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Mollett Street

142 reports at 8 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 103 separate days somebody filed something about it.

142 reports8 addresses103 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 680th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

10 Mollett Street, 71 reports13 Mollett Street, 15 reports9 Mollett Street, 13 reports5 Mollett Street, 13 reports6 Mollett Street, 12 reports16 Mollett Street, 10 reports12–16 Mollett Street, 7 reports11E Mollett Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Mollett Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mollett Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mollett Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mollett 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.

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

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Mollett Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Mollett Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Mollett Street?

142 reports at 8 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (104), vehicles & parking (20), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Mollett Street first reported on?

2020, the record covers 103 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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