[February 10, 2010] See a pothole? Record its spot Tweet Feb 10, 2010 (The News and Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Have you hit a bad pothole in the past week? Here's what you can do about it: 1. Pinpoint your pothole -- and check out all the others -- on our collaborative Google map, "Triangle Potholes, 2010 Edition." Find the map online at blogs.newsobser ver.com/crosstown/ . 2. Report your pothole to city and state Department of Transportation road crews, so they can fix it. Be prepared to give a detailed description and location. City and NCDOT road crews split the job of pothole patching. If you happen to contact the wrong folks, they'll relay your message to the right place. City-maintained streets Raleigh: 996-6446 or sende-mail to [email protected]. Cary: 469-4090 or sende-mail to [email protected]. Durham: 560-1177 or click the online request form at www.durhamnc.gov/ departments/onecall/ . Chapel Hill: 968-2796 or send e-mail to [email protected]. State-maintained roads and streets Contact NCDOT for rural and other state-maintained roads, many of them insidecity limits. For a quick response, call your county NCDOT maintenance yard: Wake County at 733-4768, Durham County at 477-2814, Johnston County at 934-6176 or Orange County at 732-0856 Or call NCDOT customer service: 877-368-4968. You also can contact the NCDOT maintenance office in your county online at www.ncdot.gov/contact/. Go to "Road Report" and click the drop-down menu to choose your county. You'll get an online form for reporting your pothole problem. To see more of The News & Observer, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.newsobserver.com. Copyright (c) 2010, The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]