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Hay Street is a major road through the CBD
Central business district

A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In Australia, China , Republic of Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa, the phrase is commonly used, and is often colloquially abbreviated to "CBD"....
 of Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
, Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
. The street was named after Robert William Hay, the Permanent Under Secretary for Colonies
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies was a junior Ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, subordinate to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and, from 1948, also to a #Minister of State for the Colonies ....
. Sections of the road were called Howick
Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey

Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey , known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an England statesman.He was the son of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time of the Reform Act 1832 of 1832....
 Street and Twiss
Horace Twiss

Horace Twiss was an England writer and politician born at Bath, Somerset, being the son of Francis Twiss , a Shakespeare scholar who married Sarah Siddons's sister, Fanny Kemble, and whose brother Richard made a name as a writer of travels....
 Street until 1897. Orientated east-west, the road starts at the Causeway
Causeway

In modern usage, a causeway is a road or railway elevated on a sandbank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland. A transport corridor that is carried instead on a series of arches, perhaps approaching a bridge, is a viaduct....
 traveling west through the suburbs of East Perth
East Perth, Western Australia

East Perth is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth CBD.Primarily an industrial area in the early twentieth century, it was the location of the East Perth gas works, East Perth Power Station , the East Perth railway yard, and East Perth engine sheds....
, Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
, West Perth
West Perth, Western Australia

West Perth is a suburb 600 metres west of Perth, Western Australia, the capital city of Western Australia. It is part of the inner mixed zone, and has predominately office blocks which have displaced residential buildings....
, and Subiaco
Subiaco, Western Australia

Subiaco is an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia, situated to the north of Kings Park. Its Local Government Areas of Western Australia is the City of Subiaco....
, where the road originally terminated at the Subiaco. A subway under the Fremantle railway line
Fremantle railway line, Perth

|}Fremantle Line is a suburban railway line in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia. It runs through Perth's western suburbs and connects Perth and Fremantle....
 was constructed in the early 1900s, replaced when the railway was moved underground through Subiaco in 1999.






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Hay Street is a major road through the CBD
Central business district

A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In Australia, China , Republic of Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa, the phrase is commonly used, and is often colloquially abbreviated to "CBD"....
 of Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
, Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
. The street was named after Robert William Hay, the Permanent Under Secretary for Colonies
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies was a junior Ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, subordinate to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and, from 1948, also to a #Minister of State for the Colonies ....
. Sections of the road were called Howick
Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey

Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey , known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an England statesman.He was the son of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time of the Reform Act 1832 of 1832....
 Street and Twiss
Horace Twiss

Horace Twiss was an England writer and politician born at Bath, Somerset, being the son of Francis Twiss , a Shakespeare scholar who married Sarah Siddons's sister, Fanny Kemble, and whose brother Richard made a name as a writer of travels....
 Street until 1897. Orientated east-west, the road starts at the Causeway
Causeway

In modern usage, a causeway is a road or railway elevated on a sandbank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland. A transport corridor that is carried instead on a series of arches, perhaps approaching a bridge, is a viaduct....
 traveling west through the suburbs of East Perth
East Perth, Western Australia

East Perth is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth CBD.Primarily an industrial area in the early twentieth century, it was the location of the East Perth gas works, East Perth Power Station , the East Perth railway yard, and East Perth engine sheds....
, Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
, West Perth
West Perth, Western Australia

West Perth is a suburb 600 metres west of Perth, Western Australia, the capital city of Western Australia. It is part of the inner mixed zone, and has predominately office blocks which have displaced residential buildings....
, and Subiaco
Subiaco, Western Australia

Subiaco is an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia, situated to the north of Kings Park. Its Local Government Areas of Western Australia is the City of Subiaco....
, where the road originally terminated at the Subiaco. A subway under the Fremantle railway line
Fremantle railway line, Perth

|}Fremantle Line is a suburban railway line in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia. It runs through Perth's western suburbs and connects Perth and Fremantle....
 was constructed in the early 1900s, replaced when the railway was moved underground through Subiaco in 1999. From that point it becomes Underwood Avenue through Jolimont
Jolimont, Western Australia

Jolimont is a small suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Subiaco, Western Australia and west of the Central business district....
, Floreat
Floreat, Western Australia

Floreat is a western suburb in the Western Australian city of Perth, Western Australia. Floreat is Latin for 'flourish' or 'prosper', and is also the motto of the City of Perth....
 (past Perry Lakes
Perry Lakes

Perry Lakes are lakes located in the Perth, Western Australia suburb of Floreat, Western Australia. The adjacent parkland is the site of Perry Lakes Stadium, where the majority of events in the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held And the Major Australian Scout...
) and ends in Swanbourne
Swanbourne, Western Australia

Swanbourne is a western coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia and is an affluent locale with older homes being renovated and many new homes being built....
.

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