Hay Street, Perth
Hay Street | |
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| Hay Street Mall, the pedestrian mall between Barrack Street and William Street | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Road |
| Length | 7.6 km (4.7 mi)[1] |
| Route number(s) |  State Route 65 (Subiaco, Jolimont) |
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| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | East Perth, Perth, West Perth, Subiaco, Jolimont |
Hay Street is a major road through the central business district of Perth, Western Australia and adjacent suburbs. The street was named after Robert William Hay, the Permanent Under Secretary for Colonies. Sections of the road were called Howick Street[note 2] and Twiss Street[note 3] until 1897.[2] One block in the central business section is now a pedestrian mall with extremely limited vehicular traffic, so that it is necessary to make a significant detour in order to drive the entire length of Hay Street.
Route description[edit]
Orientated east-west, the road starts at The Causeway travelling west through the suburbs of East Perth, Perth, West Perth, and Subiaco, where the road originally terminated at Subiaco. Unusually, the street numbers reset to 1 when Hay Street crosses Thomas Street and enters Subiaco.
A subway under the Fremantle railway line was constructed in the early 1900s, replaced when the railway was moved underground through Subiaco in 1999. From that point it becomes Underwood Avenue through Jolimont, Floreat (past Perry Lakes) and ends in Swanbourne.
Buildings[edit]
A number of buildings are along the road, including:
- Gledden Building
- His Majesty's Theatre
- London Court
- Melbourne Hotel
- Perth Town Hall
- City of Perth Library
- Carillon City
- Piccadilly Theatre and Arcade
- Plaza Theatre and Arcade
- QV.1
- Regal Theatre
- Ross Memorial Church
- St Georges Hall
- Subiaco Hotel
- Walsh's Building
History[edit]
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Pedestrian mall[edit]
The Hay Street pedestrian mall was the earliest conversion from street to mall in Perth, introduced in 1972,[3] despite the road being a major thoroughfare. Through traffic was initially diverted to either Murray Street or St Georges Terrace.
Cathedral Square[edit]
Hay Street between Pier Street and Barrack Street defines the northern boundary of a block, that has evolved in name from the Cathedral precinct to Cathedral Square, in which the Perth Town Hall, and the City of Perth Library are situated on the Hay Street side of the square.
Major intersections[edit]
| LGA | Location[1] | km | mi | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| Perth | East Perth | 0 | 0.0 |  Riverside Drive (State Route 5) / Adelaide Terrace / The Causeway (State Route 5) | Traffic light controlled teardrop roundabout: no access to Riverside Drive or Adelaide Terrace. | ||
| 0.15 | 0.093 | Braithwaite Street / Trinity Avenue | Traffic light controlled; no right turn from Hay Street northbound to Trinity Avenue | ||||
| 0.35 | 0.22 | Hale Street / Erskine Link | Traffic light controlled | ||||
| 0.65 | 0.40 | Plain Street (State Route 65) | Traffic light controlled; no right turns from Plain Street | ||||
| 1 | 0.62 | Bennett Street | Traffic light controlled; Hay Street becomes one-way westbound west of intersection | ||||
| East Perth–Perth boundary | 1.3 | 0.81 | Hill Street | Traffic light controlled; Hill Street is one-way southbound | |||
| Perth | 1.6 | 0.99 | Victoria Avenue | Traffic light controlled; Victoria Avenue is one-way northbound | |||
| 1.8 | 1.1 | Irwin Street | Traffic light controlled; Irwin Street consists of two staggered one-way roads (north is northbound only, south is southbound only); Hay Street becomes two-way west of intersection | ||||
| 2 | 1.2 | Pier Street | Traffic light controlled; Pier Street north of intersection is one-way southbound | ||||
| 2.2 | 1.4 |  Barrack Street (State Route 53) | Traffic light controlled; no left turn from Barrack Street southbound to Hay Street | ||||
| Hay Street Mall | |||||||
| Perth | Perth | 2.5 | 1.6 | William Street (State Route 53) | Traffic light controlled; Hay Street is one-way westbound west of intersection | ||
| 3 | 1.9 | Milligan Street | Traffic light controlled | ||||
| 3.3 | 2.1 | Elder Street | Traffic light controlled; Elder Street is one-way southbound | ||||
| Perth–West Perth boundary | 3.3 | 2.1 |  Mitchell Freeway (State Route 2) | Freeway northbound exit ramp only; ramp continues after traffic lights as George Street | |||
| West Perth | 3.4 | 2.1 | George Street | Traffic light controlled; George Street is one-way northbound and continues from freeway ramp | |||
| 3.5 | 2.2 | Harvest Terrace | Harvest Terrace is one-way northbound north of intersection; slip road from Hay Street to Harvest Terrace southbound south of intersection | ||||
| 3.8 | 2.4 | Havelock Street | Traffic light controlled | ||||
| 4 | 2.5 | Colin Street | Traffic light controlled | ||||
| 4.2 | 2.6 | Outram Street | Traffic light controlled | ||||
| Perth–Subiaco boundary | West Perth–Subiaco boundary | 4.5 | 2.8 |  Thomas Street (State Routes 61 and 65) | Traffic light controlled; State Route 65 westbound concurrency terminus | ||
| Subiaco | Subiaco | 5.3 | 3.3 | Townshend Road | Traffic light controlled | ||
| 5.7 | 3.5 | Rokeby Road | Traffic light controlled | ||||
| Subiaco–Daglish boundary | 6.1 | 3.8 | Roberts Road (State Route 65) / Railway Road | Traffic light controlled; State Route 65 eastbound concurrency terminus; Hay Street is two-way west of intersection | |||
| 6.3 | 3.9 | Stubbs Terrace / Mouritzen Way | Traffic light controlled | ||||
| Jolimont | 6.9 | 4.3 | Jersey Street | Traffic light controlled | |||
| Subiaco–Nedlands–Cambridge tripoint | Jolimont–Shenton Park–Floreat tripoint | 7.6 | 4.7 |  Underwood Avenue (State Route 65) / Selby Street (State Route 64) | Traffic light controlled; Hay Street continues west as Underwood Avenue | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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In popular culture[edit]
A photograph of the Hay Street pedestrian mall taken in the early 1980s was used as the cover art for Perth-based psychedelic rock band Pond's 2017 album The Weather.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Significant scale errors have been made with the width of Hay Street, which has always been considerably narrower than depicted here.[citation needed]
- ^ Named after Earl Grey Viscount Howick[2]
- ^ Named after Horace Twiss, Under Secretary of State[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Hay Street". Google Maps. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
- ^ a b c "Olde Perth" (PDF). Department of Land Administration, Western Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2007.
- ^ "Pedestrianisation: Hay Street: a central precinct. (Perth)", Royal Australian Planning Institute Journal, 19 (May 1981): 61, May 1981, retrieved 20 September 2013
External links[edit]
Media related to Hay Street, Perth at Wikimedia Commons- Photographs of Hay Street at State Library of Western Australia, Picture Australia, and Flickr.
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