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Torrens Road

180 reports at 48 addresses in Hillmorton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 139 separate days somebody filed something about it.

180 reports48 addresses139 days reported onfrom the air, then5 documents carry the namethe 492nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

53 Torrens Road, 22 reports55 Torrens Road, 15 reports54 Torrens Road, 13 reports52 Torrens Road, 10 reports14 Torrens Road, 10 reports58 Torrens Road, 7 reports7 Torrens Road, 6 reports57 Torrens Road, 6 reports59 Torrens Road, 5 reports49 Torrens Road, 5 reports46 Torrens Road, 5 reports33 Torrens Road, 5 reports30 Torrens Road, 4 reports45 Torrens Road, 3 reports40 Torrens Road, 3 reports39 Torrens Road, 3 reports36 Torrens Road, 3 reports35 Torrens Road, 3 reports29 Torrens Road, 3 reports25 Torrens Road, 3 reports20 Torrens Road, 3 reports15 Torrens Road, 3 reports11 Torrens Road, 3 reports10A Torrens Road, 3 reports10 Torrens Road, 3 reports65 Torrens Road, 2 reports56 Torrens Road, 2 reports51-55 Torrens Road, 2 reports31 Torrens Road, 2 reports28 Torrens Road, 2 reports18 Torrens Road, 2 reports16 Torrens Road, 2 reports11A Torrens Road, 2 reports46–58 Torrens Road, 1 report44E Torrens Road, 1 report43 Torrens Road, 1 report41 Torrens Road, 1 report39A Torrens Road, 1 report28A Torrens Road, 1 report26 Torrens Road, 1 report24 Torrens Road, 1 report22 Torrens Road, 1 report20A Torrens Road, 1 report19 Torrens Road, 1 report17 Torrens Road, 1 report13 Torrens Road, 1 report12 Torrens Road, 1 report10C Torrens Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Torrens Road in 4 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 Torrens Road?

In Hillmorton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Torrens Road?

180 reports at 48 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (98), water & drains (36), roads & footpaths (22).

When was Torrens Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 139 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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