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Shirley Road

279 reports at 55 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 166 separate days somebody filed something about it.

279 reports55 addresses166 days reported onfrom the air, then85 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 384th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

60 Shirley Road, 29 reports77 Shirley Road, 16 reports36 Shirley Road, 16 reports55 Shirley Road, 14 reports38 Shirley Road, 13 reports45 Shirley Road, 11 reports48 Shirley Road, 10 reports31 Shirley Road, 10 reports24 Shirley Road, 10 reports22 Shirley Road, 10 reports57 Shirley Road, 8 reports46 Shirley Road, 8 reports52 Shirley Road, 7 reports45A Shirley Road, 7 reports37 Shirley Road, 7 reports35 Shirley Road, 6 reports73 Shirley Road, 5 reports56 Shirley Road, 5 reports30 Shirley Road, 5 reports69 Shirley Road, 4 reports65 Shirley Road, 4 reports61 Shirley Road, 4 reports44 Shirley Road, 4 reports43 Shirley Road, 4 reports27 Shirley Road, 4 reports75 Shirley Road, 3 reports71A Shirley Road, 3 reports71 Shirley Road, 3 reports51 Shirley Road, 3 reports49 Shirley Road, 3 reports42A Shirley Road, 3 reports35A Shirley Road, 3 reports28 Shirley Road, 3 reports27/31 Shirley Road, 3 reports26 Shirley Road, 3 reports63 Shirley Road, 2 reports59 Shirley Road, 2 reports58-48 Shirley Road, 2 reports49-51 Shirley Road, 2 reports47B Shirley Road, 2 reports47A Shirley Road, 2 reports47 Shirley Road, 2 reports25 Shirley Road, 2 reports58 Shirley Road, 1 report54 Shirley Road, 1 report43-51 Shirley Road, 1 report40 Shirley Road, 1 report39 Shirley Road, 1 report34 Shirley Road, 1 report33 Shirley Road, 1 report32 Shirley Road, 1 report31-37 Shirley Road, 1 report29 Shirley Road, 1 report27A Shirley Road, 1 report25A 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 Shirley.

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 →

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The businesses on it, 1

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 open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Shirley Road in 44 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 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 Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Shirley Road?

279 reports at 55 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (165), water & drains (55), roads & footpaths (31).

When was Shirley Road first reported on?

2015, the record covers 166 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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