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Humphreys Drive

18 reports at 3 addresses in Bromley, the first in 2015, the latest 2025. 14 separate days somebody filed something about it.

18 reports3 addresses14 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2771st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

21 Humphreys Drive, 11 reports21-23 Humphreys Drive, 6 reports560 Humphreys Drive, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Humphreys Drive from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Humphreys Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Humphreys Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Humphreys Drive 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 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.

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 Humphreys Drive in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Ferry Road & Humphreys Drive, 30 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Humphreys Drive?

In Bromley, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Humphreys Drive?

18 reports at 3 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (11), rubbish & dumping (3), roads & footpaths (3).

When was Humphreys Drive first reported on?

2015, the record covers 14 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

What is the busiest corner on Humphreys Drive?

Ferry Road and Humphreys Drive, 30 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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