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Wairakei Road

279 reports at 111 addresses in Burnside, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 242 separate days somebody filed something about it.

279 reports111 addresses242 days reported onfrom the air, then19 documents carry the name22 businessesthe 232nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

536 Wairakei Road, 24 reports656 Wairakei Road, 22 reports490 Wairakei Road, 13 reports442 Wairakei Road, 11 reports319 Wairakei Road, 8 reports379 Wairakei Road, 7 reports330 Wairakei Road, 7 reports585E Wairakei Road, 6 reports567 Wairakei Road, 5 reports515 Wairakei Road, 5 reports585 Wairakei Road, 4 reports568 Wairakei Road, 4 reports538 Wairakei Road, 4 reports535 Wairakei Road, 4 reports498 Wairakei Road, 4 reports482 Wairakei Road, 4 reports390 Wairakei Road, 4 reports328 Wairakei Road, 4 reports1/502 Wairakei Road, 4 reports750A Wairakei Road, 3 reports511 Wairakei Road, 3 reports501 Wairakei Road, 3 reports483 Wairakei Road, 3 reports477 Wairakei Road, 3 reports422 Wairakei Road, 3 reports393 Wairakei Road, 3 reports377 Wairakei Road, 3 reports368 Wairakei Road, 3 reports584 Wairakei Road, 2 reports531 Wairakei Road, 2 reports530 Wairakei Road, 2 reports520 Wairakei Road, 2 reports518 Wairakei Road, 2 reports504 Wairakei Road, 2 reports502A Wairakei Road, 2 reports500a Wairakei Road, 2 reports494 Wairakei Road, 2 reports479A Wairakei Road, 2 reports479 Wairakei Road, 2 reports477A Wairakei Road, 2 reports476 Wairakei Road, 2 reports462 Wairakei Road, 2 reports454 Wairakei Road, 2 reports450 Wairakei Road, 2 reports430 Wairakei Road, 2 reports417E Wairakei Road, 2 reports405 Wairakei Road, 2 reports391 Wairakei Road, 2 reports384 Wairakei Road, 2 reports355 Wairakei Road, 2 reports338 Wairakei Road, 2 reports333 Wairakei Road, 2 reports332 Wairakei Road, 2 reports731 Wairakei Road, 1 report708 Wairakei Road, 1 report584-578 Wairakei Road, 1 report582 Wairakei Road, 1 report581 Wairakei Road, 1 report574 Wairakei Road, 1 report569 Wairakei Road, 1 report559 Wairakei Road, 1 report542 Wairakei Road, 1 report529 Wairakei Road, 1 report526 Wairakei Road, 1 report519 Wairakei Road, 1 report515E Wairakei Road, 1 report514 Wairakei Road, 1 report513 Wairakei Road, 1 report508 Wairakei Road, 1 report500A Wairakei Road, 1 report500 Wairakei Road, 1 report499 Wairakei Road, 1 report496 Wairakei Road, 1 report491-499 Wairakei Road, 1 report480-470 Wairakei Road, 1 report480 Wairakei Road, 1 report475 Wairakei Road, 1 report470 Wairakei Road, 1 report468 Wairakei Road, 1 report466 Wairakei Road, 1 report465 Wairakei Road, 1 report456 Wairakei Road, 1 report452 Wairakei Road, 1 report449 Wairakei Road, 1 report448 Wairakei Road, 1 report438 Wairakei Road, 1 report434 Wairakei Road, 1 report423 Wairakei Road, 1 report419 Wairakei Road, 1 report412 Wairakei Road, 1 report399 Wairakei Road, 1 report397 Wairakei Road, 1 report396 Wairakei Road, 1 report394 Wairakei Road, 1 report392 Wairakei Road, 1 report388 Wairakei Road, 1 report381 Wairakei Road, 1 report376 Wairakei Road, 1 report375 Wairakei Road, 1 report366A Wairakei Road, 1 report363 Wairakei Road, 1 report362 Wairakei Road, 1 report361 Wairakei Road, 1 report359 Wairakei Road, 1 report355A Wairakei Road, 1 report352 Wairakei Road, 1 report350 Wairakei Road, 1 report347 Wairakei Road, 1 report343 Wairakei Road, 1 report342 Wairakei Road, 1 report338B Wairakei Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wairakei Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wairakei Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wairakei Road 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

and the other 51 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 19 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 22

Premises whose address in the directory is Wairakei Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 10 more whose address names it.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wairakei Road in 89 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 25 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Greers Road & Wairakei Road, 81 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wairakei Road?

In Burnside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wairakei Road?

279 reports at 111 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (69), rubbish & dumping (55), graffiti & vandalism (55).

When was Wairakei Road first reported on?

2015, the record covers 242 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Wairakei Road?

Greers Road and Wairakei Road, 81 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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