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Main North Road

21 reports at 6 addresses in Casebrook, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 18 separate days somebody filed something about it.

21 reports6 addresses18 days reported onfrom the air, then114 documents carry the namethe 2462nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

453 Main North Road, 14 reports447 Main North Road, 3 reports457 Main North Road, 1 report445 Main North Road, 1 report421 Main North Road, 1 report419A Main North Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Main North Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Main North Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Main North Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Main North Road 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. 114 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:

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

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Main North Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Main North Road & State Highway 74, 85 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Main North Road?

In Casebrook, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Main North Road?

21 reports at 6 addresses, most often trees & parks (8), rubbish & dumping (5), graffiti & vandalism (4).

When was Main North Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 18 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Main North Road?

Main North Road and State Highway 74, 85 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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