I bet you haven’t heard about the Nashville potholes yet. Have you? My God, the potholes are downright out of control this year. Just look at that featured image and tell me they aren’t littering the streets of Nashville. The potholes have become one with the city. We, Nashville, are the potholes. In fact, I’m going to start campaigning for our MLS team to be named the Nashville Potholes. Why not?
Drivers in Nashville convinced that their travels around the city have been particularly jolting have the numbers to back them up.
Since the start of the year, Metro has had 80 percent more potholes to fill, according to city data.
That’s 9,179 potholes, compared with 5,087 in 2017.
Nearly 10,000 potholes. Holy shit. I don’t have to get out on the interstates to travel for work, but man do I feel sorry for those of you that do. It’s like a veritable game of Frogger to navigate all of that.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve logged in to social media and seen a friend post a photo of a flat tire or rant about all the potholes on the road on the way to work. At this point, I can’t wait for the weather to warm up so people will start talking about the weather in the break room instead of the potholes. Potholes. Potholes, potholes, potholes.
In the Middle Tennessee region, TDOT has spent 141 percent more on pothole patching this fiscal year than it had at the same point in 2017, jumping from just over $500,000 at this time last year to more than $1.2 million.
If there’s a particularly dangerous or problematic pothole, the city will prioritize it. Otherwise, the 12 to 18 employees the city has out working on potholes each day will work through the stack, generally sticking to their assigned area of the city
Almost 10,000 potholes in the city and y’all got 12-18 people working on it?!?! What have we done to anger the pothole Gods?!?!
Oh my, these Nashville potholes. Finally, I guess we’ll be responsible journalists and include this bit here:
To report a pothole on a Metro-maintained street, call 311 or 615-862-5000, or go online to hub.nashville.gov to file a report.
On the interstate, contact TDOT’s Region 3 office at 615-350-4300 or email TDOT.Comments@tn.gov.
And, in case you missed it, there are potholes in Nashville.
Potholes.
Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD and #BeBetter. “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Alabama Crimson Tide football, the WWE, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley
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