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Bengal Drive

54 reports at 26 addresses in Cashmere, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 54 separate days somebody filed something about it.

54 reports26 addresses54 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1206th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Bengal Drive, 11 reports2 Bengal Drive, 9 reports20 Bengal Drive, 5 reports50 Bengal Drive, 3 reports6 Bengal Drive, 2 reports41 Bengal Drive, 2 reports37 Bengal Drive, 2 reports22 Bengal Drive, 2 reports66 Bengal Drive, 1 report64 Bengal Drive, 1 report53 Bengal Drive, 1 report51 Bengal Drive, 1 report48R Bengal Drive, 1 report48 Bengal Drive, 1 report40 Bengal Drive, 1 report4 Bengal Drive, 1 report33 Bengal Drive, 1 report32 Bengal Drive, 1 report26 Bengal Drive, 1 report24 Bengal Drive, 1 report2-4 Bengal Drive, 1 report18 Bengal Drive, 1 report16 Bengal Drive, 1 report13B Bengal Drive, 1 report12 Bengal Drive, 1 report10 Bengal Drive, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Bengal Drive from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Bengal Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bengal Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bengal 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 Bengal Drive in 2 crashes 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 Bengal Drive?

In Cashmere, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bengal Drive?

54 reports at 26 addresses, most often trees & parks (14), roads & footpaths (12), water & drains (11).

When was Bengal Drive first reported on?

2016, the record covers 54 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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