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Bridle Path

81 reports at 23 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 70 separate days somebody filed something about it.

81 reports23 addresses70 days reported onfrom the air, then272 documents carry the namethe 969th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

25 Bridle Path, 9 reports6 Bridle Path, 8 reports10 Bridle Path, 8 reports30 Bridle Path, 7 reports16 Bridle Path, 5 reports14 Bridle Path, 5 reports24 Bridle Path, 4 reports23 Bridle Path, 4 reports21 Bridle Path, 4 reports17 Bridle Path, 4 reports22 Bridle Path, 3 reports15 Bridle Path, 3 reports28 Bridle Path, 2 reports26 Bridle Path, 2 reports20 Bridle Path, 2 reports13 Bridle Path, 2 reports11 Bridle Path, 2 reports1 Bridle Path, 2 reports8 Bridle Path, 1 report29 Bridle Path, 1 report2 Bridle Path, 1 report19 Bridle Path, 1 report18 Bridle Path, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Bridle Path from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Bridle Path from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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. 272 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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.

Lyttelton War Memorial set of steps · 43 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Bridle Path 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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Water Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photo more photographs
on the Lyttelton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Bridle Path?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bridle Path?

81 reports at 23 addresses, most often water & drains (45), roads & footpaths (21), graffiti & vandalism (10).

When was Bridle Path first reported on?

2018, the record covers 70 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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