{"id":3008,"date":"2014-03-13T12:13:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2014-03-13T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:15:52","slug":"pothole-talk-from-the-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2014\/03\/pothole-talk-from-the-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pothole talk from the Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3009\" alt=\"WESA_Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/WESA_Logo.png\" width=\"202\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday on WESA, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto talked about the transportation system in the city which included a segment on potholes and repairs in addition to the whole public transit talk. The most relevant info is in the first 7 minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wesa.fm\/post\/mayor-bill-peduto-responds-pittsburghers-transportation-questions\" target=\"_blank\"><!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was listening to this live and almost called in myself until I realized that I was driving and would definitely get distracted and probably crash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wesa.fm\/post\/mayor-bill-peduto-responds-pittsburghers-transportation-questions\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wesa.fm\/post\/mayor-bill-peduto-responds-pittsburghers-transportation-questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Relevant highlights that I caught:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan to fix potholes within 72 hours. This is a change from the 1-4 week that he claims it used to be (or not at all for us).<\/li>\n<li>Potholes will be squared, filled and sealed instead of just dumping hot asphalt in the hole which does not last and is very lumpy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not a whole lot of info, and so far there is no reason to believe that it will actually happen (definitely not for this year), but it&#8217;s definitely nice to see it being addressed.<\/p>\n<p>If you know of any potholes that need fixing, the pothole reporting form got consolidated to this site:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghpa.gov\/311\/form\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pittsburghpa.gov\/311\/form\/<\/a>. To report a pothole, scroll down to the Incident Information section, and choose &#8220;potholes&#8221; in the topic of concern pull-down menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday on WESA, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto talked about the transportation system in the city which included a segment on potholes and repairs in addition to the whole public transit talk. The most relevant info is in the first 7 minutes or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest-buggy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}