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Wairakei Road

13 reports at 7 addresses in Harewood, the first in 2018, the latest 2025. 11 separate days somebody filed something about it.

13 reports7 addresses11 days reported onfrom the air, then19 documents carry the namethe 3110th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

518 Wairakei Road, 6 reports524 Wairakei Road, 2 reports558 Wairakei Road, 1 report536 Wairakei Road, 1 report524A Wairakei Road, 1 report522 Wairakei Road, 1 report520 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 Harewood.

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 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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 Harewood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wairakei Road?

13 reports at 7 addresses, most often trees & parks (8), water & drains (2), rubbish & dumping (2).

When was Wairakei Road first reported on?

2018, the record covers 11 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

What is the busiest corner on Wairakei Road?

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

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