It’s finally summer and if you live anywhere where temperatures fall below the freezing point then you know what appears in the spring: potholes.
They’re pretty much the bane of every driver’s existence.
Potholes are an inevitable part of the seasons and just something you have to deal with, but it can often feel like a city is dragging its heels when it comes to fixing them.
If you’ve ever had to clean up around your home in the spring, imagine what it’s like with a whole city.
You may need to clean up leftover leaves from last fall, pick up trash that was blown in and hidden under blizzard drifts, or even patch your driveway.
It’s a lot of work, right?
A city knows the season is coming and should be able to budget accordingly and plan to hire plenty of crews to get things cleaned up ASAP.
As residents, we’re most likely to be affected by issues in our own neighborhood.
When a giant, car-breaking pothole sits at the end of your street for two weeks, you’re going to start wondering if it will ever be fixed.
You can call and report it, but that doesn’t mean your particular pothole will rise to the top of the priority list.
Potholes are pretty much landmarks at this point. See a pothole in childhood, and you’ll very likely get the chance to point it out to your kids twenty years later.
One neighborhood was sick of dodging potholes that hadn’t been fixed for more than a year.
They’d complained multiple times, but when the wait stretched too long, someone took the matter into their own hands.
Someone took a couple of cans of spray paint and drew wieners around every pothole.
I mean…that’s one way to get things done!
It may not be the most beautiful street art, but it does the job. Everyone has a skill set that they can use to change their world for the better.
Though it WAS a risky move.
There was a high chance that he could’ve gotten in trouble for the graffiti and the city still wouldn’t have fixed the pot holes.
But desperate times call for desperate measures, and sometimes you just gotta take that chance.
Within a couple of days, every single dick was gone and the potholes with them.
In this pic shared by resident Brad Nicholson, you can see how the potholes would have been really hard to avoid when coming around that corner.
All that middle school training served a purpose!
This is a clap back at every teacher who got you in trouble for doodling penises on your tests. Who says school doesn’t teach you anything useful?
“The power of the Willy,” Nicholson captioned his photo.
The Middlesbrough Council told the BBC that repairs are done based on priority.
“Middlesbrough, like all local authority areas in the country, has issues with potholes and repairs are carried out on a priority basis determined by the risk they pose to highway users.”
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They continued to say that they already had crews in the area for repairs when the members appeared.
“Currently, however, we are carrying out pre-planned works in the Acklam area and staff were able to visit the nearby site on Fane Grove when the matter was reported to us and have patched over the hole.”
That seems awfully convenient to me. Just admit that it was the art.
Either way, we’re glad that the city finally addressed the problem.