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Photos - Secrets - Streets (continued)
Croydon
Park
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It’s so tiny that most Croydon Park
people don’t know it exists, but you can “dart
thru” it to avoid the Georges River Road traffic. |
Dangar
Island
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There is only one shop on the Hornsby Municipality’s
suburb Dangar Island, and that’s just a room inside
a small house. Residents take the ferry to Brooklyn to do
their shopping, and since they have no cars, they leave their
wheelbarrows at the wharf at the end of the main "street". |
Dean Park
From an elevated position on the accompanying cycleway,
we admire road patterns that M7 motorway drivers miss.
Edgecliff
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When Alan says he doesn't call a suburb finished
until he has walked every street, set of steps, bush track
and lane, he means it. He wasn't going to leave unconquered
this miniature, unmarked lane off the also-narrow Bowes Avenue,
Edgecliff. |
Elvina Bay
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How's this for peace? Normanhurst Street, Elvina
Bay, in the rush hour. It’s their main street to the
wharf. Since there are no cars in Elvina Bay, you either walk
for half a day or get the ferry from Church Point. |
Enmore
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Does Francis Street, Enmore, have the world’s most
colourful footpath? It even includes a tiled hopscotch grid. |
Erskineville
Erskineville is great for pedestrians, soul-destroying
for motorists. Try getting to the other side of this Munni/Union
Streets intersection by car without using a street directory.
Even if you successfully dodged all the traffic barriers,
one-way streets and no-turn signs, you would still have to
drive more than a kilometre.
Fairlight
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There’s a top secret lane off the bit
of Bolingbroke Parade north of Lauderdale Avenue at Fairlight.
You won’t find it in street directories, but with its
nice, new handrail, you know it's going somewhere.
Of course, you could be wrong. |
Harris
Park
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Just 500 metres from the centre of the city
of Parramatta, one of Sydney’s biggest shopping centres,
is this trafficable lane off Ada Street, Harris Park. To ease
congestion, it divides at the building straight ahead. After
nearly two centuries of use, the lane is still hoping for
a name. |
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