Pothole Patrol: How does the city prioritize pothole repairs?
City workers continued on their to-do list of pothole repairs on Wednesday, taking advantage of nice weather to mend well-traveled streets.
Since Jan. 1, city workers have filled 1,200 potholes.
A list provided by the city showed around 300 potholes workers plan to fill by the end of the week. The potholes are broken down into three categories: high, medium and low priority.
High priority potholes on major roads that have been identified by the public as severe hazards. Examples of these”Arterial Roadways” areAcademy Boulevard, Circle Drive, Constitution Avenue, Platte Avenue and Interquest Parkway.
Medium priority potholes are potholes on major roads that don’t need immediate attention, but do need to be addressed as soon as weather and resources permit. Potholes on busy but a little less traveled roads fall into this category. Examples of collector roadways include30th Street, Broadmoor Bluffs, Flintridge Drive, Hancock Avenue and Montebello Drive.
Low priority potholes are potholes on residential streets. Potholes that are off the traveled way near the curb line fall into this category.
This week, workers planned to fix 150 high priority potholes, 60 medium priority potholes and 100 low priority potholes.
Allysha Morrill hit a pothole this month, doing hundreds of dollars of damage to her car.
“It’s hard picking a path because you have to think way ahead and think, well is this street good? Do I have to be swerving? And also it makes you nervous to swerve potholes because obviously you don’t want to get pulled over for swerving,” said Morrill.
And two potholes Corey Brinkman hit did $2,400 of damage to this family’s car.
“I ended up hitting the pothole right there and then not 3 seconds had passed and I ended up hitting another one right there,” said Brinkman.
Jay Carden has reported the potholes that Brinkman hit with his car three times.
“Still have gotten nothing,” said Cardin.”I saw someone wreck his rim the other day and then someone else get in a head on,” said Carden.
The city plans to begin using money its raised for potholes through increased sales tax this spring.
