suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Bondi Junction based on NASA satellite images Location map ofbased on NASA satellite images
Bondi Junction is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the submit of New South Wales, Australia. It is 6 kilometres east of the Sydney central business zone and is part of the local government area of Waverley. [ 3 ] Bondi Junction is a largely commercial area which has undergo many changes since the late twentieth century. There have been many major commercial and residential developments around the main street and surrounding area, notably a new bus/rail counterchange and large shop plaza. Many of the original pubs have been maintained, notably, the Nelson Hotel, indeed named because of its location on Nelson Street. Bondi Beach is a neighbouring suburb to the east with a world-famous beach. Bondi and North Bondi are besides neighbouring suburbs. Bondi Junction and the neighbor area is well known for its celebrated rugby league team, the Sydney Roosters, calm officially known as the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club. The clubhouse of the team is centrally located in Spring Street, Bondi Junction .
history [edit ]
Bondi Junction in a postcard photograph taken in the period 1900-1927 Bondi is an native [ clarification needed ] word meaning water breaking over rocks. It has been spelt a number of different ways over time : for model, Boondi, Bundi and Bundye. The foremost house in the area was Waverley House, which was built by Barnett Levey in 1827, on the current site of Waverley Street. The house changed hands many times over the years before last being demolished in 1904. [ 4 ] When Waverley Municipality was proclaimed in 1859, the appoint was taken from Waverley House. Henry Hough was first gear given a concede of estate on the locate of Bondi Junction in 1832. [ citation needed ] On his estate, he built a wind-powered flour factory. This was accessed by a track leading off the South Head Road ( now Oxford Street ), the suburb ‘s main thoroughfare. In 1854, the first hotel in the area opened. It was named The Waverley Tea Gardens and the surrounding area promptly took that name, cursorily shortened to just “ Tea Gardens ”, which stuck for the next 30 years. By 1878 steam had supplanted tip in milling and the estate of the realm was closed. In May 1881 it was subdivided. Streets in this subdivision that exist nowadays are Mill Hill Road and Hough Street. The subdivision of the estate coincided with the opening of the foremost tramline to the sphere – steam streetcar began operation from Taylor Square in Darlinghurst on 12 March 1881. With the extension of the tramcar lines to Bondi Beach, Charing Cross and Bronte late in the ten, the term Bondi Junction was coined. It referred to the junction of the Bondi and Bronte tram lines at the corner of the now Oxford Street and Bronte Road. With the subdivision of surrounding suburb complete by 1930, Bondi Junction quickly grew into a major entertainment and commercial center. Tram lines ran to Bondi Beach via Birriga Road, Bondi Beach via Bondi Road, Bronte Beach and The Spot, Randwick and the City at Circular Quay and Central railroad track station. A tram storehouse was established on the corner of South Head Road ( renamed Oxford Street with the completion of widening works in Darlinghurst ) and the award sidereal day York Road. Oxford Street promptly became crowd and congested. By the 1960s traffic was at the point that Bondi Junction was one of the worst bottlenecks in Sydney. [ 5 ] The suburb was historically divided by the molding of Waverley and Woollahra councils. In 2002 the boundary was realigned from Oxford Street to the bypass road ( see below ), giving Waverley Council broad control condition of the commercial areas of the suburb. [ 6 ]
transportation [edit ]
Bondi Junction railroad track station is an clandestine post that is besides the easterly terminus of the Eastern Suburbs railway line on the Sydney Trains network. The place is besides the terminus of limited South Coast Line services. A bus interchange is located at ground level, above the railway station and below residential towers. The Sydney streetcar network was closed in 1961 and the Waverley Tram Depot converted to a bus storehouse. This temporarily reduced the traffic problem in the area [ citation needed ] ; but, the ascend of the private drive vehicle soon made the problem acute. A railroad track to Sydney ‘s eastern suburb was first proposed by John Young, Mayor of Sydney in the 1870s. This was subsequently incorporated into the Bradfield Scheme for improving Sydney ‘s railways. The line was never built as Bradfield envisaged, however. In 1976, with construction of the railroad track afoot and the NSW Government resolving to actually complete the project vitamin a far as Bondi Junction, construction was besides begun on an promote freeway-standard beltway of Bondi Junction. The Bondi Junction Bypass ( belated renamed Syd Einfeld Drive after the celebrated local serviceman and erstwhile Member for Phillip ), unlike the railroad track, was constructed quickly, opening on 6 January 1979. [ 7 ] The road runs around the northern side of the clientele zone from Oxford Street at Ocean Street to Oxford Street at Bondi Road and is elevated at about five metres above the establish. It is constructed as a continuous concrete plank bridge. At less than 2 kilometer, it is noted as the shortest expressway in Sydney. [ citation needed ] The expressway is, in fact, the only section ever built of a much longer aforethought road known as the Eastern Freeway, a proposed expressway abandoned in the 1960s [ citation needed ], which would have travelled between the Sydney CBD and Bondi. With the railway opening in June 1979, major changes to traffic menstruation were made in Bondi Junction. The main thoroughfare, Oxford Street, became devoted to buses lone between Adelaide Street and Bronte Road and a pedestrian plaza was created between Bronte Road and Newland Street, known as Bondi Junction Mall. The opening of the railroad track provided the opportunity to rationalise bus services in the Eastern Suburbs, with most city services eliminated or terminated at the newfangled Bondi Junction Bus–Rail Interchange. Due to cost reduce, the pedestrian promenade, bus–rail exchange, and indeed the railroad track station itself were of poor design and construction. however, the popularity of the railway was manifest and Bondi Junction substitute became the largest suburban bus destination in Australia. In 1998, Woollahra Council, which controlled the web site of the bus counterchange, finalised an agreement to sell the airspace above the site to Meriton Apartments. [ citation needed ] Construction began in April 1999 for a newly bus interchange and two residential apartment towers of over 70 megabyte high. While this took place, upgrade works were besides performed on Bondi Junction railroad track station. The modern interchange was tentatively opened in September 2000 for the Sydney Olympics but subsequently closed for further work. The new bus interchange opened in July 2001. In 2003, Waverley Council upgraded the Oxford Street pedestrian plaza and embarked on a general upgrade of streets and footpaths in the commercial area. [ citation needed ]
economy [edit ]
retail and denounce [edit ]
Westfield Bondi Junction
Tiffany Plaza Shopping Centre, above the bus/rail exchange
Oxford Street Mall Westfield Bondi Junction is a major mid to upmarket shopping center reverse Bondi Junction railroad track station on the recess of Grosvenor and Oxford Street. There are besides two smaller shop centre nearby, Eastgate Bondi Junction located below the Eastgate residential apartment development and a shop centre above the station and bus exchange known as Meriton Retail Precinct Bondi Junction. Oxford Street is a major commercial center in Bondi Junction as it contains numerous businesses including hotels and shops from the York Street end to Old South Head Road. Oxford Street Mall is a pedestrian zone between Bronte Road and Newland Street and contains numerous shops and cafe. There are besides shops along Spring Street, Ebley Street and Bronte Road .
High-density developments and house [edit ]
High-density growth, Bondi Junction
High-density developments and commercial area, Bondi Junction Bondi Junction is Sydney ‘s one-fifth largest business zone behind the CBD itself, North Sydney, Parramatta and Chatswood. Typical growth in the commercial area consists of strip-mall type development two or three levels high. however, over the concluding 35 years, at least twenty buildings of 12 levels or higher have been constructed. [ 8 ] The first large development was the Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club ( Easts ), the local rugby league club for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters. In the 1980s, following the completion of the Eastern Suburbs Railway, commercial development reached a acme with respective office buildings built in the concentrate of Bondi Junction. By the 1990s these were by and large displaced by residential developments. Bondi Junction features high concentration residential developments close to the commercial center and low density housing foster away. domestic architecture includes victorian and Federation designs .
Demographics [edit ]
According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 9,445 residents in Bondi Junction. In Bondi Junction, 40.8 % of people were born in Australia. The adjacent most park countries of birth were England 6.7 %, Ireland 3.2 %, New Zealand 2.9 %, Brazil 2.6 % and China 2.5 %. 58.9 % of people only spoke English at home. other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 3.0 %, portuguese 2.8 %, russian 2.8 %, spanish 2.2 % and italian 1.7 %. The most coarse responses for religion in Bondi Junction were No Religion 31.8 % and Catholic 21.1 %. [ 1 ]
sport and diversion [edit ]
Bondi Junction is represented in one of the most popular clean competitions across Australia, the National Rugby League contest, by the local anesthetic team the Sydney Roosters, formally the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club ( ESDRLFC ). The Junction is known colloquially to residents in the area as “ the home of the Roosters ” .
local landmarks and inheritance list [edit ]
Bondi Junction has many heritage-listed buildings and other items. Waverley Reservoirs on Paul Street is inheritance listed at the state floor. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The trace are some of the locally inheritance list buildings : [ 11 ]
- Italianate home used as community health centre, 26 Llandaff Street
- Ben Eden, Paul Street
- Blair Athol, Woodstock Street
- Euston, Woodstock Street
- Charles Terrace, Denison Street
- Glen Mervyn, Denison Street
- Myall, Mill Hill Road
- Cintra, Mill Hill Road
- Congregationalist Church, Botany Street
- Clementson Park, Ebley Street
- Fingleton Reserve, Waverley Crescent
- Hallena, Waverley Street
- Cotswald Hall, Dalley Street
- Waverley Library
Congregationalist Church, Botany Street
Bondi Junction Community Health Centre, Llandalff Street
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