On the Road to Filling 2 Million Potholes

City crews filled about 24,000 potholes in the largest "operation pothole" event to date, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Monday.

About 150 Bureau of Street Services crews fanned out across the city over the weekend to do the work.

"For many Angelenos, quality of life directly correlates with the quality of their daily commute," Villaraigosa said. "By filling potholes this weekend, we have helped improve our streets, reduced the amount of time residents spend in their cars as well as how much money they spend on auto repairs."

Since May 14, the mayor's office received over 4,000 requests to fill potholes after Villaraigosa issued a public call for people to report particularly bad trouble spots, according to Rachel Kruer, a spokesperson for the mayor.

Of those requests, crews have been able to fill about 3,000 of them.

"We definitely had a large outpouring," Kruer said.

Villaraigosa's 2011-12 city budget, which he signed into law last week, included money to fill about 300,000 potholes in the coming year, an increase of about 20 percent over the previous year. The city is on target to hit 2 million filled potholes soon, Kruer said.

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People can call the city's information number, 311, to request a pothole be filled in their neighborhood.

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