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Balgay Street

154 reports at 40 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 106 separate days somebody filed something about it.

154 reports40 addresses106 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 666th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

51 Balgay Street, 19 reports49 Balgay Street, 14 reports11 Balgay Street, 10 reports46 Balgay Street, 8 reports45 Balgay Street, 7 reports43 Balgay Street, 7 reports32 Balgay Street, 7 reports44 Balgay Street, 6 reports8 Balgay Street, 5 reports2E Balgay Street, 5 reports14 Balgay Street, 5 reports9 Balgay Street, 4 reports40 Balgay Street, 4 reports39 Balgay Street, 4 reports35 Balgay Street, 4 reports18 Balgay Street, 4 reports7 Balgay Street, 3 reports48 Balgay Street, 3 reports34 Balgay Street, 3 reports31 Balgay Street, 3 reports16 Balgay Street, 3 reports42 Balgay Street, 2 reports37 Balgay Street, 2 reports25 Balgay Street, 2 reports23 Balgay Street, 2 reports22 Balgay Street, 2 reports2 Balgay Street, 2 reports13 Balgay Street, 2 reports47 Balgay Street, 1 report41 Balgay Street, 1 report38 Balgay Street, 1 report36 Balgay Street, 1 report3 Balgay Street, 1 report2–8 Balgay Street, 1 report29 Balgay Street, 1 report28 Balgay Street, 1 report24 Balgay Street, 1 report20 Balgay Street, 1 report19 Balgay Street, 1 report17 Balgay Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Balgay Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Balgay Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Balgay 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 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 Balgay Street in 21 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Balgay Street?

In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Balgay Street?

154 reports at 40 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (125), roads & footpaths (9), graffiti & vandalism (8).

When was Balgay Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 106 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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