Colorado Springs repairs over 16,000 potholes in five-week citywide repair surge
Scott Harrison
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Potholes have been a big priority for Mayor Yemi Mobalade since he took office three years ago.
And now, in the final year of his first term in office, he’s making good on his campaign promise to reduce the number of potholes on city streets.
Around 10:30 a.m., the city held a media briefing to release results of a pothole saturation patrol, or “surge,” that was announced in May.
The five-week operation devoted more time and resources to patching potholes.
Included in the effort was the purchase of two pothole repair trucks to replace the two oldest trucks in the fleet; officials said that some of the 13-truck fleet breaks down occasionally because of frequent use.
The surge had three objectives.
One was to place two pothole-repair trucks in each of the city’s four public works districts to conduct “search and destroy” missions on any potholes they found.
The second was to perform maintenance paving: temporarily repaving streets with numerous potholes in a concentrated area, saving the time and effort of filling each pothole.
Streets chosen for maintenance paving are not part of this year’s 2C expanded paving program.
The surge’s third objective was gathering data to learn more specifics about the average response time for pothole complaints, as well as developing a “heat map” to show areas that are “hot spots” for potholes.
Watch KRDO 13 at noon to see The Road Warrior, Scott Harrison, join the mayor in filling a pothole.