Thread: What burns more energy? Hills vs flats
View Single Post
Old 05-31-16 | 09:19 AM
  #19  
Seattle Forrest's Avatar
Seattle Forrest
Senior Member
 
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 23,208
Likes: 10,653
From: Seattle, WA
Originally Posted by sprince
I have a 25% section of road in my subdivision. It's not all that uncommon.
Originally Posted by DrIsotope
They don't exist out west. We have codes for road construction here, and residential, state/county maintained roads do not exceed an average gain of 12% per mile. Highways do not exceed 7%.
The steepest paved road in Seattle is 26.2 % according to our DOT. I've done it. Once. Pavement that steep is pretty rare.
Seattle Forrest is offline  
Reply
0