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Ottawa Road

67 reports at 33 addresses in Wainoni, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 65 separate days somebody filed something about it.

67 reports33 addresses65 days reported onfrom the air, then16 documents carry the namethe 1037th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

90 Ottawa Road, 8 reports8 Ottawa Road, 6 reports58 Ottawa Road, 5 reports5 Ottawa Road, 5 reports85 Ottawa Road, 4 reports72 Ottawa Road, 3 reports60 Ottawa Road, 3 reports91 Ottawa Road, 2 reports57 Ottawa Road, 2 reports38 Ottawa Road, 2 reports20A Ottawa Road, 2 reports2 Ottawa Road, 2 reports15 Ottawa Road, 2 reports10 Ottawa Road, 2 reports91B Ottawa Road, 1 report91A Ottawa Road, 1 report88 Ottawa Road, 1 report85A Ottawa Road, 1 report83 Ottawa Road, 1 report7 Ottawa Road, 1 report69 Ottawa Road, 1 report65C Ottawa Road, 1 report64 Ottawa Road, 1 report6 Ottawa Road, 1 report58A Ottawa Road, 1 report54 Ottawa Road, 1 report53 Ottawa Road, 1 report49 Ottawa Road, 1 report44 Ottawa Road, 1 report4 Ottawa Road, 1 report26 Ottawa Road, 1 report24 Ottawa Road, 1 report16A Ottawa Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 16 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ottawa Road in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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 Ottawa Road?

In Wainoni, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ottawa Road?

67 reports at 33 addresses, most often water & drains (26), graffiti & vandalism (18), rubbish & dumping (10).

When was Ottawa Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 65 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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