Castle Street, Dunedin
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 Interactive map of Castle Street | |
| Maintained by | NZ Transport Agency, Dunedin City Council |
|---|---|
| Location | Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Postal code | 9016 |
| South end | High Street/Stuart Street, central Dunedin |
| North end | Duke Street/Brook Street, Dunedin North |
| East | Leith Street |
| West | Cumberland Street |
Castle Street is a major street in the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. The street runs in a north-north-east direction from Stuart Street outside Dunedin Railway Station to the southern end of the Dunedin Botanic Garden, and is bisected into two distinct parts by the University of Otago campus.
The southern part of Castle Street between Stuart Street and Frederick Street is part of State Highway 1, and is a two-laned one-way street, carrying southbound traffic while the parallel Cumberland Street to the west carries northbound traffic. The NZ Transport Agency, in conjunction with Dunedin City Council, is proposing to install protected bike lanes on the one-way pair, replacing the painted cycle lanes.[1]
The central part between Frederick Street and Saint David Street was mostly closed in the 1970s to allow expatiation of the University of Otago campus. A small cul-de-sac south of Albany Street that was formerly part of Castle Street was renamed Ethel Benjamin Place. At this point the State Highway moves one block to the west, initially carried by two short stretches of curved road.
