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River Road

21 reports at 3 addresses in Dallington, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 21 separate days somebody filed something about it.

21 reports3 addresses21 days reported onfrom the air, then328 documents carry the namethe 2264th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

411 River Road, 17 reports409-411 River Road, 2 reports371A River Road, 2 reports

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

From the air, then

River Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
River Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
River 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. 328 on the shelf; the 11 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 open map’s record.

Dudley Creek stream · a reported pin on the line Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 30 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names River Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Dallington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is River Road?

In Dallington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on River Road?

21 reports at 3 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (14), rubbish & dumping (4), roads & footpaths (1).

When was River Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 21 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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