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Madras Street

497 reports at 134 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 363 separate days somebody filed something about it.

497 reports134 addresses363 days reported onfrom the air, then1,494 documents carry the namethe 102nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Madras Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Madras Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Madras Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Madras 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 74 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. 1,494 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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 open map’s record.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 3 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Madras Street in 35 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Bealey Avenue & Madras Street, 30 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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

Graffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Madras Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Madras Street?

497 reports at 134 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (152), roads & footpaths (112), water & drains (102).

When was Madras Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 363 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Madras Street?

Bealey Avenue and Madras Street, 30 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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