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Rapaki Road

139 reports at 46 addresses in Hillsborough, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 124 separate days somebody filed something about it.

139 reports46 addresses124 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 556th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

29 Rapaki Road, 9 reports35 Rapaki Road, 7 reports21 Rapaki Road, 7 reports11 Rapaki Road, 7 reports5 Rapaki Road, 6 reports44 Rapaki Road, 6 reports3A Rapaki Road, 6 reports30 Rapaki Road, 6 reports9 Rapaki Road, 4 reports68 Rapaki Road, 4 reports6 Rapaki Road, 4 reports52 Rapaki Road, 4 reports48 Rapaki Road, 4 reports47 Rapaki Road, 4 reports42 Rapaki Road, 4 reports34 Rapaki Road, 4 reports22 Rapaki Road, 4 reports19 Rapaki Road, 4 reports1 Rapaki Road, 4 reports46 Rapaki Road, 3 reports28 Rapaki Road, 3 reports24 Rapaki Road, 3 reports8 Rapaki Road, 2 reports58 Rapaki Road, 2 reports3 Rapaki Road, 2 reports27 Rapaki Road, 2 reports26–70 Rapaki Road, 2 reports26 Rapaki Road, 2 reports2 Rapaki Road, 2 reports18 Rapaki Road, 2 reports70 Rapaki Road, 1 report56 Rapaki Road, 1 report54 Rapaki Road, 1 report50 Rapaki Road, 1 report43 Rapaki Road, 1 report40 Rapaki Road, 1 report4 Rapaki Road, 1 report39 Rapaki Road, 1 report37 Rapaki Road, 1 report31 Rapaki Road, 1 report25–47 Rapaki Road, 1 report22-18 Rapaki Road, 1 report2-4 Rapaki Road, 1 report13 Rapaki Road, 1 report12 Rapaki Road, 1 report1 RAPAKI ROAD, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Rapaki Road from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Rapaki Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rapaki Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rapaki Road from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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.

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rapaki Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rapaki Road?

In Hillsborough, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rapaki Road?

139 reports at 46 addresses, most often water & drains (52), roads & footpaths (34), vehicles & parking (15).

When was Rapaki Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 124 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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