Stravenue

Street signs at intersection of Felix Stravenue (more commonly documented as Felix Boulevard) and Belford Stravenue in Tucson, Arizona.

A stravenue (portmanteau of street and avenue) is a type of road particular to Tucson, Arizona, United States. A stravenue runs "diagonally between and intersects a Street and an Avenue."[1] By convention in Tucson, streets run east–west while avenues run north–south. However, 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.[2]

  1. ^ Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Pima County (March 31, 2021). "18.83.040 Addressing. Pima County, Arizona Code". American Legal Publishing Corporation. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
  2. ^ Kelly, Andrea (March 3, 2008), "Road Runner by Andrea Kelly : 'Stravenue': Is it unique to Tucson?", Arizona Daily Star