Roads less travelled: Canberra's phantom thoroughfares

By Tim the Yowie Man
Updated February 20 2019 - 10:54am, first published February 16 2019 - 12:00am

Baffling Boulevards

The main arch at Environa, a subdivision that never got off the ground. Photo: John Evans
The main arch at Environa, a subdivision that never got off the ground. Photo: John Evans

“In Google Maps, if you zoom in on the area immediately to the east of Hume and just north of Tralee, a detailed layer of concentric streets appears,” writes John Standen of Kambah. He asks: “Is this a mistake, because anyone who has flown over the area will know it’s just sheep paddocks.”

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