chch.live a street, in depth

Tika Street

335 reports at 39 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 231 separate days somebody filed something about it.

335 reports39 addresses231 days reported onfrom the air, then5 documents carry the namethe 253rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

29 Tika Street, 67 reports24A Tika Street, 26 reports13 Tika Street, 18 reports16A Tika Street, 17 reports7 Tika Street, 16 reports1 Tika Street, 14 reports20 Tika Street, 13 reports40 Tika Street, 12 reports19 Tika Street, 12 reports26A Tika Street, 11 reports5 Tika Street, 10 reports42 Tika Street, 10 reports39 Tika Street, 10 reports2 Tika Street, 10 reports52 Tika Street, 9 reports16 Tika Street, 8 reports17 Tika Street, 7 reports13E Tika Street, 7 reports37 Tika Street, 5 reports27 Tika Street, 5 reports22 Tika Street, 5 reports15 Tika Street, 4 reports6 Tika Street, 3 reports48 Tika Street, 3 reports35 Tika Street, 3 reports30 Tika Street, 3 reports26 Tika Street, 3 reports25 Tika Street, 3 reports23 Tika Street, 3 reports18 Tika Street, 3 reports13A Tika Street, 3 reports41 Tika Street, 2 reports29A Tika Street, 2 reports28 Tika Street, 2 reports21 Tika Street, 2 reports6-10 Tika Street, 1 report44 Tika Street, 1 report35-37 Tika Street, 1 report32 Tika Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Tika Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tika Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tika Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tika 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.

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.

Harrington Park set of steps · 78 m away Harrington Park shelter · 87 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Tika Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

General Request, 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 photoDumped Rubbish, 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 Tika Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Tika Street?

335 reports at 39 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (314), water & drains (5), roads & footpaths (5).

When was Tika Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 231 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

Every street the archive knows → · Riccarton → · This street as a feed →