Tennessee launches hotline for pothole reports

After a very grueling 12 months for Tennessee drivers, the Division of Transportation is launching a brand new statewide hotline to report potholes.

• Callers can dial 833-TDOTFIX to report potholes on state roads. You can even make upkeep requests on-line.

Flashback: The hotline was created after the Common Meeting handed a legislation calling for a streamlined reporting system.

Between the traces: The state has a system to reimburse for some automotive injury brought on by potholes. However one of many necessities for a profitable declare is that the pothole in query should have been reported to the state earlier than the injury was finished to make sure the state had an opportunity to repair it.

• “If potholes have not been reported, these claims will be denied,” state Sen. Becky Duncan Massey (R-Knoxville) stated earlier this 12 months whereas explaining the laws behind the hotline.
• “There must be ease of reporting,” Massey stated. “That is the place we’re attempting to get to.”

By the numbers: There isn’t any doubt a chilly and moist winter made for a very tough wave of potholes this 12 months.

• Statewide, some 15,699 tons of asphalt materials have been used to patch potholes throughout the fiscal 12 months ending this month.
• TDOT has acquired 6,396 pothole work requests this fiscal 12 months. Greater than half of these requests have been in Davidson County.