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Wairakei Road

115 reports at 26 addresses in Strowan, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 97 separate days somebody filed something about it.

115 reports26 addresses97 days reported onfrom the air, then19 documents carry the namethe 723rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

6 Wairakei Road, 50 reports17 Wairakei Road, 9 reports30A Wairakei Road, 6 reports46 Wairakei Road, 5 reports44 Wairakei Road, 5 reports14 Wairakei Road, 5 reports3 Wairakei Road, 4 reports50 Wairakei Road, 3 reports36 Wairakei Road, 3 reports30 Wairakei Road, 3 reports23 Wairakei Road, 3 reports8 Wairakei Road, 2 reports1A Wairakei Road, 2 reports19 Wairakei Road, 2 reports1 Wairakei Road, 2 reports9 Wairakei Road, 1 report7 Wairakei Road, 1 report6–8 Wairakei Road, 1 report40 Wairakei Road, 1 report32 Wairakei Road, 1 report31 Wairakei Road, 1 report23-35 Wairakei Road, 1 report21B Wairakei Road, 1 report15 Wairakei Road, 1 report12 Wairakei Road, 1 report10 Wairakei Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wairakei Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wairakei Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wairakei 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. 19 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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wairakei Road in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Greers Road & Wairakei Road, 81 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wairakei Road?

In Strowan, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wairakei Road?

115 reports at 26 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (47), water & drains (31), roads & footpaths (21).

When was Wairakei Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 97 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Wairakei Road?

Greers Road and Wairakei Road, 81 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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