There may be fewer cars tearing up city streets this spring due to COVID-19, but that doesn’t appear to have put much of a dent in Winnipeg’s annual battle with potholes.
Michael Cantor, who heads up street maintenance with the City of Winnipeg, says it’s been pretty well business as usual for city crews this year. “So far we’ve patched around 43,000 potholes and last year for the same period was 47,000, so it’s a little bit lower than last year, but not significant,” Cantor tells Global News.
But with fewer eyes on the streets, there has been a drop in reports of the pesky road ruts. According to city data, 311 fielded 889 pothole-related service requests in April, down from the 1,155 pothole calls they took in April 2019.