Dunbars Road

119 reports at 57 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 108 separate days somebody filed something about it.

119 reports 57 addresses108 days reported onfrom the air, then 3 documents carry the namethe 650th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Dunbars Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Dunbars Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Dunbars 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

23 Dunbars Road, 8 reports
89 Dunbars Road, 7 reports
79 Dunbars Road, 6 reports
3A Dunbars Road, 6 reports
183 Dunbars Road, 6 reports
87 Dunbars Road, 4 reports
81 Dunbars Road, 4 reports
137 Dunbars Road, 4 reports
128 Dunbars Road, 4 reports
93 Dunbars Road, 3 reports
85 Dunbars Road, 3 reports
61 Dunbars Road, 3 reports
53 Dunbars Road, 3 reports
20 Dunbars Road, 3 reports
179 Dunbars Road, 3 reports
13 Dunbars Road, 3 reports
103 Dunbars Road, 3 reports
97 Dunbars Road, 2 reports
77 Dunbars Road, 2 reports
73A Dunbars Road, 2 reports
63 Dunbars Road, 2 reports
51A Dunbars Road, 2 reports
113 Dunbars Road, 2 reports
99B Dunbars Road, 1 report
95–103 Dunbars Road, 1 report
91 Dunbars Road, 1 report
9 Dunbars Road, 1 report
83 Dunbars Road, 1 report
73 Dunbars Road, 1 report
70 Dunbars Road, 1 report
6–10 Dunbars Road, 1 report
67 Dunbars Road, 1 report
65 Dunbars Road, 1 report
56P Dunbars Road, 1 report
56 Dunbars Road, 1 report
49 Dunbars Road, 1 report
45 Dunbars Road, 1 report
3B Dunbars Road, 1 report
34 Dunbars Road, 1 report
33 Dunbars Road, 1 report
30 Dunbars Road, 1 report
21 Dunbars Road, 1 report
179A Dunbars Road, 1 report
17 Dunbars Road, 1 report
168 Dunbars Road, 1 report
155 Dunbars Road, 1 report
147 Dunbars Road, 1 report
145 Dunbars Road, 1 report
139 Dunbars Road, 1 report
134 Dunbars Road, 1 report
133 Dunbars Road, 1 report
127 Dunbars Road, 1 report
121 Dunbars Road, 1 report
115 Dunbars Road, 1 report
11 Dunbars Road, 1 report
109 Dunbars Road, 1 report
100 Dunbars Road, 1 report

What got reported

Trees & parks, 32 reports
Roads & footpaths, 29 reports
Water & drains, 20 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 17 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 14 reports
Everything else, 4 reports
Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 2 reports
2017, 5 reports
2018, 3 reports
2019, 3 reports
2021, 5 reports
2022, 14 reports
2023, 22 reports
2024, 20 reports
2025, 30 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Aerial photomosaic of Halswell Road · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1926
Aerial photomosaic of Halswell Road from the corner with Dunbars Road to the corner with Hoon Hay Road. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
New Zealand Transport Agency (Speed Limits on State Highways) Bylaw 2010/10 · New Zealand Gazette, 1 Sept 2010
…page 2967883 11 75 Halswell From 50m south-west of Templetons Road to 220m north-east of Dunbars Road. 80 1/09/2010, No 112, page 2967NZTA Bylaw 2010/10 Schedule 1: Speed Limits for Specified Section…
New Zealand Transport Agency (Traffic Controls on State Highways) Amendment Bylaw 2025/009 · New Zealand Gazette, 16 Oct 2025
…nfield Drive To: NZTM 1565454, 5175727; approximately 133m north of its intersection with Dunbars Road Route Position (Midpoint): 075-00/3.622 Direction of travel: Southbound Restriction Type: Bus Lan…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Dunbars Landscape Reserve footbridge · 10 m away Dunbars Reserve boardwalk · 22 m away Dunbars Reserve footbridge · 22 m away Dunbars Landscape Reserve footbridge · 22 m away Dunbars Landscape Reserve footbridge · 23 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Dunbars Road in 30 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 10 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.