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Wainui street

678 reports at 91 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 470 separate days somebody filed something about it.

678 reports91 addresses470 days reported onfrom the air, then36 documents carry the namethe 56th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

31 Wainui Street, 69 reports49 Wainui Street, 43 reports45A Wainui Street, 41 reports70 Wainui Street, 28 reports91 Wainui Street, 25 reports46 Wainui Street, 24 reports45 Wainui Street, 20 reports38 Wainui Street, 20 reports89 Wainui Street, 18 reports51 Wainui Street, 17 reports102 Wainui Street, 17 reports39 Wainui Street, 15 reports47 Wainui Street, 14 reports43 Wainui Street, 14 reports72 Wainui Street, 12 reports42 Wainui Street, 12 reports100A Wainui Street, 12 reports91A Wainui Street, 9 reports73 Wainui Street, 9 reports70A Wainui Street, 9 reports44 Wainui Street, 9 reports37A Wainui Street, 9 reports92 Wainui Street, 8 reports78 Wainui Street, 8 reports35 Wainui Street, 8 reports28 Wainui Street, 8 reports95 Wainui Street, 7 reports91B Wainui Street, 7 reports85 Wainui Street, 7 reports83A Wainui Street, 7 reports41 Wainui Street, 7 reports100B Wainui Street, 7 reports94A Wainui Street, 6 reports64 Wainui Street, 6 reports54 Wainui Street, 6 reports96 Wainui Street, 5 reports67 Wainui Street, 5 reports59 Wainui Street, 5 reports50 Wainui Street, 5 reports33 Wainui Street, 5 reports99 Wainui Street, 4 reports93 Wainui Street, 4 reports89A Wainui Street, 4 reports87A Wainui Street, 4 reports67A Wainui Street, 4 reports63A Wainui Street, 4 reports62 Wainui Street, 4 reports56 Wainui Street, 4 reports55 Wainui Street, 4 reports53B Wainui Street, 4 reports53 Wainui Street, 4 reports101 Wainui Street, 4 reports84A Wainui Street, 3 reports75 Wainui Street, 3 reports68 Wainui Street, 3 reports60 Wainui Street, 3 reports58 Wainui Street, 3 reports53A Wainui Street, 3 reports48 Wainui Street, 3 reports37 Wainui Street, 3 reports32 Wainui Street, 3 reports109 Wainui Street, 3 reports104 Wainui Street, 3 reports94 Wainui Street, 2 reports80 Wainui Street, 2 reports63B Wainui Street, 2 reports57 Wainui Street, 2 reports37B Wainui Street, 2 reports36 Wainui Street, 2 reports97 Wainui Street, 1 report93-95 Wainui Street, 1 report90 Wainui Street, 1 report89-99 Wainui Street, 1 report88 Wainui Street, 1 report87 Wainui Street, 1 report83 Wainui Street, 1 report82C Wainui Street, 1 report81A Wainui Street, 1 report81 Wainui Street, 1 report76 Wainui Street, 1 report71 Wainui Street, 1 report67a Wainui street, 1 report66 Wainui Street, 1 report65 Wainui Street, 1 report61A Wainui Street, 1 report61 Wainui Street, 1 report40 Wainui Street, 1 report37c Wainui Street, 1 report34 Wainui Street, 1 report103 Wainui Street, 1 report100 Wainui Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wainui street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wainui street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wainui 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

and the other 31 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 36 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wainui street in 22 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.

As it was reported

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on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wainui street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wainui street?

678 reports at 91 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (510), water & drains (55), roads & footpaths (52).

When was Wainui street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 470 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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