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unusual facts about thoroughfare


Paper Route

Paper route refers to delivery of newspapers to subscribers' homes by part-time employees, such as teenagers riding a bicycle along the eponymous route.


1956 Georgian demonstrations

The demonstrators went down the main Tbilisi thoroughfare, Rustaveli Avenue, to Lenin Square, stopping at the House of Government and then at the City Hall, chanting the slogan "Long Live Great Stalin! Long Live the Party of Lenin and Stalin! Long Live Soviet Georgia!", accompanied by the cacophony of car sirens and horns.

1998 Pepsi 400

During the days leading up to the scheduled start of practice at 3pm, Thursday, July 2, 1998, concerns rose on account of the massive wildfire outbreak that was underway in central Florida; thousands of people were forced to evacuate the area, and Interstate 95, the primary north–south thoroughfare through the region, was closed.

Alexandras Avenue

Alexandra's Avenue (Greek: Λεωφόρος Αλεξάνδρας, Leoforos Alexandras) is a main east-west thoroughfare running from Patission Street/28 October Street and Kifissias Avenue in the northern part of the city of Athens, Greece.

Algester, Queensland

In the early 70's, Algester Road and Dalmeny Street were connected as non sealed roads and the only thoroughfare into the suburb, which was then still virgin bushland.

Atkinson Avenue Historic District

One of the thoroughfare's most well-known residents was the renowned baseball player Ty Cobb who resided in a brick dwelling at the intersection of Atkinson and Third (not within the boundaries of the historic district).

Avenida de Mayo

Buschiazzo was also commissioned to design a number of the buildings along the avenue (among them, City Hall) after Mayor Miguel Cané enacted strict architectural zoning laws for the area facing the new thoroughfare.

Avenue Mohammed VI

The Avenue Mohammed VI, formerly Avenue de France, is the major city thoroughfare of Marrakesh, Morocco.

Bernard de Marigny

"Though said to be poorly educated in the classics, he christened the main thoroughfare to his house Elysian Fields after Virgil's "Deathless Residence of the Spirits of the Blessed.

Bidyut Marg

Bidyut Marg is a major north-south thoroughfare in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Boonton Township, New Jersey

McCaffrey Lane, the oldest recorded thoroughfare in the area, was built in 1767 by Samuel Ogden of the Great Boonton Tract.

Boring Road

Boring Road (Hindi: बोरिंग रोड), also known as Boring Canal Road, is one of the most important thoroughfare in Patna, India, starts from the corner of Patna Women's College as an intersection to Bailey Road near Patna High Court.

Bulevardul Unirii

Bulevardul Unirii (Unification Boulevard) is a major thoroughfare in central Bucharest, Romania.

California County Routes in zone N

Once known as "Hawthorne Avenue", is the name of a major Southern California thoroughfare also signed as State Route 107 (and as Los Angeles County Route N7 through the Palos Verdes Peninsula).

Cammeray, New South Wales

Miller Street, the main thoroughfare of Cammeray, is lined with restaurants influenced by Chinese, Thai and Italian cuisine, as well as several cafes, the local post office, a petrol station and many other small businesses like dentists and jewellers.

Candia Four Corners, New Hampshire

This road was formerly the main east-west thoroughfare through southern New Hampshire, but was replaced by New Hampshire Route 101, a four-lane expressway to the south of the Four Corners.

Carey Gully, South Australia

The road was an ideal location for the township in the past as it was situated on a largely dry, flat area (compared to the steep hills surrounding) and was also a main thoroughfare to the towns of Forest Range and Lenswood via Boundary Drive.

Centenary Square tram stop

Network West Midlands have issued a plan of route showing this as their stop on Broad Street, a major thoroughfare of the city.

Crosland Moor

Crosland Moor begins at the junction of the Manchester Road A62 and Blackmoorfoot Road the main thoroughfare.

Dealul Spirii

Around the hill was located the Uranus quarter, named after the main thoroughfare, which ran up the hill from Calea Rahovei to the Stadium, and thence to Splaiul Independenţei and Izvor.

Dorset Street

Dorset Street, Dublin, an important thoroughfare on the northside of Dublin, Ireland

Great Pulteney Street

Great Pulteney Street is a grand thoroughfare that connects Bathwick on the east of the River Avon with the City of Bath, England via the Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge.

Great Victoria Street, Belfast

Great Victoria Street in Belfast is a major thoroughfare located in the city centre and is one of the important streets used by pedestrians alighting from Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station and walking into to shopping streets such as Royal Avenue.

Gwersyllt

The A541 road, locally known as the Mold Road is the main thoroughfare into Wrexham southbound, and northwards through south Flintshire onto Mold.

Hafod

Neath Road is a busy thoroughfare used by buses and cars to travelling between central Swansea and the northern suburbs in and around Morriston and Llansamlet.

Interstate 87

It immediately traverses the Albany Pine Bush Preserve and passes west of Rensselaer Lake before crossing CSX Transportation's Hudson Subdivision and running parallel to Wolf Road, a business thoroughfare through the town of Colonie.

James Barrett McNulty

He attracted Steamtown, USA, a Hilton Hotels & Resorts (for which grand opening McNulty hired Guy Lombardo’s orchestra to play) and the Montage Ski Resort to Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is on a thoroughfare that “Jimmy” stated a million Canadians passed down on their way to gamble in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Janpath, Bhubaneswar

Janpath is a major north-south thoroughfare in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Kalayaan

Kalayaan Avenue, a major thoroughfare in Metro Manila, Philippines

Korn Krest, Pennsylvania

It is located in the Wyoming Valley between Wilkes-Barre and Nanticoke on the south side of the Sans Souci Parkway, which is a main thoroughfare connecting the two cities and is locally pronounced "San Suey." Hanover Township Area Jr/Sr High School is located in Korn Krest on the former site of Sans Souci Park, an amusement park that closed in 1970 and was first named Hanover Park from 1893 to 1905.

Kronstad, Bergen

The primary thoroughfare in the area is Ibsens gate (Fv 255), which runs from Haukelandsveien, just south of Haukeland University Hospital, to Danmarksplass, and has an annual average daily traffic of 10-11,000 vehicles.

Liverpool Street

Liverpool Street, Sydney, an important thoroughfare in the central business district of Sydney, Australia

Middlefork, Clinton County, Indiana

Middlefork was founded along the Michigan Road, an important early Indiana thoroughfare, but the site never gained a railroad line and remained a small social and business center for local residents.

Milano Santa Giulia

According to the initial plan, the district will have two main areas, respectively where Montedison and Redaelli facilities used to be; they will be divided by a large city park, traversed by the Paullese, a major thoroughfare connecting Milan to Paullo.

Mong Kok Station

The station was named Argyle after Argyle Street, a major thoroughfare in its vicinity, during the planning stage of the MTR system.

New York State Route 119

The road is a major thoroughfare in the county and provides access to the New York State Thruway, Saw Mill River Parkway, Sprain Brook Parkway and Bronx River Parkway, four of the major roads in the county.

New York State Route 86

As Main, NY 86 runs through the village and along Mirror Lake as the major tourist thoroughfare, passing numerous businesses and the sites of the 1936 and 1980 Winter Olympics.

Oregon Route 210

Near the intersection with Roy Rogers Road (named for a Washington County official, not for the famous cowboy) which heads south towards Sherwood, Oregon Route 210 enters Portland's Urban Growth Boundary, and the farms and wineries are suddenly replaced with townhouses and subdivisions, and OR 210 transforms instantly into a suburban thoroughfare.

Quebec Autoroute 10

The Société du Havre de Montréal (SHM) has proposed transforming the autoroute into an urban thoroughfare as part of a broader project to redevelop Montreal's harbourfront.

Rajpath, Bhubaneswar

Rajpath is a major east-west thoroughfare in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

René Lévesque Boulevard

A portion of the thoroughfare located in the largely anglophone city of Westmount, between Clarke and Atwater, retains the name "Boulevard Dorchester", as does a portion in the mainly French-speaking Montréal-Est, where it is known as "Rue Dorchester."

Rizal Avenue

In 2000, during the mayorship of Lito Atienza, the stretch from C.M. Recto Avenue to Palanca Street was turned into a pedestrian-only thoroughfare by laying bricks on the road, with the buildings and the LRT painted as part of an urban renewal project.

Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud

Jazz pianist Jaki Byard recites the title phrase at the onset of "Parisian Thoroughfare", the opening track of his album The Jaki Byard Experience.

Selby Tigers

Formed in 1998, the name Selby Tigers came from Selby Avenue, a main thoroughfare in Saint Paul and a radio broadcast about a Sri Lankan army called the Tamil Tigers.

The Palisades, Washington, D.C.

MacArthur Boulevard (once called Conduit Road) is the main thoroughfare that passes through the Palisades.

Touhy

Touhy Avenue, major thoroughfare throughout northern Chicago, Illinois as well as the North and Northwestern suburbs

Turtle Creek Boulevard

Turtle Creek Boulevard is a thoroughfare that runs through the Turtle Creek neighborhood of Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas (USA), generally alongside the actual Turtle Creek.

W. J. Hill

He appeared in the role of Ladle in "No Thoroughfare" at the Olympic Theatre in London in December 1876.


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