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Ffordd Pen Llech in Harlech, Wales was previously thought to have the steepest city street in the world and was given the Guinness World Record with a gradient at 37.45%, however after an appeal made by Baldwin street residents, both streets were reassessed and despite Ffordd Pen Llech having a greater gradient, the world's steepest Street was reinstated to Baldwin street, Dunedin.
This record is disputed; Pittsburgh news and international media have claimed Canton Avenue is the steepest street in the world. [8] [9] [10] The United States record is also disputed, as Bradford Street in San Francisco includes a 39% grade nine meters long [11] and Waipio Valley Road has sections as steep as a 45% grade. [12] [13] [14] [15]
Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand, is located in the residential suburb of North East Valley, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) northeast of Dunedin's central business district. Guinness World Records calls it the steepest street in the world, meaning no street gains more altitude in 10 horizontal metres (33 ft), measured along the street's centreline.
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On 8 April 2020, Guinness announced that Baldwin Street was reinstated as the world's steepest street after determining that the best practice to calculate a street gradient is to take the measurement from the centreline. [3] The new measurements found the street in Dunedin had a gradient of 34.8% while Ffordd Pen Llech's was calculated to be ...
The world’s steepest funicular railway opened in the alpine village of Stoos in 2017, rising 743 meters (2,438 feet) along gradients as steep as 110%. If that’s not fearsome enough, there’s ...
The Guinness World Record once again lists Baldwin Street as the steepest street in the world, with a 34.8% grade (1 in 2.87) after a successful appeal [10] against the ruling that handed the title, briefly, to Ffordd Pen Llech. A number of streets elsewhere have steeper grades than those listed in the Guinness Book.