Main Road

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Main Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Redcliffs.

From the air, then

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

• 202A Main Road, 69 reports
• 202 Main Road, 23 reports
• 1 Main Road, 22 reports
• 81 Main Road, 21 reports
• 200A Main Road, 20 reports
• 41 Main Road, 15 reports
• 59 Main Road, 13 reports
• 150 Main Road, 13 reports
• 128 Main Road, 13 reports
• 55 Main Road, 10 reports
• 87 Main Road, 9 reports
• 79B Main Road, 9 reports
• 31C Main Road, 9 reports
• 23A Main Road, 9 reports
• 142 Main Road, 9 reports
• 170 Main Road, 8 reports
• 108 Main Road, 8 reports
• 85 Main Road, 7 reports
• 71A Main Road, 7 reports
• 65 Main Road, 7 reports
• 43 Main Road, 7 reports
• 200B Main Road, 7 reports
• 140 Main Road, 7 reports
• 101B Main Road, 7 reports
• 89B Main Road, 6 reports
• 200 Main Road, 6 reports
• 125 Main Road, 6 reports
• 116A Main Road, 6 reports
• 109 Main Road, 6 reports
• 19 Main Road, 5 reports
• 137 Main Road, 5 reports
• 130 Main Road, 5 reports
• 127 Main Road, 5 reports
• 124A Main Road, 5 reports
• 93 Main Road, 4 reports
• 69G Main Road, 4 reports
• 5 Main Road, 4 reports
• 29 Main Road, 4 reports
• 23 Main Road, 4 reports
• 188 Main Road, 4 reports
• 186 Main Road, 4 reports
• 156 Main Road, 4 reports
• 124 Main Road, 4 reports
• 99 Main Road, 3 reports
• 95 Main Road, 3 reports
• 75 Main Road, 3 reports
• 7 Main Road, 3 reports
• 63E Main Road, 3 reports
• 61A Main Road, 3 reports
• 49B Main Road, 3 reports
• 47C Main Road, 3 reports
• 158 Main Road, 3 reports
• 147 Main Road, 3 reports
• 143 Main Road, 3 reports
• 126 Main Road, 3 reports
• 116 Main Road, 3 reports
• 113 Main Road, 3 reports
• 103 Main Road, 3 reports
• 89 Main Road, 2 reports
• 83B Main Road, 2 reports

What got reported

• Water & drains, 191 reports
• Roads & footpaths, 106 reports
• Graffiti & vandalism, 86 reports
• Trees & parks, 85 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 46 reports
• Everything else, 27 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 15 reports

Year by year

• 2015, 9 reports
• 2016, 9 reports
• 2017, 6 reports
• 2018, 11 reports
• 2019, 18 reports
• 2020, 22 reports
• 2021, 21 reports
• 2022, 78 reports
• 2023, 112 reports
• 2024, 128 reports
• 2025, 81 reports

On the register

• Commercial Building and Setting, 186 Main Road

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 984 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

• WALKS ON THE ROADS. (Wellington Independent, 19 February 1851) · Papers Past, 19 Feb 1851
  …rom the ferry v christchurch in a complete state as it forms part of the intended lino of main road which passes through sumner we hope on a future occasion to complete our glance at the means of land…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 25 March 1854) · Papers Past, 25 Mar 1854
  …nd i td nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 01 April 1854) · Papers Past, 1 Apr 1854
  …and i j nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 08 April 1854) · Papers Past, 8 Apr 1854
  …and jti nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about lr acres broken up…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 15 April 1854) · Papers Past, 15 Apr 1854
  …n and i nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 April 1854) · Papers Past, 22 Apr 1854
  …in and nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile and a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 29 April 1854) · Papers Past, 29 Apr 1854
  …in and nearly 40 acres broken up about a mile aud a quarter from christchurch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres of land with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 06 May 1854) · Papers Past, 6 May 1854
  …nd jb nearly 40 acres broken up about a niile and a quarter from christchjirch fronting a main road also adjoining the above 76 acres ofland with a small house thereupon and about 12 acres broken up a…
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 28 October 1854) · Papers Past, 28 Oct 1854
  …christchurch and a first-rate position for merchants stores and waterside premises on the main road from lyttelton to christchurch for particulars and inspection of plan apply to mr cridland architect…
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 01 November 1854) · Papers Past, 1 Nov 1854
  …christchurch and a first-rate position for merchants store and waterside premises on the main road from lyttelton to christchurch for particulars and inspection of plan apply to mr ciudland architect…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 08 November 1854) · Papers Past, 8 Nov 1854
  …christchurch and a first-rate position for merchants stores and waterside premises on the main road from lyttehou to christchurch for particulars and inspection of plan apply to mr ceidlanb architect…
• REPORT. (Lyttelton Times, 16 May 1855) · Papers Past, 16 May 1855
  …x wakefield as rural section no 2 and instead of setting out the most suitable line for a main road through the section in lieu of the streets then abandoned the only communication reserved from the e…

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

The businesses on it, 11

Premises whose address in the directory is Main Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

• Coast SkinDoctors & clinics · 184 Main Road
• Four Square RedcliffsSupermarkets · 188 Main Road, Redcliffs
• Liquor Store RecliffsBottle stores · 87 Main Road, Redcliffs
• Money BagsRestaurants · 85 Main Road, Redcliffs
• Redcliffs Chinese RestaurantRestaurants · 87a Main Road, Redcliffs
• Redcliffs Fine Wines & SpiritsBottle stores · 1/87 Main Road Redcliffs
• Redcliffs Fish & ChipsFast food · 99 Main Road
• Redcliffs Medical CentreDoctors & clinics · 184 Main Road, Redcliffs
• The Spur on RedcliffsCafés · 87 Main Road, Redcliffs
• Two Thumb Brewing Co RedcliffsBars & pubs · 101 Main Road Redcliffs
• Two Thumb RedcliffsBars & pubs · 101 Main Road

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Main Road in 38 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 11 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

more photographs
on the Redcliffs wall →

The latest on it

• Overgrown Vegetation, 128 Main Rd, 8 Oct 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 150 Main Rd, 23 Sept 2026
• Water Leak, 71 Main Road, 13 Sept 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 126 Main Road, 10 Sept 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 200A Main Road, 9 Sept 2026
• Water Leak, 93 Main Rd, 24 Aug 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 1 Main Road, 24 Aug 2026
• Litter, 202 Main Rd, 22 Aug 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 202 Main Rd, 22 Aug 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 142 Main Rd, 20 Aug 2026
• Water Fountain, 89 Main Rd, 14 Aug 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 202A Main Road, 10 Aug 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 200A Main Road, 9 Aug 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 108A Main Road, 9 Aug 2026
• Water Leak, 89B Main Road, 8 Aug 2026