Breaking news: Portland patches two potholes
A bemused reader writes:
After months of waiting for the city to repair the potholes in North Portland, at the corner of Denver and Alberta, the crack pothole repair team arrived, all three trucks, one SUV and four highly skilled roadway engineers. The intersection was closed to all traffic by a yellow-vest-wearing "traffic co-coordinator." Within just short of 2½ hours of shovel standing and meetings of the four engineers on how to best attack the situation, this is the final result of their ever so hard endeavor.I really wish I were kidding, but I’m not.
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Comments (21)
With any luck, that patch will last a good week, maybe.
Posted by PDXLifer | June 29, 2012 11:32 AM
Good god, those aren't potholes. Those are miniscule, no more than random surface variations in a well paved street.
Come on out to "rich" residential Southwest, to West Portland Park, "the Cully of the west side" and I'll show you potholes.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | June 29, 2012 11:33 AM
The potholes were not patched. They were repurposed.
Posted by Bill McDonald | June 29, 2012 11:43 AM
Hey NM, I made a wrong turn off Vermont yesterday taking my daughter's friend home around 35th. Good thing I have a vehicle with fairly high clearance on the unpaved obstacle courses with street names. The back roads along the Deschutes River are in better shape than these.
Posted by PDXLifer | June 29, 2012 11:50 AM
That's because Sam Adams and Tom Miller are busy SAVING LIVES, you idiots.
Posted by Jack Bog | June 29, 2012 11:57 AM
Hey, Sammy just wants to show us that his road to municipal perdition is paved with good intentions....black tho they may be...or hey, maybe these potholes were spotted for repair by Char-lie Hales on his recent comprehensive tour of No-Po. Or maybe the repairs were even done back when he was on City Council...just as his school rescue was....
and Bill M -- great line.......
Posted by B.Mused | June 29, 2012 12:06 PM
P.S. -- Just noticed in the photo enlargement what appears to be a tape measure. It's not aligned exactly with the repair but I would guess the repair is roughly a foot square. Poster person, is that about right??
Posted by B.Mused | June 29, 2012 12:15 PM
I've called the pothole hotline many times about the many holes on NW 23rd. They always tell me that they need to send out a supervisor before they send out a crew. What a joke. Is a supervisor really necessary to identify a pothole? Anyway, they always fill some of the holes and always miss a few.
Posted by Stuart | June 29, 2012 1:28 PM
Great...Now where's all the NPS runoff supposed to go?
You would think they could have brought a steamroller with all that labor standing around.
Posted by Mister Tee | June 29, 2012 1:41 PM
One must assume that the substance used to fill the pothole is composed of some new green asphalt, and that the repair will indeed be sustainable.
Sadly, I'm surprised there was no mention of the substance having been delivered via bike courier.
Posted by oregbear | June 29, 2012 1:42 PM
For a moment I thought it was a NASA photograph of dark spots on Uranus.
Posted by Tom | June 29, 2012 2:09 PM
It took four guys to shovel a bit of hot asphalt mix out of the back of a small pickup truck?
Posted by Erik H. | June 29, 2012 2:27 PM
I hope "bemused" will Breitbart this when the repair crew makes a response. Pictures and evidence from a witness has to youtube before it causes outrage.
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Posted by dhughes609 | June 29, 2012 2:49 PM
I made a wrong turn off Vermont yesterday taking my daughter's friend home around 35th.
My old neighborhood; I know it well. One particularly wet spring, I encountered two mallards who'd staked a claim on a pothole roughly five feet in diameter and full of water from recent rains. I believe that today such features are referred to as "bioswales".
We moved higher up; off Taylors Ferry. The roads here aren't significantly better, but the views are much nicer.
Posted by Max | June 29, 2012 3:00 PM
"It took four guys to shovel a bit of hot asphalt mix out of the back of a small pickup truck?"
No, three trucks and a SUV.
Feel better now?
Posted by Steve | June 29, 2012 3:08 PM
Maybe we should quit calling him Creepy and start calling him "Patch Adams".
Posted by Mister Tee | June 29, 2012 3:23 PM
I wonder if I could make money driving around knocking on doors offering to fix holes in front of homes. I have a little pickup, and a shovel.
Maybe that would have worked years ago, but what door of a bunker does one knock on?
I'd probably also be arrested for violating some city code.
Posted by Jo | June 29, 2012 4:17 PM
That's not asphalt, looks like rich compost from the green rollcarts.
Posted by umpire | June 29, 2012 5:36 PM
Jefferson Smith lives around the corner from me. If he gets elected, I'm hoping for more filled-in potholes and some actual sidewalks around here!
Posted by Michelle | June 29, 2012 7:34 PM
Look for the union label
Posted by tankfixer | June 29, 2012 7:48 PM
Jefferson Smith lives around the corner from me.
Not for long.
Posted by Jack Bog | June 29, 2012 8:00 PM