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Brake Street

114 reports at 17 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 81 separate days somebody filed something about it.

114 reports17 addresses81 days reported onfrom the air, then34 documents carry the name5 businessesthe 868th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

10 Brake Street, 29 reports8 Brake Street, 23 reports6 Brake Street, 16 reports7 Brake Street, 13 reports4 Brake Street, 10 reports3 Brake Street, 6 reports15 Brake Street, 3 reports9A Brake Street, 2 reports5 Brake Street, 2 reports20 Brake Street, 2 reports19 Brake Street, 2 reports9 Brake Street, 1 report4/6 Brake Street, 1 report17 Brake Street, 1 report15A Brake Street, 1 report14 Brake Street, 1 report112 Brake Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Brake Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Brake Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Brake 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. 34 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 5

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Brake Street in 1 crash 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

Street Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Upper Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Brake Street?

In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Brake Street?

114 reports at 17 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (63), rubbish & dumping (20), roads & footpaths (17).

When was Brake Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 81 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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