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Shirley Road

185 reports at 29 addresses in Mairehau, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 147 separate days somebody filed something about it.

185 reports29 addresses147 days reported onfrom the air, then85 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 447th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

10 Shirley Road, 34 reports11 Shirley Road, 28 reports4 Shirley Road, 21 reports7 Shirley Road, 12 reports1 Shirley Road, 11 reports9 Shirley Road, 8 reports3 Shirley Road, 8 reports13 Shirley Road, 8 reports8 Shirley Road, 7 reports5 Shirley Road, 6 reports7A Shirley Road, 5 reports18 Shirley Road, 4 reports17 Shirley Road, 4 reports20 Shirley Road, 3 reports19 Shirley Road, 3 reports16 Shirley Road, 3 reports12B Shirley Road, 3 reports3-5 Shirley Road, 2 reports22 Shirley Road, 2 reports21 Shirley Road, 2 reports15 Shirley Road, 2 reports12-14 Shirley Road, 2 reports6 Shirley Road, 1 report4-8 Shirley Road, 1 report25 Shirley Road, 1 report23 Shirley Road, 1 report13A Shirley Road, 1 report12 Shirley Road, 1 report11-15 Shirley Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Shirley Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shirley Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shirley 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. 85 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Shirley Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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 Shirley Road in 25 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 6 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Marshland Road & Shirley Road, 64 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Shirley Road?

In Mairehau, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Shirley Road?

185 reports at 29 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (99), water & drains (35), trees & parks (23).

When was Shirley Road first reported on?

2015, the record covers 147 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Shirley Road?

Marshland Road and Shirley Road, 64 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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