There’s a road known as Church Road where it starts in Fairfax County. After crossing Rt. 28 in Loudoun County, it changes names to Waxpool Road. The byway transmutes into Farmwell Road, and then Ashburn Farm Parkway and then Sycolin Road. Upon reaching Leesburg, it morphs into Plaza Street.
This is insane. How the blue blazes is anyone in the region supposed to find their way around? If this were the only road in Virginia with multiple names, I might give it a rest. But it’s not. We’ve got ’em all over the place, and they’re a plague upon anyone not intimately familiar with local geography. As navigationally challenged as I am, I have been befuddled more than once by these ridiculous name-swappers.
Loudoun Supervisor Stephen J. Snow, R-Dulles, wants to stop the madness. According to Leesburg Today, he has asked for the Board of Supervisors to study simplifying some of the road names in and around Ashburn, Sterling and Dulles. Good. Maybe other localities will follow Loudoun’s lead!
