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Just thought I would throw this out there for those trying to avoid a flat tire. I saw it happen yesterday. About two blocks east of 34th street on Park Avenue is a NASTY pothole that WILL do damage.  
 
Please slow down and watch out for this one. It is dangerous and is filling with water during the day! You won't see it until you hit it!  
 
I have notified the city twice now about this one. I have no clue if they will do anything about it!  
 
Be careful out there!

Why don’t you report to the city on their website? I have a couple times and they are very quick to fix the situation I’ve noticed.

The location my son damaged the front tire of his car. Tire and rim un fixable. At th front of Christie Bay.  
 
There are a few more along Park Ave in front of the Pet Lovers Warehouse.

Nw corner of 13th and Lorne at the stop sign IS a bad one

13th st from princess to park, especially between vic and park.  
 
9th st from Richmond to the traffic circle.  
 
Streets need to be related, that's how bad they are.

1500 block of 20th in front of one of the apartment blocks, near the mall. Heard a van bottom out in it pretty badly, I’m sure they aren’t alone

Was in Brandon this past Wednesday and found some bad ones at 18th st. turning East onto Rosser Avenue.

me_too said "Just thought I would throw this out there for those trying to avoid a flat tire. I saw it happen yesterday. About two blocks east of 34th street on Park Avenue is a NASTY pothole that WILL do damage.     Please slow down and watch out for this one. It is dangerous and is filling with water during the day! You won't see it until you hit it!     I have notified the city twice now about this one. I have no clue if they will do anything about it!     Be careful out there! "

thanks for the heads up! You are right!  
 
I used to think I would like to make an interactive map showing all the holes as I am delivery driver and all day I see them.

I hit that one last night on Park near Christie too, heard a big crunch. Luckily I don’t think it did any damage

Call the Pothole line or go on the website ASAP

Corner or 18th & Lorne  
 
Pulling onto 18th....wow

just go on the city of brandon website and report the pothole, the usually have it fixed in a day or 2 ...... Very easy to use and they do the work so fast !!

I saw a crew repairing potholes on 26th street just north of Victoria Ave. a few days ago. Whatever they were using as a filler was junk as the potholes were all fully exposed less than 24 hrs later. There's absolutely no point in filling these holes and wasting tax dollars if the product they're using is that poor at staying in them. There's got to be something better.

Magnum said "I saw a crew repairing potholes on 26th street just north of Victoria Ave. a few days ago. Whatever they were using as a filler was junk as the potholes were all fully exposed less than 24 hrs later. There's absolutely no point in filling these holes and wasting tax dollars if the product they're using is that poor at staying in them. There's got to be something better. "

The problem with filling potholes right now is the water runoff causes the asphalt not to set properly and then it breaks away. I’m sure the city is aware of this but it’s better to do something than nothing.

a Good Roads (province) crew filling potholes and using a torch the other day. Does the city use a torch?

Uh, the OP said they reported it twice now... here’s hoping they get a budget together to fix these roads!

ScarletAngel said "Uh, the OP said they reported it twice now... here’s hoping they get a budget together to fix these roads! "

if they maybe didnt report to the pothole line on the city website, i reported the large pothole on the north side of 18th bridge and the small one on the south side, and they fixed them in 1 day.

Pretty much Rosser Ave from 18th st to 6th st (likely all the way to 1st st) as I learned last week.

There are potholes all over the city  
I find there are way more than other years  
 
 
And tim hortons on the hill is horrendous.. fill in those holes

I like the old system of fixing pot holes. Four guys, three shovels and a one ton truck full of cold fill. Sure, it's not as fast as the "elephant trunk truck" spoofing black crap everywhere but deep into the hole. But, the stuff is actually in the hole when done by hand and it usually lasts long enough to get properly fixed when the street finally dries up. Now I get it that the labor costs gets out of hand when the pay is set too high and only one guy out of the four knows how to use a shovel. But this can easily be fixed with student programs, work experience/internships or work for welfare and have the city management "grow some balls" and fight back with those "organized extortionists" called unions. I've never seen such horrible conditions happening to our streets during the spring thaw from years past. What happened? ...The answer is money and the reliance of technology will solve and do everything. All this expensive fancy crap is fine and dandy in California, filling cracks... But sometimes we just need to simply use some elbow grease to get the easy jobs done right.  
 
All it takes is a couple of guys with a shovel at $12.00 and hour instead of a near million dollar machine with an operator at over $28.00 per hour.  
 
Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

The city does do it by men and shovel. The province (highways) is the ones who use the truck with “elephant” nose on it. But they also use man power during spring to fill potholes with shovels. The stuff the city and province shovel is called a winter mix and will never stay unless the roads are completely dry. With the snow banks melting and puddles everywhere it will be a while TIL that stuff stays, hence why they are always repeating the same spots.