Looking at Manhattan from north of the Queensboro Bridge
Around the world in different cities we encounter the streets that will draw our attention, because of the shape, length or width. Some streets are narrow and less than one meter, while for some of the streets we would need a few minutes to cross to the other side. There are streets that are just a few meters long, some are so steep that they had instead of asphalt they had to be concreted … In any case strange streets are everywhere.
1. Parliament Street (London)
This street was built in London back in 1300th and it was named “Little” street, however, it was renamed to Parliament Street when the English Parliament passed a decision on expansion of this street, which has never been done. For people who are a little bit bigger or those with larger bags it would be impossible to go through this street, because this street is only 0.64 meters wide. It is clear that there is no traffic going through this street, only pedestrians. This is the street where you could not easily avoid the person coming from the other direction. The street is long fifty meters.
2. Spreuerhofstraße (Germany)
If you thought that the Parliament Street in London is the narrowest street in the world then you are wrong. Narrowest street is actually in Germany in the town of Reutlingen. It was built back in 1727 during the renovation of the neighborhood from fire that occurred a year before. Narrowest parts of this street are up to thirty inches wide, while the widest part amounts to 50 centimeters. This street is registered as a City Street number 77.
3. Lombard Street (San Francisco)
Lombard Street is seen as the most bizarre street ever made. This street definitely leaves a strong impression because it’s steep and has eight famous curves. It has eight rounded corners because it was believed that otherwise this street would be too steep and unsafe for driving. In this street the parking is definitely prohibited. What also leaves strong impression is beautifully landscaped area next to the winding road. In addition to the entire length of road can hedges and colorful flowers can be seen.
4. Baldwin Street (New Zealand)
Although Lombard Street is one of the steepest streets, there are more extreme ones than this street. One example is Baldwin Street in New Zealand. Although New Zealand is full of examples of steep streets, Baldwin street, with it’s 35 degree slope is the most steep street in the world. This street is so steep that it is not made from asphalt, but concrete. If it was made of asphalt, after a while all the asphalt would fell to the end of the street due to the high slopes. This street was created by British designers who have never even been in New Zealand, they just designed it by heart and they were not aware of any startling projects that they spawned.
5. The Magical Swindon Roundabout (England)
This roundabout is constructed in 1972. and it’s often named the worst roundabout ever built. The magical Swindon roundabout is very unpopular in England. This circular flow is composed of five smaller roundabouts but, when passing through each of these roundabout you have to go through all small circuits in the counter-clockwise direction, and that’s just not suitable for citizens of England. Therefore, this circular flow is generally avoided by Englishmen.
6. The 9th of July Avenue (Buenos Aires)
The capital of Argentina holds the record for the world’s widest street in the world. It contains six lanes and it extends along an entire block of this great city. There are many important institutions of this city in this street, but also a very significant landmarks such as statues of Don Quixote and Obelix and the square Plaza de la Republica. The best indicator of how wide the street is, is the time that you need to cross from one side of the street to the other because it may take more than five minutes to cross to the other side.
7. Yonge Street (Ontario, Canada)
The longest street ever built in the world is Yonge Street. This street is in the Guinness Book of Records with its length of 1.896 kilometers. Street begins in Toronto lake shore and it ends at the border with Minnesota. Certainly this street is one of the most specific streets in the world.
8. Ebenezer Place (Scotland)
Besides the existence of one of the world’s narrowest streets in England (Parliament Street), there is also the shortest street ever. In the Scottish town of Vik, this street is only 2.6 meters long. This street has its place of honor as the shortest in the Guinness Book of records. In this street there is only one house – Ebenezer Place No.1, that was built back in 1883. This house is now converted into a hotel called “Mackays” hotel. Ebenezer’s Place got the status of a street in the year of 1887.
9. Putrajaya (Malaysia)
The biggest roundabout in the world ever built is situated in Malaysia. The path is located in the southern part of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. This place is a new political center of Kuala Lumpur. This roundabout is 3.4 kilometers long. In addition to its size, what leaves a strong impression about this roundabout is its environment because within this circular path there is a beautiful nature. At the roundabout, there are many parks, forests and hills.
10. Savoy Court (England)
Another street from this list is in England. This street is the only street in England where it is allowed to drive on the right, which is inconsistent with rules of driving in Britain. While in England this is one of the most confusing streets, for Europeans this would be given rest, because of the UK driving rules are different from the rest of Europe. This street dates from the time when they were using chariots, and the coachmen were allowed to open the door for the gentlemen without leaving his seat.
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