The widest highway in the world. The most winding road in the world

There are now three streets that claim to be the widest street in the world. According to one version, this is July 9 Street (9 de Julio Avenue) in Argentina, which is named after the independence day of the state. It has six lanes in both directions and occupies an entire block in width.

The width of this avenue is 140 m.

The road was formed as a result of the union of two parallel blocks. The avenue was planned as early as 1888, but it was only in 1937 that they got down to business. The main construction was completed in the 1960s. The road passes through the city from north to south and ends at airports on both sides.

The metro runs under the avenue, and the 67-meter obelisk in the city center is girdled roundabout. Urban planners are calling for removing the avenue underground and leaving a promenade area on top.

To cross the avenue across, you will need to pass at least three traffic lights and spend about 5 minutes.

Many famous buildings are located on this street, such as the building of the Ministry of Communications, the French Embassy, ​​the statue of Don Quixote, other monuments, as well as Republic Square (Plaza de la República).

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According to another version, honorary title the widest street in the world went to the Monumental Val, located in Brazil.

The width of the Monumental Shaft is much greater than that of the competitor - 250 m.

This avenue connects the Municipal Square and the Plaza of the Three Powers of the Brazilian capital.

Monumental Val - the central avenue of the capital of Brazil, which connects the Square of the Three Powers and the Municipal Square. Here is the national congress of the state, the buildings of various ministries, monuments, memorials.

By the way, in Brazil itself there is a legend that about 100 cars can simultaneously drive along the Monumental Val side by side, but in fact these are fairy tales to attract tourists. The road itself consists of six lanes in each direction, which is divided in the middle by the widest lawn. By the way, there are practically no traffic lights here, and only a few traffic controllers cope with the flow, despite the fact that several hundred thousand cars pass here every day.

However, this rectangular area with one-way eight-lane roads on the sides includes a wide lawn in the middle. Along the road are government offices and historical buildings. If we discard the formal signs, then this particular road is the widest in the world.

It is noteworthy that only two traffic lights and no more than four traffic controllers are involved in regulating the movement of cars on Monumental Val, although several hundred thousand cars pass through it every day.

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Ebenezer Place, Scotland. Photo above. The shortest street in the world. Its length is 2.06 m. There is only one address “No. 1 Bistro, which is part of the Mackays Hotel, which was built in 1883. The street has existed since 1887.

2. The narrowest street in the world

Spreuerhofstraße is the narrowest street in the world. It is based in Reutlingen, Germany. The width of the street ranges from 31-50 cm. The lane was built in 1727.

3. The coolest street in the world

Baldwin Street - New Zealand. The street is located in the southern part of Dunding city. It is believed that the slope of this road is the steepest in the world. At the steepest point of the 350-meter street, the slope reaches 1:2.86 (19 ° or 35%), that is, every 2.86 meters of asphalt the level increases by 1 meter.

4. The most curved road in the world

Lombard Street (San Francisco). Lombard Street is the most curved road in the world. Of course, the curved section is only part of the entire road. The speed limit on it is only 5 miles / hour (8 km / h), and you can only go down. On both sides of the road are the most expensive mansions in San Francisco.

The road was built in such a strange way a long time ago, because the first vehicles due to the weakness of the engines, they could not cope with the 27% slope. And it is not very convenient for pedestrians to climb up.

5. The hardest fork in the world

Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange. Los Angeles. This miracle was built in 1993.

6. The longest highway

Australian Highway 1 is a network of highways that seamlessly traverse the Australian continent, connecting all of the country's major cities. The total length of the highway is 14,500 km (trans-Siberian highway 11,000 km, trans-Canada highway 8,030 km). More than a million people travel on Highway 1 every day.

7. The largest ring road in the world

Patrajaya, Malaysia. The length of the ring is approximately 3.4 km.

8. Most a wide street in the world

9 de Julio, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina gained independence on July 9, 1816. In honor of this event, the street "9 de Julio", which is also the main street of Buenos Aires, is called.

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Nobody likes crowded streets, let alone driving down a street with 8 sharp turns on the same block, crossing 12 roads at the same intersection, or parking on the street at a 40-degree angle.

Here are some of the most intimidating, steep, long, wide, narrow and other unusual streets in the world.

1. Lombard Street, San Francisco, USA

Lombard Street in San Francisco, USA is best known for being the most winding street in the world. In total, there are about 8 turns called hairpins on the corner slope, which were made in order to smooth out its steep slope. The winding section of Lombard Street only allows one-way traffic and no parking is allowed. Also, crazy races are often arranged on the street.

2. The Magic Roundabout, Swindon, England

The intersection, located in the city of Swindon, is possibly the most confusing intersection in the world. It was built in 1972 and represents the intersection of 6 roads with 5 smaller interchanges. In addition, if you enter a small central interchange, you need to drive along it in a counterclockwise direction. Surprisingly, the crossing was made in order to reduce traffic jams in the city.

3. Baldwin Street, Dunedin, New Zealand

Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand bears the title the steepest street in the world. In this country, many cities were built on mountainous and hilly terrain. The street has a 35-degree slope and is so steep that the top of the street is made of concrete, because in hot weather normal road material will simply slide down.

4. July 9 Avenue, Buenos Aires, Argentina

9th of July Avenue in the city of Buenos Aires is considered the widest street in the world. It has six lanes in each direction. With a width of 91 meters, it occupies an entire city block. Crossing the avenue in some places can take several minutes to pass all 12 lanes. Walking along the avenue, you can admire many sights, including the old French embassy, ​​Don Quixote statue, the famous obelisk and Place de la Constitution.

5. Spreuerhofstrasse, Reutlingen, Germany

The Spreuerhofstrasse in the city of Reutlingen in Germany is the narrowest street in the world. It is 50 cm wide at its widest part and 31 cm wide at its narrowest. It was built in 1727 during reconstruction, after the area was destroyed during heavy fires. The previous record for the narrowest street in the world was held by Parliament Street in England, dating back to the 14th century. In the very wide area its width is about 122 cm, and at its narrowest 64 cm.

6. Road to Giza, Egypt

The road to Giza is famous for being oldest paved road in the world. It was built 4600 years ago and connects an ancient basalt quarry with a river adjacent to the Nile. The width of the road is about 2 meters, and its length is about 12 km. The road was used to transport huge blocks of basalt to build the pyramids of Giza.

7. Pan American Highway, USA

The Pan American Highway is now considered longest road in the world. It replaced Young Street in Canada, which was also long considered the longest road in the world, whose length was 1896 km. The Pan American Highway connects the roads of the states of North and South America, and its length is 48,000 kilometers. The highway passes through 15 countries including the US, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina and El Salvador.

8. Ebenezer Place, Scotland

Ebenezer Place in Wick, Scotland is listed as the shortest street in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records. Its length is only 2.06 meters. The only address on this street is the front door of Bistro Number 1, which is part of the McCases Hotel, built in 1883. At one time, its owner was told to write the name on the shortest part of the hotel, and in 1887 it was officially declared a street.

9. Denouement of Judge Gerry Pregerson, Los Angeles, USA

Judge Garry Pregerson's denouement is located in the city of Los Angeles and is considered the most difficult traffic intersection in the world. It is a stack road junction with many bridges that create a complex network of roads for the smooth flow of traffic through the freeways connecting different states. The interchange was opened in 1993 and has 4 levels, and each of the branches is intended for a certain kind transport.

10. Putrajaya Roundabout, Malaysia

Not many people who find themselves in the center of Malaysia immediately understand that they are on the largest roundabout in the world. The circumference of this intersection is about 3.4 km and the street it surrounds is called Persiaran Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah.

October 07, 2013 The largest highway of the American continent, the so-called "Pan American Highway" (the name is not official), is considered the largest road on the planet, its length is more than 40 thousand kilometers, which is close to the length earth's equator(40076 km).

The Pan American Highway connects the US and Canada to countries Latin America. Represents a huge road network operating, due to numerous branches, in 15 countries of the American continent. Its construction began in 1923 and is still ongoing in some areas.

Officially, the "Pan American Highway" originates near the US-Mexico border, in the Mexican town of Nuevo Laredo. But the actual beginning of the highway is located much to the north, in the city of Fairbanks, Alaska (USA).

The most famous sections of the Pan-American Highway in the north of the continent are the Alaska Highway, 2237 kilometers long, laid through the United States and Canada, and the Inter-American Highway, the main transport artery connecting the United States with the Panama Canal. The Inter-American Highway was built during World War II to protect cargo from German U-boat attacks. It has branches to several Central American countries.

In South America, the Pan American Highway crosses the high mountain ranges of the Andes, runs through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and reaches the Pacific coast of Peru. Further, the highway runs mainly along the Pacific coast of South America, has branches to Venezuela and Colombia, to the south - to Argentina and Brazil.
The southernmost point of the Pan American Highway is considered to be the Argentine town of Ushuaia, not far from the coast of the Strait of Magellan. A project is under consideration, according to which the Pan-American Highway will receive another branch - to Venezuela and Colombia, then through Argentina - to Brazil.

Unfortunately, to drive on the most high road in the world "in one fell swoop" no one has succeeded yet, it is simply impossible. The fact is that there is an impassable section 87 kilometers long in the road network. It is located in Panama and Colombia and is called the Darien Gap. Environmentalists are protesting against the laying of a highway in this area covered with jungle and swamps, since there are several nature reserves Panama. Representatives of indigenous peoples living here also object - the road, in their opinion, will harm the traditional way of life.

Our world is full of amazing things. Quite often, it would seem that the most ordinary things, such as the road, become “amazing”. So in the new review, 10 unusual roads from around the world will be immediately presented to the reader's attention.

1 Baldwin Street

Baldwin Street is located in Dunedin, New Zealand. First of all, this street is known as the steepest in the world. The coolest - literally. The slope ratio of the road is 1:5. This means that after walking five meters horizontally, you will descend, on average, one meter vertically. At the same time, the maximum slope of the street is 1:2.86 and occupies 35% of the entire road.

2 Lombard Street

Lombard Street is known throughout the world as the most crooked. This notoriety is kind of sad, as going down the street is quite a dangerous activity. This monument of "road architecture" is located in the USA, in the glorious city of San Francisco.

3. 9 de Julio Avenue

Buenos Aires in Argentina is perhaps the widest street in the world, and at the same time the widest highway. We are talking, of course, about the notorious 9 de Julio Avenue. The street was named in honor of the country's independence day - July 9, 1816. The 1 km long avenue has seven car lanes in each direction.

4. Spreuerhofstrasse

Not a car road, but still a path worth seeing. Street Spreuerhofstraße, which is located in Reutlingen, Germany, is the narrowest street in the world. The street appeared in 1727. Officially, the street is numbered 77. At its narrowest point, its width is only 50 cm.

5. Yonge Street

The Yonge Street, Ontario, Canada and Pan-American Highway is said to be the longest road in the world. It passes through the territory of North and South America. On this stretch lies the longest street in the world. Its length is 1,896 km. The street lies on the territory of both North and South America. Of course, the true path is much longer. Most it is made up of Highway 11, but it does not refer to the street itself.

6. Laerdal Tunnel

The tunnel connecting Laerdale and Aurland in Norway is the longest in the world. Its total length is 24.5 km. It is part of the highway passing in that place. The tunnel has two lanes. Thanks to this tunnel, transport communication does without ferries.

7. The Death Road

The Death Road is perhaps one of the most famous sights in Bolivia. Today it is considered the most dangerous in the world, and not without reason - every year 200-300 people die on it. The road passes through the mountains.

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9. McMurdo South Pole Highway

On the south pole of our planet, in Antarctica you can find the snowiest road on Earth total length at 1,601 km. This road, as you might guess, is not unpaved, and even more so not paved, made of snow. It is marked with flags. This "trail" leads to Amundsen-Scott station.

10. The Eyre Highway

The Eyre Highway connects southern and western Australia. Today it can be considered the most monotonous on earth. The length of the road is 1,664 km. Almost all the way the driver will see nothing around him. The exception is only three cities on the way.