With Los Angeles experiencing above-average rainfall this year, City Councilwoman Nury Martinez said today that $250,000 should be used to conduct a "pothole blitz" to fix road hazards created by the wet weather season.
"Due to the recent heavy rains, streets across Los Angeles have been inundated with potholes. For the security of our city, we need to fix these as soon as possible," Martinez said. "While resources like MyLA311 have enabled our residents to report some of these potholes, the high number of potholes on our roads remains an urgent matter of pedestrian and driver safety, and cannot wait."
Martinez introduced a motion which says the Bureau of Street Services received 3,911 pothole repair requests in January and is on pace to receive even more in February.
The motion also says that the MyLA311 mobile app and phone number is the primary way the city receives pothole repair requests, but that many communities are not "as savvy or educated in using MyLA311" as others, and that the city should proactively send crews out to identify unreported potholes over four upcoming weekends.
