A municipal work crew smooths out a rough road side patch in Saint John. (Photo credit: City of Saint John)
The drive to work for some has improved, but according to a City of Saint John spokesperson, there’s still plenty of seasonal road repair to go.
The City of Saint John provided an update this week on the pothole agenda for municipal crews, who have been hard at work repairing potholes on a priority basis since repair season began on April 19.
Corporate Communications with the City of Saint John, Lisa Caissie, says workers have already put out about 214 tonnes of asphalt with six crews working to repair potholes daily.
“Last month, we asked the public to help us by reporting potholes so that we could generate an accurate list of priority areas. Thanks to public reporting, over 1,000 potholes have been documented to date, and crews have already been able to repair 300,” Caissie relayed Tuesday in a release.
Caissie says next up is road painting, with that work waiting on the patching of what’s left for potholes, adding the public can expect to see crews repairing potholes in the uptown area this week.
She says reporting a pothole generates a work order for city crews to address the damaged road in order of priority and as quickly as possible.
Work orders for pothole repairs can be generated one of two ways, either through reports from road users; or through logs generated by city crews.
Residents can still report any new pothole they find, by calling the city’s Customer Service Centre at (506) 658-4455, reporting them in person at City Hall, or by completing a service request form on the city’s website, or emailing the request to: service@saintjohn.ca.
