Originally Posted by
jimmuller
...Just Waltham to Woburn and back...
Having ridden “Jim’s Road” from Lexington to Woburn, is this segment on your usual route? To go from Waltham to Lexington appears to violate Pythagoras’ Theorem of the Shortest Distance Between Two Points. Besides Waltham St in Lexington, I noted another Waltham St slightly west of Rte 3; it looked peaceful and more direct to Waltham.
Just a curious cartographilic question. I once read that the ultimate decision to name a street belongs to the local Fire Department so that similar sounding street names are not assigned to nearby streets, to prevent confusion and erroneous dispatches. Both Waltham Sts appeared to be in different towns (Woburn and Lexington), but maybe three miles apart.