Milwaukee Potholes

We just moved back to Wisconsin from Nevada. The road holes were so bad that it shook my rear view mirror right off the windshield leaving a small crack in it’s place. $ 210 for a new windshield. Still saving.

One of the many reasons why I moved out of Milwaukee and never moving back ever again. Watch your tires, watch your kids and your wife, because those pothole are coming for you tonight!

This is shit!
No reason have this many stars!
Half a star total review — let’s get there!

There’s a Unilocal page for the potholes in town? Whodathunkit?
They get a star only because when I’m on my motorcycle, dodging these sonsabitches can create the illusion that I’m out in the twisties.
Now I’m taking that star back because every time I go over one it compresses my spinal column and sends a jolt of pain down my back and legs.
Unilocal won’t let me take another star, but know that in spirit this review is a −1÷5. They lose another point for wrecking the suspension in my car, and another point for forcing me to mentally reclassify Maryland Avenue as a gravel road for six months out of the year.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
It’s spring, yet there might be more of these stupid potholes than there was in the middle of winter!
For a while there, I would drive down South 60^th or South 68^th in between Howard and Oklahoma and it would be just like that Nintendo game Ivan Stewart’s Super Off Road.
Except instead of being in a rally car, I’m rocking the 07 Corrola. At least they finally fixed the ripple effect going down these roads, but what about the rest of the potholes!
Even more frustrating than the potholes are the people in the left lane that veer into your lane, almost causing a five car pileup just to avoid a pothole. If you feel the need to change lanes of traffic without signaling or looking to avoid potholes, you’re best off just driving the right lane where you’ll minimize the damage.
This might be the absolute worst time for driving Milwaukee’s roads. Not only do you have to deal with the potholes left over from winter, but you also have to deal with traffic cones that cut off miles of multiple lanes of traffic and never seem to have anyone working on them. Why cut off parts of the road for six months when you seem to only work on it for two weeks?

Ladies, don’t leave your house w/​o your sports bras.
Five stars because these craters are about as good as gets before the earth opens up and swallows us whole.
All I have to say is, «ouch!» And I don’t look forward to the construction crew clogging up the streets to fill them in like a girl who wanted to get acrylic nails and can’t afford the fill for another three months.

UGH. It’s really annoying when I have to swerve to avoid a pothole only to be forced into another one in doing so.

I don’t know what’s up with all these one and two-​star reviews. Milwaukee can grow some pretty impressive potholes, y’all.
Now that we’ve had an aggravating amount of face-​stinging chill in the air and a teensy weensy bit of warmth, the potholes are just multiplying. Soon, they will outnumber us.
My drive downtown via Water St. has become a kind of obstacle course of excitement! Will I need my alignment fixed today? Or tomorrow? Will my axle just give up and bend or will my tires go flat in protest? It’s always thrilling!!!
I’ve been on the lookout for a p-​hole (hah!) good enough to become my designated swimming pool this summer… Let me know if you spot one, and I’ll let you borrow my neon orange floaty noodle to relax on and to help you be more visible to the traffic. (They’ll honk because they’re jealous)

How I love how I’m able to drive around Milwaukee yet I hate all of the potholes especially during winter!
Having lived in the city for close to 10 years, I have a love/​hate relationship with the streets. I love being able to dart around all of the streets and side streets.
The potholes are SOOO bad all over the place that I feel like my bones are getting rattled. My car is taking some of the pot holes fine yet it is only a matter of time that I need to bring the car in. I have been getting better at my swerving around them :)

Jessica, can you spell D-​E-​E-​P T-​U-​N-​N-​E-​L? Which is also the reason City Hall and most other buildings in downtown Milwaukee are sinking.
Take heart, Roads Scholars. Hizzoner, Tom Barrett, came out of City Hall today and asked the state for assistance in filling Milwaukee’s 997 new potholes.
He also saw his shadow, so we’re going to have 6 more weeks of potholes.
EDITED TO ADD: Have any of you City of Milwaukee residents called the mayor’s office and asked where all that wheel tax money went? You pay twenty bucks a year for street maintenance, where’s all that money if it’s not in potholes?

Thanks to the multiple Polar Vortices, these things are worse than ever. They are going to ruin all our cars!!! I’ve seen several people loose tailpipes and mufflers driving down the road and hitting an evil pothole or manhole cover… is it just me or have the manhole covers sunk at least 6″ into the road??? Not to mention the buckling that has occurred in the roads. Watch out if you are traveling eastbound on Good Hope Road, just before you reach the 43 South on ramp — that’s a rough spot right there :(
Just think, if we Milwaukeeans can survive winter then maybe they can fix these problematic road issues during the season of extensive road construction!

Milwaukee Potholes (I have a hard time calling you dear.) you are so prevalent in Downtown, Third Ward and East Side I thought I was going to lose my car as I navigated those neighborhoods tonight. Please get fixed soon as I’ve contributed my fair share to taxes. C’mon. Help a girl out!

I challenge you to find potholes more epic, more terrible, and more everywhere than the potholes you’ll find in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
One star. So much hate.

NOOOOOO!!! WHY??? Every time I hit one of you when I’m driving in my MINI (which doesn’t absorb bumps well to begin with), I cringe. Will I need to replace my suspension at the tune of $ 2,000? Thank goodness only once so far! But whyyyyyyyy???

BAM. BAM. not gunfire just the road… I’m not a big fan of the potholes of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee has two season Pothole season and Repairing Pothole season. Here is a link to report the MFing holes.
or call 286-​CITY (2489)
While in a Truck it jars my suspension a little bit. But if I had a lowered car with 17 inch aluminum rims. I would have to start dodging holes. I just installed new shocks and don’t care to wear them out any sooner than necessary.
In closing, as Brian M says… F~U Potholes.

They are horrible everywhere you drive in Milwaukee
2 places of Note:
The bridge by Horny Goat,
2^nd & St Paul Ave,
Prospect Ave from DT to east side,
27^th street,
East Howard ave,
Howell & Howard,
KK,
E. Wells St.
East Clybourn St.
The northern edge of Hoan Bridge
Forest Home Ave.
Lincoln ave
Oh wait, that’s more than 2 places.
Atrocious