ELI5- Why do streets have different labels like Ave, Blvd, Rd, etc.? Are there certain qualifications for what determines them?
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Where I live, the city planners decided that Avenues run east/west and Streets run north/south. Some of our avenues used to have street cars on them, and they are very wide thoroughfares. Some of our avenues are so so narrow that parking is not allowed and they run only a short way. We don’t have boulevards, but we have a “boulevard district” where all the streets and avenues have a grassy area with trees between the street and the sidewalk.
I guess that after reading the other responses, it seems that while there may be definitions for the different types of street designations, there is no universally accepted convention for their usage.
Edited to remediate fatfingering
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