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Hastings Street

22 reports at 14 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2017, the latest 2024. 19 separate days somebody filed something about it.

22 reports14 addresses19 days reported onfrom the air, then79 documents carry the namethe 2431st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

76 Hastings Street, 4 reports114-142 Hastings Street, 3 reports97 Hastings Street, 2 reports40 Hastings Street, 2 reports113 Hastings Street, 2 reports92 Hastings Street, 1 report48 Hastings Street, 1 report4-50 Hastings Street, 1 report24 Hastings Street, 1 report19 Hastings Street, 1 report132 Hastings Street, 1 report13-49 Hastings Street, 1 report119 Hastings Street, 1 report114 Hastings Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Hastings Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hastings Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hastings 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. 79 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.

Sydenham Community Centre ramp · 96 m away Sydenham Community Centre set of steps · 99 m away Sydenham Community Centre set of steps · 106 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hastings Street in 24 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 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 photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoParks, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hastings Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hastings Street?

22 reports at 14 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (10), roads & footpaths (6), rubbish & dumping (5).

When was Hastings Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 19 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2024.

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