In 2011, my hobby for the year was to find the steepest street in Cape Town. I was looking for “sustained slopes”, not just bumps in the road. I identified Upper Longmarket Street as the city's steepest sustained slope at 17°. Then I received a tip on this blog: "Please check out Capri Street in St. James." Over a sustained slope of 25 metres, Capri Street touched 17.8° (see the photo, top). Therefore it probably is Cape Town's steepest street. The official world record is 19° for Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand (the street in front of the house on the right -- but see how it compares with Capri Street, top). OBSERVATION: Cape Town's Capri Street therefore beats San Fancisco's Filbert Street.Thursday, July 4, 2019
Cape Town's Steepest Streets
In 2011, my hobby for the year was to find the steepest street in Cape Town. I was looking for “sustained slopes”, not just bumps in the road. I identified Upper Longmarket Street as the city's steepest sustained slope at 17°. Then I received a tip on this blog: "Please check out Capri Street in St. James." Over a sustained slope of 25 metres, Capri Street touched 17.8° (see the photo, top). Therefore it probably is Cape Town's steepest street. The official world record is 19° for Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand (the street in front of the house on the right -- but see how it compares with Capri Street, top). OBSERVATION: Cape Town's Capri Street therefore beats San Fancisco's Filbert Street.
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Check out Upper Rhine Rd and Upper Dean Street in Sea Point
Thank you James. I checked out all those roads. Some of them come close. The steepest on that side of Signal Hill is Upper Clifford Road, but it's a section, and I think the record requires a sustained slope.
Vale Street in Totterdown Bristol has a 22° gradient. 30 % in some sections.
That is extremely steep (Vale Street). A tyre-screeching slope! It depends whether it is a sustained slope. If it is, it would beat the world record.
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