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Ayr Street

48 reports at 19 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 45 separate days somebody filed something about it.

48 reports19 addresses45 days reported onfrom the air, then53 documents carry the namethe 1408th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

32 Ayr Street, 9 reports4 Ayr Street, 4 reports2 Ayr Street, 4 reports19A Ayr Street, 4 reports9 Ayr Street, 3 reports7 Ayr Street, 3 reports30 Ayr Street, 3 reports25 Ayr Street, 3 reports28 Ayr Street, 2 reports21 Ayr Street, 2 reports20 Ayr Street, 2 reports17 Ayr Street, 2 reports5 Ayr Street, 1 report24 Ayr Street, 1 report23 Ayr Street, 1 report22C Ayr Street, 1 report20B Ayr Street, 1 report12 Ayr Street, 1 report11 Ayr Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Ayr Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ayr Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ayr 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. 53 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 open map’s record.

Washbourne Drain stream · 99 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ayr Street in 7 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

Pothole, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoFlooding, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Ayr Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ayr Street?

48 reports at 19 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (16), roads & footpaths (12), graffiti & vandalism (7).

When was Ayr Street first reported on?

2021, the record covers 45 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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