‘Tis the season for freezing temperatures, and devastating pothole formations. NBC News4 went through the D.C. Department of Transportation’s pothole catalog and created a map of all the known potholes in D.C.
The team found that:
- DDOT, which shoots for a 72-hour repair period, reaches that goal 71 percent of the time.
- 59 percent of the pothole calls the agency receives come from Northwest D.C., but only 3 percent come from the Southwest.
- Some potholes went almost an entire year without getting fixed.
- Potholes are “like vampires, they never die unless you put a stake in their hearts and so they always come back and that’s the problem.” That’s according to John Townsend, the spokesman for AAA Mid-Atlantic.
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