Prioritizing potholes in Elgin

In the city of Elgin, there are numerous potholes that are not only an annoyance to the community but damaging their vehicles. The city of Elgin should prevent further potholes from appearing by anticipating where they'll emerge, adopt self-healing roads in order to decrease injuries while minimizing the cost of said repairs.

It is argued that infrastructure maintenance is becoming more and more expensive. The UK is implementing self-healing roads in order to reduce the cost of maintenance as well as preventing injuries given that a man lost his leg when he drove over a pothole on his motorcycle in 2018. Cities like New York and Missouri are utilizing algorithms, traffic, tracking current potholes to predict where throughout the city they will most likely appear and reinforce those areas. In conclusion, Elgin should consider endorsing self-healing roads, anticipate where potholes will occur the most within the city in order to decrease not only injuries but infrastructure maintenance and costs.

Sergio Daniel Ortiz

Elgin