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Rudds Road

44 reports at 23 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2025. 38 separate days somebody filed something about it.

44 reports23 addresses38 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1592nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

72 Rudds Road, 11 reports74 Rudds Road, 3 reports62 Rudds Road, 3 reports46 Rudds Road, 3 reports14 Rudds Road, 3 reports58 Rudds Road, 2 reports22 Rudds Road, 2 reports15 Rudds Road, 2 reports68 Rudds Road, 1 report64 Rudds Road, 1 report59A Rudds Road, 1 report59 Rudds Road, 1 report55A Rudds Road, 1 report43 Rudds Road, 1 report37 Rudds Road, 1 report36 Rudds Road, 1 report30 Rudds Road, 1 report29-31 Rudds Road, 1 report28 Rudds Road, 1 report24 Rudds Road, 1 report170 Rudds Road, 1 report17 Rudds Road, 1 report16 Rudds Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Rudds Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rudds Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rudds 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.

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

The named ground

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 Rudds Road in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rudds Road?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rudds Road?

44 reports at 23 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (17), graffiti & vandalism (11), vehicles & parking (5).

When was Rudds Road first reported on?

2015, the record covers 38 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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