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Hands Road

20 reports at 14 addresses in Middleton, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 17 separate days somebody filed something about it.

20 reports14 addresses17 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 2574th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

9 Hands Road, 2 reports7 Hands Road, 2 reports49E Hands Road, 2 reports43 Hands Road, 2 reports37 Hands Road, 2 reports2 Hands Road, 2 reports6 Hands Road, 1 report39 Hands Road, 1 report38 Hands Road, 1 report35-39 Hands Road, 1 report35 Hands Road, 1 report29 Hands Road, 1 report18 Hands Road, 1 report15 Hands Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hands Road in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Damaged Road, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Middleton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hands Road?

In Middleton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hands Road?

20 reports at 14 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (7), water & drains (5), roads & footpaths (4).

When was Hands Road first reported on?

2018, the record covers 17 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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