June 13 was notably cold and unusually rainy for a winter’s day in this part of the country. The entire day had a ready downpour and although rain is always welcome the streets became hazardous with potholes being camouflaged by the stream of rainwater running down the road.
The bus that stuck in the hole on Blanchville on June 13.
Sometime during that day a bus was doing its route in Blanchville when its entire front end got wedged in a hole big enough to fit half the buses’ front wheels and got covered up by the muddy puddle. Apparently the municipality had dug it to do repairs on a pipe and had not filled it correctly.
Libertas Street, the road where the bus got stuck, was known for being in a particularly bad condition and just a few streets away an entire section of the road gave way in April after heavy rains.
The hole was filled with sand the day after the incident.
No one was reportedly injured in the incident and the hole has since been filled with sand however the municipality could not be reached for comment. The bus company also declined to comment.
The incident highlights a bigger issue of the importance of road maintenance and that it is not just bad for our rims and tyres but half completed repairs jobs and growing potholes can be a safety risk as well.
