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Mackenzie Avenue

56 reports at 8 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 49 separate days somebody filed something about it.

56 reports8 addresses49 days reported onfrom the air, then6 documents carry the namethe 1324th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 MacKenzie Avenue, 23 reports1/7 MacKenzie Avenue, 14 reports9 MacKenzie Avenue, 7 reports6 MacKenzie Avenue, 6 reports6 Mackenzie Avenue, 3 reports9 Mackenzie Avenue, 1 report12 Mackenzie Avenue, 1 report10 MacKenzie Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Mackenzie Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mackenzie Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mackenzie Avenue 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 Mackenzie Avenue in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Mackenzie Avenue?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Mackenzie Avenue?

56 reports at 8 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (31), graffiti & vandalism (19), trees & parks (3).

When was Mackenzie Avenue first reported on?

2016, the record covers 49 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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