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Voelas Road

64 reports at 31 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 62 separate days somebody filed something about it.

64 reports31 addresses62 days reported onfrom the air, then34 documents carry the namethe 1076th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

13 Voelas Road, 7 reports41D Voelas Road, 5 reports29 Voelas Road, 5 reports52 Voelas Road, 4 reports50 Voelas Road, 3 reports41A Voelas Road, 3 reports3 Voelas Road, 3 reports8 Voelas Road, 2 reports5 Voelas Road, 2 reports41B Voelas Road, 2 reports4 Voelas Road, 2 reports35 Voelas Road, 2 reports33 Voelas Road, 2 reports31 Voelas Road, 2 reports24B Voelas Road, 2 reports23 Voelas Road, 2 reports17 Voelas Road, 2 reports7 Voelas Road, 1 report54 Voelas Road, 1 report4–8 Voelas Road, 1 report49 Voelas Road, 1 report44 Voelas Road, 1 report42 Voelas Road, 1 report38 Voelas Road, 1 report32 Voelas Road, 1 report3-7 Voelas Road, 1 report25 Voelas Road, 1 report24A Voelas Road, 1 report20 Voelas Road, 1 report19 Voelas Road, 1 report15 Voelas Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Voelas Road from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Voelas Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · 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. 34 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 Voelas Road in 8 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Voelas Road?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Voelas Road?

64 reports at 31 addresses, most often water & drains (21), graffiti & vandalism (11), vehicles & parking (7).

When was Voelas Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 62 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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