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This is Canton Ave in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the specialty of this street is that it is the steepest street in the world with a grade of 37 percent. If you are wondering why so many people have gathered here, they are all waiting to see a bike race called dirty dozen where the riders have to climb this road. Let’s see if they can. As you can see, many of the professional cyclists do make it to the top, while some of them cannot do it. A few of them have even tried twice and failed and many people do fall. Canton Avenue simply defeats them and if it starts snowing, it is impossible to drive up even with your car. There is a lot of debate if Canton Ave is the steepest street in the world because according to Guinness book of world records, Baldwin Street in New Zealand is listed as the steepest one. But Baldwin Street has a grade of just 35 percent while Canton ave is in fact steeper than that with a grade of 37 percent. It is so steep that even snowplows don’t drive through to clean the street during winter. You can see that there are quite a few houses on this street. Guess what they do during winter? They all park their cars on the street below and walk up the steps on the side. This would be especially hard when they have to carry groceries and other items to their homes. Canton Ave is located in Beechview neighborhood in Pittsburgh and the GPS coordinates are Latitude: 40.4104043 and Longitude -80.0301259. So, if you live in Pittsburgh do check it out. It is quite a challenge to drive through this street and if you ride a bike, it gets a lot tougher. Please visit http://www.phenomenalplace.com for interesting and intriguing places on the planet. Follow at: https://twitter.com/phenomenalplace