The largely empty building blocks were perfect places to train in urban street fighting.

So prepare to cringe tonight as they immerse themselves in the achingly cool world of urban street art.

Zoom in on an urban street and you can overlay the bus stops; tap on one and you see the routes that use it, plus timetables.

But the expanses of parade ground (now lawn) and the landscaped bits between them seem to preclude the neighbourly chumminess of a traditional urban street layout.

The interurban fit on a continuum between urban street railways and full-fledged railroads.