Does Lincoln Boast the Longest Street in the World?
Images courtesy Google Maps Street View I’d like to point your attention to this article where I talked about Yonge Street’s pretty solid claim to being the longest street in the world, despite its diminished length of 56 rather than 1896 kilometres. There were candidates throughout the United States which tried to lay claim to the title “the longest street in the United States”, but all fell short of Yonge Street’s length: And that’s nothing to sneeze at. Looking around, there’s some dispute as to what the longest street in America is. Many people cite Colfax Avenue in Denver. Running from an intersection with Mt. Vernon Canyon Road through downtown Denver to Aurora Airport, it has an indisputable minimum length of 50.5 km. If you excuse its break at Aurora Airport, then the road runs for an impressive 81.6 kilometers to the town of Strasburg, but that’s still shorter than the broken version of Yonge Street. Western Avenue in Chicago is cited as another candidate. Running from West Ho
