{"id":70688,"date":"2017-04-17T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/spring-marks-pothole-season-for-cdot\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:28:12","slug":"spring-marks-pothole-season-for-cdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/spring-marks-pothole-season-for-cdot\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring marks pothole season for CDOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Colorado Department of Transportation has released a website link for residents to report potholes and other maintenance concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codot.gov\/topcontent\/contact-cdot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.codot.gov\/topcontent\/contact-cdot<\/a>, click the relevant county on the map, and follow the links to a report form that includes your name, ZIP code, and description of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Spring\u2019s potholes typically form after moisture seeps into a road, weakens its foundation, freezes, then thaws. The freeze\/thaw effect expands and shrinks the road\u2019s surface, CDOT said in a news release, creating more cracks and further decreasing the road\u2019s strength<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the roadway freezes and thaws, it can no longer support the weight of traffic and begins to crumble, which can instantly cause potholes,\u201d said Kyle Lester, CDOT director of highway maintenance. \u201cOur crews are always appreciative to receive calls from customers about potholes or other obstructions in the roadway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Department of Transportation has released a website link for residents to report potholes and other maintenance concerns. Go to https:\/\/www.codot.gov\/topcontent\/contact-cdot, click the relevant county on the map, and follow the links to a report form that includes your name, ZIP code, and description of the problem. Spring\u2019s potholes typically form after moisture seeps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70688"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}