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Shortland Street

131 reports at 63 addresses in Wainoni, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 114 separate days somebody filed something about it.

131 reports63 addresses114 days reported onfrom the air, then106 documents carry the namethe 612th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

76 Shortland Street, 7 reports39A Shortland Street, 6 reports130C Shortland Street, 6 reports96 Shortland Street, 4 reports57 Shortland Street, 4 reports25 Shortland Street, 4 reports13 Shortland Street, 4 reports129 Shortland Street, 4 reports108 Shortland Street, 4 reports8 Shortland Street, 3 reports68 Shortland Street, 3 reports42 Shortland Street, 3 reports39 Shortland Street, 3 reports17 Shortland Street, 3 reports130 Shortland Street, 3 reports123 Shortland Street, 3 reports117 Shortland Street, 3 reports102 Shortland Street, 3 reports80 Shortland Street, 2 reports78A Shortland Street, 2 reports77 Shortland Street, 2 reports71 Shortland Street, 2 reports62 Shortland Street, 2 reports54 Shortland Street, 2 reports31 Shortland Street, 2 reports21 Shortland Street, 2 reports125 Shortland Street, 2 reports124 Shortland Street, 2 reports121 Shortland Street, 2 reports119A Shortland Street, 2 reports116 Shortland Street, 2 reports110 Shortland Street, 2 reports104 Shortland Street, 2 reports103 Shortland Street, 2 reports94 Shortland Street, 1 report90A Shortland Street, 1 report82 Shortland Street, 1 report79 Shortland Street, 1 report73 Shortland Street, 1 report72 Shortland Street, 1 report70 Shortland Street, 1 report69 Shortland Street, 1 report59 Shortland Street, 1 report56 Shortland Street, 1 report55 Shortland Street, 1 report50 Shortland Street, 1 report49 Shortland Street, 1 report39B Shortland Street, 1 report2/69 Shortland Street, 1 report2 Shortland Street, 1 report180 Shortland Street, 1 report174 Shortland Street, 1 report16 Shortland Street, 1 report126 Shortland Street, 1 report125a Shortland Street, 1 report125A Shortland Street, 1 report120 Shortland Street, 1 report120 SHORTLAND street, 1 report118 Shortland Street, 1 report11 Shortland Street, 1 report109 Shortland Street, 1 report107 Shortland Street, 1 report101 Shortland Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Shortland Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shortland Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shortland 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

and the other 3 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 106 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Shortland Street in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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

Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Wainoni wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Shortland Street?

In Wainoni, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Shortland Street?

131 reports at 63 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (42), roads & footpaths (29), graffiti & vandalism (24).

When was Shortland Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 114 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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