May 19, 2006
Now That's Service -- District Fixes Notorious Pothole
Yesterday we complained about a particularly vicious set of potholes by Pennsylvania Avenue and 24th Street in Foggy Bottom, begging the District to finally fill the worst of the offenders so as to spare pedestrians the inevitable daily splashing as cars drive by.
Well, they seem to have listened.
As we walked to the Foggy Bottom Metro station yesterday afternoon, we quickly took a glimpse at the potholes, expecting them to have remained there, untouched. But the largest of the potholes was gone. It had been fixed. Years of carefully dodging it had finally come to an end.
We're not saying we had anything to do with it getting fixed. But we applaud the District for finally getting it done.
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"We're not saying we had anything to do with it getting fixed."
Curious timing, though, wouldn't you say? How about putting in a request for fixing the street around where 9th and Sherman intersect by the new mega-condoplex? When you're hot, you're hot.
Squeaky wheel.
I doubt someone from the city actually reads or looks at the DCIST, maybe I'm wrong. I mean that would require them to care and actually be looking at public opinion and respons, and that takes too much work as we all know.
But thanks DCist for starting something important.
There's a lot of rust out there!
Sweet. Can you get them to fix the ones on Canal Rd. as you leave Georgetown now? They've already given me one flat tire, and slaloming around them in the face of oncoming traffic, while exhilirating, is something I could do without.
On second thought, I'll throw out a conspiracy theory and bold accusation: DCist knew damn well - no doubt from high-up, well-connected sources inside the District political machine - that the potholes were to be fixed.
But rather than tell us yesterday, DCists editors conjured up the previous complaint "article" as a means of setting us up to believe it wields amazing power.
Your denial of such power only further works to legitimize this conspiracy.
I'm sure it was because it was posted on here. It couldn't possibly be because someone actually called the city to report it. Obviously complaining on your blog is far more effective than actually doing anything about it.
Dental_Floss Tycoon:
I was actually introduced to DCist by someone who works for the DC government. So at least one person there reads this.
Jesus Christ. Always. There is always someone who has to chime in with that smart-ass attitude that takes what we sometimes write WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. My claim that D.C. might have worked on the pothole because of what we wrote was A JOKE. Apparently, it was lost on some people.
I pray that was directed at Seriously, Martin, and not at my own brand of smart-assedness, which was purely intended for light-hearted, Friday-morning comedy.
I read DCist because it beats the crap out of actually doing my job, and no one can really tell the difference. Mayhaps a DC public works official was goofing off on the internets and was startled to find that his job followed him here. That must have been disconcerting.
I'm a DC employee and I know of at least 3 other folks in my department who read DCist. We don't do the pothole fixing, but who knows, maybe they read it too.
Umm..hey DCist, maybe you can start a "pothole of the week" feature and keep score about how fast they get fixed. The nurrds who post on this blog (I include myself) would love it!
I nominate the entire two blocks of I street between 12th and 14th streets. There are so many potholes, the city may as well just start over.
you know, they must be on a pothole fixing binge. the alley behind NGS HQ (what would be an extension of Desales Street, as it were) had it's axle-eating potholes filled too.
now, if they can just do something about T St NW from 15th to 14th....
they fixed that REALLY awful pothole on the 14th st bridge... yay dc!