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Pothole Vigilante

Taking pothole matters into your own hands: A DIY guide.
posted Feb 10, 2009
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6/16/2006 - Got some dirt? Fill a pothole!, KevinFreitas.net

1/3 - Snowstorm Costs: More Than $2 Million - so Far: Tacoma, Pierce County Pay Big to Clear Roads, Repair Many Potholes, iStockAnalyst (originally from TNT)

5/24/2008 - Tacoma May Raise Auto Registration to Fix Streets, Talking Kelso

Comments [28]


by Erik
on 2/10/2009 @ 11:11am		Nice. There is some potential in comic book type Tacomics.

by NineInchNachos
on 2/10/2009 @ 1:03pm		Thanks! Let me know if anybody needs to borrow an extra shovel.

by AngelaJossy
on 2/10/2009 @ 1:12pm		Nice! RR Anderson helps Tacoma get "Shovel Ready"

by Erik
on 2/10/2009 @ 1:16pm		Nice! RR Anderson helps Tacoma get 'Shovel Ready'

Yes, a large portion of Tacoma is "Shovel Ready." Someone just start somewhere.

by morgan
on 2/10/2009 @ 1:42pm		Filling them with dirt? Where's the recipe for homemade asphalt?
Or we can use this.

by AngelaJossy
on 2/10/2009 @ 1:53pm		Is it illegal to fix a pothole on a city street? I wonder what would happen if the police happened upon a crew of pothole vigilantes. Would they thank them or arrest them?

by NineInchNachos
on 2/10/2009 @ 3:33pm		AJ: avoid unwanted happen-upons, see step NO. 2

by Erik
on 2/10/2009 @ 3:36pm		DIY:



Pothole repair on your driveway can be easy
Some products make pothole repair easier than others. Cold asphalt makes the process significantly easier. In fact, some pothole repair asphalt, like the brand reviewed below, can be applied in water filled potholes and can be compacted with just your car's tire. No special equipment is needed pothole repair with this cold asphalt. Pothole repair with EZ STREET cold asphalt is easy.

www.potholerepair.net/

We could have Obama's National Guard drop these bags from the air to citizens.

by droid116
on 2/10/2009 @ 4:33pm		I guess Ace carries it, but don't know if they stock it locally. There is an Ace not to far from my house so I will check it out.

by NineInchNachos
on 2/10/2009 @ 5:17pm		NEWS FLASH: TACOMA RESTORE HAS A FEW PALLETS OF PRE-BAGGED ASPHALT PRODUCT!

by Mofo from the Hood
on 2/10/2009 @ 6:48pm		People should just edge the grass on their sidewalks and put the divots in nearby potholes. Go Green.

by Erik
on 2/10/2009 @ 7:50pm		Citizen pot hole army unite!!!1!

by NineInchNachos
on 2/10/2009 @ 8:22pm		Ha! I like the sod pothole plug idea.



by NineInchNachos
on 3/31/2009 @ 1:39pm		www.tacomaweekly.com/potholes

by mardod
on 3/31/2009 @ 2:43pm		How about a public-private partnership?
consumerist.com/5187310/kfc-wants-to-fix...

by jenyum
on 3/31/2009 @ 3:21pm		You know the stencil is actually just street chalk.

Seems like a pretty small price to pay for fewer potholes, considering the rain would take care of it in about a day and a half.

by izenmania
on 4/9/2009 @ 2:34pm		Now here's a do-it-yourself attitude I think we can appreciate: told for months that road repairs would cost $4 million the government couldn't spare, a community bands together and
fixes it themselves. In 8 days. For free.

by ensie
on 4/9/2009 @ 4:05pm		An enviornmentally friendly cold-patch asphalt repair:

www.qprcoldpatch.com/the-product/

by NineInchNachos
on 5/12/2009 @ 5:52pm		more goodness from utopia or bust:



"The automobile is at the heart of this propaganda, both as the supreme good of alienated life and as an essential product of the capitalist market. Parking on Broadway, they say, will be increased by 7%. Whereas the only bike lane they were able to add stretches for just one block!"




"Across the street from the Municipal Building on St. Helens Ave., there is one of these “Happenings” boxes. The Bureau asked the Complete Streets architects if they planned on introducing “Happenings” boxes, or something similar, in the newer areas marked for re-development.

The answer was no.

Instead, they told the Bureau they were dismantling the Happenings on St. Helens Ave. as shown in this picture.

Why, the Bureau asked, would you take down something so vital to the development of community identities when your stated goal is to “support” community identities? They agreed that the box is “definitely important,” but added that these are not requirements of the Complete Streets model, and of course, would cost more to build. Some of their clients/stakeholders wanted the Happenings taken down, and so they are taking some of them down."


utopiaorbust.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/co...

by Thorax O'Tool
on 5/12/2009 @ 8:17pm		They take them down.
Big deal. We start wheatpasting on buildings now. Including the sandstone of 747 Market.

by NineInchNachos
on 5/12/2009 @ 9:02pm		heh. Now yer talkin.
Maybe we can request they move one to frost park... you know to keep the artists happy.

by fredo
on 5/12/2009 @ 9:22pm		I'm not surprised that a merchant wouldn't want the "happenings" box in front of his businesses. The eyesore shown in Nacho's posting above is a representative example of Tacoma's "never maintain anything" protocol.

by Thorax O'Tool
on 5/12/2009 @ 10:33pm		Agreed, those are ugly.

I'd MUCH rather see posters on poles and abandoned buildings. It's the only reason why I like visiting Capitol Hill when I'm in Seattle.



...and I'm being serious for once!

by NineInchNachos
on 8/24/2011 @ 2:46pm		new pothole pig website! or if you prefer new Tacoma Weekly site... www.tacomaweekly.com/potholepig/

by fredo
on 8/24/2011 @ 3:03pm		no need to look at pothole websites any more. just look out your window.

by seejane
on 8/25/2011 @ 11:59am		I was going to fill the potholes in my street with cement. Then I decided not too because the potholes are good for traffic calming.

by seejane
on 8/25/2011 @ 12:01pm		Oh, the cold patch asphalt doesn't last for more than a week or two. The city fills our potholes with in 3 or 4 times a year. We just end up with a lot of black gravel in the gutter.... and potholes.

by NineInchNachos
on 10/3/2011 @ 4:07pm		update! 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOct. 3, 2011 MEDIA CONTACTSKarrie Spitzer, Community Relations, karrie.spitzer@cityoftacoma.org, (253) 591-5790
Rob McNair-Huff, Community Relations, robert.mcnair-huff@cityoftacoma.org, (253) 591-5054City launches pothole hotlineThe City has launched a new pothole hotline at (253) 591-5161 that offers an easy way to report potholes you encounter around the city 24-hours a day. The hotline offers an option to submit a standard report or to call out a pothole that may pose a safety risk. Response times to fix a reported pothole vary depending on the type of street where the pothole is found. For an arterial street, the typical response time is 24 to 36 hours and for residential streets, the typical response time is 24 hours to 10 days. Potholes can also be reported to the City’s Twitter account at www.twitter.com/CityofTacoma or online atwww.tacomaservices.org. 
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