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Widest Street in Europe?

  • 22-07-2010 10:41AM
    #1
    ucdmike
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭


    O'Connell street is the widest in Ireland but is it the widest in Europe. Tried Google but cant seem to find a definitive answer. I'm sure there is a wider street somewhere in Eastern Europe but my housemate is certain that O'Connell is the widest. So which of us is right???


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  • #2
    Michellenman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    The road around the Arch de Triumph in Paris is fairly wide... Perhaps that?

    Ok, I know it's wiki answers and all..

    ''I believe it is Aleja Wojska Polskiego in Warsaw, Poland. It's almost 80 m wide, which is wider than Champs Elysee of Paris or Upper O'Connell St in Dublin (around 45 m wide)''


  • #3
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Jordans Fanny


  • #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    The Champs Elysées is 70m wide compared to O'Connel Street's 49m.
    I'm not sure what the widest in Europe is, but I think the Avenida 9 Julio in Buenos Aires is the widest in the world at about 140m.


  • #5
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Did you never hear the term.. "No I wouldn't touch her, sher that'd be like throwing a sausage down O'Connell Street."

    No it's not. But it's still wide ;)


  • #6
    kleefarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,735 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    "I believe it is Aleja Wojska Polskiego in Warsaw, Poland. It's almost 80 m wide, which is wider than Champs Elysee of Paris or Upper O'Connell St in Dublin (around 45 m wide)"

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_widest_street_in_Europe


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  • #7
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Isnt that the widest street in Ireland outside Dublin

    http://www.triskelle.eu/attractions/strokestownparkhouse.php

    I love that, any record is always 'It's the biggest outside of Dublin'.


  • #8
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    ItsThatManAgain wrote: »
    I love that, any record is always 'It's the biggest outside of Dublin'.

    I'm sure you read the link I posted. Assuming that its correct and no doubt you'll correct it if its wrong.


  • #9
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Chinese Whispers.

    There's nothing particularly big about the width of O'Connell Bridge.

    It's wider than it is long, the only such bridge in Europe with that distinction.


  • #10
    Paulyh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭Paulyh


    you guy are ALL wrong!!! The widest street in Europe is a street in Norway, the name is quite unfortunate though, its called Pedo Drive in the east of the country. Its 195m wide .......SOURCE!!


  • #11
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    ItsThatManAgain wrote: »
    I love that, any record is always 'It's the biggest outside of Dublin'.
    Does it give you the warm fuzzies?


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  • #12
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    seamus wrote: »
    Chinese Whispers.

    There's nothing particularly big about the width of O'Connell Bridge.

    It's wider than it is long, the only such bridge in Europe with that distinction.

    Chinese whispers - as in when you don't read the OP properly and then post on something almost related but not actually the same subject?


  • #13
    Banned Account
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Banned Account


    Is it before or after you allow for the striking taxi drivers?


  • #14
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Chinese whispers - as in when you don't read the OP properly and then post on something almost related but not actually the same subject?
    Exactly!


  • #15
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    juma wrote: »
    We might as well have read the Wiki page which states that Strokestown has the widest streets.

    Like this wikipedia page that also says that O'Connell Street is the widest street in Ireland with Castleisland coming in second

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleisland

    I think we all know wiki cant be reliedupon to settle an argument


  • #16
    karlog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    Who gives a fcuk


  • #17
    Paulyh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭Paulyh


    karlog wrote: »
    Who gives a fcuk

    Your Duuuuurty Ma!!! :pac:


  • #18
    danh789
    Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭danh789


    In Europe: Aleja Wojska Polskiego in Poland

    In Ireland: Main Street, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon


  • #19
    M5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭M5


    AFIK strokestown in Roscommon was specifically built to win the title of widest road in Europe at the time it was built. It is wide for sure, cant find measurements anywhere though
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/IMG_Strokestown.jpg


  • #20
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    gran via in madrid is very wide


  • #21
    sealgaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭sealgaire


    Isn't Monivea the widest? :D


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  • #22
    yerayeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭yerayeah


    An old man once told me that the main street in Castleisland is the widest street in Europe.

    I'd imagine that he isn't that well travelled...


  • #23
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    +1 on strokestown, wiki says it and I did the tour and even the tour said it. Feckin massive streets


  • #24
    Anthony Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭Anthony Walsh


    Alaia Mushy Tremor wrote: »
    +1 on strokestown, wiki says it and I did the tour and even the tour said it. Feckin massive streets

    Well you said wiki said it, I checked a few minutes ago and apparently the pathway in front of my house is now the widest street its like 4 foot I think.


  • #25
    MementoMori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,492 ✭✭✭MementoMori


    Initially read the thread title as Wildest Street in Europe.

    That would have been a much better thread.


  • #26
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Anthony Walsh wrote: »
    Well you said wiki said it, I checked a few minutes ago and apparently the pathway in front of my house is now the widest street its like 4 foot I think.

    do you think wiki might be inaccurate!? :eek:

    /runs off to rewrite thesis


  • #27
    M5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭M5


    There has to be a boardsie in Strokestown with a long ruler......















    * probably should rephrase that


  • #28
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,534 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    M5 wrote: »
    There has to be a boardsie in Strokestown with a long ruler......















    * probably should rephrase that


    Head over to the Athletics forum, some of them are doing the Bogtrotter Marathon in Strokestown this weekend.. maybe they could oblige :D

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055886520


  • #29
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    ItsThatManAgain wrote: »
    I love that, any record is always 'It's the biggest outside of Dublin'.

    My militant culchie senses are tingling..


  • #30
    redout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,435 ✭✭✭✭redout


    La Castellana in Madrid is huge - no idea how wide though.


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  • #31
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,530 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    I can state that O Connell St is in fact the widest street in the World at 500m wide. Over 10 times its length, which is only 45m long.

    Bizarrely there are buildings at either end, so cars have to drive across its width to get anywhere.


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