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Rimu Street

92 reports at 22 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 77 separate days somebody filed something about it.

92 reports22 addresses77 days reported onfrom the air, then51 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 912th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Rimu Street, 35 reports13 Rimu Street, 9 reports6 Rimu Street, 7 reports23 Rimu Street, 5 reports7A Rimu Street, 3 reports6B Rimu Street, 3 reports6A Rimu Street, 3 reports4 Rimu Street, 3 reports19-23 Rimu Street, 3 reports14 Rimu Street, 3 reports6D Rimu Street, 2 reports6C Rimu Street, 2 reports19 Rimu Street, 2 reports18a Rimu Street, 2 reports18 Rimu Street, 2 reports17 Rimu Street, 2 reports9A Rimu Street, 1 report9 Rimu Street, 1 report8 Rimu Street, 1 report7 Rimu Street, 1 report4C Rimu Street, 1 report18A Rimu Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Rimu Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rimu Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rimu 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. 51 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Rimu Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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 · 144 m away unnamed ramp · 136 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rimu Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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 photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoWater Fountain, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rimu Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rimu Street?

92 reports at 22 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (46), rubbish & dumping (16), roads & footpaths (15).

When was Rimu Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 77 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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