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Buchanans Road

7 reports at 5 addresses in Templeton, the first in 2019, the latest 2025. 6 separate days somebody filed something about it.

7 reports5 addresses6 days reported onfrom the air, then10 documents carry the namethe 3975th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

581 Buchanans Road, 2 reports566 Buchanans Road, 2 reports622 Buchanans Road, 1 report573 Buchanans Road, 1 report519–543 Buchanans Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Buchanans Road in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 4 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Buchanans Road & State Highway 1S, 47 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Buchanans Road?

In Templeton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Buchanans Road?

7 reports at 5 addresses, most often trees & parks (4), rubbish & dumping (2), animals & pests (1).

When was Buchanans Road first reported on?

2019, the record covers 6 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

What is the busiest corner on Buchanans Road?

Buchanans Road and State Highway 1S, 47 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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