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If city council passes an ordinance which will be recommended to it by the city planning commission, about 90 per cent of the street names in the newly acquired territory which comprised Carrick borough will be changed.
J. L. Lewis of the Lewis Publishing Co., publisher of Pittsburgh guides and maps, has completed the map shown here, which carries the new names by which carrick streets will be known, if council enacts the recommendations of the planning commission.
This is one of a series of ward maps Mr. Lewis has prepared, each on separate plates. The Carrick streets are embraced on the Twenty-ninth ward map.
Changes were made necessary by conflicting names of many Carrick streets and other thoroughfares, already part of the city, which had the same name.
Carrick has 225 streets, according to Mr. Lewis. No provision has been made for changing overlapping streets in Knoxville, which has been taken into the city. This territory has 50 streets. The newly annexed borough of Westwood has 20 streets.
There are about a dozen streets in Carrick which are not more than 100 feet long, Mr. Lewis says. This is due to the fact that these streets are continued in some other borough or township.
Pittsburgh has more streets than New York or Chicago, the map maker says. This does not mean that this city has more miles of streets, but that it has a greater number of street names.
Lewis believes he would be safe in saying that Pittsburgh has more streets than any other city in the world. The city has more than 5,000 streets. Almost 2,000 of these are only 500 feet or less in length, he declared.
One of the changes made in Carrick street names is the changing of Phillips ave. to Pittsfield st.
Lewis is delaying the revision of his guides until final decision is taken on street names for the new territory.
