21.02.13. Red zone, Atlantis St / Travis Rd
21.02.13. Red zone, quake trashed church, Atlantis St / Travis Rd
Since then QE11 athletics stadium was gone, demolished by CERA's Mainzeal contractor, also gone, receivership.
21.02.13. As a second anniversary tribute to the 22.02.11 Killer Quake, I looked again at Atlantis St & Chimera Cres, apt names for the quake which caused so much damage & grief to Christchurch & surrounds.
21.02.13. Red zone, quake trashed house, Atlantis St
21.02.13. Red zone, quake trashed house, Atlantis St
Atlantis St: I parked my car by the ghost church fronting Travis Rd. The church asphalt carpark was quake buckled with heaps of dry liquefaction sand around the church.
I trekked down Atlantis St past a couple of house demolition sites. Most liquefaction mud was gone, dumped elsewhere, just a few heaps of dry sand on pavements & in gardens. Chimera Cres the same. Pre quakes, all houses in Atlantis St & Chimera Cres residential red zone were new.
21.02.13. Red zone, weedy, quake trashed house, Atlantis St
Less people were noticeable since I'd last trekked. Most houses on Atlantis St & Chimera Cres were ghosts with overgrown gardens. Council & CERA kept up appearances by mowing verges, some gardens & a park. Driveways were impossible to mow, so weeds grew rank in driveway cracks & in some gardens up to window height. Garages doors told the quake tale: tilted, sunken, misaligned, tall weeds in front.
21.02.13. Red zone, quake trashed housing, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Sucker truck, red zone, Chimera Cres
Chimera Cres: An orange, Hi-Vis vested workman operated his WASTE AWAY sucker truck, sucking sewage from a road manhole. Evidenced by parked cars, a couple of houses were still inhabited in Chimera Cres, most houses ghosts.
21.02.13. Red zone, weedy quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, liquefactioned driveway, quake trashed housing, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, house demolition site, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, weedy, quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, liquefaction sand by quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, quake split fence, tagging by quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
Three 2 storey, ghost houses overlooked the waterway & a deserted children's playground. The 3 ghost houses were already tagged & gutted, prepared for demolition by workmen. Luxuriant flax indicated underground water & liquefaction prone land.
21.02.13. Red zone, 3 quake trashed, 2 storey houses near a waterway, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, liquefactioned playground, quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, weedy, quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Red zone, house demolition sites, quake trashed housing, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, weedy, quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
Most Chimera Cres ghost houses were liquefaction tilted or sunk in liquefaction mud, showing the stupidity of building housing on liquefaction prone land near a waterway.
21.02.13. Red zone, weedy, quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
Latimer Sq: A tree planting, memorial service was held for King's Education families who'd lost loved ones in the collapsed CTV bldg, 22.02.11 Killer Quake. 115 died in the CTV collapse, including 80 students & staff of King's Education language school. (One News).
The tree grew on the NW cnr of Latimer Sq, a bronze plaque below:
In memory of the
9 staff & 71 students
of King's Education
who lost their lives in
the earthquake on the
22nd of February 2011
2023. Despite the Royal Commission of Inquiry, Coroner's Report & NZ Police Investigation, no one was held accountable for the CTV collapse. Justice not served!
21.02.13. Red zone, mowed parkland near waterway, Chimera Cres. Grass already grown over liquefaction mud
21.02.13. Red zone, waterway between Chimera Cres & Anzac Dr. Port Hills beyond
21.02.13. Red zone, quake trashed concrete & iron drain, Chimera Cres
21.02.13. Red zone, weedy, quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
21.02.13 Red zone, quake trashed housing, Chimera Cres. Port Hills beyond
21.02.13. Red zone, weedy, quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
CERA boss Sutton announced another CERA delay in reviewing its Port Hills residential red zoning: review delays from Xmas, then end of February, then manana. CERA delayed, then made pathetic excuses for delays. (The Press). Current court case: a couple questioned their insurer claiming their red zone house was repairable, instead of more expensively replaceable. CERA's delays pended the court ruling, a precedent. The insurer's case was farcical, as it was pointless repairing a red zone house where CERA / NZ National govt forced red zoners to abandon red zone land & housing.
21.02.13. Red zone, quake trashed house, Chimera Cres
By 2015 most Atlantis St & Chimera Cres, ghost housing was demolished by CERA. The land reverted to swampland, bogged with reeds & mud holes.
*Trekked Atlantis St, Chimera Cres. 86 images.
Coda:
2023. Volunteer groups rewilded Atlantis St & Chimera Cres vicinity with native plantings.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
See Land zoning review delayed again (The Press / Stuff Co).
See Red zoning just doesn't make sense (The Press / Stuff Co).
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