Sunday, February 3, 2008

Most amazing streets of the world


Yonge Street (pronounced "young") is a major arterial street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and its northern suburbs. It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world.

I decided to discower what are other THE MOST smth streets of the world.

A street in Caithness, Scotland has been recently named the shortest street in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records, says the BBC.

Ebenezer Place measures just 6 feet 9 inches, and has only 1 address: a door to No. 1 Bistro, a restaraunt in Mackays Hotel. It was built in 1884.

The longest road in the world is the Pan-American Highway which stretches 29,800 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska to the lower reaches of South America.

Parliament Street is a 50m long street in Exeter, England, which links the High Street to Waterbeer Lane and dates from the 14th century. It was formerly called Small Lane and was renamed when Parliament was derided by the city council for passing the 1832 Reform Bill.

The street is approximately 1.2m (45") at its widest and less than 0.64m (25") at its narrowest. This made it till 2007, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the world's narrowest street.




Lombard Street is San Francisco-- and America's crookedest street.
It is famous for having a steep, one-block section that consists of tight hairpin turns.


Avenida 9 de Julio is an avenue in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its name honors Argentina's Independence Day. (July 9, 1816). It is claimed to be the widest avenue in the world.

The avenue runs from the Retiro district in the north to Constitución station in the south, roughly one kilometer to the west of the Río de la Plata waterfront. The avenue consists of twelve lanes, six on each side.





P.S.Fan Tam Alley (The narrowest street in Canada) - Chinatown - Victoria, British Columbia



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

And New Zealand has the steepest street in the word... somewhere in Wellington. It's actually very steep, we tried to park but... no! :D

Inga Encinas said...

Oh, I thought the steepest has to be in Himalayas :) Have u been to New Zeland? I dream to visit it one day.

Michelle B. Hendry said...

Now you have to come up north... Technically I live a little over 100 miles north of Toronto on Yonge Street... Great blog!