Reporting Debris in Road in Arlington?

[Tim Kelley]

Isn’t that a VDOT maintained road? You can report “remove debris” issues to them here: https://my.vdot.virginia.gov/

Can anyone confirm?

[DrP]

@Tim Kelley 143609 wrote:

Isn’t that a VDOT maintained road? You can report “remove debris” issues to them here: https://my.vdot.virginia.gov/

Can anyone confirm?

Thank you. I was wondering about that. Okay, I just tried a submission to VDOT. We will see if they bounce it back.

So, if it were not a VDOT road, how would I report it to Arlington (I am sure that will occur some time)?

[Tim Kelley]

@DrP 143611 wrote:

So, if it were not a VDOT road, how would I report it to Arlington (I am sure that will occur some time)?

Call or email it in?

https://transportation.arlingtonva.us/streets/street-maintenance/

[DrP]

@Tim Kelley 143615 wrote:

Call or email it in?

https://transportation.arlingtonva.us/streets/street-maintenance/

Okay, so my not seeing a way on the web page to report it is correct, rather than blindness or general confusion. Thank you. If VDOT tells me it isn’t their area and the debris remains, I will call/e-mail the street maintenance folks.

[VA2DC]

A couple of months ago, I reported to Arlington County (https://topics.arlingtonva.us/reportproblem/) broken glass and debris on Fairfax Dr. north of the pedestrian island at the southeast corner of Fairfax & Glebe. I reported it under “Street Surface Damaged” with a description. It took a few weeks, but the service request was completed, and the street was reported to be swept–I don’t know whether the work was done by Arlington or VDOT. It did look better, although the street sweeper didn’t seem to pick up all of the bits of broken glass.

[chris_s]

When in doubt, email des@arlingtonva.us

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[DrP]

Okay, VDOT claims to have cleared the area. They sent an e-mail at 10am. I went through there at ~9:35am and it wasn’t cleared yet. It is possible that they cleared it after I went through, however, I won’t be going through again until Wednesday. If anyone goes through, the Fairfax/Glebe intersection, on Fairfax heading west, please reply if there is still debris in the north-west corner of the intersection and I can re-open this ticket or whatever the process is.

[bobco85]

@DrP 143755 wrote:

Okay, VDOT claims to have cleared the area. They sent an e-mail at 10am. I went through there at ~9:35am and it wasn’t cleared yet. It is possible that they cleared it after I went through, however, I won’t be going through again until Wednesday. If anyone goes through, the Fairfax/Glebe intersection, on Fairfax heading west, please reply if there is still debris in the north-west corner of the intersection and I can re-open this ticket or whatever the process is.

I’ll take a look at it and get some pics to confirm on my way home (I work in Ballston).

[tnelson]

@VA2DC 143620 wrote:

A couple of months ago, I reported to Arlington County (https://topics.arlingtonva.us/reportproblem/) broken glass and debris on Fairfax Dr. north of the pedestrian island at the southeast corner of Fairfax & Glebe. I reported it under “Street Surface Damaged” with a description. It took a few weeks, but the service request was completed, and the street was reported to be swept–I don’t know whether the work was done by Arlington or VDOT. It did look better, although the street sweeper didn’t seem to pick up all of the bits of broken glass.

Second this. Used that same description, said it was glass in the bike lane, was fortunately cleared within 48 hours.

[bobco85]

@DrP 143755 wrote:

Okay, VDOT claims to have cleared the area. They sent an e-mail at 10am. I went through there at ~9:35am and it wasn’t cleared yet. It is possible that they cleared it after I went through, however, I won’t be going through again until Wednesday. If anyone goes through, the Fairfax/Glebe intersection, on Fairfax heading west, please reply if there is still debris in the north-west corner of the intersection and I can re-open this ticket or whatever the process is.

@bobco85 143758 wrote:

I’ll take a look at it and get some pics to confirm on my way home (I work in Ballston).

I don’t know what it looked like before, but these pics are from this afternoon:
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looking from the NW corner

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zoomed in shot from the NW corner

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I quickly scampered into the intersection between lights to get this closer one

From how it looks, I’d say they did remove the majority of tire-puncturing debris.

[DrP]

Bobco85, Thank you very much! That looks much better than before. They really must have cleaned it just after I went through there this morning.

So, now I know that (1) that is a VDOT intersection and (2) their web-based form does indeed get them to clean up the debris.

[bobco85]

Cool! I’m glad to know the system works for debris removal.

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