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Alexandra Street

33 reports at 7 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 32 separate days somebody filed something about it.

33 reports7 addresses32 days reported onfrom the air, then44 documents carry the namethe 1770th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 Alexandra Street, 7 reports9 Alexandra Street, 6 reports2 Alexandra Street, 6 reports13 Alexandra Street, 6 reports11 Alexandra Street, 5 reports17 Alexandra Street, 2 reports4 Alexandra Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Alexandra Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Alexandra Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Alexandra Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Alexandra 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. 44 on the shelf; the 5 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 open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 95 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Alexandra Street in 3 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

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Alexandra Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Alexandra Street?

33 reports at 7 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (15), graffiti & vandalism (7), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Alexandra Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 32 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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