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Downies Road

5 reports at 4 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2025, the latest 2026. 5 separate days somebody filed something about it.

5 reports4 addresses5 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 4071st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

25 Downies Road, 2 reports54–56 Downies Road, 1 report52 Downies Road, 1 report1 Downies Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Downies Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Downies Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Downies Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Downies 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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Downies Road in 1 crash 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 Downies Road?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Downies Road?

5 reports at 4 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (3), rubbish & dumping (1), trees & parks (1).

When was Downies Road first reported on?

2025, the record covers 5 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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