Game: Street Names

[Barry Drive]

The challenge is to name Canberra streets which have only one set of bus stops (or even just a single stop) for the entire length of the street. School only stops are not considered.

Must be an active stop at the time of submission.

Each person can only submit one street name at a time and cannot submit consecutive entries.

A previous correct submission cannot be repeated.

The winner will be whomever makes the last correct entry.


To get started, I'll go with an obvious one: Watkin Street, Bruce.

Here is a consolidated list of all () correct entries so far, sorted alphabetically:

Abena Ave
Albany St
Amsinck St
Annabelle View
Barraclough Cres
Battye St
Burrumarra Av
Barry Drive
Beetaloo St
Benham St
Bielski St
Bindubi St
Bremer Street
Brierley St
Brisbane Ave
Callam Street
Cape Street
Chauvel St
Clancy St
Collie St
Comrie Street
Cox St
Crackajack Way
Curran Dr
Currong St
Cussen Street
Dakota Drive
Dalrymple Street
David Warren Rd
Donaldson Street
Dookie St
Doonkuna St
Drumston St
Dunstan Street
Eardley St
Eastern Valley Way
Ebden St
Emu Bank
Eucumbene Drive
Euree St
Federal Hwy
Federation Mall
Felstead Vista
Findlay St
Flemington Road
Forlonge St
Francis Forde Blvd
Franklin St
Galmarra St
General Bridges Drive
Ginninderra Drive
Gozzard St
Grampians st
Grenfell Ave
Gungahlin Dr
Handbury Way
Harold White Av
Hawker Place
Hazel St
Hebblewhite St
Henry Williams St
Hodgson Cres
Hovea St
Ipima St
Ipswich St
Jane Sutherland Street
Jenolan St
Jerrabomberra Avenue
Johnson Drive
Kambah Pool Road
King Edward Tce
Kings Av
Kingsland Parade
Kondelea Way
Lachlan St
Langton Crescent
Laurens St
Len Waters St
Leverrier St
Longmore Cres
Mabo Blvd
Macarthur Ave
MacKinnon Street
Macnaughton St
Majura Rd
Marrawah St
Mawson Dr
McGinness St
McIntyre St
Melrose Dr
Mobourne St
Molonglo Drive
Monaro Crescent
Morisset Rd
Morrison Cct
Moyes Cres
Ngunawal Drive
Noorooma Street
Northcott Dr
O'Connell St
Ogilby Cres
Opperman St
O'Reilly St
Parkes Place
Parliament Drive
Preddy Way
Proctor St
Redruth St
Renmark St
Rimmer St
Roden Cutler Drive
Ross Smith Crescent
Sainsbury Street
Scollay st
Scrivener St
Shoalhaven Ave
State Circle
Sydney Ave
Terminal Avenue
Thynne St
Tobruk Road
Tuggeranong Parkway
Tyagarah St
Vowels Cres
Watkin Street
Wattle St
Webber Cres
Were St
West Row
Whitrod Ave
Wiburd St
Wilkins St
Wisdom Street
Wollongong St
Woodcock Drive
Zakharov Av

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

Tobruk Road, Campbell (Duntroon)

[Bus 400]

Probably the longest piece of road with 1 set of bus stops, Tuggeranong Parkway, Kambah

[Stan butler]

Abena Ave, Crace

[triumph]

Slight ambiguity 'school only' - does this mean stops the public can use served by scheduled public route services diverting/extending, as well as stops served only by dedicated school services? I can think of a couple of single stops in the first category.
My submission is Morisset Rd. There is a single stop at Bimberi served by some rte 18 services.

[Snorzac]

Jenolan St, Harrison

[King of Buses]

Tyagarah St, O'Malley.

[narc855]

Doonkuna St, Braddon/Reid

[ajw373]

In Casey there are two such streets.

Kingsland Parade

[Barry Drive]

Slight ambiguity 'school only' - does this mean stops the public can use served by scheduled public route services diverting/extending, as well as stops served only by dedicated school services?

The idea was just the normal bus routes / bus stops.

In Casey there are two such streets.

Please refer to the rules: one street name at a time. (Your entry has been modified.)


Dalrymple Street.

[Buzz Killington]

O'Reilly St, Macgregor

[Northside]

London Cct has only one stop travelling anti-clockwise.

Invalid answer

[Bus 503]

Bremer Street, Griffith

[triumph]

Barry Drive

[Snorzac]

Scollay st Tuggeranong

[Barry Drive]

Dookie St, Farrer

[triumph]

Working on the basis that the City Interchange is 'one set of stops', Mort St.

❌ Invalid answer

[King of Buses]

Cussen Street, Higgins.

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

I don't see why there's the need for those silly answers, there's still plenty to choose from.

Kambah Pool Road, Kambah.

[triumph]

Eardley St, Bruce

I don't see why there's the need for those silly answers, there's still plenty to choose from.

Why 'silly'? There is one stop marked on the road each side of Mort St. Canberra urban bus services use only one 'platform/stop' each side. There is a through service (rte 53) using each of those stops. The remaining platforms are for regional and school services neither of which should be relevant. Seemed to me to be similar to any urban stop set only represented once in a street. Note that the next set of stops nearer London Circuit are in a different street, East Row. Gungahlin Place is similar except no through services. I couldn't see why it shouldn't be worth a try.

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

The rules look pretty clear to me "one set of bus stops (or even just a single stop)".
If anything, a bus interchange would be considered a cluster rather than a set, just my opinion though.

[Barry Drive]

I had hoped this would be a straightforward exercise. So since it looks like it needs a ruling, every platform at an interchange where services commence is regarded as a single stop. In the case of Mort Street the stops are regarded as single stops, rather than as a 'set' of stops even though one through-route uses both sides.

The same rule will apply to Gungahlin Place, due to services commencing from both sides.

Where this rule doesn't apply is where services do not regularly commence or terminate at an "interchange". Therefore a valid answer (and my next submission) is:

Cape Street, Dickson

[narc855]

How many submissions can we have?
Cox St, Ainslie (this street has a single stop only btw).

[Snorzac]

Preddy Way, Gordon

[triumph]

The rules look pretty clear to me "one set of bus stops (or even just a single stop)".
If anything, a bus interchange would be considered a cluster rather than a set, just my opinion though.

Ta. Cluster? You got me in a fluster checking the dictionary, and ready to bluster, but cluster versus set is just semantics. My objective was to clear the unusual but apparently valid ones out early on so that the issue wouldn't arise at the winning post with consequent appeals and stewards reviews. You will note that the rules have now been clarified, so all is still good. (Incidentally Alinga St was easy to discard as it has a separate City West stop for arriving services - also rte 53?? Doesn't matter.)

[triumph]

Felstead Vista, Denman Prospect

[Toyota Camry]

David Warren Rd, Hume

[narc855]

Another street with a single bus stop only,
Northcott Dr， Majura

[triumph]

Bielski St, Denman Prospect

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

How many submissions can we have?

As far as I can see, there's at least 50 more possible valid guesses. Should be interesting to see how many more of these people will get. Can't wait to see who'll get the last one!

Laurens St, Wanniassa.

[Toyota Camry]

Terminal Avenue, Pialligo

[triumph]

Johnson Drive

[King of Buses]

Dunstan Street, Curtin.

[Snorzac]

Ogilby Cres Page

[triumph]

Were St, Calwell

[Stan butler]

Grampians st, palmerston

[triumph]

Annabelle View, Coombs

[King of Buses]

Jane Sutherland Street, Conder.

[Toyota Camry]

Majura Rd, Pialligo

[triumph]

Webber Cresc, Calwell

[Snorzac]

Drumston St, Isabella Plains

[triumph]

Wiburd St, Conder

[narc855]

Ipswich St, Fyshwick

[Barry Drive]

Wattle St, Lyneham

[triumph]

Opperman St, Denman

[Buzz Killington]

Hebblewhite St, Monash

[triumph]

Kondolea Way, Denman Prospect

[Toyota Camry]

Catalina Dr, Pialligo

❌ Invalid answer please wait for three other valid entries before another submission

[triumph]

Catalina Dr, Pialligo

You sure about that? I think there are two stops in Catalina Dr which are well separated.

[triumph]

Dakota Ave, Pialligo

⚠️ not your turn please wait for three other entries before another submission