The Runway

198 reports at 63 addresses in Wigram, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 179 separate days somebody filed something about it.

198 reports 63 addresses179 days reported onfrom the air, then 6 documents carry the name 13 businessesthe 350th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

The Runway from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

The Runway from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

The Runway 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

26 The Runway, 42 reports
36 The Runway, 13 reports
38 The Runway, 11 reports
104 The Runway, 9 reports
5 The Runway, 8 reports
90 The Runway, 7 reports
120R The Runway, 5 reports
118 The Runway, 5 reports
117 The Runway, 5 reports
100 The Runway, 5 reports
32 The Runway, 4 reports
30 The Runway, 4 reports
28 The Runway, 4 reports
182 The Runway, 4 reports
67 The Runway, 3 reports
57 The Runway, 3 reports
180R The Runway, 3 reports
180E The Runway, 3 reports
98 The Runway, 2 reports
96 The Runway, 2 reports
85 The Runway, 2 reports
82 The Runway, 2 reports
53 The Runway, 2 reports
44 The Runway, 2 reports
40 The Runway, 2 reports
4 The Runway, 2 reports
34 The Runway, 2 reports
2R The Runway, 2 reports
22 The Runway, 2 reports
178 The Runway, 2 reports
160 The Runway, 2 reports
120 The Runway, 2 reports
116A The Runway, 2 reports
93 The Runway, 1 report
87 The Runway, 1 report
8 The Runway, 1 report
79 The Runway, 1 report
77 The Runway, 1 report
7 The Runway, 1 report
61 The Runway, 1 report
59 The Runway, 1 report
52 The Runway, 1 report
49B The Runway, 1 report
49 The Runway, 1 report
3R The Runway, 1 report
190a The Runway, 1 report
18 The Runway, 1 report
17R The Runway, 1 report
152 The Runway, 1 report
15 The Runway, 1 report
148 The Runway, 1 report
146 The Runway, 1 report
144 The Runway, 1 report
138 The Runway, 1 report
122–146 The Runway, 1 report
12 The Runway, 1 report
115-117 The Runway, 1 report
113–117 The Runway, 1 report
113R The Runway, 1 report
112 The Runway, 1 report

and the other 3 the record names

111R The Runway, 1 report
110 The Runway, 1 report
102 The Runway, 1 report

What got reported

Trees & parks, 78 reports
Roads & footpaths, 48 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 19 reports
Water & drains, 17 reports
Vehicles & parking, 16 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 14 reports
Everything else, 4 reports
Animals & pests, 2 reports

Year by year

2018, 6 reports
2019, 16 reports
2020, 9 reports
2021, 6 reports
2022, 24 reports
2023, 44 reports
2024, 32 reports
2025, 30 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 6 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:

The D.H.9 aeroplane, which has been specially prepared by the Canterbury Aviation Company, for running the Christchurch-Blenheim mail services · Kura Heritage Collections Online, 23 Jun 1921
The D.H.9 aeroplane on the runway, built to provide the Christchurch to Blenheim mail service. Auckland Weekly News; Photographs / H…
THE RETURN FLIGHT (Evening Post, 03 October 1928) · Papers Past, 3 Oct 1928
…ning by one of the defence department coastal searchlights which will be used to light up the runway should a very early start be made it is the firm belief of blenheim people that feyits beam a newsp…
A US Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III from McChord Air Force Base (AFB), Washington, on the runway at Christchurch, New Zealand, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001-2002 · Digital Public Library of America, 4 Oct 2001
A C-141C Starlifter rolls down the runway for departure from Christchurch, New Zealand, to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Military airlift provides the transport of passengers and cargo during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001 · Digital Public Library of America, 19 Oct 2001
A C-141C Starlifter rolls down the runway for departure from Christchurch, New Zealand, to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Military airlift provides transport of passengers and cargo in support of Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001 · Digital Public Library of America, 19 Oct 2001

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kāhu, Contributing · decile 4 · EQI 392 · roll 492

The businesses on it, 13

Premises whose address in the directory is The Runway, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 1 more whose address names it.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.