With the land dropping about 1metre to 1.4metres after the earthquakes, a few roads besides the Avon and Heathcote Rivers are flooded with very high tides. Extra stop banks (on right) erected after the quakes have helped, but the road is now well below high water level. New Brighton Road, just short of New Brighton. The Pages Road bridge may b...
A video of an interview with Laurence Mote about the wall of containers in Sumner. Shipping containers line the south side of Main Road in Sumner, protecting road users from potential rock fall from the cliffs above. Mote bikes past the containers every day on his way to work. He talks about the risks facing cyclists along Main Road and in greater Christchurch, including pot holes and narrow roads. He advises cyclists to wear bright clothing and lights, and for cars to slow down and give cyclists room.
Damage to a residential street. Road cones on the road mark out an uneven area.
Damage to a residential street. Road cones on the road mark out an uneven area.
Damage to a residential street. Road cones on the road mark out an uneven area.
View down Papanui Road. Some road works ahead with a sign that says 'Extreme Care Cyclist Merging'.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 16 November 2012 entitled, "Roads Released".
Shops on Ferry Road, across the road from the demolition site where the Gap Filler Piano Project is.
Looking down a street in Christchurch where there are ongoing road works. Signs on the road say 'works end'.
A photograph of The Brewery on Garlands Road.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 19 May 2012 entitled, "Road Repairs".
View down Armagh Street, a sign on the left says 'Road close ahead' indicating to the cordoned off road in the background.
A video about the discovery of a historic tramline on North Avon Road. The video includes an interview with Brent Leersynder, a site engineer for SCIRT, and Steve Timpson, site foreman for SCIRT. The SCIRT team found the tramline while repairing the damaged wastewater system under North Avon Road in May.
Damaged road in Bexley.
Damage down a residential road.
Houses above Main Road, Sumner.
On the one year anniversary of the February 22nd, flowers were placed in road cones across Christchurch to remember the earthquake victims. These two cone are next to a road sign that says 'Footpath closed. Please use other site'.
Looking down Gloucester Street where ongoing demolition and reconstuction work are continuing. Street signs on the road say 'no road marking' and 'truck crossing'. In the background is a Wilson's carpark, converted from a site where a building has been demolished.
On the one year anniversary of the February 22nd, flowers were placed in road cones across Christchurch to remember the earthquake victims. This cone is next to a road sign that says 'Footpath closed. Please use other site'.
Shops and buildings down Ferry Road.
View down Papanui Road. Some road works ahead with a sign that says 'Extreme Care Cyclist Merging' and 'Footpath closed please use other side'. On the left is a shop operating out of a shipping container in a site where a building has been demolished.
Damage to a property on Springfield Road.
Hawkins Construction site office on Creyke Road.
A video of an interview with Peter Cammock and Cathy Allen about growing up on River Road and their feelings of loss and sadness that it is now part of the residential red zone.
A PDF copy of pages 72-73 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Now Panic and Freak Out'. Photo: Gaby Montejo
A month after the 1st anniversary of the deadly Christchurch earthquake (22/02/11) a road cone lies on New Brighton Road, alongside the Avon River. Part of the earthquake 1st anniversary remembrance was for people to place flowers in road cones (and there are hundreds of thousands in the city). Many had flowers in them, as this one did. Photo ...
Flowers planted in an upside-down road cone embedded in the soil.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Fendalton Road.
Road closure on Gloucester Street due to the demolition of the Brannigans Building.
Road closure on Gloucester Street due to the demolition of the Brannigans Building.