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Briggs Road

184 reports at 52 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 135 separate days somebody filed something about it.

184 reports52 addresses135 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the name4 businessesthe 513th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

67 Briggs Road, 14 reports73C Briggs Road, 12 reports77C Briggs Road, 11 reports73B Briggs Road, 11 reports77 Briggs Road, 10 reports73A Briggs Road, 8 reports73 Briggs Road, 8 reports77A Briggs Road, 7 reports75 Briggs Road, 7 reports73D Briggs Road, 6 reports77D Briggs Road, 5 reports72 Briggs Road, 5 reports77B Briggs Road, 4 reports74 Briggs Road, 4 reports71 Briggs Road, 4 reports122 Briggs Road, 4 reports119 Briggs Road, 4 reports93 Briggs Road, 3 reports92 Briggs Road, 3 reports90 Briggs Road, 3 reports84 Briggs Road, 3 reports69 Briggs Road, 3 reports129 Briggs Road, 3 reports126 Briggs Road, 3 reports124 Briggs Road, 3 reports99 Briggs Road, 2 reports82 Briggs Road, 2 reports78 Briggs Road, 2 reports77b Briggs Road, 2 reports76 Briggs Road, 2 reports131 Briggs Road, 2 reports127 Briggs Road, 2 reports125 Briggs Road, 2 reports121 Briggs Road, 2 reports99/1 Briggs Road, 1 report88 Briggs Road, 1 report86 Briggs Road, 1 report80 Briggs Road, 1 report79A Briggs Road, 1 report79 Briggs Road, 1 report75b Briggs Road, 1 report75C Briggs Road, 1 report73E Briggs Road, 1 report70 Briggs Road, 1 report129a Briggs Road, 1 report129A Briggs Road, 1 report123 Briggs Road, 1 report114 Briggs Road, 1 report108 Briggs Road, 1 report106 Briggs Road, 1 report103 Briggs Road, 1 report101 Briggs Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Briggs Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Briggs Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Briggs Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Briggs 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 businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Briggs Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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 Briggs Road in 36 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 10 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Briggs Road & Marshland Road, 51 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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 Briggs Road?

In Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Briggs Road?

184 reports at 52 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (89), rubbish & dumping (33), roads & footpaths (26).

When was Briggs Road first reported on?

2015, the record covers 135 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Briggs Road?

Briggs Road and Marshland Road, 51 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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