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Lower Styx Road

123 reports at 13 addresses in Marshland, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 100 separate days somebody filed something about it.

123 reports13 addresses100 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 697th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

9 Lower Styx Road, 62 reports9R Lower Styx Road, 19 reports16 Lower Styx Road, 15 reports40E Lower Styx Road, 10 reports46 Lower Styx Road, 4 reports26 Lower Styx Road, 4 reports44R Lower Styx Road, 3 reports44 Lower Styx Road, 1 report34–42 Lower Styx Road, 1 report26–30 Lower Styx Road, 1 report24 Lower Styx Road, 1 report21 Lower Styx Road, 1 report20 Lower Styx Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Lower Styx Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lower Styx Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lower Styx Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lower Styx 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 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 Lower Styx Road in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 6 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Lower Styx Road & Marshland Road, 30 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Lower Styx Road?

In Marshland, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Lower Styx Road?

123 reports at 13 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (63), trees & parks (38), graffiti & vandalism (10).

When was Lower Styx Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 100 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Lower Styx Road?

Lower Styx Road and Marshland Road, 30 police-reported crashes at the pairing, 1 of them fatal.

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