The Road Namers are Crazy or Lazy

As I was driving to work yesterday
morning.... I whizzed by
SUNNYSIDE CUTOFF ROAD...
Now what kind of road name is that?

I have run across this quite a bit
in Bonner County.
I walk every morning on
KOOTENAI CUTOFF ROAD...
Which leads to SCHWEITZER
(you got it) CUTOFF ROAD.

And I use to live off of
SPIRIT LAKE CUTOFF ROAD.

And there are others. Some I am
sure I have not heard of.
And the other thing that bugs me
about the road names
around here. Where they so
short of names that they couldn't
come up with better names? Or
more of them?

As there are roads and streets
that continue BUT there is a block
across the road. So they jump the
block and continue again.
You travel down Larch street and
it comes to an end at Division
Street. Which is a good name for
that one...because actually
there is another Larch Street on the
back side of Division Street. You
just have to go a block down and turn
then another block and there you are,
the other half of Larch Street.

There is Florence Street that goes
across Sandpoint to stop on Larch
Street. And to be taken up again a
by driving to the left or right, to another
block, back around to Hickory, I think.
And there you are..the rest of Florence St.
There are too many to list.

There are some of these all over the county.
You go across Sandpoint on Boyer Street,
cuts thru the whole town,
UNTIL you get to Schweitzer Cutoff Road.
Then you jag to the left down Schweitzer
Cutoff Road and you end up back on Boyer
Street. (this was done because they need
more land for the airport years ago)

There are so many double names.
Humbird. Are you in the town of Kootenai,
or Ponder Point, or out in Vay.
Alpine ... are you in town or are you in
Samuel's area?

I think if there is one name already, there
shouldn't be another one. The second one
should have a different name and no
Alpine Place doesn't count as different
enough from Alpine Street or Alpine Road.
It confuses the post office and UPS people.
And worse of all, the emergency crew.

If a road ends at a T, then it should not
be allowed to take up again a
block or two away. Surely they can come
up with new road names.

And I won't even get into the mult-name roads....

Like in Vay area.........Is it
Kendall Road, or Vay Road, or is it
3 Mile Road?. Depends on
who you ask and how long they have
lived there. Because it is all the same road.

So if you are in Bonner County, I hope you
know where you are going, because you
could be on the wrong side of town or county.