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Princess Street

68 reports at 19 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 54 separate days somebody filed something about it.

68 reports19 addresses54 days reported onfrom the air, then125 documents carry the namethe 1221st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

12 Princess Street, 17 reports50 Princess Street, 11 reports51 Princess Street, 7 reports44 Princess Street, 7 reports70 Princess Street, 3 reports63 Princess Street, 3 reports59 Princess Street, 3 reports39 Princess Street, 3 reports68 Princess Street, 2 reports54 Princess Street, 2 reports52 Princess Street, 2 reports72 Princess Street, 1 report66 Princess Street, 1 report57 Princess Street, 1 report45 Princess Street, 1 report41 Princess Street, 1 report4/12 Princess Street, 1 report34 Princess Street, 1 report32 Princess Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Princess Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Princess Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Princess Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Princess 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. 125 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Princess Street in 13 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

Damaged Street Light, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Princess Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Princess Street?

68 reports at 19 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (36), vehicles & parking (21), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Princess Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 54 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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