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Newer technologies are reinventing how we fix crumbling infrastructure – in particular, potholes. Cars, bikes, garbage trucks, and…

Cities & CommunitiesJune 5, 2017

More than just a few municipalities are throwing in the towel on bad pavement. Replacing their potholes are gravel and dirt roads…

Cities & CommunitiesSeptember 2, 2016

Everyone loves Canada and Canadians. But it seems their potholes are very sad and very neglected.

Cities & CommunitiesApril 6, 2016

Maintenance costs for a road connecting small communities in the Hudson Bay region were cut in 2015 and the predictable increase…

Cities & CommunitiesAugust 31, 2015

We've always heard the squeaky wheel gets the grease. In Panama City, Panama it's the tweeting potholes that get fixed. The city…

Cities & CommunitiesAugust 20, 2015

American motorists should know that pothole problems are not limited to the United States. Pavement is pavement, all over the…

Cities & CommunitiesMarch 19, 2015

With an accumulation of almost eight feet of snow so far in the winter of 2014-2015, the City of Boston is still trying to figure…

Cities & CommunitiesFebruary 20, 2015

For anyone visiting Montreal, it is difficult to miss the artwork of Roadsworth, a.k.a. Peter Gibson. That's because the artist's…

Cities & CommunitiesAugust 14, 2014

The Spring 2014 pothole epidemic is being felt in the mid-South, including Memphis, Tennessee where station WHBQ-TV/Fox 13 brought…

Cities & CommunitiesMay 2, 2014

The story of spring potholes in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2014 might be told in terms of road salt tonnage. Because what was used…

Cities & CommunitiesApril 9, 2014

Where do serious pothole reporters turn to for historical pothole information? Pothole.info, of course! But seriously, Jessica…

Cities & CommunitiesMarch 25, 2014

Citizen reporting becoming a seasonal rite Owing perhaps to a certain mentality that says "fix it now," several American cities…

Cities & CommunitiesApril 26, 2013