By CRM staff
Toronto, Ontario – February 25, 2019 – With the temperatures jumping up and down, potholes have been appearing all over Canadian roads, damaging vehicles.
In Nova Scotia, the provincial government already claimed that they were not liable for any of the damages that potholes might cause on a vehicle. According to CBC News, one of the many potholes popping up on roads in Nova Scotia caused $1,000 worth of damage to motorists Jim and Pay Briggs’ car.
Jim and Pay ran over a pothole in December which left a number of damages to the vehicle. The car’s rims were bent, the tires were completely ruined, and the alignment of the vehicle was way off. This cost the motorists a total of $1,178.20. The couple had a $1,000 insurance deductible and the couple chose to approach the province for recompense.
A claims officer with the Department of Internal Services eventually wrote back to the Briggs explaining that the province must first know about a pothole and fail to repair it in order to be liable.
A spokesperson from the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal said that depending on the size of the hole and the type of road, the provincial government can fix the hole as quick as seven days or as long as 120 days, CBC News reported.
But Nova Scotia isn’t the only one experiencing these nasty potholes on the road. The city of Toronto decided to dedicate a day towards repairing as many potholes as they could around the streets of Toronto. This would be the first of many weekend pothole repair blitzes from now into April.
“Over the past month, we’ve experienced extreme cold followed by sudden thawing periods. These swings in temperature have dramatic impacts on our roads. This weekend’s weather forecast represents the first opportunity for crews to effectively repair the potholes that have emerged on our roadways. It is our objective to reduce property damage and eliminate injuries by filling potholes as quickly and efficiently as possible,” said councillor James Pasternak, chair of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee.
City crews have already repaired more than 13,000 potholes in 2019. Crews can repair up to 4,000 potholes in a single day blitz. With each pothole costing around $25 to repair.
