World's Unique Streets and Roads

World's Most Crooked Road

 

 Lombard Street is the most crooked street in the world.This street is located in San Francisco,California.

Lombard Street reaches from the Presidio to the Embarcadero.It only measures a quarter or a mile long between these points and the speed limit is only five mph and you can only drive one way in the downward direction.

World's Steepest Street 

 The world's steepest street is located in Dunedin.This 350 meters long street begins with a moderate slope and then climbs steeply to reach a maximum slope of 1:2.86 or 19 degrees.The street is so steep that it's surface had to be laid with concrete instead of asphalt otherwise on a warm day the tar would flow down the slope. 

World's Shortest Street

Ebenezer Place in Wick is Caithness, Scotland, is credited as being the world's shortest street in the Guinness Book of Records at 2.06m (6' 9").The owner of the building, a hotel at the time, was instructed to paint a name on the shortest side of the hotel. It was officially declared a street in 1887.

World's Longest Street

 Yonge street is the world's longest street in the world. Yonge street is located in Ontario,Canada.Yonge Street is a major arterial street running between Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe.This street is1,896 kilometres (1,178 mi) long.