PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — As winter begins to wind down, PennDOT is dedicating crews to fix the pothole problems that plague the Philadelphia region.
As of March 7, PennDOT says it has received more than 3,800 pothole reports from drivers in the Philadelphia five-county area.
According to Helen Reinbrecht, the community relations coordinator at PennDOT, most of the pothole complaints have come from Montgomery and Bucks counties.
“We have a lot of potholes out there, and we’re really glad people are letting us know about them,” Reinbrecht said in an interview.
This week, PennDOT maintenance crews are working to repair deteriorated pavement on more than 30 state highways.
Since January 1, they have used more than 740 tons of asphalt across the five-county Philadelphia region to patch up the problem spots.
“Potholes are our number one priority in maintenance,” Reinbrecht said, “Pretty much almost every day our maintenance crews, or even multiple crews in a county, are going out and working on pothole repairs.”
However, pothole problems still persist throughout the region.
Action News spoke with Jack Redfern, of Northeast Philadelphia, who said he popped a tire after running over a pothole on the 95 South Packer Avenue exit in South Philadelphia.
“I hit a pothole – a huge pothole,” Redfern said. “Actually, pothole would be kind of an understatement. It’s more of a crater.”
Because he takes that particular exit to get to work every day, Redern contacted PennDOT to let them know about the issue.
In the two weeks since, he said the potholes haven’t been addressed. According to Redern, some of his coworkers have also sustained car damage because of the potholes.
“If the few people where I work at have damage, I can only imagine how many others have it,” he said. “You report something and you want it to get better. It hasn’t gotten better. It’s gotten worse.”
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