Posted Aug 30, 2016, 11:26 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy6
It wasn't for that reason so much as to avoid repeating numbers and having to have directional suffixes, which happens with a crossing-1sts system (as in Calgary's multiple Xth streets/avenues and SW, SE, NE, NW suffixes). The crossing-50s allowed a town to expand as much as it was likely to expand without running out of numbers in the directions that descended from the "50".
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Until it reaches 0 and it gets even more confusing!
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