2 Investigators: Costly Pothole Patchwork Didn’t Last

" That’s what a CBS 2 viewer asked after watching a city Department of Transportation crew at work and later seeing the job did not stick.

For years, Michael Braun and his mother have been asking the city to fix potholes in their Edgebrook Wildwood neighborhood on the city’s Northwest Side.

They say they never got a response.

Neighbors like John Zielinski agree.

“What needs to be done is this street needs to be repaired,” Zielinski says. “The response we get is there are no funds.”

But in April, a five-man city crew showed up to shovel asphalt into the potholes. Braun took photographs showing how the workers threw the asphalt into a hole but apparently failed to press the material down.

“Within two, three days it’s gone already because it’s not matted down,” Braun says.

As Zekman checked out the work, homeowner Jim Hough stopped to express his frustration about the city workers.

“They come in, they put down cold asphalt,” Hough says "

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