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Duncan Street

47 reports at 14 addresses in Sumner, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 43 separate days somebody filed something about it.

47 reports14 addresses43 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 1459th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

11 Duncan Street, 11 reports12 Duncan Street, 8 reports11A Duncan Street, 6 reports13 Duncan Street, 5 reports10A Duncan Street, 3 reports10 Duncan Street, 3 reports5 Duncan Street, 2 reports4 Duncan Street, 2 reports17 Duncan Street, 2 reports6 Duncan Street, 1 report3 Duncan Street, 1 report15A Duncan Street, 1 report11–17 Duncan Street, 1 report1 Duncan Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Duncan Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Duncan Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Duncan Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

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 Duncan Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Duncan Street?

In Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Duncan Street?

47 reports at 14 addresses, most often water & drains (19), trees & parks (14), roads & footpaths (9).

When was Duncan Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 43 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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