The steepest street in the world is in New Zealand
Dunedin, New Zealand, is the city you will find Baldwin Street The most inclined street in the world.
Only 350 meters long, the street catches up on its denial. The longest section of the street is 161.2 metres and climbs 47.2 metres vertically, about 30% of the denial. At its maximum, the slope of Baldwin Street is 35% denived. On average, all 2,86 metres horizontally, you climb one meter vertically.
As many claim to be the "most inclined" street, the "most inclined" or the " steepest" street in the world, these titles remain strongly contested. Other streets postulate for the title so coveted as Canton Street in Pittsburgh, Bradford , Romolo and Prentiss San Francisco, and Waipio Valley Road To Hawaii. However, only one street received the "official" recognition of the Guinness Book of Records and it is Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand.
The street tilt was involuntary. Like many other parts of Dunedin to the creation of the city, and even in New Zealand, the streets were arranged in a grid without any consideration of the land, usually by planners based in London. In the case of Baldwin Street (and much of Dunedin Street Plan), the layout was surveyed by Charles Kettle in the middle of the 19th century. The street was named after William Baldwin, a provincial councilor of Otago and founder of a newspaper, who subdivided the area.
Baldwin Street hosts events every year
The street is the theatre of an annual event in Dunedin, the Baldwin Street Gutbuster . Every summer since 1988, this physical and equilibrium event involves athletes from the bottom of the street to its top before descending. The event attracts hundreds of competitors each year and the race record is 1’56.
Since 2002, another charity event has been held every year in July, and has seen a real avalanche of over 30,000 Jaffas (candy candy). Each "Jaffa" is sponsored by a person, with prizes offered to the winners and the funds collected go to charitable works.
Some cuckoos use the street for more extreme activities, as you can see on this video:
Repeated on Twisted Sifter
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