Davey Street, Hobart
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Davey Street is a major one way street passing through the outskirts of the Hobart City Centre in Tasmania, Australia. Davey street is named after Thomas Davey, the first Governor of Van Diemen's Land. The street forms a one-way couplet with nearby Macquarie Street connecting traffic from the Southern Outlet in the south with traffic from the Tasman Highway to the east and the Brooker Highway to the north of the city. With annual average daily traffic of 37,200,[1] the road is one of the busier streets in Hobart.
Davey Street | |
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Part of Davey Street, looking north-east from near Anglesea Barracks | |
General information | |
Type | Street |
Length | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
Route number(s) | A6 (Tasman Highway – Southern Outlet) B64 (Southern Outlet – Huon Road) |
Major junctions | |
East end | Brooker Highway / Tasman Highway / Macquarie Street Hobart, Tasmania |
Sandy Bay Road / Southern Outlet | |
West end | Huon Road / Darcy Street / Lynton Avenue South Hobart, Tasmania |
Location(s) | |
Region | Hobart |
The Public Buildings in the street can be dated back to the 1840s.[2]
It also was regularly photographed in the nineteenth century.[3][4]
Davey Street is featured as a property in the Australian version of Monopoly.