Davey Street is a major
one way street passing through the outskirts of the
Hobart central business district
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in Tasmania, Australia. Davey street is named after
Thomas Davey, the first
Governor
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of
Van Diemen's Land
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. The street forms a
one-way couplet
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with nearby
Macquarie Street connecting traffic from the
Southern Outlet in the south with traffic from the
Tasman Highway
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to the east and the
Brooker Highway
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to the north of the city. With
annual average daily traffic
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of 37,200 in 2007, it is one of the busier streets in Hobart.
Davey Street is featured as a property in the
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version of ''
Monopoly
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''.
History
Historically the
Sullivans Cove
Sullivans Cove is on the River Derwent adjacent to the Hobart City Centre in Tasmania.
It was the site of initial European settlement in the area, and the location of the earlier components of the Port of Hobart.
History
The cove was the init ...
area of Davey Street was a significantly quieter stretch of road, greatly utilised by shipping activities as part of the former Wapping district. Throughout the 1800s, Several smaller factory buildings facing Davey Street were operated by the
Van Diemen's Land Company
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and merchants AG Webster & Son.
The
Hobart Electric Tram Company utilised land with
Campbell Street and Davey Street frontage for their tram depot workshop, commencing 1893. The depot then housed the city's
trolleybuses
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from 1935 and from 1955 operated as the original headquarters for
Metro Tasmania
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. The main section of the tram terminus was located directly opposite on Macquarie Street and its original offices, store and entrance arches all remain, with the latter being incorporated into newly built structures.
In 1938, a
General Motors
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dealership called Nettlefolds was constructed along Hunter Street, intersecting with Davey Street. The dealership contained a large
Art Deco
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commercial building containing a corner tower and neon signage. The site housed a General Motors showroom, bodyworks and service centre specialising in
Vauxhall
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and
Bedford
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Bedford was founded at a ford (crossin ...
trucks.
On 15 August 1977 it was converted to a
one way street. Prior to the construction of the Hotel Grand Chancellor in the 1980s, Davey Street commenced at Hunter Street. Part of the
Sheraton masterplan saw Davey Street extended and connected with the newly created Brooker Highway (formally Lower Park Street). This route alteration completely changed the way transit operated in the city, with Davey Street now functioning as one of the city's central transit thoroughfares.
Route
Davey street commences close to the historic Royal Engineers Building at an intersection with the
Tasman Highway
The Tasman Highway (or A3) is a highway in Tasmania, Australia. Like the Midland Highway (Tasmania), Midland Highway, it connects the major cities of Hobart and Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston – however it takes a different route, via the no ...
, the
Brooker Highway
The Brooker Highway is a highway in the Australian state of Tasmania. As one of Hobart's three major radials, the highway connects traffic from the Hobart central business district, city centre with the northern suburbs and is the major road con ...
and
Macquarie Street. It is four-lane for almost all of its length, providing access to
Salamanca
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,
Sandy Bay and the Southern Outlet to
Kingston
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and
Huonville
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.
Sections of Davey Street's alignment are on reclaimed land on the edge of
Constitution Dock and
Victoria Dock at Sullivan's Cove. It borders two of the city's largest urban parks;
Franklin Square and
St David's Park.
Prominent buildings in the street include the
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery,
Hobart City Council Centre, the Executive Building (which houses the Department of Premier & Cabinet), the
Hotel Grand Chancellor,
Federation Concert Hall, the
Hobart Real Tennis Club, and the former Davey Street
Telstra
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(now apartments).
Proposed bypass
The current
one-way couplet
A one-way pair, one-way couple, or couplet refers to that portion of a bi-directional traffic facilitysuch as a road, bus, streetcar, or light rail linewhere its opposing flows exist as two independent and roughly parallel facilities.
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system between Macquarie Street and Davey Street was first proposed with the publication of the
Hobart Area Transportation Study in 1965.
At the time the couplet system was intended to be a stop gap measure before the then proposed
Northside Freeway could be completed. However the proposed freeway was seen as controversial and abandoned. Since the completion of the couplet in 1987, there has been no alternative route between the Southern outlet and the other major arterial roads in Hobart.
There has since been several design proposals for a tunnel
under the city ranging from
cut and cover
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proposals under Davey/Macquarie Streets to large scale bored tunnels running from the Southern Outlet through to the
Tasman Bridge
The Tasman Bridge is a prestressed concrete girder bridge connecting the Tasman Highway over the River Derwent (Tasmania), River Derwent in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. When it opened on 29 March 1965, the Tasman was the longest prestressed con ...
.
References
External links
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Streets in Hobart