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Alexandra Street

163 reports at 58 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 137 separate days somebody filed something about it.

163 reports58 addresses137 days reported onfrom the air, then42 documents carry the namethe 503rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

69 Alexandra Street, 37 reports10 Alexandra Street, 13 reports61a Alexandra Street, 9 reports72 Alexandra Street, 6 reports35 Alexandra Street, 5 reports9 Alexandra Street, 4 reports75 Alexandra Street, 4 reports31 Alexandra Street, 4 reports23 Alexandra Street, 4 reports15 Alexandra Street, 4 reports81 Alexandra Street, 3 reports80 Alexandra Street, 3 reports79 Alexandra Street, 3 reports78 Alexandra Street, 3 reports76A Alexandra Street, 3 reports49A Alexandra Street, 3 reports45 Alexandra Street, 3 reports27 Alexandra Street, 3 reports13 Alexandra Street, 3 reports71 Alexandra Street, 2 reports65-71 Alexandra Street, 2 reports61 Alexandra Street, 2 reports57 Alexandra Street, 2 reports39 Alexandra Street, 2 reports34 Alexandra Street, 2 reports2 Alexandra Street, 2 reports9-17 Alexandra Street, 1 report83 Alexandra Street, 1 report80A Alexandra Street, 1 report76 Alexandra Street, 1 report74–80 Alexandra Street, 1 report70 Alexandra Street, 1 report68 Alexandra Street, 1 report67 Alexandra Street, 1 report66 Alexandra Street, 1 report65 Alexandra Street, 1 report64E Alexandra Street, 1 report60 Alexandra Street, 1 report58 Alexandra Street, 1 report56 Alexandra Street, 1 report55 Alexandra Street, 1 report52 Alexandra Street, 1 report50 Alexandra Street, 1 report48 Alexandra Street, 1 report46 Alexandra Street, 1 report43B Alexandra Street, 1 report43 Alexandra Street, 1 report40 Alexandra Street, 1 report4 Alexandra Street, 1 report38 Alexandra Street, 1 report34-22 Alexandra Street, 1 report32 Alexandra Street, 1 report30A Alexandra Street, 1 report24 Alexandra Street, 1 report20 Alexandra Street, 1 report16 Alexandra Street, 1 report12 Alexandra Street, 1 report10A Alexandra Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Alexandra Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Alexandra Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Alexandra Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Alexandra 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. 42 on the shelf; the 5 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 open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 100 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Alexandra Street in 4 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

Water Leak, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoTrees - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Alexandra Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Alexandra Street?

163 reports at 58 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (54), trees & parks (49), graffiti & vandalism (16).

When was Alexandra Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 137 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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