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Matai Street

22 reports at 16 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2016, the latest 2020. 20 separate days somebody filed something about it.

22 reports16 addresses20 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then50 documents carry the namethe 2357th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

84 Matai Street, 3 reports52 Matai Street, 2 reports39-55 Matai Street, 2 reports35 Matai Street, 2 reports10 Matai Street, 2 reports92 Matai Street, 1 report85 Matai Street, 1 report83-85 Matai Street, 1 report83 Matai Street, 1 report76 Matai Street, 1 report64 Matai Street, 1 report63 Matai Street, 1 report56 Matai Street, 1 report48-76 Matai Street, 1 report47 Matai Street, 1 report43 Matai Street, 1 reportFormer Pumphouse and Setting, Pump No. 24.: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Matai Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Riccarton.

From the air, then

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

On the register

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 50 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

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 · 92 m away Mill Stream canal · 125 m away unnamed jetty · 112 m away Mona Vale set of steps · 122 m away Mona Vale viewing platform · 125 m away Mona Vale set of steps · 131 m away unnamed jetty · 144 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Matai Street in 19 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 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

Roading/Streets, a report photoWater Supply, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Matai Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Matai Street?

22 reports at 16 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (14), roads & footpaths (6), water & drains (2).

When was Matai Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 20 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2020.

What heritage places are on Matai Street?

Former Pumphouse and Setting, Pump No. 24..

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