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Russley Road

6 reports at 3 addresses in Burnside, the first in 2019, the latest 2025. 6 separate days somebody filed something about it.

6 reports3 addresses6 days reported onfrom the air, then23 documents carry the namethe 3843rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

577 Russley Road, 3 reports463 Russley Road, 2 reports400 Russley Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Russley Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Russley Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Russley 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. 23 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Russley Road in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 0 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Harewood Road & Russley Road, 37 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Russley Road?

In Burnside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Russley Road?

6 reports at 3 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (3), roads & footpaths (2), vehicles & parking (1).

When was Russley Road first reported on?

2019, the record covers 6 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

What is the busiest corner on Russley Road?

Harewood Road and Russley Road, 37 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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