Topic summary
Hobart central business district
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Hobart City Centre.
Geography
The Hobart central business district draws a sense of its identity from its location between the Derwent River and the foothills of Mount Wellington. The city is concentrated with low-rise buildings, interspersed by parks such as Franklin Square and St Davids Park and historic precincts such as Sullivans Cove and Salamanca Place. The majority of Hobart CBD's streets are one-way with a few exceptions including Elizabeth Street, the main north–south thoroughfare of the city centre. Davey and Macquarie streets form a one-way couplet carrying traffic between Hobart's major highways along the CBD's southern fringe. Proposed as far back as the 1940s, the six main streets were converted to one-way on 25 October 1959. The streets run on a slightly warped grid pattern in the CBD, due to early planning by Lachlan Macquarie.