Hay Street, Perth
{{short description|Street in Perth, Western Australia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}{{Use Australian English|date=August 2013}}
{{Infobox Australian road
| road_name = Hay Street, Perth
| state = wa
| image = Rue piétonne centre de Perth.JPG
| image_alt = Shops and trees lining a car-less street
| caption = Hay Street Mall, the pedestrian mall between Barrack and William streets
| type = street
| length = 7.6
| length_ref = {{cite web |title=Hay Street |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/-31.9622293,115.879451/-31.9611681,115.8802339/-31.9471711,115.837323/-31.9476834,115.8042237/@-31.961012,115.8793094,17z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e2 |website=Google Maps |access-date=30 October 2022 |language=en}}
| est =
| route = {{AUshield|S|65}} State Route 65 (Subiaco, Jolimont)
| direction_a = East
| end_a = {{Plainlist|
- {{AUshield|S|5}} The Causeway (State Route 5)
- Adelaide Terrace
- {{AUshield|S|5}} Riverside Drive (State Route 5)
}}
| exits = {{Plainlist|
- {{AUshield|S|65}} Plain Street (State Route 65)
- {{AUshield|S|53}} Barrack Street (State Route 53)
- {{AUshield|S|53}} William Street (State Route 53)
- {{AUshield|S|2}} Mitchell Freeway (State Route 2)
- {{AUshield|S|61}}{{AUshield|S|65}} Thomas Street (State Routes 61 and 65)
- {{AUshield|S|65}} Railway Road/Roberts Road (State Route 65)
}}
| direction_b = West
| end_b = {{Plainlist|
- {{AUshield|S|65}} Underwood Avenue (State Route 65)
- {{AUshield|S|64}} Selby Street (State Route 64)
}}
| through = East Perth, Perth CBD, West Perth, Subiaco, Jolimont
}}
Image:HayStreet 1949.jpg in Hay Street in 1949, Perth Town Hall is on the left]]
File:HAY ST. PERTH, W. AUSTRALIA.jpg]]
Hay Street is a major road through the Perth central business district, Western Australia and adjacent suburbs. The street was named after Robert Hay, the Permanent Under Secretary for Colonies. Sections of the road were called Howick Street{{refn|group=note|Named after Earl Grey Viscount Howick}} and Twiss Street{{refn|group=note|Named after Horace Twiss, Under Secretary of State}} until 1897.{{cite web| publisher =Department of Land Administration| url = http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/docvault.nsf/web/MAP_DLI_Perth_200310/$FILE/MAP_DLI_Perth_200310.pdf| title = Olde Perth| access-date = 19 March 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131212191516/http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/docvault.nsf/web/MAP_DLI_Perth_200310/$FILE/MAP_DLI_Perth_200310.pdf| archive-date = 12 December 2013| url-status = dead}} One block in the central business section is now a pedestrian mall with extremely limited vehicular traffic, so that it is necessary to make a significant detour in order to drive the entire length of Hay Street.
Route description
Orientated east-west, the road starts at The Causeway travelling west through the suburbs of East Perth, Perth, West Perth, and Subiaco, where the road originally terminated at Subiaco. Unusually, the street numbers reset to 1 when Hay Street crosses Thomas Street and enters Subiaco.
A subway under the Fremantle railway line was constructed in the early 1900s, replaced when the railway line was moved underground through Subiaco in 1999. From that point it becomes Underwood Avenue through Jolimont, Floreat (past Perry Lakes) and ends in Swanbourne.
Buildings
A number of buildings are along the road, including:
History
In 2024, the City of Perth commenced work on converting Hay Street back to a two-way street between Bennett Street and Victoria Avenue.[https://perth.wa.gov.au/building-and-planning/future-perth/two-way-street-conversion Two-Way Streets Program] City of Perth
=Pedestrian mall=
The Hay Street pedestrian mall was the earliest conversion from street to mall in Perth, introduced in 1972,{{Citation | title=Pedestrianisation: Hay Street: a central precinct. (Perth) | journal=Royal Australian Planning Institute Journal | publication-date=May 1981 | volume=19 | issue=May 1981 | pages=61 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/39223717 | access-date=20 September 2013 }} despite the road being a major thoroughfare. Through traffic was initially diverted to either Murray Street or St Georges Terrace.
=Cathedral Square=
Hay Street between Pier and Barrack streets defines the northern boundary of a block, that has evolved in name from the Cathedral precinct to Cathedral Square, in which the Perth Town Hall, and the City of Perth Library are situated on the Hay Street side of the square.
Major intersections
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|LGA=Perth
|LGAspan=10
|location=East Perth
|lspan=5
|km=0
|road={{AUshield|S|5}} Riverside Drive (State Route 5) / Adelaide Terrace / The Causeway (State Route 5)
|notes=Traffic light controlled teardrop roundabout: no access to Riverside Drive or Adelaide Terrace.
|type=incomplete
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{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|road=Braithwaite Street / Trinity Avenue
|notes=Traffic light controlled; no right turn from Hay Street northbound to Trinity Avenue
|km=0.15
|type=incomplete
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{{AUS-WAint
|road=Hale Street / Erskine Link
|LGA=|location=
|notes=Traffic light controlled
|km=0.35
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{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=0.65
|road={{AUshield|S|65}} Plain Street (State Route 65)
|notes=Traffic light controlled; no right turns from Plain Street
|type=incomplete
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{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=1
|road=Bennett Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled; Hay Street becomes one-way westbound west of intersection
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{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=
|location_special=East Perth–Perth boundary
|km=1.3
|road=Hill Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled; Hill Street is one-way southbound
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=
|location_special=Perth
|lspan=4
|km=1.6
|road=Victoria Avenue
|notes=Traffic light controlled; Victoria Avenue is one-way northbound
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=1.8
|road=Irwin Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled; Irwin Street consists of two staggered one-way roads (north is northbound only, south is southbound only); Hay Street becomes two-way west of intersection
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=2
|road=Pier Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled; Pier Street north of intersection is one-way southbound
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=2.2
|road={{AUshield|S|53}} Barrack Street (State Route 53)
|notes=Traffic light controlled; no left turn from Barrack Street southbound to Hay Street
|type=incomplete
}}
{{jctgap|text=Hay Street Mall}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=Perth
|LGAspan=9
|location_special=Perth
|lspan=3
|km=2.5
|road={{AUshield|S|53}} William Street (State Route 53)
|notes=Traffic light controlled; Hay Street is one-way westbound west of intersection
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=3
|road=Milligan Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|road=Elder Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled; Elder Street is one-way southbound
|km=3.3
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=
|location_special=Perth–West Perth boundary
|road={{AUshield|S|2}} Mitchell Freeway (State Route 2)
|notes=Freeway northbound exit ramp only; ramp continues after traffic lights as George Street
|km=3.3
|type=incomplete
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=
|location_special=West Perth
|lspan=5
|road=George Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled; George Street is one-way northbound and continues from freeway ramp
|km=3.4
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{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=3.5
|road=Harvest Terrace
|notes=Harvest Terrace is one-way northbound north of intersection; slip road from Hay Street to Harvest Terrace southbound south of intersection
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{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=3.8
|road=Havelock Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled
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{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=4
|road=Colin Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=|location=
|km=4.2
|road=Outram Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|location_special=West Perth–Subiaco boundary
|km=4.5
|road={{AUshield|S|61}}{{AUshield|S|65}} Thomas Street (State Routes 61 and 65)
|notes=Traffic light controlled; State Route 65 westbound concurrency terminus
|type=concur
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=Subiaco
|LGAspan=5
|location_special=Subiaco
|lspan=2
|km=5.3
|road=Townshend Road
|notes=Traffic light controlled
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA= |location=
|km=5.7
|road=Rokeby Road
|notes=Traffic light controlled
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=
|location_special=Subiaco–Daglish boundary
|lspan=2
|km=6.1
|road={{AUshield|S|65}} Roberts Road (State Route 65) / Railway Road
|notes=Traffic light controlled; State Route 65 eastbound concurrency terminus; Hay Street is two-way west of intersection
|type=concur
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA= |location=
|km=6.3
|road=Stubbs Terrace / Mouritzen Way
|notes=Traffic light controlled
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=
|location_special=Jolimont
|km=6.9
|road=Jersey Street
|notes=Traffic light controlled
}}
{{AUS-WAint
|LGA=Subiaco–Nedlands–Cambridge tripoint
|location_special=Jolimont–Shenton Park–Floreat tripoint
|km=7.6
|road={{AUshield|S|65}}{{AUshield|S|64}} Underwood Avenue (State Route 65) / Selby Street (State Route 64)
|notes=Traffic light controlled; Hay Street continues west as Underwood Avenue
}}
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In popular culture
A photograph of the Hay Street pedestrian mall taken in the early 1980s was used as the cover art for Perth-based psychedelic rock band Pond's 2017 album The Weather.
See also
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Notes
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References
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External links
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{{Commons category-inline|Hay Street, Perth}}
- Photographs of Hay Street at [https://web.archive.org/web/20120205140610/http://innopac.liswa.wa.gov.au/search/dHay+Street+%28Perth%2C+W.A.%29+--+Photographs./dhay+street+perth+w+a+photographs/-2%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact%26FF%3Ddhay+street+perth+w+a+photographs%261%2C28%2C State Library of Western Australia], {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130415170524/http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?action=PASearch&mode=advanced&term1=hay+street+perth Picture Australia]}}, and [https://flickr.com/search/?q=Hay+Street+Perth Flickr].
{{WA road routes
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|shield={{AUshield|S|65}}
|roads={{WA road routes/R|65}}}}
{{Perth CBD Streets}}
Category:Streets in Perth central business district, Western Australia
Category:Streets in West Perth, Western Australia