What+is+the+Hoddle+Grid?

The Hoddle Grid is the base of Melbourne's CBD.The Hoddle Grid was named after its creator Sir Robert Hoddle. The City loop train stations or Flinders, Spring, Lonsdale and Spencer streets are the borders of the Hoddle Grid. Each block on the Hoddle grid is 10 chains or 200 metres. The Major Streets in the Hoddle Grid are one and a half Chains which is 30metres in width. The Hoddle Grid is 1.6 kilometres long and 0.8 kilometres wide and it aligns with the Yarra River. There are also trams on most if not all the main streets in the Hoddle Grid. Elizabeth street was built on a gully so it could flood easily.



The way the Hoddle Grid has influenced public transport in Melbourne is that Trains, Trams and buses run all around the Hoddle grid. The Trains go around the Hoddle Grid, the trams are on just about all the streets on the Hoddle Grid and they go around it as well. The buses are on nearly on every major street in the Hoddle Grid.





The Hoddle Grid was an amazing achievement in the history of Melbourne, its planning has helped lay out the rest of the city which hadn't been built at the time.