WINNIPEG – City officials are already under pressure to fix frozen pipes and broken water mains; now they’re also being pushed to fill potholes faster.
The Canadian Automobile Association sent a news release Monday calling on the City of Winnipeg “to lay out its plan to tackle the ever-growing pothole problem that is unfolding on Winnipeg streets.”
The temperature is finally warm enough for the city’s pothole patching machines to be put into use and motorists shouldn’t be left waiting to find out where and when they’ll be deployed, CAA said. So far this year crews have only been able to fill potholes by hand with shovels full of loose asphalt.
“Winnipeggers need to hear from city hall what the plan is before the dangerous craters even start to form,” Mike Mager, president and CEO of CAA Manitoba, said in a news release. “I had expected the city would come out and proactively tell Winnipeggers about their plan of attack.”
It is shaping up to be one of the worst pothole seasons ever, Mager said, though CAA didn’t say what that assessment is based on. Mager pointed to St. James Street as an example of a dangerously pothole-pitted road in Winnipeg.
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