Brisbane Street is a major cross street located in the suburb of

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. It runs from Palmerston Street through to Bulwer Street, and intersects major roads Lake Street, William Street, and Beaufort Street. The section between Beaufort Street and Stirling Street was called Padbury Street until circa 1917. The street was named after

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, Governor of New South Wales. "Among other streets which Dr Battye said were named after English and Colonial public men were

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, Brisbane, Bulwer (Bulwer-Lyton), Moore, Short, 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 typicall ...

, and were converted to carry two-way traffic in 2019.

Intersections

References

{{WA road routes , route=State Route 53 , shield={{AUshield, S, 53 , roads={{WA road routes/R, 53 Roads in Perth, Western Australia