Where to travel, travel and route planner » seven turns http://www.dankuna.com/blog Best travel, maps, GPS, weather, images, cheap hotels Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lombard Street, San Francisco http://www.dankuna.com/blog/lombard-street-san-francisco.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lombard-street-san-francisco http://www.dankuna.com/blog/lombard-street-san-francisco.html#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:50:59 +0000 JohnMS http://www.dankuna.com/blog/continent/north-america/lombard-street-san-francisco/ [...]]]> Lombard Street begins at Presidio Boulevard inside The Presidio and runs east through the Cow Hollow neighborhood. For 12 blocks between Broderick Street and Van Ness Avenue, it is a principal arterial road that is co-signed as U.S. .
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Lombard Street then continues through the and neighborhoods, breaks off at a point becoming Boulevard. That leads to and Coit Tower. Lombard Street starts again at Montgomery Street and finally terminates at The Embarcadero as a collector road. Lombard Street is best known for the one way section on Russian Hill between Hyde and , in which the roadway has eight sharp turns (or switchbacks) that have earned the street the distinction of being “the crookedest [most winding] street in world.” In fact, Lombard Street is not even the in San Francisco, let alone the world. ( between 20th St and 22nd Street near the is the crookedest street in the city with only , and is located in a much less picturesque location.) The switchbacks design, first suggested by property owner Carl Henry[citation needed] and instituted in 1922, was born out of necessity in order to reduce the hill’s natural 27% grade, which was too steep for most vehicles to climb and a serious hazard to pedestrians used to a more reasonable sixteen-degree incline. The speed limit is a mere 5 mph (8 km/h) on the crooked section, which is about 1/4 mile (400 m) long. SF is great to visit.

Lombard Street, San Francisco GPS coordinates: 37° 48′ 7.2″ N, 122° 25′ 8.4″ W

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Feb 09, 6:30pm at Sacred Grounds, 2095 Hayes Street (@ Cole), San Francisco, CA
Songwriter Jo D'Anna will be returning to the historic and venerable Sacred Grounds Cafe open mic for an original, 30-minute feature set , accompanying herself on acoustic guita...

Feb 09, 6:30pm at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 814 Montgomery St. (at Jackson), San Francisco, CA
This lively panel discussion will address long-standing cultural and culinary traditions in Genova, along with more recent trends. The discussion with Monica Viarengo (Farina Fo...

Feb 09, 6:30pm at Goethe-Institut San Francisco, 530 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA
The exhibition „Comics, Manga & Co. – Germany's New Comic Culture“ features the works of two generations of artists, who have transformed the German graphic novel-scene in...

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Feb 09, 7:00pm at Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA
Feb 9-23 14th SF Independent Film Festival For the 14th year in a row, SF IndieFest presents an awesome abundance of awesomeness with a mightily monstrous mix of maverick movie...

Feb 09, 7:15pm at Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
Feb 9-23, afternoons and evenings, see sfindie.com for schedule For the 14th year in a row, SF IndieFest presents an awesome abundance of awesomeness with a mightily monstrous ...
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