Talk:Trap street
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I find it hard to believe that anyone has ever become lost looking for (or travelling on) a trap street, especially given this quote from the Straight Dope page: "Of course, the make-believe streets are little ones. The mythical avenues normally run no longer than a block, dead end, and are shown with broken lines (as though they are under construction)." So what's the deal with the "Travellers' Woes" section? Do we have evidence for this at all? Glenn Willen (Talk) [[]] 22:14, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
- I can assure you that people do have trouble with trap streets. When I lived in Seattle, the most popular map of the area showed the street we lived on as going through, rather than as the dead-end it really was. Caused no end of trouble with relatives coming to visit: we were sure to get a call saying that they'd gotten off the freeway, and were at the McDonalds at the bottom of the hill; now where was the turn onto 80th Street? --Carnildo 22:14, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
- This might as well be a genuine error rather than a trap street. Usually, you would expect traps to be something unique to the map like a made-up road name. Whether a street is through or closed at one end might change "quickly"; by contrast Lye Close doesn't suddenly show up in Bristol ... --Turbothy 21:25, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- Hardly. We were at the top of a steep hill, while the McDonalds was at the bottom. If they were to put 80th through, they'd need to provide some sort of assistance to get cars up the 40-degree incline, and an extremely strong wall at the bottom to prevent out-of-control cars from causing problems on the freeway. --Carnildo 01:40, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- This might as well be a genuine error rather than a trap street. Usually, you would expect traps to be something unique to the map like a made-up road name. Whether a street is through or closed at one end might change "quickly"; by contrast Lye Close doesn't suddenly show up in Bristol ... --Turbothy 21:25, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
One note--map services of Google, Yahoo, Mapquest, and Microsoft all include a street named (rather obviously) "Help Me" in Summerhaven, Arizona. I assume this is a trap street. Apart from the improbable name, it is a straight north-south street in an area of curving roads and is involved in several unlikely intersections. It also doesn't appear on aerial images, but seeing roads in forest isn't easy. This might be worth mentioning in the article as an easily-observed online example of the phenomenon. Paalexan 02:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- that's called an easter egg and has nothing to do with trap streets.88.117.117.4 (talk) 03:41, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
