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Truscotts Road

70 reports at 12 addresses in Ferrymead, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 53 separate days somebody filed something about it.

70 reports12 addresses53 days reported onfrom the air, then7 documents carry the namethe 1238th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

61 Truscotts Road, 35 reports50 Truscotts Road, 10 reports59 Truscotts Road, 5 reports80 Truscotts Road, 4 reports41 Truscotts Road, 4 reports61R Truscotts Road, 3 reports60 Truscotts Road, 3 reports78 Truscotts Road, 2 reports80B Truscotts Road, 1 report58 Truscotts Road, 1 report53 Truscotts Road, 1 report37 Truscotts Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Truscotts Road from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Truscotts Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Truscotts Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Truscotts Road 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 Truscotts Road in 3 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 Truscotts Road?

In Ferrymead, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Truscotts Road?

70 reports at 12 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (50), trees & parks (9), roads & footpaths (4).

When was Truscotts Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 53 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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