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Ebenezer Place, Wick, with Union Street to the right, and River Street to the left. Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, is credited by the Guinness Book of Records as being the world's shortest street at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in).
Chandler Highway is a short road in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, connecting Alphington over the Yarra River and Eastern Freeway to Kew. [3] Its total length is less than 2 kilometres, leading to the claim that it is "the shortest highway in the world". [4]
Elgin Street, located in Bacup, Lancashire, is one of the shortest streets in the world at 17 feet (5.2 m).It held the British record until November 2006, when it was discovered that Ebenezer Place, Wick in Caithness, Scotland, which was constructed in 1883 and named in 1887, was shorter at only 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) in length.
Or, more specifically, the shortest traffic-bearing covered bridge in the world. Students from Ashtabula County Joint Vocational School helped build it. Irv Oslin
Shortest Interstate highway in contiguous United States I-87: 333.49: 536.70 I-278 in New York City: A-15 at Canadian border in Champlain, New York: 1957: current New York only Associated routes: I-287, I-587, I-787: I-88: 140.60: 226.27 I-80/IL 92 in East Moline, Illinois: I-290/IL 110 in Hillside, Illinois: 1987: current Illinois only I-88: ...
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved.Also included is additional data on the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.
Road sign marking the end of the village of Y in the Somme département, France. A, a former village in Kami-Amakusa city, Kumamoto, Japan; Á, a farm in Dalabyggð municipality, Dalasýsla, Iceland. Á is Icelandic for "river". Ά, an eco-hippie community in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina [citation needed] D, a river in Oregon, United States ...
The highest asphalted road is the single-lane road to Umling La, located 17 km (11 mi) west of Demchok in Ladakh, India, which reaches 5,800 m (19,029 ft) ("19,300 feet" according to a Border Roads Organisation sign there that recognizes it as the "World's Highest Motorable Pass").