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St Johns Street

85 reports at 48 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 67 separate days somebody filed something about it.

85 reports48 addresses67 days reported onfrom the air, then9 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 1006th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

34 St Johns Street, 6 reports63 St Johns Street, 5 reports32 St Johns Street, 5 reports7 St Johns Street, 4 reports20 St Johns Street, 4 reports79 St Johns Street, 3 reports71 St Johns Street, 3 reports61 St Johns Street, 3 reports49 St Johns Street, 3 reports40 St Johns Street, 3 reports69 St Johns Street, 2 reports66 St Johns Street, 2 reports62 St Johns Street, 2 reports59 St Johns Street, 2 reports31 St Johns Street, 2 reports116 St Johns Street, 2 reports107 St Johns Street, 2 reports10 St Johns Street, 2 reports98 St Johns Street, 1 report97 St Johns Street, 1 report95A St Johns Street, 1 report92 St Johns Street, 1 report88 St Johns Street, 1 report84 St Johns Street, 1 report76 St Johns Street, 1 report56 St Johns Street, 1 report55 St Johns Street, 1 report54 St Johns Street, 1 report52 St Johns Street, 1 report51 St Johns Street, 1 report46 St Johns Street, 1 report39 St Johns Street, 1 report38 St Johns Street, 1 report35 St Johns Street, 1 report33 St Johns Street, 1 report32 St John's Street, 1 report28A St Johns Street, 1 report25 St Johns Street, 1 report23 St Johns Street, 1 report21 St Johns Street, 1 report118 St Johns Street, 1 report111 St Johns Street, 1 report11 St Johns Street, 1 report108 St Johns Street, 1 report106 St Johns Street, 1 report104 St Johns Street, 1 report103 St Johns Street, 1 report100 St Johns Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

St Johns Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
St Johns Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
St Johns 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. 9 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is St Johns 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 open map’s record.

Linwood Ave Waterrace drain · 21 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names St Johns Street in 20 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 photoPothole, a report photoPothole, a report photoPothole, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is St Johns Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on St Johns Street?

85 reports at 48 addresses, most often water & drains (21), roads & footpaths (20), graffiti & vandalism (18).

When was St Johns Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 67 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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