Lincoln's pothole hotline: 441-7646
If that's busy, try: 441-6300.
If it's an OH MY GOD THAT HOLE JUST ATTAINED SENTIENCE AND ATE A CITY BUS emergency, call: 441-7701.
Please don't bother them will those little bumps and thumps on your favorite residential street. Not yet, anyway. Let's help them -- and our fellow Lincolnites -- by pointing City crews to the most awful of the potholes on the busiest roads first.
As I think about this, I'm starting to realize that we need an "unofficial" way to mark big potholes so that other drivers will see them early enough that they can react accordingly. I'm thinking of some kind of marker near the curb, not unlike the roadside crosses people leave at the spot of fatal accidents. A hubcap on a stick would be appropriate, but finding a big enough stick to make the hubcap noticeable can be tough. (Not to mention that jamming a big stick into frozen ground is no walk in the park.) Any ideas, Lincolnites?
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Bright orange spray paint inside the hole (the “graffiti” will get covered once they fill it).
Or build a snowman on the curb pointing & looking disapprovingly at it.
+1 for the snowman idea!
The problem with the spray paint idea is that the holes are often filled with water.
Hmmm - buy a bag of those bright yellow ping pong balls & drop one into a bad hole. They float. Rubber duckies would also work.
Maybe we can steal an idea from the Budweiser Super Bowl commercial, and find volunteers that would just lay in the largest holes and act as human bridges.
To combine two of today’s topics, we could start our search for volunteers with all the LJS posters that just don’t seem to have a handle on reality, and we can use them to be our pothole bridges.
I have taken to looking for the hubcaps…
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