04-30-2019, 09:48 AM
(04-30-2019, 08:54 AM)neonjoe Wrote: There already is a Featherstone Crescent in Kitchener (my friend lives on it). So it may be confusing having two streets similarly named not in the same neighbourhood.
I think under current rules this means there can’t be a new Featherstone anything anywhere in Kitchener. I understand in Ottawa they are actually eliminating street names that differ only in the second part — so Irving Place had to become Old Irving Place, because there is an Irving Avenue also. Although in that case both Irvings were original surveyed as a single street; then at some point a park took over several blocks and one half was renamed Place.
I have mixed feelings about the renaming. On the one hand, it’s pandering to ignorance; people who think it’s OK to just say “Irving” when it is not. On the other hand, I don’t really agree with people dying because of the sort of confusion the renaming is meant to avoid, even if the real fix is for people to understand the world they live in. And of course, understanding the world “they” live in includes me, who needs to understand that people don’t understand how street names work, so maybe the “real fix” is to just rename the streets.