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I remember for a very long time, there was a sign in the direction of from airport to 183 north, and it read to south 183. Every time I was driving from the airport back to north Austin, I was confused. It is supposed to be correct, but it didn't seem to be. After a few years of not traveling that often, I was surprised to see it was corrected...

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by Ivory Lee Spurlock

Are you saying there should be a small case letter "L" where the "r" is in the street name Parmer Lane? Are you serious? I wonder how that happened. It looks like a QA inspector would have caught the error at final inspection before signing off on it and sending it to the customer. The customer, I suppose would be the Austin City Street Department. It looks somebody at the street department would have caught the mis-spelling. Sounds like there's plenty of blame to go around as it slipped passed all quality and accuracy inspection points. It should be obvious to anybody who knows how to spell that Parmer and Palmer are not pronounced the same way. It's a way more obvious mis-spelling than the Manchaca-Menchaca controversy.

I've heard and repeated often enough that it was a cartographer's mistake that was accepted as correct...way the heck back in the olden days....Parmer printed on maps and assumed to be correct.

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

I've heard and repeated often enough that it was a cartographer's mistake that was accepted as correct...way the heck back in the olden days....Parmer printed on maps and assumed to be correct.

Several folks have dug into this and no 'real' answer to why it is named that or whether there is a 'typo' in the naming. Kind of along the lines of the 'Manchaca' issue....