Parramatta Road has come a long way since its initial creation as a road that was adopted from an ancient aboriginal route between Sydney and Parramatta around 1789 - 1791. It was an important road then, and it remains so to this day. It is one of the main thoroughfares of Sydney.
Far from its early days as a dirt road traversed by horse and cart, today, Parramatta Road is a heavily congested mess of traffic as far as the eye can see.
The Parramatta end featuring 'Auto Alley' comprises scores of used...Read More
Parramatta Road has come a long way since its initial creation as a road that was adopted from an ancient aboriginal route between Sydney and Parramatta around 1789 - 1791. It was an important road then, and it remains so to this day. It is one of the main thoroughfares of Sydney.
Far from its early days as a dirt road traversed by horse and cart, today, Parramatta Road is a heavily congested mess of traffic as far as the eye can see.
The Parramatta end featuring 'Auto Alley' comprises scores of used car dealers that you can bet your bottom dollar love to rewind an odometer or two.
The eastern end of Parramatta Road consists of a mix of historic shop fronts and monotonous new developments, massage shops, closed businesses and WestConnex trucks.
Many hints of a bygone era remain in the form of ghost signs, building names and even the shops themselves, as though they are clinging to dear life before their very existence is swept up in the modernisation of the strip and lost forever.
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