Potholes – flat tire – how to bill City of Seattle

[Jeannie]

Thanks to the monster potholes in SW 35th, I have a flat tire. I’ve heard discussions here about billing the city. How does one go about it? And has anyone gotten results?

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[annaeileen]

I got a flat tire last summer hitting a Delridge pothole and was told I had would have to replace two tires (ended up replacing all 4 to better tires) because of the age (28k miles on them).

I sent a note via find it fix it with pictures of the pothole and tires and how much the 2 tires cost but I did not get a response.

I am not sure if fix it fix it was the best option and I didn’t pursue it any longer but still made me mad!

We have giant pothole in front of our driveway and it was ‘fixed’but less than a week later, it crumbled into giant pieces of asphalt that would damage an undercarriage if hit. With so much construction around and the wet weather, our streets are a mess.

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[Alan]

There is a damage claim process. I did it years ago and my claim was rejected because the pothole had not been reported prior to my incident. I hope you have better luck.
https://www.seattle.gov/filing-a-damage-claim

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[Jeannie]

Alan, the city has a lot of gall to reject your claim for that reason. You should have been reimbursed.
I remember reporting 35th Ave SW to the Find It, Fix It site about three weeks ago. So they should be able to look it up, I hope. New tires are expensive, and we confirmed that it wasn’t a nail that caused the severe damage. It was the result of the potholes. And the city must be well aware of the dangerous pothole situation.

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[TuesdayRodgers]

The Mayor and the Nutt job Elitist city council planned this whole thing because a survey taken a few years ago revealed that Seattle residents overwhelmingly( 80+ % ) wanted to continue to use their cars and the Liberal Elitist’s didn’t like that answer.
What gives the extremely ignorant Seattle-ite voters the right to plan their own future ? So Hugo Chavez disciples at the city council initiated a plan to ruin the Auto infrastructure in Seattle to make it extremely expensive and difficult to use our cars so that we would be forced to vote for the Disgustingly Insane and beyond expensive ( ST3 ) that will carry no more than 10% of today’s traffic and will be finished literally when my teenage kids are in their 50’s.

They removed the requirement for the extremely wealthy out of state Contractors to have to supply parking which jacked their profits considerably.
Removed any money for road maintenance from the Transportation budget.
initiated toll lanes so that the wealthiest among us get to spend more time with their children and enjoying quality time at home with their families and those of us that “: can’t pay” get to wallow in despair in our cars on 405. 167, hwy 18 for hours every night.
The city council wack nutt’s also decided to take lanes away from us to ensure the inconvenience. So 35th, Roxbury and almost every roadway has less lanes today than in 1950. In a city that is 5x’s the size.
Welcome to the centralized government of American Elitist liberal-ism / Communism.

Vote Democrat & buy or rent a Bicycle.

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[22blades]

California Avenue Southwest was paved just a few years ago at great expense & pain& look at it now.

My pet peeve…When you open up a street pavement for utilities to a new construction site, and replace it with a patch, it will not be of equivalent strength. If I understand correctly, the developer/contractor is only responsible for a temporary patch until the city shows up to put a more permanent patch.

1. The temporary patches are usually of poor quality; an afterthought or even omitted sometimes.
2. Why are we paying for infrastructure repairs to damage done by developer/contractor firms? They know a good deal when they see it.

Make the developer/contractors repair & restore to true equivalent standards. If they say that it’s just the cost (of the taxpayer’s) business. I will agree. It’s just the cost of business of doing business in our city & our infrastructure. If it doesn’t pencil out, leave.

Fix it & fix it right on your own dime! It’s not like you’re scrounging to put food on the table.

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