The Twenty Five Streets

We have recently hired a few new paramedics at Worcester EMS. One of the challenges a new medic faces is street familiarization. Our medics come from all over New England and even the locals haven’t been really familiar with the city. I always joked that you only had to know 18 streets to get around Worcester. If the call wasn't on one of those streets, it was just off of one of those streets. After some careful thought, I found it was actually twenty five. Another problem was Worcester’s veteran named squares. No one calls it the intersection of Plantation and Franklin, it is called Brown Square. So I have added ten squares to my new city driver’s list of must know locations, and here they are.

The twenty five streets:
Belmont, Burncoat , Cambridge, Chandler, Grafton, Greenwood , Grove Hamilton, Highland, Lake Ave, Lincoln, Main, Massasoit, May, NE Cutoff (Mountain St), Park Ave, Plantation, Pleasant, Providence, , Salisbury Shrewsbury, Southbridge, SW Cutoff (Rt 20), Vernon,
West Boylston

The ten squares:
Kelly, Brown, Newton, Billings, Rice, Lincoln, Washington, Tatnuck, Brosnihan, Posner