Taking Transit to America's Steepest* Street
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- *Like all records, it's disputed. But it's still pretty darn steep.
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Baldwin Street is in New Zealand, not Ireland. I don't know how I didn't catch that. 🤦
Tom Scott did a video about it :-)
Thanks for letting me show you around my city, I hope your calves have healed up by this point
I love how the buses say PORT AUTHORITY all over the place
Cincinnati also has staircase streets!
Baldwin Street isn't in Ireland, it's in Dunedin, New Zealand...."✨Stormy didn't do their research✨". Baldwin Street has 34.8% gradient, which means yes, Canton Ave has a higher grade, but as you said, there are roads in the US that claim to have steeper grades than both Pittsburgh and Dunedin's. That angle of 37% for Canton Ave only extends about 6.5 meters (21 ft), whereas Baldwin Street's steepest part stretches considerably farther! The shared operation of the Mount Washington Transit Tunnel being used by both buses and trains makes it so interesting. The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel famously used to operate this way between 2009 and 2019 until it became light-rail only, so Pittsburgh's Mount Washington Transit Tunnel is now the only one in the US used by just buses and trains.
But there is ANOTHER road-rail tunnel in the US, the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel in Whittier, Alaska! Built as a rail-only tunnel in 1943 when Whittier was an important military base, it was turned into a road-rail tunnel in 2000 as a way to better connect Whittier to the rest of Alaska. They opted to do it this way instead of building a separate tunnel for cars as a cost-saving measure. It's not just a road-rail tunnel, but also the longest highway tunnel in North America at 2.5 miles long, the first designed for -40 Fahrenheit temperatures and 150 mph winds, and the first to be aired out with jet turbine ventilation. The US Army selected Whittier as a rail port during WWII because it was a shorter voyage, reduced exposure of ships to Japanese submarines, reduced the risk of Japanese bombing the port facilities because of the bad weather, and avoided the steep railroad grades required to traverse the Kenai Mountains
Did I seriously say Ireland??? How did I not catch that 🤦
I am thinking Downtown Austin, Texas and steeper slopes.
Imo martha ST feels like a mountain
I don’t know how steep it is but in Upper Darby there are several very steep streets between Marshall Rd. and Garret Rd. Where the route 101 and 102 light rail lines run just a little behind Garret Rd. There is the route 107 bus line that runs on Marshall Rd. but does not have Sunday or holiday service. So I have walked up Fairfax Ave. which after you cross Garett Rd. You can get the light rail line at Drexel Park station. It is both long and steep going up that street. Not too bad going down but you will feel it in your leg muscles going up. Come out to Delaware County and try it some time if you are curious about steep streets that connect with light rail lines. I enjoyed seeing you climbing that Pittsburgh street but I am glad I would not want to do it regularly.
Imagine how horrible it was for the horses in the horsecar days in Pittsburgh.
Horses cause of death? Gravity... SMH...
That staircase isn't Rutherford Ave. It's a staircase down to Rutherford Ave.
Seattle has many blocks of streets that are stairways.
My first thought was "why would anyone make a street that steep in a place where it snows?"
Pitman, NJ's original section (called the Pitman Grove neighborhood) is comprised of a central auditorium from which 12 "spoke" roads originate (for the 12 disciples, as the town was founded as a religious retreat camp by a Methodist pastor named Charles Pitman). The tent sites were later turned into cottages for year-round residency. Several of the "roads" are actually just sidewalks, quite confusing for visitors of the area (the historical society sits on one of the sidewalk "roads").
The video is deceiving . Standing at the bottom of that hill it’s like looking at a wall
Wow, packed train, there's what like 6 people on that "train"
Alt title: “Caleb yapping about the light rail”
i climbed canton ave with flip flops and no sweat fear me
Pitty looks like a cool city
I don't know how much of it is is urban legend, but the Oregon City Municipal Elevator is considered to be a street, and it has a gradient of 90 degrees...so I think that would make it the steepest street!
4:11 Caleb, don’t misgender people
Reminiscent of landmark cobblestone slopes on various infamous Belgian cycle races \m/