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Cressy Terrace

26 reports at 11 addresses in Corsair Bay, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 25 separate days somebody filed something about it.

26 reports11 addresses25 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 2063rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

65 Cressy Terrace, 7 reports104 Cressy Terrace, 5 reports67 Cressy Terrace, 3 reports69 Cressy Terrace, 2 reports63 Cressy Terrace, 2 reports102 Cressy Terrace, 2 reports96 Cressy Terrace, 1 report94 Cressy Terrace, 1 report65–69 Cressy Terrace, 1 report62 Cressy Terrace, 1 report100 Cressy Terrace, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Cressy Terrace, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Corsair Bay.

From the air, then

Cressy Terrace from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Cressy Terrace from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · 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 places within 350 m of a reported pin; 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 Cressy Terrace in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cressy Terrace?

In Corsair Bay, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cressy Terrace?

26 reports at 11 addresses, most often water & drains (12), roads & footpaths (6), graffiti & vandalism (3).

When was Cressy Terrace first reported on?

2018, the record covers 25 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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