Like cities all across Scotland, Aberdeen has plenty of potholes.
Every year, Aberdeen City Council’s road teams spend countless hours responding to thousands of reports of road defects.
Since the start of 2017, the local authority fixed more than 41,000 potholes all throughout the city.
Ahead of May’s council elections, we asked Aberdeen City Council to provide us with location data for where all of those thousands of repair jobs were.
You can see how many potholes were repaired on your street here:
What streets had the most work done in Aberdeen?
The city council spent more than £2.8 million on carriageway patching repairs (which includes but is not limited to pothole fixing work) between the start of the 2016/17 financial year and April 2022.
When it came to pothole repair work specifically, there were a few key routes through the Granite City which had a whole lot more hole repairs than others.
King Street, perhaps unsurprisingly due to how busy and long it is, received the most of any one street, at 216 pothole repair jobs since 2017.
Similarly lengthy and heavily-trafficked roads like North Deeside Road and North Anderson Drive also received a lot of repairs, at 163 and 138 respectively.
However, a number of smaller roads also made the top 11 for pothole repairs, including Kirk Brae in Cults, and Caiesdykes Road in Kincorth.
What should I do if I spot a pothole?
If you come across a pothole while walking, driving or cycling about Aberdeen, you can report it to Aberdeen City Council on their website here.
However, when it comes to road defects that can cause a “clear and immediate danger”, the council can treat it much faster.
For any such problems, you can call the council on 0300 200 292. The local authority says it aims to attend emergency road repair incidents within four hours to make it safe.
Do you think your street has been forgotten about?
You can tell the Press and Journal where you think the worst places for potholes in the north-east are by filling in this form here.
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