Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Most Amazing Streets

The January 11, 2009, List Serve ranked their ten most amazing streets. They are:

#10-- Gravity Hill in various locations where things appear to defy the laws of physics.

#9-- Ebenezer Place, Scotland-- World's shortest street, 6.8 feet long and just one house, actually a hotel, on it.

#8-- Pan-American Highway-- The world's longest at 29,800 miles through 15 countries.

#7-- Parliament Street, Exeter, England-- world's narrowest, 25 inches at narrowest, dates from the 1300s and is 50 meters long.

#6-- Road to Giza-- Oldest paved road-- 4,600 years, 6 and a half feet wide, 7 and a half miles long. Connected quarries to the Nile River for pyramid construction.

More to Come. RoadDog

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