Australia The
Sydney central business district features a number of one way pairs. One example is
Pitt Street with
Castlereagh Street. Pitt street carries only northbound traffic from
Goulburn Street to
Market Street. Castlreagh Street only carries southbound traffic on its entire length from
Hunter Street to
Hay Street.
Trams once ran from
Central station to
Circular Quay along Pitt Street and back to Central station along Castlereigh, Bligh, Bent and Loftus Streets. Other examples are
York and
Clarence Streets between the
Harbour Bridge and
Town Hall, and
King and
Market Streets between
Sussex and
Elizabeth Streets. In
Redfern,
Elizabeth Street is paired with
Chalmers Street between Redfern Street and
Eddy Avenue. Prior to the opening of the
Eastern Distributor in 1999, Bourke and
Crown Streets were paired between
Woolloomooloo and
Waterloo after which they were converted back to two-way streets. The paired roads from the
Anzac Bridge through
Ultimo,
Chippendale,
Redfern to
Waterloo is known as the
Southern Arterial Route. In the
Brisbane central business district,
Ann Street is paired with
Turbot Street and
George Street with North Quay, the latter by the
Brisbane River. In
Southbank, Merivale Street is paired with Cordelia Street from Montague Road to Vulture Street. In
East Brisbane,
Vulture Street is paired with
Stanley Street. In the
Hobart central business district a couplet of
Davey Street and
Macquarie Street traverse the length of the city centre. The
Tasman Highway joins the pair at the northeastern end at an interchange with the
Brooker Highway. This current alignment was implemented in 1987 to coincide with the completion of the
Sheraton Hotel. It was originally intended that the couplet system would serve as a stop gap measure prior to the construction of a freeway in
Hobart's Transportation study of 1965. Prior to this, all traffic in Hobart was two-way. In 1965, the
University of New South Wales Professor of Highway Engineering
Dennis Orchard (D.F. Orchard) criticised organizations opposing one
one-way paired roads in central Sydney. He stated while "their interests are very much bound up with those of the inhabitants at large", the "policies they are advocating are not necessarily right in the overall context and probably not even in their own."
Canada Alberta Highway 2 is a one-way pair in southern
Edmonton on
Calgary Trail and Gateway Boulevard between 31 Avenue NW and
Whitemud Drive. Alberta Highway 2 is also one-way pair through the towns of
Fort Macleod (23 and 25 Streets;
cosigned with
Alberta Highway 3) and
Nanton (20 and 21 Avenues).
Alberta Highway 16 (
Yellowhead Highway) is a one-way pair through the town of
Edson (2nd & 4th Avenues).
British Columbia Highway 99 is a one-way pair in downtown
Vancouver on Seymour and Howe Streets between the
Granville Street Bridge and
Georgia Street.
British Columbia Highway 97 is a one-way pair through the community of
Westbank in
West Kelowna, following Main Street and Dobbin Road.
Saskatchewan Highway 1 (
Trans-Canada Highway) splits into a functional one-way pair for between
Uren and
Ernfold, with the entire village of Ernfold being located between the eastbound and westbound lanes.
Japan Japan National Route 340 travels through the central part of
Hachinohe in
Aomori Prefecture as a one-way pair between its northern terminus at an intersection with
Japan National Route 45 and Aomori Prefecture Route 251.
United States Interstate 78 travels along a one-way pair of surface streets,
12th Street and 14th Street, in
Jersey City, New Jersey, between the end of the
New Jersey Turnpike Newark Bay Extension and the
Holland Tunnel, which leads into
New York City,
New York. There are hundreds of one-way pairs among the streets and avenues of New York City. One example is
Fifth Avenue with
Madison Avenue. Others include
First Avenue with
Second Avenue;
Third Avenue with
Lexington Avenue; and
Seventh Avenue with either
Sixth Avenue or
Eighth Avenue. Two major streets in the city of
Pittsburgh serve as a one-way pair;
Forbes Avenue and
Fifth Avenue. Both streets begin in
Downtown near
Point State Park before becoming a one-way pair just east of
Market Square, with Forbes serving outbound traffic and Fifth serving inbound traffic, going through
Uptown and
Oakland before both streets end up with two-way traffic and diverge, with Fifth Avenue eventually terminating in
Highland Park, while Forbes terminates in
Wilkinsburg just outside the city limits. The mostly two-way
Boulevard of the Allies parallels Forbes and Fifth for most of the time the two streets are a one-way pair. The east side of
Portland, Oregon, features a number of one-way pairs, both north–south and east–west, with the east–west pairs being associated with bridges; these all follow the usual flow convention – see
Transportation in Portland, Oregon, for more details. By contrast, the
Portland Transit Mall, which is a public transportation (bus and rail) corridor, has the opposite flow, with the westernmost component (6th Avenue) running north, with the eastern component (5th Avenue) running south. There are a number of one-way pairs in
Downtown Los Angeles,
California. These include
3rd and
4th streets,
5th and
6th streets,
8th and
9th streets,
11th and
12th streets, and
Main and
Spring streets. Levick Street and Robbins Street in
Philadelphia are considered a one-way pair. The streets carry traffic to and from the
Tacony-Palmyra Bridge through the
Mayfair and
Wissinoming neighborhoods. Between Frankford Avenue and
Roosevelt Boulevard, the streets carry
US 13 in their respective direction. In
Orlando,
Florida, Princeton Street carries 4 miles of SR-438 near
Interstate 4. Over a portion of that, Smith Street carries the westbound traffic. At Lake Lawsona, Mills Avenue splits into Jackson Street northbound and Thornton Avenue southbound. In Virginia Beach, Virginia, the eastern end of Interstate 264 transitions to 21st and 22nd Street, each going in its respective direction. ==See also==