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Lombard Street (San Francisco)

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Street in San Francisco, California

Lombard Street
Lombard Street in 2020
Interactive map of Lombard Street
Part of	US 101 between Richardson Avenue/Broderick Street andVan Ness Avenue
Namesake	Philadelphia's Lombard Street
Maintained by	San Francisco DPW Caltrans (US 101 portion)
Coordinates	37°48′07″N122°25′08″W / 37.80194°N 122.41889°W /37.80194; -122.41889^[a]
West end	Presidio Boulevard
Major junctions	US 101 Fillmore Street US 101 Columbus Avenue Telegraph Hill Boulevard Gap in route Montgomery Street
East end	The Embarcadero

Lombard Street is an east–weststreet inSan Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eighthairpin turns. The street stretches fromThe Presidio east toThe Embarcadero (with a gap onTelegraph Hill). Most of Lombard Street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part ofU.S. Route 101. The famous one-block section, claimed to be "the crookedest street in the world", is located along the eastern segment in theRussian Hill neighborhood. It is a major tourist attraction, receiving around two million visitors per year and up to 17,000 per day on busy summer weekends, as of 2015.^[1]

San Francisco surveyorJasper O'Farrell named the road after Lombard Street inPhiladelphia.^[2]

Route description

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Lombard Street's west end is at Presidio Boulevard insideThe Presidio; it then heads east through theCow Hollow neighborhood. For 12 blocks, between Broderick Street andVan Ness Avenue, it is anarterial road that is co-signed asU.S. Route 101. Lombard Street continues through theRussian Hill neighborhood and to theTelegraph Hill neighborhood. At Telegraph Hill it turns south, becoming Telegraph Hill Boulevard to Pioneer Park andCoit Tower. Lombard Street starts again at Winthrop Street and ends atThe Embarcadero as acollector road.^[3]

Lombard Street is known for the one-way block onRussian Hill between Hyde and Leavenworth streets, where eight sharp turns are said to make it the most crooked street in the world. The design, first suggested by property owner Carl Henry^[4] and built in 1922,^[5] was intended to reduce the hill's natural 27 percent grade,^[6] which was too steep for most vehicles. The crooked block is about 600 feet (180 m) long (412.5 feet (125.7 m) straight line), is one-way (downhill) and is paved with red bricks. The sign at the top recommends 5 mph (8 km/h).

The segment normally sees around 250 vehicles per hour, withaverage daily traffic reaching 2,630 vehicles in 2013.^[1] During peak times, vehicles have to wait up to 20 minutes to enter the Crooked Street segment, in a queue that can reachVan Ness Avenue.^[1]To reduce habitual congestion and delays, future visitors may be required to reserve a time and pay a fee to drive down the crooked street.^[7]^[8]

The Powell-Hydecable car stops at the top of the block on Hyde Street.^[9]

By 2017, the area around the curved segment had become a hot-spot of what has been described as "San Francisco's car break-in epidemic."^[10] This may in part have been due to its heavy traffic and association with tourism.

TheAcademy of Art University owns and operates a building called Star Hall on the street for housing purposes.^[11]

Past residents of Lombard Street includeRowena Meeks Abdy,^[12] an early California painter who worked in the style ofImpressionism.^{[citation needed]}

Chase scenes in many films have been filmed on the street, includingGood Neighbor Sam,Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine,What's Up, Doc?, andAnt-Man and the Wasp. Lombard Street is also portrayed in the 2015Pixar filmInside Out, and is referenced byBill Cosby on his 1965 comedy albumWhy Is There Air?.

Major intersections

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The entire route is inSan Francisco.

mi	Destinations	Notes
	Presidio Boulevard	West end of Lombard Street
	US 101 north (Richardson Avenue) / Broderick Street	West end of US 101 overlap
	Fillmore Street
	Octavia Street
	US 101 south (Van Ness Avenue)	East end of US 101 overlap
	Polk Street
	Hyde Street
	The crookedest street in the world segment
	Leavenworth Street
	Columbus Avenue
	Powell Street
	Stockton Street
	Grant Avenue
	Telegraph Hill Boulevard /Kearny Street
Gap in route
	Montgomery Street
	Embarcadero	East end of Lombard Street
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

Gallery

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Looking east down the curvy block of Lombard Street, with the straight section continuing towardsTelegraph Hill andCoit Tower
Looking up Lombard Street
Traffic caution sign at top of switchbacks recommends a top speed of 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h)
Cars exit from lowest switchback section
Time-exposure photo at night clearly shows the eight switchbacks

Notes

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^Coordinates mark "the crookedest street in the world" segment

References

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^^a ^b ^cSan Francisco County Transportation Authority:Lombard Study: Managing Access to the "Crooked Street". February 2017 (PDF)
^Loewenstein, Louis, K. (1984) Streets of San Francisco: The Origins of Street and Place Names. Don't Call It Frisco Press.
^"Lombard Street" (Map).Google Maps.
^Saperstein, Susan (February 2009)."Lombard Street". San Francisco City Guides. Archived fromthe original on April 19, 2017. RetrievedSeptember 30, 2012.
^Brown-Martin, Darcey (September–October 2001)."An Honestly Crooked Street".Via Magazine.
^Saperstein, Susan."Lombard Street".San Francisco City Guides. Archived fromthe original on February 22, 2014. RetrievedJune 22, 2011.
^"Tolls, reservations for SF's Lombard Street approved by California lawmakers - SFChronicle.com".www.sfchronicle.com. September 5, 2019. RetrievedSeptember 8, 2019.
^"Tourists May Pay Tolls to Drive Crooked San Francisco Street".NBC Bay Area. Associated Press. RetrievedSeptember 8, 2019.
^"Hyde St & Lombard St".San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. RetrievedSeptember 15, 2015.
^Palomino, Joaquin; O'Neill, Emma; Trumbull, Todd (March 16, 2018)."Breaking down San Francisco's car break-in epidemic".The San Francisco Chronicle. RetrievedMarch 19, 2018.Parts of San Francisco popular with tourists were hit hardest, including Japantown, Civic Center, the famously curvy stretch of Lombard Street, and the Fisherman's Wharf/Pier 39 area.
^"Academy of Art University Campus Map"(PDF).academyart.edu.Academy of Art University. RetrievedApril 18, 2017.
^"Rowena Meeks F. Abdy American 1887–1945 Biography". The Annex Galleries. RetrievedSeptember 30, 2012.
^"Lombard Street, San Francisco".San Francisco. a view on cities. RetrievedAugust 27, 2009.

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