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Roa Road

17 reports at 9 addresses in Fendalton, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 16 separate days somebody filed something about it.

17 reports9 addresses16 days reported onfrom the air, then12 documents carry the namethe 2621st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 Roa Road, 6 reports5A Roa Road, 3 reports20 Roa Road, 2 reports9 Roa Road, 1 report8A Roa Road, 1 report19 Roa Road, 1 report13 Roa Road, 1 report11 Roa Road, 1 report1 Roa Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Roa Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Roa Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Roa 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. 12 on the shelf; the 3 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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 85 m away Waimairi Stream stream · 131 m away unnamed jetty · 87 m away unnamed jetty · 112 m away

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

Road Signage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photo more photographs
on the Fendalton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Roa Road?

In Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Roa Road?

17 reports at 9 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (7), rubbish & dumping (5), water & drains (4).

When was Roa Road first reported on?

2019, the record covers 16 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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