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Ruskin Street

236 reports at 73 addresses in Addington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 189 separate days somebody filed something about it.

236 reports73 addresses189 days reported onfrom the air, then47 documents carry the namethe 325th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

41 Ruskin Street, 24 reports44 Ruskin Street, 15 reports71 Ruskin Street, 9 reports69 Ruskin Street, 9 reports60 Ruskin Street, 8 reports55 Ruskin Street, 8 reports21 Ruskin Street, 7 reports18 Ruskin Street, 7 reports61 Ruskin Street, 6 reports58 Ruskin Street, 6 reports47 Ruskin Street, 6 reports111 Ruskin Street, 6 reports106 Ruskin Street, 6 reports63 Ruskin Street, 5 reports61A Ruskin Street, 5 reports57B Ruskin Street, 5 reports22 Ruskin Street, 5 reports11 Ruskin Street, 5 reports88 Ruskin Street, 4 reports7 Ruskin Street, 4 reports65 Ruskin Street, 4 reports40 Ruskin Street, 4 reports37B Ruskin Street, 4 reports35C Ruskin Street, 4 reports94 Ruskin Street, 3 reports89 Ruskin Street, 3 reports78 Ruskin Street, 3 reports3/106 Ruskin Street, 3 reports87 Ruskin Street, 2 reports83 Ruskin Street, 2 reports79 Ruskin Street, 2 reports75 Ruskin Street, 2 reports50 Ruskin Street, 2 reports49 Ruskin Street, 2 reports43 Ruskin Street, 2 reports31A Ruskin Street, 2 reports3 Ruskin Street, 2 reports109 Ruskin Street, 2 reports107 Ruskin Street, 2 reports104 Ruskin Street, 2 reports100 Ruskin Street, 2 reports90 Ruskin Street, 1 report84 Ruskin Street, 1 report80 Ruskin Street, 1 report76 Ruskin Street, 1 report68B Ruskin Street, 1 report67 Ruskin Street, 1 report65L Ruskin Street, 1 report61B Ruskin Street, 1 report57A Ruskin Street, 1 report56 Ruskin Street, 1 report51 Ruskin Street, 1 report46 Ruskin Street, 1 report45 Ruskin Street, 1 report44-50 Ruskin Street, 1 report39 Ruskin Street, 1 report37A Ruskin Street, 1 report35 Ruskin Street, 1 report33C Ruskin Street, 1 report33B Ruskin Street, 1 report31 Ruskin Street, 1 report23 Ruskin Street, 1 report20 Ruskin Street, 1 report19 Ruskin Street, 1 report15 Ruskin Street, 1 report119B Ruskin Street, 1 report119A Ruskin Street, 1 report118 Ruskin Street, 1 report115 Ruskin Street, 1 report114 Ruskin Street, 1 report113C Ruskin Street, 1 report113 Ruskin Street, 1 report108 Ruskin Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Ruskin Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ruskin Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ruskin 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

and the other 13 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 47 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 29 m away Ruskin Reserve set of steps · 2 m away Ruskin Reserve set of steps · 17 m away Ruskin Reserve set of steps · 34 m away Baxters Drain set of steps · 107 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ruskin Street in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoFlooding, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Ruskin Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ruskin Street?

236 reports at 73 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (124), trees & parks (30), graffiti & vandalism (29).

When was Ruskin Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 189 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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