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Wairoa Street

38 reports at 11 addresses in Bexley, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 34 separate days somebody filed something about it.

38 reports11 addresses34 days reported onfrom the air, then27 documents carry the namethe 1703rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

14 Wairoa Street, 22 reports29 Wairoa Street, 3 reports31 Wairoa Street, 2 reports28 Wairoa Street, 2 reports26 Wairoa Street, 2 reports16 Wairoa Street, 2 reports51 Wairoa Street, 1 report49E Wairoa Street, 1 report49 Wairoa Street, 1 report34A Wairoa Street, 1 report101 Wairoa Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wairoa Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Wairoa Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wairoa Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wairoa Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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. 27 on the shelf; the 5 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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 29 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wairoa Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

General Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Bexley wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wairoa Street?

In Bexley, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wairoa Street?

38 reports at 11 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (17), graffiti & vandalism (12), water & drains (4).

When was Wairoa Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 34 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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