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Rhodes Street

31 reports at 15 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 26 separate days somebody filed something about it.

31 reports15 addresses26 days reported onfrom the air, then34 documents carry the namethe 2038th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

5F Rhodes Street, 6 reports14 Rhodes Street, 5 reports11A Rhodes Street, 4 reports59 Rhodes Street, 3 reports23 Rhodes Street, 2 reports1 Rhodes Street, 2 reports53 Rhodes Street, 1 report47 Rhodes Street, 1 report40 Rhodes Street, 1 report38 Rhodes Street, 1 report35 Rhodes Street, 1 report2 Rhodes Street, 1 report17 Rhodes Street, 1 report15 Rhodes Street, 1 report11C Rhodes Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Rhodes Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rhodes Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rhodes 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. 34 on the shelf; the 3 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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 20 m away Little Hagley Park footbridge · 19 m away Carlton Mill Riverbank set of steps · 86 m away Carlton Mill Riverbank footbridge · 100 m away Millbrook Reserve footbridge · 103 m away Millbrook Reserve shelter · 110 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rhodes 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

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoWater Pollution - Sediment, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoPothole, a report photoPest / Vermin, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rhodes Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rhodes Street?

31 reports at 15 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (12), trees & parks (9), water & drains (4).

When was Rhodes Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 26 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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