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Weka Street

48 reports at 33 addresses in Fendalton, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 46 separate days somebody filed something about it.

48 reports33 addresses46 days reported onfrom the air, then33 documents carry the namethe 1367th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

31 Weka Street, 4 reports57 Weka Street, 3 reports33 Weka Street, 3 reports8 Weka Street, 2 reports54 Weka Street, 2 reports53 Weka Street, 2 reports52 Weka Street, 2 reports51 Weka Street, 2 reports49A Weka Street, 2 reports2 Weka Street, 2 reports18 Weka Street, 2 reports56 Weka Street, 1 report55A Weka Street, 1 report4a Weka Street, 1 report49 Weka Street, 1 report47 Weka Street, 1 report45 Weka Street, 1 report44 Weka Street, 1 report43A Weka Street, 1 report40 Weka Street, 1 report39 Weka Street, 1 report38 Weka Street, 1 report37 Weka Street, 1 report36 Weka Street, 1 report35 Weka Street, 1 report3 Weka Street, 1 report29 Weka Street, 1 report26 Weka Street, 1 report21 Weka Street, 1 report16 Weka Street, 1 report11A Weka Street, 1 report11 Weka Street, 1 report10 Weka Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Weka Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Weka Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Weka 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. 33 on the shelf; the 12 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Waimairi Stream stream · 4 m away Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 112 m away Fendalton Park footbridge · 121 m away unnamed jetty · 131 m away unnamed jetty · 141 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Weka Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 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

Water General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoPothole, a report photoTraffic Signals, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Fendalton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Weka Street?

In Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Weka Street?

48 reports at 33 addresses, most often water & drains (22), roads & footpaths (8), graffiti & vandalism (7).

When was Weka Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 46 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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