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Bunyan Street

116 reports at 22 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 95 separate days somebody filed something about it.

116 reports22 addresses95 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 735th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

5 Bunyan Street, 14 reports11 Bunyan Street, 14 reports7 Bunyan Street, 12 reports43 Bunyan Street, 12 reports32 Bunyan Street, 11 reports17 Bunyan Street, 9 reports19 Bunyan Street, 8 reports9 Bunyan Street, 5 reports15 Bunyan Street, 5 reports10 Bunyan Street, 5 reports28 Bunyan Street, 4 reports24 Bunyan Street, 4 reports23 Bunyan Street, 3 reports30 Bunyan Street, 2 reports41 Bunyan Street, 1 report39 Bunyan Street, 1 report31 Bunyan Street, 1 report26 Bunyan Street, 1 report25 Bunyan Street, 1 report21 Bunyan Street, 1 report13 Bunyan Street, 1 report10e Bunyan Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bunyan Street?

116 reports at 22 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (69), roads & footpaths (18), trees & parks (11).

When was Bunyan Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 95 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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