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Matai Street East

104 reports at 20 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 87 separate days somebody filed something about it.

104 reports20 addresses87 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 801st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

44 Matai Street East, 31 reports1 Matai Street East, 21 reports10 Matai Street East, 13 reports34 Matai Street East, 7 reports10B Matai Street East, 6 reports17 Matai Street East, 4 reports5 Matai Street East, 3 reports11 Matai Street East, 3 reports17A Matai Street East, 2 reports10P Matai Street East, 2 reports10G Matai Street East, 2 reports10E Matai Street East, 2 reports19 Matai Street East, 1 report15a Matai Street East, 1 report15 Matai Street East, 1 report10J Matai Street East, 1 report10H Matai Street East, 1 report10F Matai Street East, 1 report10D Matai Street East, 1 report1-5 Matai Street East, 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 East, 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 East from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Matai Street East from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Matai Street East 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.

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; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Matai Street East in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Matai Street East?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Matai Street East?

104 reports at 20 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (35), roads & footpaths (32), rubbish & dumping (12).

When was Matai Street East first reported on?

2016, the record covers 87 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Matai Street East?

Former Pumphouse and Setting, Pump No. 24..

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