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Christchurch one year on

One year after the earthquake that killed 185 people, Rebecca Macfie surveys the city she loves, lives in and grieves for.

By Rebecca Macfie In Current Affairs

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25th February, 2012
In Aranui’s Meon St, a solitary worker in a road sweeper is cleaning dried silt out of the gutter, causing it to rise in a cloud and resettle elsewhere on the street, or drift through the open windows of nearby homes. It seems a futile, go-nowhere endeavour. In this quarter of the city at least, it’s a reasonable motif for the state of Christ­church’s recovery one year on from the deadly February 22 earthquake. Here, and everywhere else in the east and south, the roads remain in Third World condition. Workers labour in little high-vis clusters to fill cracks and potholes, but it’s ...

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