Post-vacay Monday

CharmedPam · June 2021

I googled residential boulevard and here’s a good pic.. kinda the same as a city one? I don’t know many areas that have this.

https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/streets/residential-boulevard/

@kerbohl come back and explain yourself! Lol

flantastic · June 2021

CharmedPam said:

I googled residential boulevard and here’s a good pic.. kinda the same as a city one? I don’t know many areas that have this.
https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/streets/residential-boulevard/
@kerbohl come back and explain yourself! Lol

Oh okay this is different than what I was describing. I honestly don't know if I have a name for that, but boulevard doesn't sound wrong.

ILoveBeachMusic · June 2021

Ok so boulevard is actually the median in the middle of the street? This kind of what I was picturing but I call the whole thing a boulevard.

MNNEBride · June 2021

Here a boulevard is between the sidewalk and the street. Technically, the city owns it but homeowners are tasked with maintaining it.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020756/uploads/editor/e2/5yi9nyjanlnh.png

ILoveBeachMusic · June 2021

That is what @flantastic and I would call an easement.

short+sassy · June 2021

I've always thought a boulevard was a larger, usually tree-lined road. But I see now I am confusing that with another name for the easement part of the street.

However, I've also never used the word easement, though I'd heard of it and would have defined it the same way. I just lump that in with the more general term "sidewalk". Like, "the grassy part of the sidewalk".

geebee908 · June 2021

To me a boulevard would be 2-lane street separated by a park-like median. It's fancier than just the strip of land beyond your sidewalk. Easement is a legal term for the public right-of-way on a property, isn't it? If the city wanted to widen your street they could take over the easement, or if they want to place utilities there, they would have that right and access.

mrsconn23 · June 2021

The only time I dealt with 'easement' is that at our old house, you were supposed to leave one behind your fence 'just in case' the property line needed to be accessed.

I always thought Boulevard was another name for 'street'.

It's interesting to see everyone's response and experiences.

short+sassy · July 2021

geebee908 said:

To me a boulevard would be 2-lane street separated by a park-like median. It's fancier than just the strip of land beyond your sidewalk. Easement is a legal term for the public right-of-way on a property, isn't it? If the city wanted to widen your street they could take over the easement, or if they want to place utilities there, they would have that right and access.

That's usually what I more think of with the word "easement". An area that is on someone's private property, but has to allow access to either the public or specific people/entities.

For more historical fun. Where I live, no one calls it a median. That area of the road is called a "neutral ground".

It's called a "neutral ground" because the NOLA area was once comprised of very different groups. You had a settlement in the present day French Quarter that was comprised of people primarily from France. That area ended at present day Canal St. It still does! On the other side of Canal St., was where the Anglo-Americans lived.

Those two groups did not care for each other. But it was economically advantageous for everyone to do business together. So business meetings and exchanges were typically held on Canal Street, ie the neutral ground.

Present day Canal St. has a really wide neutral ground in the middle. There are two different street car tracks on it. We also still have the effects of those long ago separate factions of the city in that all the street names change when you cross Canal St!

It can even be confusing for locals. And it is REALLY confusing for tourists, lol.

kerbohl · July 2021

CharmedPam said:

Boulevard to me - is the patch of grass after the sidewalk, no? That’s what I always thought it was. In my town, it’s technically the town’s property but I’m responsible for maintenance on it.

@kerbohl I’m not 100% sure what dressage is, even after googling but I think it was. They walked around/rode around showing steps and jumps. Here’s a few pics

@CharmedPam I am sorry for ghosting! I've been working long hours this week .... Yes, it is the patch of grass after the sidewalk, just before the street. Technically it is city property, but like you said, the home owner has to maintain it.

And yes, from those pictures it looks like dressage. Those photos look awesome! It must have been a great show.

kerbohl · July 2021

I wonder if it's a Canadian thing - we call it the boulevard, but maybe the US calls it the easement? They didn't have them in the Netherlands, so I don't know if there was a word for them there .... though they did have random trees in the middle of the sidewalk in front of people's houses. I assume the city maintained those.

CharmedPam · July 2021

kerbohl said:

I wonder if it's a Canadian thing - we call it the boulevard, but maybe the US calls it the easement? They didn't have them in the Netherlands, so I don't know if there was a word for them there .... though they did have random trees in the middle of the sidewalk in front of people's houses. I assume the city maintained those.

Maybe because I pictured that to be a boulevard right away… and honestly in the 24 years I’ve lived here, I never had to use that term in any sentence.

also… 24 years since I moved. Gosh darn I’m old!

VarunaTT · July 2021

kerbohl said:

CharmedPam said:

Boulevard to me - is the patch of grass after the sidewalk, no? That’s what I always thought it was. In my town, it’s technically the town’s property but I’m responsible for maintenance on it.

@kerbohl I’m not 100% sure what dressage is, even after googling but I think it was. They walked around/rode around showing steps and jumps. Here’s a few pics

@CharmedPam I am sorry for ghosting! I've been working long hours this week .... Yes, it is the patch of grass after the sidewalk, just before the street. Technically it is city property, but like you said, the home owner has to maintain it.

And yes, from those pictures it looks like dressage. Those photos look awesome! It must have been a great show.

I saw one of their shows a long time ago and just as a long time horse fanatic/reader, I think it's dressage plus type of thing. They definitely do classical dressage (which I love watching), but there's the additional element of the jumps and poses (think the classic Napoleon painting) and the neat dancing thing with the rider walking behind them, that I don't think are a normal part of classical dressage.

This is the Spanish Riding School video I found, and that's the "premier" school for them line.

https://youtu.be/BuhuhYlYm4E

ETA: Oh, i just found an explanation of Wiki about the jumps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airs_above_the_ground

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