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Akaroa Street

49 reports at 24 addresses in Mairehau, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 46 separate days somebody filed something about it.

49 reports24 addresses46 days reported onfrom the air, then26 documents carry the namethe 1371st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

15 Akaroa Street, 7 reports21 Akaroa Street, 6 reports22 Akaroa Street, 3 reports19 Akaroa Street, 3 reports8 Akaroa Street, 2 reports40 Akaroa Street, 2 reports37 Akaroa Street, 2 reports36 Akaroa Street, 2 reports34 Akaroa Street, 2 reports32 Akaroa Street, 2 reports26 Akaroa Street, 2 reports18-14 Akaroa Street, 2 reports17 Akaroa Street, 2 reports14 Akaroa Street, 2 reports45 Akaroa Street, 1 report43 Akaroa Street, 1 report4 Akaroa Street, 1 report33 Akaroa Street, 1 report29 Akaroa Street, 1 report28 Akaroa Street, 1 report27 Akaroa Street, 1 report24 Akaroa Street, 1 report16 Akaroa Street, 1 report10 Akaroa Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Akaroa Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Akaroa Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Akaroa Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Akaroa 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. 26 on the shelf; the 5 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 open map’s record.

Dudley Creek stream · 55 m away Shirley Stream stream · 132 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Akaroa Street in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

General Request, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Mairehau wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Akaroa Street?

In Mairehau, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Akaroa Street?

49 reports at 24 addresses, most often water & drains (22), graffiti & vandalism (12), rubbish & dumping (7).

When was Akaroa Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 46 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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