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Sails Street

42 reports at 16 addresses in PAPANUI, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 40 separate days somebody filed something about it.

42 reports16 addresses40 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 1544th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

23 Sails Street, 10 reports43 Sails Street, 5 reports42 Sails Street, 4 reports28 Sails Street, 4 reports16 Sails Street, 4 reports35 Sails Street, 2 reports28A Sails Street, 2 reports25 Sails Street, 2 reports10 Sails Street, 2 reports4 Sails Street, 1 report39 Sails Street, 1 report37 Sails Street, 1 report31 Sails Street, 1 report27 Sails Street, 1 report18 Sails Street, 1 report11 Sails Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

The named ground

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 Sails Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Sails Street?

In PAPANUI, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Sails Street?

42 reports at 16 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (11), graffiti & vandalism (9), water & drains (8).

When was Sails Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 40 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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