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Obriens Road

14 reports at 11 addresses in Sockburn, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 14 separate days somebody filed something about it.

14 reports11 addresses14 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 2186th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

4 Obriens Road, 3 reports8 Obriens Road, 2 reports9 Obriens Road, 1 report6 Obriens Road, 1 report36-32 Obriens Road, 1 report22 Obriens Road, 1 report2 Obriens Road, 1 report18 Obriens Road, 1 report16A Obriens Road, 1 report13 Obriens Road, 1 report1 Obriens Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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 Obriens Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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 Obriens Road?

In Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Obriens Road?

14 reports at 11 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (5), roads & footpaths (3), everything else (3).

When was Obriens Road first reported on?

2021, the record covers 14 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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