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VDOT enlists
'hole' patrol
After an unusually mild January, many people were beginning to think winter had forgotten all about Virginia this year. At the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), road construction continued unabated in the warm January temperaturs. Then, almost as an afterthought, February and March unleashed a couple of late winter storms.
In baseball terms, January was a soft pop fly followed by the hard line drives of February and March The winter of 1989 finally got on the scoreboard.
VDOT road repair crews are going about the business of finding and fixing potholes and, again this year, the public has been invited to join in the search. One week before ^Te °fficial beginning of spring, VDOl commissioner Ray D. Pethtel provided radio stations in Virginia with a series of three public service announcements aimed at enlisting Virginia motorists in a “pothole patrol. What the commissioner says in these announcements is, “you'find ’em, we’ll fix ’em.”
Motorists in Virginia can reporU potholes on state-maintained hiehf ways by calling the toll-free HitruT - way Helpline (toll-free) at (800) 3€7- 1 ROAD. Said Commissioner Pethtel “We know potholes are going to api pear this time of year, and we’re looking for them. But, when motorists find them before we do we kp predate their reporting it, and we have a toll-free number to make that reporting easier.”
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