There may or may not be a lot more potholes after this year’s wintry winter, but it sure seems like we’re dodging more of them, and more of them certainly are being reported.
“We definitely have received more calls than we typically do,” said Aaron Henning, maintenance engineer for the city of Wichita. The city usually receives about 1,000 pothole reports a year; by the third week of March the number was already more than 700.
In addition to filling potholes that have been reported, the city scouts them out, too, and about 11,000 of them were patched in January and February this year. That’s a lot more than last year in that time frame — 8,400 — but less than in 2017, when just more than 12,000 were filled in January and February.
Henning is not sure what’s up.
“We have seen a huge uptick in the number that are being reported. It might be because we have a lot of different and probably more convenient ways for citizens to report potholes now. It could also be we have more in areas that are perhaps more visible, I don’t know.
(Read more: Wichita Eagle)