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Dobson Street

18 reports at 11 addresses in Spreydon, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 17 separate days somebody filed something about it.

18 reports11 addresses17 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 2590th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

4 Dobson Street, 4 reports6A Dobson Street, 2 reports19 Dobson Street, 2 reports16 Dobson Street, 2 reports10B Dobson Street, 2 reports9 Dobson Street, 1 report6 Dobson Street, 1 report26 Dobson Street, 1 report2 Dobson Street, 1 report19E Dobson Street, 1 report18 Dobson Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Dobson Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dobson Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dobson Street 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

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 14 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Dobson Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Dobson Street?

In Spreydon, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Dobson Street?

18 reports at 11 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (7), roads & footpaths (5), water & drains (2).

When was Dobson Street first reported on?

2022, the record covers 17 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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