Davey Street (Hobart)
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Tasmania
The Davey Street is one of the main streets in the city center of Hobart, the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania. It connects the city center with the Southern Outlet (A6), an urban motorway to the south, and the Huon Road ( B64 ), a trunk road towards Huonville. Like its parallel street, Macquarie Street, it is a one-way street, in the direction of town. As the Collins Street is she named after a former Governor: Colonel Thomas ( "Mad Tom" ) Davey was the second Governor of Tasmania ( 1810-1817 ).
It begins near the historic Royal Engineers Building, where it is connected with its counterpart Macquarie Street, the Eastern Outlet (A3 ) and the Brooker Highway (N1). The road has almost its entire length four lanes.
Little is known - even in Hobart itself - is the fact that the Davey Street was built on expropriated land at the edge of the harbor.
The Davey Street adjacent to two of the largest city parks in Hobart, Franklin Square and the St. David 's Park. Famous buildings in this street are the Executive Building, where the Department of Premier and Cabinet is located, the Hotel Grand Chancellor with the Federation Concert Hall, Hobart Real Tennis Club and the former Telstra building (now an apartment house).
2004 was ZeroDavey, a much-discussed building on the corner of Davey Street - Hunter Street. It angered the local residents, who compared it with the back of a refrigerator because its upper floors protrude against the advice of local architects and contrary to the building codes of the historical building on Hunter Street.
Trivia
The Davey Street is found in the Australian version of the game Monopoly.
Source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4. p. 54
- Road in Tasmania
- Hobart