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Mahars Road

72 reports at 32 addresses in Mairehau, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 64 separate days somebody filed something about it.

72 reports32 addresses64 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 1050th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

16 Mahars Road, 12 reports11 Mahars Road, 7 reports70 Mahars Road, 5 reports48A Mahars Road, 4 reports43 Mahars Road, 4 reports32 Mahars Road, 4 reports66 Mahars Road, 3 reports17 Mahars Road, 3 reports80 Mahars Road, 2 reports77 Mahars Road, 2 reports60 Mahars Road, 2 reports57 Mahars Road, 2 reports56 Mahars Road, 2 reports21 Mahars Road, 2 reports98 Mahars Road, 1 report9 Mahars Road, 1 report78 Mahars Road, 1 report74 Mahars Road, 1 report73 Mahars Road, 1 report71a Mahars Road, 1 report71A Mahars Road, 1 report69 Mahars Road, 1 report67 Mahars Road, 1 report56B Mahars Road, 1 report44 Mahars Road, 1 report42 Mahars Road, 1 report38 Mahars Road, 1 report36 Mahars Road, 1 report3 Mahars Road, 1 report18B Mahars Road, 1 report18 Mahars Road, 1 report15 Mahars Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Mahars Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mahars Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mahars Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mahars 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.

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 Mahars Road in 23 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Innes Road & Mahars Road, 38 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Mahars Road?

In Mairehau, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Mahars Road?

72 reports at 32 addresses, most often water & drains (18), roads & footpaths (17), graffiti & vandalism (15).

When was Mahars Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 64 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Mahars Road?

Innes Road and Mahars Road, 38 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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