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I lived in Turner Street in 2002 till 2004 approximately when I found it extraordinarily quiet for a street so close to main traffic sewers. (That is, arterial roads.) You have a train station at one end of the street and the Yarra River, Yarra Bend Park and the bike path at the other and Victoria Park opposite. Victoria Park has reverted to community use after the relocation of the famous Collingwood Football Club. This ground is going to be wonderful for the street as there are not many houses in Melbourne that can boast a village green our the front door. The plan is for the ground to lose the stand and wall on Turner Street to open the ground up as a community park, and for other stands to be redeveloped into community assets including a centre for sustainability, according to the latest 2030 report from State Government. Also mentioned in this State Government report was the construction of a path from the opened up Victoria Park to the Collingwood Children's Farm and Convent Arts Precinct via the lovely path on the Yarra River.
As if this isn't enough, Turner Street also enjoys the famous shopping strips of Smith and Brunswick Streets just to the West. If you cant be bothered walking to the train, a bus on Johnson Street is only 80 meters away and can take you to these streets or the Kew Junction in the other direction.
On the negative side, there's some very light commerse and industry located on Johnson Street and Little Turner Street which is the second street frontage of Turner Street housing, but I find this is interesting rather than a downside.

Gordon Street enjoys proximity to the CBD, public transport, the very popular and vast Yarra Bend National Park, Dights Falls on the Yarra River with its bike path and is situated between the two village shopping strips of East and West Clifton Hill with the Western village accessable via a tunnel under the railway and Hoddle Street.
Another more manicured park, Darling Gardens is not far either.
On the dark side, the Hoddle Street mass shootings perpetrated by Julien Knight took place around this area. At the time, I was living in Gordon Street, and was home during the tragedy and didn't hear a shot fired because of the helicoptor noise.
Clifton Hill East is a popular pocket of housing with two train lines merging at it's railway station and the cosmopolitan Smith Street and Brunswick Street shopping delights only moments away.

Lord Street, where I lived for a decade, and only pass through now, is right in the middle of two great shopping strips, noted for their cafes, restaurants, clothing shops (particularly factory seconds outlets), nightlife including many hotels with live music and with almost all retail sectors well represented.
There is also public transport a plenty with 5, yes 5 train stations in the suburb and four main tram lines. It is an interesting walk or bike ride into the CBD, particularly when you find the back streets route.
The Yarra River bike path isn't far away, neither Yarra Bend Park which is like being in the country although your only 'spitting distance to the CBD'.
The Road itself has had trees planted recently which will help improve the streetscape. Being one way for half its length, and with speed humps, the traffic is kept reasonably quiet.

Briefly, Evansdale Road has a train station at one end and a park at the other and a large range of housing options inbetween and thus an interesting mixture of people from different backgrounds and at different stages of life. We enjoy great facilities at close proximity including the Yarra River and our shopping village with all you need (restaurants, great supermarket pub cafes and chemist to name a few). These amenities are to only improve with more retail, commercial spaces and appartments being built on the main street, Burwood Road. A Bunnings is being built there which is close enough to walk to without giving our street any bustle. The street's entrances are somewhat camoflaged by non 'grid like' town planning which helps us enjoy a relative peacefulness for an inner city location.
Transport is a bonus with train, trams bike paths roads access not to be bettered in Melbourne and the rap on schools is similarly glowing.
In a guide to Boroondara, our park (Morang Road Reserve) is referred to as the Boroondara's most beautiful and contains a cliff face of Basalt that is part of the eastern most flow from the Western District's volcanoes. This has been quarries some time ago and you can see the old drill marks in the stone.
We also have the old Creek crossing under our Road that drains the southern part of Kew and part of Hawthorn,
Many people meet and talk whilst accessing Morang Road Reserve and another park it joins onto along the Yarra River.
The two things I like most about our street are:
1) Commuting by various methods including bike, boat, (yes I row to work sometimes), walking, train, tram or unfortunately sometimes car.
2) Walking to the shops for just about anything I need.