Main North Road

485 reports at 148 addresses in PAPANUI, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 343 separate days somebody filed something about it.

485 reports 148 addresses343 days reported onfrom the air, then then / now 114 documents carry the name 31 businessesthe 120th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Main North Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Main North Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Main North Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Main North 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 →

Then and now

**Then**, 1925 · On the Main North Road from Christchurch last Friday

Now: Google Street View, 2019-06

The photograph names Main North Road in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Shields Pharmacy). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

and the other 88 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 252 reports
Roads & footpaths, 109 reports
Water & drains, 66 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 24 reports
Everything else, 15 reports
Trees & parks, 12 reports
Vehicles & parking, 6 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 2 reports
2016, 2 reports
2017, 3 reports
2019, 7 reports
2020, 59 reports
2021, 45 reports
2022, 38 reports
2023, 74 reports
2024, 78 reports
2025, 104 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 114 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:

Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Otago Daily Times, 20 January 1868) · Papers Past, 20 Jan 1868
…which is qtiitc level situated within threo and a half rnilc of moeraki port frontage to main north road is well sheltered with good aspect a bush within one mile of the homestead the improvements co…