Davey Street Tasmania |
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Part of Davey Street, looking north-east from near Anglesea Barracks | |
Type | Street |
Length | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
Route number(s) |
A6 (Tasman Highway - Southern Outlet) B64 (Southern Outlet - Huon Road) |
East end |
Brooker Highway / Tasman Highway / Macquarie Street Hobart, Tasmania |
Sandy Bay Road / Southern Outlet |
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West end |
Huon Road / Darcy Street / Lynton Avenue South Hobart, Tasmania |
Region | Hobart |
Davey Street a major one way street passing through the outskirts of the Hobart Central business district 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, the road is one of the busier streets in Hobart.
The Public Buildings in the street can be dated back to the 1840s
It also was regularly photographed in the nineteenth century
Davey Street is featured as a property in the Australian version of Monopoly.
Davey street commences close to the historic Royal Engineers Building at an intersection with the Tasman Highway, the Brooker Highway and Macquarie Street. It is four-lane for almost all of its length, providing access to Salamanca, Sandy Bay and the Southern Outlet to Kingston and Huonville.