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Opawa Road

4 council reports at 1 address on Opawa Road, Woolston, on record since February 2017.

4 reports1 address2 days reported onfrom the air, then152 documents carry the name

Where it runs

185 Opawa Road, 4 reports

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

From the air, then

Opawa Road from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Opawa Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Opawa Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Opawa Road from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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 numbered spots

What got reported

Year by year

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Opawa Road, 152 in total; the 4 earliest:

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

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 Opawa Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Latest on record

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Opawa Road?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Opawa Road?

4 reports at 1 address, most often graffiti & vandalism (3), noise (1).

When was Opawa Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 2 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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