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Washington Way

180 reports at 18 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 116 separate days somebody filed something about it.

180 reports18 addresses116 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the name14 businessesthe 602nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Washington Way, 52 reports1E Washington Way, 26 reports18 Washington Way, 16 reports3 Washington Way, 13 reports14 Washington Way, 13 reports9 Washington Way, 12 reports6 Washington Way, 8 reports17 Washington Way, 8 reports5 Washington Way, 7 reports10 Washington Way, 6 reports4 Washington Way, 5 reports15 Washington Way, 5 reports2 Washington Way, 3 reports10–12 Washington Way, 2 reports6b Washington Way, 1 report2-6 Washington Way, 1 report14–16 Washington Way, 1 report11 Washington Way, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Washington Way from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Washington Way from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Washington Way from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Washington Way 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 businesses on it, 14

Premises whose address in the directory is Washington Way, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 2 more whose address names it.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Washington Way in 4 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

Street Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoLitter, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Washington Way?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Washington Way?

180 reports at 18 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (115), roads & footpaths (22), rubbish & dumping (20).

When was Washington Way first reported on?

2016, the record covers 116 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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