It may not seem so as you swerve around yet another giant pothole in the street, but the city has been filling many potholes around town in recent weeks. Recently, SDOT launched an interactive map tracking pending and completed pothole repairs around the city.
Potholes on the Hill as of Feb 9
Blue dots are reported potholes that have yet to be addressed, and green dots represent potholes that have been filled within the last 90 days. Crews have been particularly hard at work on 15th Ave E and Broadway, according to the map. Today, they seem to be working on Aloha, which still has several blue dots left.
Help your neighbors out and report any potholes you encounter to the city online.
Your screen clipping cuts off Bellevue Ave. That’s a pretty key Capitol Hill street. And has a bunch of potholes on it.
That steep section heading uphill towards the Harvard Exit is outta control. Glad to see they’re going to fix it someday…
Just click on the actual interactive map and you can see Bellevue quite clearly. The screen grab is just for a demo it seems.
The current administration has been doing a terrible job maintaining the streets for at least a year.
SDOT’s page claims “Our goal is to repair potholes within three business days of receiving a report.” If we judge them by their own standard they are not a success. The pothole I reported last month at Harvard & Thomas is still there.
David, I think that’s been taken care of…if it’s the very large pothole just SE of the traffic island in that intersection you are talking about. SDOT repaved that entire area and for now it’s ok.
The real problem is that our street maintenance, and by that I mean repaving problem areas (not just filling potholes), has been neglected for decades. Each mayoral administration has just “kicked the can down the road” by not allocating enough money to take care of this basic city function, and the end result are the “pothole outbreaks” like the recent one this winter. Filling potholes is only a temporary solution…most of them open up again within months.
As I drive around on our deplorable streets, I feel embarrassed for Seattle..in some places it’s like a third-world city…and a little angry that our City government has failed so miserably to correct this problem.
Please tell me you mean they intend to repave the whole thing? Please? :)
At the least, the clusterf*%$! of potholes right as you head up Belmont/Roy on to the hill is driving me crazy. There’s no way to avoid it.
I think this winter has been particularly hard on the streets. This is easily the worst I’ve ever seen them.
I agree that road infrastructure often gets the short end of the stick, but “it’s like a third-world city”? Really? Try driving through Detroit sometime, and you’ll think Seattle streets are smooth as butta.
I’d love to see the pavement go away and just repair the brick thats still under all of it. Notice how that’s always where the potholes bottom out?
Brick streets are also way easier to maintain. I saw one city worker in the Netherlands literally laying bricks by himself and sandblasting. He did about a block a day.
Well, all is relative I guess, but Seattle is not Detroit. We should expect, and demand, much smoother streets than we have today.
I can’t agree more with Uncle Vinny and Hillster. That street is totally beyond need of pothole repair and desparately needs to be re-paved. Its not even “holes” anymore but big swaths of cobblesonte street that shows through. I’ve been biking down that road to work every day for the past three years and despite occaisional pothole filling, it just continues to deteriorate. Please! It’s so dangerous to the cyclists and is a major route down Capitol Hill for downtown bike commuters.
Waiting for the eastbound bus on Olive Way between Harvard and Broadway, I’ve noticed part of road has cracked and settled about 4 or 5 inches below surface level. Cars don’t see this driving up the hill and I’d be surprised if this hasn’t caused cars to bottom out or worse.
If you can help it, try to stay in the left lane if you’re driving this route.
(In the very least they could put up a temporary sign saying “bump” to warn people. How hard can that be?)