@tcql while this makes some amount of sense, I found that incredibly confusing when I visited DC

@lizardsquid ya it's really weird at first, but I kind of love it after being here for a long enough time

DC's street naming scheme is *mostly* regular, but there are exceptions. Generally, all 4 quadrant's streets radiate from the quadrant division lines, with North/South streets being named after numbers and East/West streets named after letters.

So if you drove north from the capitol, you'd be crossing (mostly) lettered streets on your way up.
First, A St (NW on your left, NE on your right), then B St

Also! The streets radiate in both directions from the quadrant dividing streets (the dividing streets are named North Capitol, East Capitol, and South Capitol. There's no West Capitol because of the national mall directly west of the capitol building)

So, heading north, you hit A street, then B street, etc

Heading south, you hit A, then, B, then so on in that direction

Same with numbers going east/west.

So that's the basis of our streets. It gets weird in some spots, especially because of landmarks that obstruct the typical pattern and the hilliness of the city.

Another fun thing about DC's streets is there's (at least one) street named after each state. Most of them are diagonal and cut through the many traffic circles in the city, but not all of them

@tcql
Go to Salt Lake City, or most of Utah for that matter. The morman temple's are the epicenter of their street naming structure.

oh also there's no J street in any of the quadrants, supposedly because I/J are too easy to confuse... although i don't know why they chose I instead of J, when I is easily confused with 1...

The I St signs have a different font (serifed so the I stands out clearly) than the rest of the street signs in the city

@tcql now if could only make K Street disappear! 😂