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Shortland Street

70 reports at 36 addresses in Aranui, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 61 separate days somebody filed something about it.

70 reports36 addresses61 days reported onfrom the air, then106 documents carry the namethe 1084th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

176 Shortland Street, 8 reports178 Shortland Street, 5 reports174 Shortland Street, 5 reports260 Shortland Street, 4 reports140A Shortland Street, 4 reports179 Shortland Street, 3 reports173 Shortland Street, 3 reports168 Shortland Street, 3 reports258 Shortland Street, 2 reports242 Shortland Street, 2 reports206 Shortland Street, 2 reports185 Shortland Street, 2 reports145 Shortland Street, 2 reports144 Shortland Street, 2 reports132B Shortland Street, 2 reports253 Shortland Street, 1 report251 Shortland Street, 1 report224 Shortland Street, 1 report223 Shortland Street, 1 report220 Shortland Street, 1 report218 Shortland Street, 1 report209 Shortland Street, 1 report208 Shortland Street, 1 report192 Shortland Street, 1 report187 Shortland Street, 1 report186 Shortland Street, 1 report180 Shortland Street, 1 report179-191 Shortland Street, 1 report170 Shortland Street, 1 report164 Shortland Street, 1 report163 Shortland Street, 1 report159 Shortland Street, 1 report155 Shortland Street, 1 report137 Shortland Street, 1 report133-137 Shortland Street, 1 report132A Shortland Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Shortland Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shortland Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shortland 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. 106 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Shortland Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPlayground Equipment, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Aranui wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Shortland Street?

In Aranui, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Shortland Street?

70 reports at 36 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (20), trees & parks (18), graffiti & vandalism (11).

When was Shortland Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 61 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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