Stravenue
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A stravenue is a type of road particular to Tucson, Arizona
. The United States Postal Service
officially supports the suffix STRA for stravenues. A Stravenue runs "diagonally between and intersects a Street and an Avenue." In a few areas of Tucson, primarily around the central part of the city, which is divided by railroad tracks running diagonally from southeast to northwest, builders created small subdivisions of roads and houses that also are laid out on a diagonal basis rather than the normal east-west or north-south. Most of these subdivisions are located near either Benson Highway or Aviation Highway, which also run southeast to northwest. "The word Stravenue was originally coined by Roy Drachman when he was delevoping the subdivision called Pueblo Gardens," perhaps in the 1950s or 1960s.
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
. The United States Postal Service
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...
officially supports the suffix STRA for stravenues. A Stravenue runs "diagonally between and intersects a Street and an Avenue." In a few areas of Tucson, primarily around the central part of the city, which is divided by railroad tracks running diagonally from southeast to northwest, builders created small subdivisions of roads and houses that also are laid out on a diagonal basis rather than the normal east-west or north-south. Most of these subdivisions are located near either Benson Highway or Aviation Highway, which also run southeast to northwest. "The word Stravenue was originally coined by Roy Drachman when he was delevoping the subdivision called Pueblo Gardens," perhaps in the 1950s or 1960s.