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22nd Street is an east–west street passing through the Noe Valley, Mission, and Potrero Hill districts of San Francisco, California.The street is discontinuous and exists in several sections: the main western section between Hoffman Avenue and the Bayshore Freeway, a segment from Vermont Street to Wisconsin Street, a short alley off of Missouri Street, and an eastern section from Texas ...
Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill). Most of Lombard Street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101.
(on the other hand, i may be confusing degrees with slope percent. 22nd street is said to have a 31% slope while lombard is said in this article to have a 27 degree slope, which corresponds to a 51% slope -- tan(27 degrees) = 0.51. but the article writers may have it wrong, and lombard may have a 27% slope, not a 27 degree slope.
This is also backed up by various members of San Francisco's Department of Public Works on California's Gold episode "Crookedest Street" (#13011). [4] Unlike the famous block of Lombard Street, which is paved with red brick, Vermont Street is paved with concrete. Vermont Street runs parallel to and overlooks U.S. Route 101. [5]
Portola Drive is the extension of Market Street into the south and western portion of San Francisco; San Jose Avenue, a major commuter road, brings thousands of cars into San Francisco every day (aka the Bernal Cut) Van Ness Avenue acts as US 101 through the heart of San Francisco from the Central Freeway towards the northern section of the ...
22nd Street may refer to: 22nd Street (San Francisco), one of the steepest streets in the world; 22nd Street (Saskatoon), an arterial road in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Cermak Road, Chicago, Illinois; formerly 22nd Street
Lombard Street (San Francisco), California, steep with hairpin turns; Lombard Street (Baltimore), Maryland; Lombard Street (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania See also Lombard Street riot; Lombard Street (Portland, Oregon), part of US 30 Bypass