Steepest street

Baldwin Street, Dunedin, New Zealand

Baldwin Street¹ in Dunedin, NZ holds the Guinness Book of Records title as the steepest street in the world. However, the claim is controversial due to the confusion surrounding how the gradient was recorded. Canton Street² in Pittsburgh, USA would like to claim that they have the steepest street in the world.

Lombard Street³ in San Francisco, USA is now famous as the ‘most crooked’ street in the world, after it designed a series of switchbacks to reduce its grade of only 27%.

Task A: Which city do you think can claim the title?

Task B: What about your local area?

Steepest street

Steepest street

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