What Counts As The Steepest Street In The World?
Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand, has the Guinness World Record for "steepest paved road over a continuous distance of more than ten metres". Which is enough to bring in quite a few tourists. What's the history? And what counts as "steepest street"?
Thanks to Mayor Dave Cull and to Gary Blackman. You can see some of Gary Blackman's photography in Te Papa's collection: https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/222
And an interview with him: https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/blackman-still-finding-out-what-camera-will-take
UPDATE, JULY 2019: The Welsh street took the record: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-48992331
UPDATE, APRIL 2020: The New Zealand street appealed and took the record back: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52215151
CITATION: von Worley, S. (2010). More Steeps Of San Francisco – A New Steepest Street Is Born. Retrieved from http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/
The Guinness World Record data is here: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/62907-steepest-street-road
And the Welsh street is referenced here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/10/bricks-dont-usually-roll-welsh-town-harlech-worlds-steepest-street
Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin)
I'm at http://tomscott.com
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Thanks to Mayor Dave Cull and to Gary Blackman. You can see some of Gary Blackman's photography in Te Papa's collection: https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/222
And an interview with him: https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/blackman-still-finding-out-what-camera-will-take
UPDATE, JULY 2019: The Welsh street took the record: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-48992331
UPDATE, APRIL 2020: The New Zealand street appealed and took the record back: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52215151
CITATION: von Worley, S. (2010). More Steeps Of San Francisco – A New Steepest Street Is Born. Retrieved from http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-francisco/
The Guinness World Record data is here: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/62907-steepest-street-road
And the Welsh street is referenced here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/10/bricks-dont-usually-roll-welsh-town-harlech-worlds-steepest-street
Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin)
I'm at http://tomscott.com
on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott
on Facebook at http://facebook.com/tomscott
and on Instagram as tomscottgo
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