Award-Winning Pothole of the Week Being "Destroyed" Today
Posted By WILL CAMPBELL On June 11, 2008 @ 12:27 pm In Biking in LA, Driving, Transportation, West Side | Comments Disabled
So last week I wrote stoked [1] about how the bad bit of road on southbound Sepulveda Boulevard in Culver City that I submitted to L.A. Times staffwriter Steve Hymon (who writes the Rode Sage column [2] in the paper/online and recently took over the Bottleneck Blog [3] online at latimes.com) was picked as the inaugural Pothole of the Week winner last Thursday.
Just six days later as I’m biking across Slauson toward that hazardous zone this morning I was even more stoked to find (pictured below) the right lane closed and several big ass Culver City pothole-eradicating vehicles (included some contraption known as an Asphalt Zipper [4]) on scene and getting prepped to hopefully end the streak of temporary patch jobs and get down to the business of making that stretch a bit more permanently smoother and safer. Power of the press, baby.
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I’m gonna pay a visit to the scene after work this afternoon to snap the progress made and I’ll post a pic of what I find after I get home.
UPDATE: Wow. Given the what it looked like before [8], I almost cried when I arrived at the thing of beauty before me (click to triplify):
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URL to article: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/11/award-winning-pothole-of-the-week-being-destroyed-today/
URLs in this post:
[1] I wrote stoked: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/05/im-the-pothole-of-the-week-award-winner/
[2] Rode Sage column: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/inland/la-me-roadsage-sg,0,6525098.storygallery
[3] Bottleneck Blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/
[4] Asphalt Zipper: http://www.asphaltzipper.com/
[5] Image: http://img.metblogs.com/la/files/2008/06/img_0519.jpg
[6] Image: http://img.metblogs.com/la/files/2008/06/img_0520.jpg
[7] Image: http://img.metblogs.com/la/files/2008/06/img_0521.jpg
[8] looked like before: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/06/pothole-of-the.html
[9] Image: http://img.metblogs.com/la/files/2008/06/repair.jpg
[10] Santa Monica Wins Bike Friendly Award. Local Cyclists Call Bullshit.: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/06/04/santa-monica-wins-bike-friendly-award-local-cyclists-call-bullshit/
[11] Strip Santa Monica of Bike Friendly Award?: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/07/09/strip-santa-monica-of-bike-friendly-award/
[12] A Week With TAP: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/01/31/a-week-with-tap/
[13] One week from tonight: Coop show opens at Corey Helford: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/05/22/one-week-from-tonight-coop-show-opens-at-corey-helford/
[14] Bed Bath and Beyond Recession?: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/12/17/bed-bath-and-beyond-recession/
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