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[rosiedoes]

American (and particularly Chicagoan) friends: is there a convention for using terms for roads on the grid system?

For example, when talking of the junction/block on W Wilson Ave and N Broadway, would you be obliged to use one particular road first? For example, east-to-west coming first, rather than north-to-south, and vice versa.

Is there a difference (or error) in saying Wilson and Broadway, or alternatively, Broadway and Wilson?

Comments

[vinagrette.livejournal.com]

In my experience, there is really no error in saying it one way or the other. When giving/receiving directions in Sacramento (using downtown for example) it's the numbered street first, followed by the other (in the case of downtown, a letter) so 13th and J, for example. So that is giving the North-South road followed by the East-West road second.

[vinagrette.livejournal.com]

Hahaha Which I see is the opposite of what your friend above said. Maybe it varies by region/city?

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

LOL. This was just what I observed in New York...but New York is all kinds of special... =D