WIDEST STREET IN THE WORLD

9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires, Argentina is the widest street in the world. Its name honors Argentina’s Independence Day, July 9, 1816. The avenue runs roughly 0.62 miles from the Retiro district in the north to Constituciónn station in the south. The avenue has up to seven lanes in each direction and is flanked on either side by parallel streets of two lanes each. Through the center of the avenue runs one of the city’s Metrobus rapid transit corridors. There are two wide medians between the side streets and the main road. The avenue was first planned in 1888, but work did not start until 1935. The initial phase was inaugurated on October 12, 1937 and the main stretch of the avenue was completed in the 1960s. The southern sections were completed after 1980, when the downtown portion of the tollway system was completed.

9 de Julio Avenue, Buenos Aires, Argentina