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Erskineville

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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.


Fairfield Heights

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Where can you walk a one-kilometre street faster than a motorist can drive it? Stacey Street, Fairfield Heights, has eight of these grassy road blocks at most of its intersections. A motorist’s detours would require five kilometres.


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.


Forest Lodge

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Is Bakers Lane, Forest Lodge, a nook, cranny, alcove, niche, recess or retreat? Whatever, it’s sure a delight.


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.


Harris Park

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Frank Beames Lane, Harris Park, offers a welcome triangular open space.


Homebush West

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Another mystery: This is not a traffic jam in the rush hour, but four rows of parked cars in quiet time in Homebush West. Miniature Tavistock Road ends at a fence where the photographer was standing. How does the “P” owner get his car out? How do any of them get out?


Kensington

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I assist the police whenever possible. At the bottom of Ingram Street, Kensington, you can book every driver for two offences, constable: not observe "no entry" sign and drive contrary to "one way" sign. There's no other way to get into this dead-end section.


Kensington

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Furthermore, constable, parallel Baker Street is an ideal place to order motorists to pull over.


Kensington

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Is there any other example of this footpath pattern in Sydney? Yes, there are hundreds of them - see them every four metres on both sides of Anzac Parade through the Kensington shopping centre.


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