173 Memorial Avenue

From the air, then

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 green nearby

• Westburn Reserve, 273 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 12 pieces
• Jellie Park, 325 m to the edge · Sports ground · 13 ha · playground, 60 pieces
• Ryeland Reserve, 443 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
• Flay Park, 486 m to the edge · Botanic · 1 ha

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

The bus nearby

• Burnside High School, 80 m away · route 29
• Greers Rd near Westburn Terrace, 80 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Burnside, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Burnside, 14 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Burnside, 382 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Burnside, 394 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Burnside, 403 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

Renting nearby

new bonds in Burnside ran about $641 a week, $91 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.

What gets reported here

• Traffic Signals, 5
• Street Cleaning, 1
• Roading/Streets, 1
• Pavement - Damaged, 1
• Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 1

Photographed here 6 on record

more photographs
on the Burnside wall →

What’s on record

• Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 9 Jul 2026
• Traffic Signals, 2 Mar 2026 Crossing light continues to turn off despite being pressed. This continues to happen on both sides (jellie park side, and across memorial a
• Traffic Signals, 12 Feb 2026 Pedestrian crossing light is not working well. There was a child on each of the crosses I have added to the picture (10 and 12yr old- so not
• Traffic Signals, 9 Feb 2026 Traffic lights on the Jellie Park side continue to have issues with the pedestrian crossing light turning off before completing a crossing c
• Traffic Signals, 5 Feb 2026 The flashing crossing man, times out. This means the button needs to be constantly pushed. Children are missing the crossing signal and cars
• Traffic Signals, 3 Jan 2026 When facing towards Jellie Park, after pressing the cross button the red man appears but turns off before the green man appears. This means
• Pavement - Damaged, 31 Oct 2023
• Street Cleaning, 8 Dec 2022
• Roading/Streets, 31 May 2022 Left hand straight lane. Road surface is potholed and rapidly deteriorating.

Elsewhere on Memorial Avenue

• 179 Memorial Avenue, 21 reports
• 363 Memorial Avenue, 17 reports
• 324 Memorial Avenue, 12 reports
• 475 Memorial Avenue, 11 reports
• 312A Memorial Avenue, 10 reports
• 240 Memorial Avenue, 10 reports
• 233 Memorial Avenue, 10 reports
• 235 Memorial Avenue, 9 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Memorial Avenue in 161 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 people killed, 33 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

The civic layer

This ground votes in Fendalton ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.