Battery Street runs for one block east/west, but has two side streets.
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Bastion Square - no cars allowed.

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Anyways, back at Cook, it's funny how the default semiotics of traffic signs is "you're an automobile". There's a sign indicating "Straight Through Only" right on top of a deliberately constructed turnoff for bicycles.
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The views alone are million dollar on Barkley Terrace. The houses? An old saw comes to mind: "if you have to ask, you can't afford it."
Bonus: there's a steep path up to the old observatory.

You can't get there without leaving Victoria! While Oak Bay claims jurisdiction (see https://www.oakbaynews.com/community/kicked-to-the-curb-438872), some of the properties on it are in Victoria, so I included it. I can only imagine the inter-municipal disputes.

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Bank Street has its middle block (3 of five) jammed a few meters west.

"Straight lines? That's pure theory. Here at City Planning, we have praxis, more better." - some CoV wonk 100 years ago, i bet.

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When I first explored Victoria, I did not know that Balmoral Road was AKA Fisgard. Or that North Park was AKA Herald. Or that Caledonia was AKA Chatham. Or ...

Or that two streets that don't connect at all or even line up could have the same fsck$n name.
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Balfour Place rises sharply from near the south end of Balfour Avenue. Coming back down to Gorge involved an 8m drop in about a block!

Aside: what is up with that one tree.

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I caught a really nice tunnel through the trees on Balfour Avenue. On Gorge, there's a sign meant to tell drivers that the Gorge Hospital driveway is *NOT* Balfour.
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Bakery Mews has little traffic - it's near my sweetie's place and we walk there often, and I've only seen one car moving ever. At the crest you get excellent views of the mountains across the water - weather permitting. Not for me, that day.

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Summary so far: 12 of the 25 "A" entries are one block long.
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Avebury Avenue is one block from, and parallel to, Asquith, but Avalon intervened. It's also got one end on top of a medium hill. Thankfully, downhill most of the way to Bay.
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Avalon Road runs from Douglas to Government, except it doesn't unless you're a not a car, and I can honestly say I can't imagine what this combination of signs means or is intended to convey. Does it mean busses can't exit? Must exit? Must not enter? There's barely enough room for the average car to turn around here.
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Getting to/from Ashgrove is a small exercise in navigation. You can get to it from Begbie Street, except you can't. Well, not from that block. Unless you circle around along Shelbourne, Bay, and then Richmond. It's honestly faster to walk.
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I really could not guess why Arthur Currie Lane was named as separate from Alston (ridden earlier this month). The water views are just as impressive!
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Arthur Avenue runs between the aptly named "The Rise" (ending at the resevoir, ~67m elevation) to Summit (below the resevoir. Taking Summit down the half block to Cook brings you to39m. That's 28m in two blocks, a stern test of both gears and of brakes.

The water's looking kind of low right now.
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One end of Arnold Street offers an up-close view of the Lieutenant Governer's estate, and the other offers a glimpse of their mansion.

One levee, the butler gapped on our names (understandable, at the time) but made a MOST EPIC recovery by correctly identifying Buchanan tartan colors and running with that instead. We were so impressed we let it slide.

Wow that was a long time ago. Decades.

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Armine Place is a cul-de-sac (again, one block!) parking lot, not worthy of reflecting on visually. But. The footpath at the end leads to an honest-to-euler footpath intersection meriting closer inspection.
Bonus: when I turned around, The Candlestick was just visible over the trees. Am I dating myself if I say I remember when it was lit up burning red?
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An aside. Linux defaults can somethimes be silly. Like, locales. LC_ALL=C puts Arm Street before Armine, but LC_ALL=en_CA.utf-8 puts Armine before Arm. Wierd. And inconvenient.

That out of the way, there's a "No Exit" sign on the last block of Arm Street; as usual it's only true if you're in a car. At Craigflower, there's a nice overhanging tree that's hard to get a decent pic of unless I stand in the middle of the ... nope.
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If you get a chance, visit the exhibit beside Arbutus Way in Beacon Hill Park. It's a variety of ages in trees, with plaques, nicked Mayor's Grove.

It was open to automobile traffic not that long ago. Arbutus Way, not Mayor's Grove.

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Angus Road runs (one block) between Pemberton and St. Charles. Its impressive tree is a set of three cedars.
Ran into a friend of a friend here, and apparently Rockland has a growing rabbit problem as well as the ongoing deer situation.
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