Main North Road

621 reports at 169 addresses in Redwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 467 separate days somebody filed something about it.

621 reports 169 addresses467 days reported onfrom the air, then 114 documents carry the name 34 businessesthe 58th 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 Redwood.

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 →

The addresses on it

and the other 109 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 143 reports
Roads & footpaths, 140 reports
Trees & parks, 129 reports
Water & drains, 83 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 78 reports
Everything else, 23 reports
Vehicles & parking, 17 reports
Animals & pests, 7 reports

Year by year

2015, 6 reports
2016, 6 reports
2017, 3 reports
2019, 4 reports
2020, 28 reports
2021, 30 reports
2022, 69 reports
2023, 90 reports
2024, 136 reports
2025, 114 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…

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

The civic shelf on it

Libraries, halls and the rest whose council open-data address is the street.

Redwood Library, Library

The businesses on it, 34

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

…and 22 more whose address names it.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Styx River stream · 7 m away Redwood Dancing Springs spring · 8 m away Styx River Conservation Reserv boardwalk · 7 m away Styx River Conservation Reserv shelter · 8 m away Styx River Conservation Reserv boardwalk · 8 m away Styx River Conservation Reserv boardwalk · 9 m away Regents Park Reserve viewing platform · 79 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Main North Road in 86 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 16 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Main North Road & State Highway 74, 85 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.