Brisbane Street is a major cross street located in the suburb of
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
. It runs from Palmerston Street through to Bulwer Street, and intersects major roads Lake Street,
William Street, and
Beaufort Street
Beaufort Street is a major road in the inner north-eastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting the Morley area to the Perth central business district. For most of its length, it is a single-carriageway, two-way road with two lanes ...
. The section between Beaufort Street and Stirling Street was called Padbury Street until circa 1917.
The street was named after
Thomas Brisbane
Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860), was a British Army officer, administrator, and astronomer. Upon the recommendation of the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had served, he was appoint ...
, Governor of New South Wales.
"Among other streets which
Dr Battye said were named after English and Colonial public men were
Aberdeen
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,
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, Brisbane, Bulwer (Bulwer-Lyton), Moore,
Short
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, Hill, Irwin, Hutt and
Milligan Streets and Harvest Terrace."
The street had the McDowall's service station, as well as a Methodist church.
History
Parts of Brisbane Street formerly carried
one-way traffic
One-way traffic (or uni-directional traffic) is traffic that moves in a single direction. A one-way street is a street either facilitating only one-way traffic, or designed to direct vehicles to move in one direction. One-way streets typical ...
, and were converted to carry two-way traffic in 2019.
Intersections
References
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, roads={{WA road routes/R, 53
Roads in Perth, Western Australia