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Humphreys Drive

83 reports at 15 addresses in Ferrymead, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 71 separate days somebody filed something about it.

83 reports15 addresses71 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the name15 businessesthe 955th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

27 Humphreys Drive, 24 reports21 Humphreys Drive, 14 reports23 Humphreys Drive, 8 reports9 Humphreys Drive, 7 reports21-23 Humphreys Drive, 6 reports27A Humphreys Drive, 5 reports25R Humphreys Drive, 4 reports2 Humphreys Drive, 4 reports3/9 Humphreys Drive, 3 reports1091 Humphreys Drive, 3 reports9b Humphreys Drive, 1 report9/21 Humphreys Drive, 1 report4/23 Humphreys Drive, 1 report25–27 Humphreys Drive, 1 report25 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 Ferrymead.

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 businesses on it, 15

Premises whose address in the directory is Humphreys Drive, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 3 more whose address names it.

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 Humphreys Drive in 17 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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 Ferrymead, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Humphreys Drive?

83 reports at 15 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (26), roads & footpaths (24), rubbish & dumping (19).

When was Humphreys Drive first reported on?

2015, the record covers 71 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Humphreys Drive?

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

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