limited to alley, avenue, boulevard, circle, court, cove, crescent, crossing, dale, drive, estate, extension, gardens, gate, heights, highway, lake, landing, lane, loop, park, parkway, path, place, plaza, point, promenade, ridge, road, roadway, square, street, terrace, trace, trail, village, or way, to say nothing of commonly used foreign words such as camino, calle, etc. Confronted with this plethora of terms, you’ll probably have one of the following reactions: (1) We need some kind of system here. (2) We don’t need no stinking system, we need some minimal restrictions to protect the public interest. (3) Whatever, I don’t care. Go away. Reaction #3, I venture to say, has historically predominated amo
