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Berkeley's 'Shortest Road'

A North Berkeley "guerrilla plaquelet." (Other examples here: on Solano Avenue and outside the North Berkeley branch library.)

The Shortest Road

North St.

 

On this spot, thus begins the shortest officially designed road in Berkeley, spaning a mere 163 feet in length (roughly the height of The Arc de Triumph). Due to an unexplained phenomena, this roadway is currently losing as much as two inches every year and will eventually disappear by the year 3000. 

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