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Governors Bay Road

12 reports at 7 addresses in Governors Bay, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 12 separate days somebody filed something about it.

12 reports7 addresses12 days reported onfrom the air, then12 documents carry the namethe 2994th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

899 Governors Bay Road, 4 reports911 Governors Bay Road, 2 reports907 Governors Bay Road, 2 reports909 Governors Bay Road, 1 report905 Governors Bay Road, 1 report895 Governors Bay Road, 1 report892 Governors Bay Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Governors Bay Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · 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.

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

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; 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 Governors Bay Road in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Dyers Pass Road & Governors Bay Road, 41 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Governors Bay Road?

In Governors Bay, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Governors Bay Road?

12 reports at 7 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (5), trees & parks (4), water & drains (2).

When was Governors Bay Road first reported on?

2019, the record covers 12 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Governors Bay Road?

Dyers Pass Road and Governors Bay Road, 41 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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