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Photos - Secrets - Streets (continued)
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.
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
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
Frank Beames Lane, Harris Park, offers a welcome
triangular open space.
Homebush
West
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
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
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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