10 Unique roads and streets in the world
There are millions worldwide and, as such, between them, some need to distinguish. This is natural, yet unique character traits that give these constructions dress, often, unexpected forms. Here are the first ten.
The shortest street in the world - Ebenezer Place, Scotland
Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, is accredited as the shortest street in the world, holding a place in the Guinness Book of Records, for a length of 2.06 meters. This street hosts one address: the entrance door of the premises No. 1 Bistro, which is part of Mackays Hotel, built in 1883. The owner of the building, the hotel at the time, was advised to print a name on the shortest side of the hotel. Subsequently, the right piece of road was officially declared the inscription Street in 1887. By 2006, the former owner of record for the shortest street in the world was Elgin Street in Bacup, Lancashire, United Kingdom, 5.2 meters long.
The narrowest street in the world - Spreuerhofstraße, Germany
Spreuerhofstraße is the narrowest street in the world, located in the city of Reutlingen, Baden Württemberg, Germany. This street width varies from 31 inches in the narrowest point or up to a maximum of 50 inches in the widest. Alley was built in 1727 during the reconstruction efforts after the area was completely destroyed plagued by giant fire engulfed the whole city a year ago in 1726. Spreuerhofstraße is officially listed in the Land Registry records under the name of urban street number 77.
The sloping street in the world - Baldwin Street, New Zealand
Situated in a quiet suburban town of Dunedin, in southern New Zealand, Baldwin Street has a reputation for being the steepest street in the world. It is located in the suburb called North East Valley, 3.5 kilometers from downtown Dunedin. Short and right, about 350 meters long, Baldwin Street starts from Lindsay Creek up into Signal Hill.Lower portions of the street shows a moderate slope, with paved surface, but higher portions of the paths are more steep and covered with concrete to ensure easy maintainability - tar and asphalt could leak into the valley a hot day - and for traffic safety in winter. In point of maximum slope, reaching approximately 1:2,86 Baldwin Street, which is 19 degrees or 35%. In other words, for every 2.86 meters horizontally advanced, the road rises one meter. The steepness of the street was not intentional. As in many other parts of Dunedin and generally in New Zealand, the streets here were made in a grid pattern, without taking into account land, especially by Road Workers in London.
May the winding road in the world - Lombard Street, San Francisco
Lombard Street is considered, by many, most winding road in the world, due to a highly sinuous portions that are on Russian Hill between Hyde and Leavenworth streets. Piece of road measuring only 400 meters in length between these two points, the enforced speed limit is only 8 km / h, with a one-way street, downstream. On each side of the street is the most expensive houses and villas in San Francisco, and they arranged after about street pattern. The road was built originally as vehicles could not adapt to the degree of inclination of 27% was considered as a repeated number of curves of type "hair pin" would both climb, and descent easier. (Note: According to other opinions, the champion is another street in the same town. majority of those unfamiliar with San Francisco Lombard Street is considered the most curved, but in fact it is not. This is just more popular, more beautiful and better positioned than owning real the record - Vermont Street. Situated between streets 20 and 22 of distructual Portrero Hill, San Francisco, Vermont deserves, in fact, the title of the most twisted street.
The road transhipment complicated world - Judge Harry Pregerson intersection, Los Angeles
Transshipment point Judge Harry Pregerson road is located in Los Angeles, California, and is one of the most complex intersections bunk in the U.S. and the world. Allows inputs and outputs to and from all directions having "layers" of roads and bridges that make up a very complicated network, although that designation traffic flow between and along interstate highways I-105 and I-110. This "braided" road was opened in 1993, is a road transhipment level 4, which also has a restricted section that can be used only by vehicles with dimensions and scale exceeded.
Longest national highway - Autrostrada 1, Australia
Australia's Highway 1 is a network of roads circumnavigheaza Australian continent, linking all state capitals in the surrounding ocean waters. With a total length of 14,500 km, Autostralia A1 is the longest national highway in the world, followed by Trans-Siberian Highway, 11,000 km long, and the Trans-Canadian Highway, with a total length of 8030 km. Every day, over one million people travel on a portion or another of Australia's Highway 1. Since this is an area so vast and incomparable driving conditions vary greatly along the highways, the roads with multiple lanes in urban and rural areas heavily populated until the road with one lane in each direction in sparsely populated . Some portions of the highway are very isolated, such as region of Eyre Highway, Nullarbor Plain crossing, and Great Northern Highway, approaching the northwestern coastline.
The largest roundabout in the world - Putrajaya, Malaysia
Not many people realize this when sofeaza around Putrajaya, especially when passing by the Prime Minister's office. However, if he clears the mind and is fully focused on the road, each driver should notice that they are actually inside a huge roundabout - the largest in the world. The main reason people do not realize this is the huge size of the "Ronde" with a circumference of about 3.4 kilometers. Road oval surrounding the "rounds" (it's actually a hill that there are several buildings) is called Persiaran Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah.
Widest street in the world - 9 de Julio - Buenos Aires, Argentina
July 9, 1816 - Argentina's birthday. On this day capital, Argentina has won independence and to keep the memory of the great event, free Argentine citizens have named the main street in downtown Buenos Aires 9 de Julio, which is July 9. But this is not a boulevard and some have to see it to believe your eyes. With a new band went wide with landscaped gardens between road directions, July 9th is the widest avenue in the world. Those hot long legs to step and will be considered lucky if they manage to get from one side to the other side of the street to a single green traffic light for pedestrians at intersections. In general, a crossing requires several minutes and several "greening" of light light. However, "halt" in the mid route offers a unique perspective on the boulevard grandeur, but also the entire city. Urban road goes to far in both directions, connecting sections of grand metropolis. Some of emblematic monuments of Buenos Aires can be seen along the Avenue July 9, between them, most notably, the Obelisk.
The world's longest street - Yonge, Ontario, Canada
That distinction belongs to Yonge Street, a major artery that connects Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe, both located in the Canadian province of Ontario. Street Yongese amazing remote stretches 1896 km - larger than the distance between Bucharest and Paris. Street starts on the shores of Lake Ontario and Toronto soar north-west along Highway 11, toward the Rainy River, Ontario, on the border with the U.S. state of Minnesota.
There are sources - even Guinnes Book of Records is one - Yonge no longer sit in the position of the longest streets in the world, displacing the Pan-American Highway, to which the title of the longest "road trip".
The most stunning roundabout in the world - Round Magic, Swindon, United Kingdom
Magic roundabout in Swindon, England, is the recent bill, but was built in 1972. Round consists of a set of five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle, and its name comes from a popular children's television series called Magic Round. Place was voted as the most frightening British intersection.
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