California, San Francisco, Lombard Street Tour

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Lombard Street es una calle en San Francisco, California. Esta orientada de este a oeste, comenzando en El Presidio y terminando en el barrio de Embarcadero. Es mundialmente conocida por el tramo específico de su trazado el cual ees situado entre Russian Hill y Hyde Street donde la calzada está distribuida en ocho vueltas. Se la conoce como la calle más sinuosa de los Estados Unidos. Esta se construyo en 1922 por el propietario Carl Henry, con el objetivo de reducir la pendiente de 27 grados que presentaba la calle, haciendo posible con esta medida que pudiera ser transitada por automóviles. En 1999 se creó una comisión especial dentro del propio barrio para tratar de resolver los problemas de circulación. Dicha comisión decidió en 2001 que no sería legal cortar de manera permanente el paso a la circulación por este tramo. La comision tambien acordó impedir el estacionamiento en esa zona durante el verano y tambien se propuso utilizar minibuses para llevar a los turistas hasta Lombard Street y manejar por ella pero el gran atractivo de la calle para muchos turistas es poder conducir su automóvil por la ella.
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Lombard Street is a street in San Francisco California. Lombard Street runs through the Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill neighborhoods. It is best known for the one-way section between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets, in which the roadway has eight sharp turns that have earned the street the distinction of being the crookest street in the world. The switchback's design, first suggested by property owner Carl Henry 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. It is also a serious hazard to pedestrians, who are accustomed to a more reasonable sixteen-degree incline. The crooked section of the street, which is about 1/4 mile (400 m) long, is reserved for one-way traffic traveling east (downhill) and is paved with red bricks. The speed limit in this section is 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h).

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