Two-way streets program

The City of Perth’s Two-Way Streets Program is improving network legibility and permeability, creating revitalised and activated streets, bringing the following benefits:

1. More route choices make it easier to find your way around, decreasing unnecessary circling trips and driving distances.
2. Relieving traffic congestion.
3. Prioritisation of people: slower traffic creates friendlier spaces for pedestrians and creates people-oriented City streets.
4. Improving access for public transport, with CAT buses now able to travel in both directions on Hay Street.

This project will enable uninterrupted two-way traffic on Hay Street from the Causeway to Barrack Street.

Since the Two Way Street program started in the early 2000s, City streets have been converted to two-way including William Street, Barrack Street and Murray Street, improving access for vehicles and making it easier to walk and ride in the City.

Hay Street Two-Way

Now the City of Perth is converting Hay Street to a two-way street, to make it easier for you to get around your city.

Hay Street between Victoria Avenue and Bennett Street are converting from one-way to two-way operation, opening to traffic on Sunday, 31 August 2025. Victoria Avenue between Adelaide Terrace and Hay Street is also part of this project and will become two-way as well. The initiative is part of the City’s on-going Two-way Streets Program which commenced in 2014.

Care should be taken when using the roadway under the new road conditions. To help everyone to adjust, the City will be providing traffic management for the final stages of construction and also for a time after the construction has finished, to assist drivers and other people navigating the roadway. There will also be variable and static messaging signs on-site along the roadway.

The city is also planning on-site assistance for the opening.

For any further questions regarding the project the City’s Customer Experience team is available to assist:

• Tel: 08 9461 3333 
• Email: [email protected]