About the Pothole Patrol
This map is the work of the Teen Advisory Council (TAC) of the Palisades.
After the fire, our streets took a second hit. Heavy debris-removal trucks and the constant construction traffic of the rebuild cracked and broke the asphalt across the neighborhood, and the damage gets worse every week. When the community was asked for a prioritized list of which roads to fix first, no one actually had one.
The TAC decided to build it. Teams of teens ride along with an adult driver and use a phone app to log, photograph, and geotag every pothole and road hazard they pass, rating each one by size and severity. Those reports become this map: a single, sized, location-stamped picture of where the worst damage is, so the city can repair the most dangerous streets first and document the rest for federal recovery funding. Teams also drop a green marker wherever a road is being repaired or a pothole has already been mended, so the map shows where repairs are happening.
Safety and privacy come first. A passenger does all the tapping, never the driver. Teams use car names instead of real names, and they never photograph people or license plates on purpose.
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