Talk:Collins Street, Melbourne

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Contents 1 'Ends' of Collins Street 2 Financial Heart 3 Docklands area 4 Encyclopedic tone

[edit] 'Ends' of Collins Street

Would I be right in assuming that the 'Paris end', which I have written about, is closer to the Treasury? Or is it closer to Docklands?

In fact, that whole Exhibition-Collins-Spring-Flinders Lane block looks very 'Paris'.

EuropracBHIT 12:58, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The Spring St. end is the Paris end. This is partly because of the outdoor cafes. Also this end of Collins St (from Swanston St. up the hill to Spring) hosts the most expensive boutique shops in Melbourne. Hobo 02:30, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Financial Heart

I am not sure that the area mentioned as the financial heart of Melbourne in the article is completely true. Allthough the stock exchange is in that locallity there are more large buildings as one apporaches Spring St. Hobo 02:30, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Docklands area

Collins Street currently does not intersect Bourke Street, it ends in plastic barriers and a T junction with Stadium Drive. Did they build it out to join Bourke, then rip it up again? Or did it never intersect Bourke, and it is only shown to intersect on Google Maps? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bramley (talk • contribs) 00:52, 25 June 2006

[edit] Encyclopedic tone

There's a few sentences that could do with some rewording just to improve the tone of the article, because sentences are bordering on POV. Few exaples: "best known street", "finest Victorian era buildings", "modern development has destroyed some of the European flavour", "long been the financial heart", "grandest examples were lost to the wrecker's ball" invincible 08:38, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

These are not POV, they are common knowledge. Find me one other street in Melbourne which can lay claim to being the city's financial heart. Collins is it. --Biatch 02:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)