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Walker Street

98 reports at 27 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 64 separate days somebody filed something about it.

98 reports27 addresses64 days reported onfrom the air, then292 documents carry the name4 businessesthe 1044th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

36 Walker Street, 11 reports40 Walker Street, 10 reports27 Walker Street, 9 reports22 Walker Street, 9 reports26 Walker Street, 8 reports2 Walker Street, 8 reports10 Walker Street, 7 reports4 Walker Street, 4 reports9 Walker Street, 3 reports35 Walker Street, 3 reports31 Walker Street, 3 reports15 Walker Street, 3 reports7E Walker Street, 2 reports41 Walker Street, 2 reports24 Walker Street, 2 reports15-19 Walker Street, 2 reports14 Walker Street, 2 reports84–98 Walker Street, 1 report7 Walker Street, 1 report39 Walker Street, 1 report30 Walker Street, 1 report29 Walker Street, 1 report21 Walker Street, 1 report16 Walker Street, 1 report12 Walker Street, 1 report11–29 Walker Street, 1 report11 Walker Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Walker Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Walker Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Walker Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Walker 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. 292 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Walker Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin, the open map’s record.

Rhododendron Island island · 325 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Walker Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Walker Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Walker Street?

98 reports at 27 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (69), vehicles & parking (11), roads & footpaths (8).

When was Walker Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 64 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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