Pittsburgh hills

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On Monday, November 26, 2012 6:48:07 PM UTC-5, Dan O wrote:

Not real long - I only count about 60 steps or so on the sidewalk

along the steep part. So unless those are awfully high steps I don't

see how the vertical rise could be a really big number (cobblestones

may break my bones but numbers never hurt me :-) *Appears* to be

eminently surmountable.

Pittsburgh's steps are interesting on their own. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steps_of_Pittsburgh

I doubt there are many other places where some stairways are legally city
streets.

- Frank Krygowski

San Francisco and Berkeley are a couple of other places where stairways
are part of the street network, although I don't know about their exact
legal status.