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Roker Street

5 reports at 2 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2024, the latest 2025. 5 separate days somebody filed something about it.

5 reports2 addresses5 days reported onfrom the air, then8 documents carry the namethe 4188th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

133 Roker Street, 4 reports128 Roker Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Roker Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Roker Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Roker 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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Roker Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Roker Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Roker Street?

5 reports at 2 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (2), graffiti & vandalism (2), water & drains (1).

When was Roker Street first reported on?

2024, the record covers 5 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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