Thursday, July 10, 2008
The United States the world's most crooked street
The world's most crooked street in San Francisco 9 Huajie San Francisco 9 Huajie (Lombardstreet) is the world's most crooked street. In the 19th century was the 1920s, is to enable traffic to break the construction and design, San Francisco now has become the most attractive street. Lombard Street is very long, in the Hyde Street and Leavenworth Street between a very short blocks, there are eight Jizhuan Wan, because there are 40 degrees slope, and bending as the "Z" shape, so the car can only down one-way . Bianzhi flowers on the streets, Xiu-spring, summer and fall chrysanthemums roses, it's embellishment of flowers. Huajie in height but also towards the Bay Bridge and Keyi Bint, if not drive, can follow the Huajie people on both sides of the trail to enjoy the beautiful scenery. Ten travellers to post-mortem fingerprint U.S. West San Francisco Airport implement Huajie is famous in the United States can be attributed to the Pan Huan nine of the steep mountain road and grass-Bi Yan Hua Jiang Xin of the design. Huajie located in the heart of San Francisco, stretching along the hillside, of which two were called Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill Mountain, is said to be rich settlements. Huajie is the pride of San Francisco. If someone has no knowledge of Huajie, Tram drivers will remind drivers: "Huajie to, do not go to see» "If you do not know what is Huajie, the driver will be laughed:" You know Huajie Jingbu » This is the world's most crooked street, and also the most beautiful Street in San Francisco. You look at those queuing are waiting for the car to open a section of the above? "Many of the initial use of the cable car up the mountain where the people of this impression Tram drivers Profound. Full self-service tour the United States National Park Travels Tram drivers along the hand look at the past, Huajie's really very steep slope (reportedly 29 degrees). But the length of 400 meters, has a 20 percent swing to repair. People driving in this small streets is no easy task. From the bottom intermittent need two or three times clinched Huajie to climb up the highest end of the movement of people are climbing the best. Similarly, the hard uphill, downhill on the more difficult. Will not be allowed to race it off, the driver must concentrate on the spirit, the eyes targeting the winding lanes of traffic slowly. Jiexin in New York City park Kuanyijiedai [AP] As Huajie steep and bending, the city of San Francisco also made special provisions to traffic, the exercise of vehicles to the road circling around the flower beds, not to cause any damage to the flower beds; speed must be reduced to five miles below, or else they would be punished accordingly. But here who want to open soon » When a hard line, is difficult to Dongzhangxiwang beauty, Babu De depends on the fixed? Bending all the way to spend all the way. Although pedestrians and vehicles are relatively easy, but you spend in traffic from the street will not feel lonely. To prevent traffic accidents occurred on the downhill, in San Francisco who deliberately winding lanes on both sides of the construction of a number of flower beds, the vehicles circled around the flower beds traffic; households are Zaishu flowers in front of their own, pose for the street by Tim Choi. This way the careful cultivation of flowers-in, high and low density, color match, the change of the seasons to ensure a King day, step by step are different. In contrast to the tourists sometimes reveal surprises, on-street residents But a common way, it seems deliberately board Zhuolian to show a silent pride! To Jiaozhen, Huajie is not the world's most steep Street, in downtown San Francisco, Feierbote Street and 22 Street are respectively 31 degrees slope. Of course, folklore are Yaodinghuajie 40 degrees. Which is even more on its steep in the sense of the visual and psychological has caused much shock. 9 Huajie background information U.S. officials formally known as the Lombardy Street (Lombard Street), San Francisco, California is an east-west direction through Presidio and Cow Hollow district's streets, part of their sections (from Broderick Street to Van Ness Avenue) is the U.S. 101 - Road Link, the streets have been extended eastward, after the Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco waterfront is the end of the Embarcadero area. In Lombardy the streets of the most well-known in Russia as is the section of the mountains, cross between Hyde and Leavenworth section, which causes in the United States it is the most winding streets, a short section of the road a total of eight sharp bends, Allow only from Hyde Street toward Leavenworth Street, downhill direction of the one-way passage, and the Powell-Hyde cable car along this section of the starting point (that is the highest point of the street corner location).
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