Check your navigational knowledge.
Turns out, these thoroughfares are not categorized just on a whim arbitrarily, as you might have thought.
Rather, they’re organized in terms of function and size.
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Or, perhaps, use it as a conversation starter at your next dinner party.
How’s that for confusing?
Depending on where you are located, your city’s streets might run either north-to-south or east-to-west.
There is no end-all decision on that.
Avenues cross streets in a perpendicular direction.
We always knew we had a thing for boulevards, and not just those of broken dreams.
That’s what we like to call, “faking it until you make it.”
