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Owaka Road

124 reports at 20 addresses in Wigram, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 109 separate days somebody filed something about it.

124 reports20 addresses109 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 645th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

3 Owaka Road, 38 reports3–9 Owaka Road, 17 reports11–23 Owaka Road, 17 reports25 Owaka Road, 7 reports21 Owaka Road, 7 reports36R Owaka Road, 6 reports34 Owaka Road, 5 reports38B Owaka Road, 4 reports35 Owaka Road, 4 reports6 Owaka Road, 3 reports59 Owaka Road, 3 reports28 Owaka Road, 3 reports34R Owaka Road, 2 reports24 Owaka Road, 2 reports9 Owaka Road, 1 report60 Owaka Road, 1 report41 Owaka Road, 1 report38R Owaka Road, 1 report38A Owaka Road, 1 report20 Owaka Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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 Owaka Road 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 Owaka Road?

In Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Owaka Road?

124 reports at 20 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (66), roads & footpaths (34), trees & parks (12).

When was Owaka Road first reported on?

2018, the record covers 109 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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