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Major Aitken Drive

169 reports at 59 addresses in Huntsbury, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 142 separate days somebody filed something about it.

169 reports59 addresses142 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 475th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Major Aitken Drive, 23 reports29 Major Aitken Drive, 13 reports82 Major Aitken Drive, 10 reports46R Major Aitken Drive, 8 reports31 Major Aitken Drive, 8 reports32 Major Aitken Drive, 6 reports27 Major Aitken Drive, 6 reports99 Major Aitken Drive, 4 reports91 Major Aitken Drive, 4 reports121 Major Aitken Drive, 4 reports64 Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports63 Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports53 Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports42 Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports28E Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports22 Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports21 Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports18 Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports15 Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports117 Major Aitken Drive, 3 reports95 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports87A Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports81 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports74 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports73 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports7 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports68 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports58 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports45E Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports39 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports35 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports30 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports2 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports17 Major Aitken Drive, 2 reports96 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report91–99 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report91E Major Aitken Drive, 1 report9 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report89A Major Aitken Drive, 1 report84 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report83 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report66 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report41 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report40 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report34 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report33 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report28 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report25 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report16 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report13 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report122 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report120 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report108 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report107 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report105R Major Aitken Drive, 1 report105 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report103 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report101–103 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report101 Major Aitken Drive, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Major Aitken Drive, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Huntsbury.

From the air, then

Major Aitken Drive from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Major Aitken Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Major Aitken Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Major Aitken Drive 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 Major Aitken Drive in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Major Aitken Drive?

In Huntsbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Major Aitken Drive?

169 reports at 59 addresses, most often water & drains (58), trees & parks (46), roads & footpaths (25).

When was Major Aitken Drive first reported on?

2015, the record covers 142 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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