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Macaulay Street

147 reports at 50 addresses in Addington, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 126 separate days somebody filed something about it.

147 reports50 addresses126 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 546th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

33 Macaulay Street, 16 reports12 Macaulay Street, 10 reports6 Macaulay Street, 8 reports36E Macaulay Street, 8 reports30 Macaulay Street, 6 reports13 Macaulay Street, 6 reports10 Macaulay Street, 6 reports42 Macaulay Street, 5 reports36 Macaulay Street, 5 reports29 Macaulay Street, 4 reports26A Macaulay Street, 4 reports23A Macaulay Street, 4 reports19 Macaulay Street, 4 reports24 Macaulay Street, 3 reports22 Macaulay Street, 3 reports19 MacAulay Street, 3 reports14 Macaulay Street, 3 reports13A Macaulay Street, 3 reports6 MacAulay Street, 2 reports42B Macaulay Street, 2 reports42A Macaulay Street, 2 reports37 Macaulay Street, 2 reports36 MacAulay Street, 2 reports3 Macaulay Street, 2 reports26A MacAulay Street, 2 reports26 MacAulay Street, 2 reports23 Macaulay Street, 2 reports21A Macaulay Street, 2 reports21 Macaulay Street, 2 reports20 Macaulay Street, 2 reports12 MacAulay Street, 2 reports11 MacAulay Street, 2 reports7 Macaulay Street, 1 report42C Macaulay Street, 1 report38 Macaulay Street, 1 report37 MacAulay Street, 1 report36A Macaulay Street, 1 report33 MacAulay Street, 1 report30 MacAulay Street, 1 report29 MacAulay Street, 1 report26 Macaulay Street, 1 report25 Macaulay Street, 1 report24A Macaulay Street, 1 report23E MacAulay Street, 1 report23B Macaulay Street, 1 report16 Macaulay Street, 1 report15 MacAulay Street, 1 report14 MacAulay Street, 1 report13B Macaulay Street, 1 report13B MacAulay Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Macaulay Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Macaulay Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Macaulay 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. 14 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 18 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Macaulay Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Macaulay Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Macaulay Street?

147 reports at 50 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (58), roads & footpaths (32), graffiti & vandalism (20).

When was Macaulay Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 126 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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