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Puriri Street

111 reports at 52 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 91 separate days somebody filed something about it.

111 reports52 addresses91 days reported onfrom the air, then57 documents carry the namethe 769th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

45 Puriri Street, 11 reports1 Puriri Street, 11 reports129 Puriri Street, 6 reports38 Puriri Street, 5 reports137 Puriri Street, 5 reports60 Puriri Street, 4 reports16 Puriri Street, 4 reports83 Puriri Street, 3 reports5 Puriri Street, 3 reports49 Puriri Street, 3 reports34 Puriri Street, 3 reports131 Puriri Street, 3 reports106 Puriri Street, 3 reports93 Puriri Street, 2 reports8 Puriri Street, 2 reports58A Puriri Street, 2 reports57 Puriri Street, 2 reports40 Puriri Street, 2 reports25 Puriri Street, 2 reports111 Puriri Street, 2 reports11 Puriri Street, 2 reports94 Puriri Street, 1 report81 Puriri Street, 1 report78 Puriri Street, 1 report70A Puriri Street, 1 report70 Puriri Street, 1 report69 Puriri Street, 1 report67 Puriri Street, 1 report61 Puriri Street, 1 report54-56 Puriri Street, 1 report47 Puriri Street, 1 report46 Puriri Street, 1 report44 Puriri Street, 1 report41 Puriri Street, 1 report37 Puriri Street, 1 report35 Puriri Street, 1 report3 Puriri Street, 1 report29 Puriri Street, 1 report23 Puriri Street, 1 report22 Puriri Street, 1 report20 Puriri Street, 1 report16A Puriri Street, 1 report135 Puriri Street, 1 report127 Puriri Street, 1 report125 Puriri Street, 1 report123 Puriri Street, 1 report122 Puriri Street, 1 report12 Puriri Street, 1 report110 Puriri Street, 1 report11-19 Puriri Street, 1 report107 Puriri Street, 1 report101 Puriri Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Puriri Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Puriri Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Puriri 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. 57 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 5 m away Okeover Stream stream · 87 m away Waimairi Stream stream · 126 m away unnamed jetty · 30 m away unnamed jetty · 84 m away Fendalton Park footbridge · 137 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Puriri Street in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Water Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Puriri Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Puriri Street?

111 reports at 52 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (30), graffiti & vandalism (25), rubbish & dumping (15).

When was Puriri Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 91 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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