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Wairakei Road

17 reports at 10 addresses in Christchurch Airport, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 15 separate days somebody filed something about it.

17 reports10 addresses15 days reported onfrom the air, then19 documents carry the namethe 2702nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

801 Wairakei Road, 3 reports799 Wairakei Road, 3 reports850 Wairakei Road, 2 reports846 Wairakei Road, 2 reports824 Wairakei Road, 2 reports851 Wairakei Road, 1 report838 Wairakei Road, 1 report828 Wairakei Road, 1 report818 Wairakei Road, 1 report795 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 Christchurch Airport.

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

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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wairakei Road in 22 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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 Christchurch Airport, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wairakei Road?

17 reports at 10 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (11), vehicles & parking (3), rubbish & dumping (1).

When was Wairakei Road first reported on?

2015, the record covers 15 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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