Strutting Down the Stravenue

Grant, I just learned the word stravenue. Do you know this word stravenue?

It sounds like strode, so I would guess it’s street plus avenue.

Oh, a strode?

A strode is a street plus a road.

You’re exactly right. Apparently in Tucson and maybe nowhere else, I don’t know. I’ve only heard of this in Tucson.

A stravenue is a street running diagonally between an east-west street and a north-south avenue.

And as you said, it’s a combination of street and avenue.

And the U.S. Postal Service actually has an official abbreviation for it.

It’s S-T-R-A, Stra.

I did not know that.

Yeah, a strode is sometimes jokingly said to have the worst aspects of a street and the worst aspects of a road.

Particularly if you’re a pedestrian.

Oh, wow. So are there strallies and strollivards? I don’t know.

I don’t know. Well, pick up your strelophone and give us a call, 877-929-9673.