Pothole Problems: CDOT Fixes More than 3,500 in Lake View (MAP)

With rapid weather changes, come potholes.

For Lake View—and Chicago, overall—that means a lot of them. But the Chicago Department of Transportation recently announced that it filled more than 100,000 potholes in March alone. That's 36,000 more than in the same month of 2012.

In Lake View, workers have been busy working to smooth out the bumps. They took 361 Chicago 311 requests and reportedly filled 3,507 pot holes so far this year, according to City of Chicago data.

The most pot holes were filled on the 3400 block of Lakewood Avenue when crews filled 67 pits on March 18. 

"An average of 6,000 potholes a day have been filled by 27 crews working for the Chicago Department of Transportation, said department spokesman Peter Scales," according to a Sun-Times Media report. "March is traditionally the busiest pothole month of the year ..."

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A new scheduling format last year helped city staff remove a backlog of more than 3,700 potholes, according to a city news release.

“In addition to adopting new efficiencies, we are addressing the core problem of potholes, which is streets whose surfaces are in need of repair or complete resurfacing,”said Gabe Klein, commissioner for the department, in the release.

“ ... We continue to aggressively fill and repair potholes, which cause traffic problems and delays and pose dangers to pedestrians and bicyclists."

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