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Maxwell Street

144 reports at 36 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 122 separate days somebody filed something about it.

144 reports36 addresses122 days reported onfrom the air, then7 documents carry the namethe 567th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

48 Maxwell Street, 50 reports44 Maxwell Street, 9 reports33 Maxwell Street, 8 reports7 Maxwell Street, 5 reports44A Maxwell Street, 5 reports3 Maxwell Street, 5 reports42A Maxwell Street, 4 reports38 Maxwell Street, 4 reports32 Maxwell Street, 4 reports30 Maxwell Street, 4 reports53 Maxwell Street, 3 reports51D Maxwell Street, 3 reports49A Maxwell Street, 3 reports35 Maxwell Street, 3 reports27 Maxwell Street, 3 reports25 Maxwell Street, 3 reports47 Maxwell Street, 2 reports45 Maxwell Street, 2 reports39A Maxwell Street, 2 reports36 Maxwell Street, 2 reports34 Maxwell Street, 2 reports33A Maxwell Street, 2 reports29 Maxwell Street, 2 reports17 Maxwell Street, 2 reports9 Maxwell Street, 1 report51C Maxwell Street, 1 report5/27 Maxwell Street, 1 report43 Maxwell Street, 1 report41 Maxwell Street, 1 report37 Maxwell Street, 1 report33a Maxwell Street, 1 report29A Maxwell Street, 1 report23 Maxwell Street, 1 report19B Maxwell Street, 1 report19 Maxwell Street, 1 report15 Maxwell Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Maxwell Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Maxwell Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Maxwell 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. 7 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Maxwell Street in 21 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPothole, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Maxwell Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Maxwell Street?

144 reports at 36 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (83), graffiti & vandalism (18), water & drains (15).

When was Maxwell Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 122 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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