Davey Street | |
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| Part of Davey Street, looking north-east from near Anglesea Barracks | |
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| 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 |
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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.
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.
- ^ "Congestion in Greater Hobart". Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources. 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
- ^ "DAVEY-STREET PUBLIC BUILDINGS". The Examiner (DAILY ed.). Launceston, Tasmania. 22 June 1904. p. 6. Retrieved 26 December 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Walker, James Backhouse, Photograph of Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania, looking west, c. 1890, University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection, retrieved 26 December 2013
- ^ Walker, James Backhouse, Photograph of Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania, looking east, c. 1876, University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection, retrieved 26 December 2013