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Rex Street

192 reports at 28 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 151 separate days somebody filed something about it.

192 reports28 addresses151 days reported onfrom the air, then21 documents carry the namethe 433rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

8 Rex Street, 26 reports9A Rex Street, 14 reports21 Rex Street, 14 reports17 Rex Street, 14 reports2 Rex Street, 13 reports19 Rex Street, 13 reports9 Rex Street, 12 reports11A Rex Street, 12 reports6 Rex Street, 9 reports11B Rex Street, 9 reports22 Rex Street, 8 reports20 Rex Street, 6 reports9C Rex Street, 5 reports5A Rex Street, 5 reports3 Rex Street, 5 reports15 Rex Street, 5 reports10 Rex Street, 5 reports24 Rex Street, 4 reports8A Rex Street, 2 reports8-4 Rex Street, 2 reports13 Rex Street, 2 reports7 Rex Street, 1 report5 Rex Street, 1 report4 Rex Street, 1 report23 Rex Street, 1 report12 Rex Street, 1 report11 Rex Street, 1 report1 Rex Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Rex Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rex Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rex Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rex 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. 21 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Wharenui Pool set of steps · 93 m away Wharenui Pool set of steps · 129 m away Wharenui Pool ramp · 133 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rex Street in 7 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

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 photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoStreet Cleaning, 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 Rex Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rex Street?

192 reports at 28 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (162), roads & footpaths (10), water & drains (9).

When was Rex Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 151 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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