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Bernard Street

85 reports at 17 addresses in Addington, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 73 separate days somebody filed something about it.

85 reports17 addresses73 days reported onfrom the air, then16 documents carry the name4 businessesthe 941st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

15 Bernard Street, 22 reports19 Bernard Street, 10 reports16 Bernard Street, 10 reports18 Bernard Street, 9 reports9 Bernard Street, 6 reports9C Bernard Street, 5 reports11 Bernard Street, 5 reports5 Bernard Street, 4 reports9B Bernard Street, 3 reports8/18 Bernard Street, 2 reports17 Bernard Street, 2 reports11-15 Bernard Street, 2 reports9/18 Bernard Street, 1 report4/18 Bernard Street, 1 report3/16 Bernard Street, 1 report2 Bernard Street, 1 report16–18 Bernard Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Bernard Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Addington.

From the air, then

Bernard Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bernard Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bernard Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bernard Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 16 on the shelf; the 7 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Bernard Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Bernard Street in 16 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoPothole, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Bernard Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bernard Street?

85 reports at 17 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (33), roads & footpaths (20), water & drains (12).

When was Bernard Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 73 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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