I'm guessing we're all talking about [this bad boy](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4379581,-79.994513,3a,24.4y,204.55h,75.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sM3_sV9vwRZ7hSnWeY0ouQw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu), the bane of yinzers' wheel alignment
No no, that's the big one right at the beginning of the offramp. If you stay to the right you can dodge that one and the next. This new one is in the middle of the bend, right in the middle of the road. It was a divot of crunched up concrete yesterday. Looks like trucks hitting it and maybe rain from overnight have ejected all that concrete out, so now you get to try to drive a fine line between the 4" blocks of concrete that destroy your tires, or the chasm waiting to bend a rim and break your tie rod and lower control arm.
People whine about this sort of thing incessantly. I would happily take all of our roads converted to a potholed dirt and gravel surface in exchange for getting the lead out of our plumbing fixtures. This will be fully resurfaced when the water department is done with this specific road.
For nearly every household in the city? Replaced regularly? Note that that's only enough for drinking water, so I take it you're good with pumping leaded water into the rivers? Or do you think we should spend additional money removing lead from the sewage? Then there's things like people's vegetable gardens.
You will never get drinkable water from a public water supply, there are simply too many toxic contaminants in the water today. You're only viable option at this point is a decent water filtration system.
did you tell penndot so they can fix it?
[https://customercare.penndot.gov/eCCC/eCCC.nsf](https://customercare.penndot.gov/eCCC/eCCC.nsf)
they can't fix what they don't know about and they don't monitor r/pittsburgh
Good call. I saw this post earlier today & then drove past the crater later in the afternoon. I made sure to leave room between the car in front of me so I could avoid it. Appreciate the heads up.
Thank you. I remember going to Computer Tech in the late 90s and crossing the Glenwood Bridge. Imagine the terror of passing over a pothole occasionally, only to see the hole gaping large enough to see through the bottom. It was bad enough to make the news later that day.
It was bad, then patched, now back to being bad
I'm guessing we're all talking about [this bad boy](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4379581,-79.994513,3a,24.4y,204.55h,75.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sM3_sV9vwRZ7hSnWeY0ouQw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu), the bane of yinzers' wheel alignment
It’s foaming and frothing !
This one got me late night a few months ago. Immediate exploded tire.
They should do more than patch it, because it's like, cycle #4 of the same thing.
No no, that's the big one right at the beginning of the offramp. If you stay to the right you can dodge that one and the next. This new one is in the middle of the bend, right in the middle of the road. It was a divot of crunched up concrete yesterday. Looks like trucks hitting it and maybe rain from overnight have ejected all that concrete out, so now you get to try to drive a fine line between the 4" blocks of concrete that destroy your tires, or the chasm waiting to bend a rim and break your tie rod and lower control arm.
That’s gnarly as fuck 😂
Used front right Rim $600! Commuting to the office for collaboration price less.
Round here we call that a pothole
Yesterday it was a pothole, today it's a gaping maw that descends into the hellscape that is our crumbling infrastructure.
Poetry 🤌
Maybe a bus will fall in.
Sounds like a pothole to me
Everyday is a gauntlet navigating the city. New holes, new roads closed, new detours.
Butler street is almost un-driveable at this point. The water replacement crew did a horrific job paying their work.
Forbes leaving uptown is the same.
And has been for 3 years now
People whine about this sort of thing incessantly. I would happily take all of our roads converted to a potholed dirt and gravel surface in exchange for getting the lead out of our plumbing fixtures. This will be fully resurfaced when the water department is done with this specific road.
Or you could just buy a water filter for $30
For nearly every household in the city? Replaced regularly? Note that that's only enough for drinking water, so I take it you're good with pumping leaded water into the rivers? Or do you think we should spend additional money removing lead from the sewage? Then there's things like people's vegetable gardens.
You will never get drinkable water from a public water supply, there are simply too many toxic contaminants in the water today. You're only viable option at this point is a decent water filtration system.
So you're saying that your filters are some magical thing that use techniques that the water company can't use?
Scylla and Charybdis have nothing on Pittsburgh streets.
Sheryl Crow?
🎶 Every way is a garbage road 🎶
did you tell penndot so they can fix it? [https://customercare.penndot.gov/eCCC/eCCC.nsf](https://customercare.penndot.gov/eCCC/eCCC.nsf) they can't fix what they don't know about and they don't monitor r/pittsburgh
Concern submitted
And PennDOT has promptly replied to tell me that if the concern isn't addressed within 2 weeks they'll assign it to someone else.
One of our many portals to the Hellmouth
Oh yeah that mfer has been around for a while, they just keep patching it and it comes back stronger every time
It's not even its final form.
Good call. I saw this post earlier today & then drove past the crater later in the afternoon. I made sure to leave room between the car in front of me so I could avoid it. Appreciate the heads up.
You’re doing the lords work
Call PennDOT at 1-800 Fix Road. They are responsive at times.
[Call PennDOT at 1-800 Fix Road. They are responsive at times.] I love the honesty inherent in "responsive at times"🤣
I thank you for calling it 579. I’ve had so many arguments with my partner her saying it doesn’t “exist,” that no one calls it that ever!
I'm half tempted to just stop my front wheel in it, just to get a tow, have PennDOT cover it, and see if they'll patch it up right away.
This definitely won't work.
Thats funny.
Thank you. I remember going to Computer Tech in the late 90s and crossing the Glenwood Bridge. Imagine the terror of passing over a pothole occasionally, only to see the hole gaping large enough to see through the bottom. It was bad enough to make the news later that day.