Here we go! Today’s walk starts at Castlewood Park, familiar ground for me and, fittingly, the place where I developed the idea of walking all of Lexington. Crossing the street to walk down Bryan was exhilarating. It did not disappoint. There was a lot to observe on this walk, which consisted of segments of Bryan along the Castlewood Park perimeter and North Limestone as well as Loudon and three neighborhood street (Wittland, Glenn and Burnett) that (for the most part) run between Bryan and Limestone. Castlewood Park has the Lexington Art League and North Limestone consists of a commercial district with a funky mix (including BroCoLoco and a used restaurant equipment store) that appears to be doing fine. I would have expected the artsiness to bleed into the neighborhood but it did not seem to have an overwhelming impact on these blocks, which generally felt accessible. A father and son painting the exterior of their house only added to the homeyness. The neighborhood did feature a community garden. And a classic car logo encased in the sidewalk!
Re day one Jordan Ave seems like an ally on Google.
My criteria for whether a street “counts” is based on the street center line data set provided by the Lexington/Fayette County GIS group This is provided as part of their open data initiative, and you can view the data in Google Earth.
Google maps often leaves official streets out (especially in new developments) and sometimes adds “streets” that aren’t officially streets. Other online map data (such as the openstreetmap data I use here) have similar issues, and you can see these instances in a few places by looking at the map. When a street is shown on the map without an overlaying line (red, green or blue), then it isn’t part of the official street data set. When there is a colored line without an underlying street, then this is a street that isn’t in the map data.
The Lexington data actually does include many streets that are labeled as alleys, including Diaz Alley near Industry and Eastland.