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19 Responses to “Best & Worst Street Names in Knoxville?”

1. drsisms 
   June 12th, 2009 at 6:58 am

   

   @knoxify So are you try­ing to say Gay Street a best or a worst?

2. bupperoni 
   June 12th, 2009 at 8:28 am

   

   Oh. My. By far, the worst-named street is His­toric Preser­va­tion Drive, con­nect­ing River­side Drive to Hall of Fame just east of down­town. (Remem­ber, this entire neigh­bor­hood was flat­tened dur­ing the urban renewal phase in the 50s and 60s, dis­plac­ing vir­tu­ally all of Knoxville’s African-American com­mu­nity.) Thanks Victor!

3. CP 
   June 12th, 2009 at 9:15 am

   

   @bup­per­oni: I remem­ber that story from the Intro­duc­tion Knoxville bus tour. I didn’t know it was named that.

   As far as the best name, there is a Casey Dr. off of Weis­gar­ber. That one takes the cake for me.

4. knoxify 
   June 12th, 2009 at 9:03 am

   

   @drsisms | It was the only Knoxville street sign photo we could find on flickr. Appar­ently, it gets pho­tographed a lot.

5. Eric Moritz 
   June 12th, 2009 at 10:09 am

   

   I think the worse road is “Dead­er­ick Ave” in Mechan­icsville. It’s a cou­ple blocks away from Uni­ver­sity Ave, which I ride down every day on my bike. I fear bad things will hap­pen to me if I ever ride down that street.

6. Jonathan Haskell 
   June 12th, 2009 at 10:34 am

   

   There’s one in our neck of the woods I’ve always won­dered about: Ferd Hickey Rd.? Also curi­ous about Ho-Ca-Ta-Ke Ln. off of Pleas­ant Ridge.

   I’m also curi­ous when roads change names. I guess the best is Oak Ridge Hwy/Western Ave./Summit Hill/Vine Ave./Dandridge Ave./Brooks Ave. But I par­tic­u­larly like the inter­sec­tion of Broad­way, West­ern, Hen­ley and Sum­mit Hill.

7. Suzy 
   June 12th, 2009 at 11:29 am

   

   I think pretty much all of the main streets in Karns have con­fus­ing and some­what unfor­tu­nate names.

   There’s Beaver Creek, Beaver Ridge, Ball, Ball Camp, Bying­ton Sol­way, Ball Camp Bying­ton and Bying­ton Beaver Ridge.

   On the bright side, at least you can gig­gle while you’re dri­ving around in circles.

8. Tim 
   June 12th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

   

   On cam­pus: Mel­rose Place!

9. Ali 
   June 12th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

   

   I’m not sure whether this one is good or bad — it’s debat­able. Pet­safe Vil­lage is located on Elec­tric Avenue. Every time I take my dog there, I laugh and start singing the song, and then kick myself because it is stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

10. CP 
    June 12th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    

    @Ali: Given Petsafe’s indus­try, I had a men­tal pic­ture of a dog cross­ing an invis­i­ble fence and get­ting zapped when you said Elec­tric Ave. Haha.

11. bcknoxify 
    June 12th, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    

    Wray, I think I met him once.

12. Shawn 
    June 12th, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    

    Try liv­ing in my hood…

    Magic Lantern Drive…oh wait…

    then there’s Fra­grant Cloud…oh wait…hold on…I forgot…

    French Lace…and also Sun­splash Lane.…I think you get a bot­tle of SPF 50 if you live there.

13. Thomas Gaines 
    June 13th, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    

    Spran­kle Ln. -> near Lyons View.

14. Jody Collins 
    June 14th, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    

    Too many to pick just one. I’ve worked with the real estate indus­try off and on for years, and some of these sub­di­vi­sion street names are down­right laughable.

    I will say that I dis­like the name Hall of Fame Drive. Its just… its truly oddly named con­sid­er­ing how many times I’ve seen ‘street­walk­ers’ on HoF that were def­i­nitely not award win­ning mate­r­ial.

15. Elise 
    June 16th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    

    Can I add another vote to Shawn’s list? My par­ents live in that sub­di­vi­sion. Enchanted Lane? Trop­i­cana? REALLY?

    Dear Knoxville devel­op­ers, stop let­ting your 4-year-olds choose the street names kthnx.

    (also, I lol’d at Beaver Ridge. Just sayin’)

16. Catherine 
    June 17th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    

    I know the inten­tion was good, but Sup­port our Troops Way or what­ever it’s called is ridicu­lous. We just call it “Go USA Street”.

17. Johngalt 
    June 17th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    

    Blows Ferry Road. Fits in per­fectly with Gay Street

18. codyyy 
    June 17th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    

    –Ho-Co-Ta-Ke is less inter­est­ing than you may hope…

    It was named by the 4 fam­i­lies that first built homes there. They took the first 2 let­ters of each fam­i­lies name.

    –There is a Bill Mur­ray Lane off Clin­ton Hwy. That wins hands down.

19. Saul Young 
    June 18th, 2009 at 12:41 am

    

    Per­haps one of the more insult­ing street names is Bet­ter Tomor­row Dr. which runs through the West­ern Heights pub­lic hous­ing area. The mes­sage that street name implies is rather poignant. I’m sure it was named in all sin­cer­ity to show that things will get bet­ter, but the assump­tion is made that things are already worse.

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