via News5: After a weekend warm up and colder temps on the way, road crews across northeast Ohio are trying to tackle some serious rim-rattling potholes. That job can and has put workers in dicey situations as cars zoom by. “Patching holes… It’s always a dangerous job out here,” said ODOT Highway Technician Frank Tamburello. […]
Residents say there are just too many potholes to count on their streets. The City of Cleveland said it plans to resurface dozens of them over the next several months. The City of Cleveland maintains about 10,200 main and residential streets. Only about 70 local streets are being resurfaced this year. Residents on Invermere Avenue […]
East Cleveland has some of the worst street conditions in northeast Ohio, and it has some residents wondering why the city pothole patching equipment isn’t on the road. Neighborhood activist Charles Holmes told newsnet5.com he learned from street department employees the city rolling machine and hot asphalt carrier have been missing for nearly a year. […]
NewsChannel 5 Investigators have uncovered that a new 2016 master plan for Cleveland street repairs and pothole filling will be coming out next week. We checked on some problem spots today to see how some of last year’s plan worked out. “Man, it feels terrible. If you don’t slow down, your whole car will fall […]
Cleveland denied double the number of pothole claims than it approved in 2015, according to statistics from the city. “With the large percentage of them [claims] not being validated, why weren’t they validated?” questioned Cleveland City Councilman Zack Reed. Reed has been an outspoken opponent of the pothole claims process, a process where the number […]
The verdict is in: northeast Ohio roads are terrible. Truck drivers know better than most. “This is a brand new truck and when I hit a pothole it feels like I’m going to fly off the road. They are really big,” complained trucker Pam Pendergrass. If that wasn’t enough, the national transportation research groupTRIP released a study […]
It’s that time of the year when your car may experience extensive damage driving over pothole-ridden roads. You have a few options if you want to file a pothole claim against the City of Cleveland. There are several steps you need in order to be successful, and even then, you might not get what […]
The city’s Chief Operating Officer Darnell Brown and Director of Public Works Michael Cox held a press conference today at Palda Drive and Wyatt Road to discuss how Cleveland will tackle its pothole issue. Today was the first day of the season for Pothole Killer in Cleveland. Brown said two Pothole Killer units will work […]
It’s that time of the year when your car may experience extensive damage driving over pothole-ridden roads. You have a few options if you want to file a pothole claim against the City of Cleveland. There are several steps you need in order to be successful, and even then, you might not get […]
Several Cleveland city council members grilled leaders in Mayor Jackson’s administration about the pothole problem plaguing the city. The council’s public works committee asked Paul Barnett, the interim streets director and Darnell Brown, the city’s Chief Operating Officer why city streets are in such poor shape. Many council members say they are getting flooded with […]
Residents around Superior Elementary continue fighting to drive on safe roads on East Cleveland. Several residents took their complaints to the Ward 2 coalition meeting Monday night at Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church. The city has already received several claims for people asking for reimbursements from damage to their car due to potholes like […]
The complaints continue about an East Cleveland school that is surrounded by potholes. One block of Lambert street right outside Superior Elementary school had about a dozen potholes. Some as deep as five inches, some as wide as eight feet and some as long as 15 feet. That’s big enough to fit a Ford Focus […]
