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Queen Elizabeth II Drive

150 reports at 17 addresses in Mairehau, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 135 separate days somebody filed something about it.

150 reports17 addresses135 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 512th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

180 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 58 reports224R Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 23 reports310 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 17 reports218 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 15 reports163 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 11 reports301 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 8 reports192–208 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 6 reports320L Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 2 reports295R Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 2 reports356L Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 1 report286 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 1 report281 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 1 report279 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 1 report241 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 1 report236-248 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 1 report236 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 1 report183 Queen Elizabeth II Drive, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Queen Elizabeth II Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Queen Elizabeth II Drive from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Queen Elizabeth II Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Queen Elizabeth II Drive 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 Queen Elizabeth II Drive in 13 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 Queen Elizabeth II Drive?

In Mairehau, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Queen Elizabeth II Drive?

150 reports at 17 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (37), graffiti & vandalism (36), trees & parks (30).

When was Queen Elizabeth II Drive first reported on?

2015, the record covers 135 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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