You’re driving down a street in the Richmond District, minding your own business, maybe humming along to the song on your radio when, BAM, your wheel hits a pothole, rattling your vehicle and making you grit your teeth in frustration. Inevitably you ask, “Why can’t this city keep our roads in good shape?”.
You may remember the first iteration of the #FewerPotholes campaign in 2017, spearheaded by District 1 Supervisor Sandra Fewer. Well, it’s game on again!
This June will be “Fewer Potholes Monthâ in the Richmond District and once again Public Works has committed a repair crew EXCLUSIVELY to the neighborhood for the month to repair all potholes reported by residents.
So now it’s your turn to pitch in with your pothole reports!
Fill out the form below (alternate link) for each pothole you want repaired. All we need is the closest street address to the offending hole (e.g. 123 Clement St). There’s no limit to the number of potholes you can report. As long as you submit it by May 20, SFPW will review the pothole report and make the repair.
A little clarification: a pothole is a defect in the street pavement, formally defined as “a depression or hollow in a road surface caused by wear or subsidence”. The “Fewer Potholes Month” campaign is seeking reports of potholes, not street repaving or sidewalk repairs. Please only use the form to report potholes that you find on the roadway within the Richmond District.
Last year we received 60 (valid) pothole reports as part of #FewerPotholes, but we think we can exceed that this year, don’t you? So get out there and find those potholes!
To report them, fill out the form below (alternate link) by May 20, and then watch the repair happen in June.
We also learned from Supervisor Sandra Fewer that Caltrans will begin repaving Park Presidio / Highway 1:
The Park Presidio / Hwy 1 project is scheduled to begin in mid to late May 2019 to pave two sections of Route 1 in San Francisco, including a one-mile section stretching from the San Mateo-San Francisco county line to Holloway Avenue, and a three-mile stretch between Lincoln Way and Park Presidio Avenue. The roadway between Holloway Avenue and Lincoln Way will be paved after the City of San Francisco completes a sewer and water pipeline upgrade in the corridor. To avoid traffic impacts, paving will be done at night, between 9:00 PM and 6:00 AM. The project is scheduled to take approximately one year to complete.
Sarah B.
I’m not just trying to be negative, but the issue isn’t so much gaping potholes – it’s the fact that mid-Richmond Geary Blvd. has been in terrible shape for a DECADE now, despite much rallying to get it fixed. There aren’t any actual potholes there, but it’s VERY rough riding in car, bus, or certainly bicycle or motorcycle. It is DANGEROUS. It is driving traffic off Geary to residential side streets, and these drivers are running people over. Meanwhile random side streets that had no issues are being repaved. Fewer got a random patchwork repaved in response to complaints, with other bad areas OFTEN ON THE SAME BLOCK randomly left unpaved. I. Don’t. Get. It. I think Fewer is a good person, but she will not be receiving my vote next time around, due to this issue. Every time I see a local politician grandstanding with regard to some local or national issue, I think ‘Is this where the energy that needs to be putting into minding our own backyard is going?’ We have an $11B budget, but you wouldn’t know it. Looking forward to getting some more pragmatic, less ideological leaders in our city government in future years.
I appreciate the effort to improve our streets and I just offered about 16 places that need repair haha.. thank you, Supervisor, for your attention to our streets! As a cyclist, I agree with many of the first commentator’s statements about side streets becoming more dangerous and delivery trucks speeding down side streets and barely stopping at signs. Cops could easily meet their monthly ticket quotas if they watched some of these intersections.
In addition to broken roadways in the Richmond, I truly wish the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge could be repaved!!! The road is dangerously broken, luckily I have most of the potholes memorized for my daily commute to Marin, otherwise I would need to constantly check my tires. I’m not sure how the bridge toll remains so high (with talk of increasing it Again?!) and yet the very basics are being neglected. Giant mess of potholes on a bridge = scary.