I lived in Worcester for 4 years. Props to Ken Cox, it takes a really optimistic person to see the good in that city.

George St. is a *****. I worked one summer on the main street that it abuts (like Ken said, no street signs!) I rode my mountain bike to work a few times, when I was too late to walk, and I never went up or down that one. In fact, I don't think I would walk up that thing. It is ridiculously steep.

For those of you who have traveled to Mt. Washington in NH, it is very much like the last 200 yards of the carriage road.