By Alex Abdelwahab, Ottawa Metro News, July 13, 2017
A common joke in Ottawa has it that the city has only two seasons: winter and construction.
Data from the city’s records of monthly service requests sheds some light on why that may be: calls about “road travelled surface,” (potholes, essentially) add up to the city’s biggest complaint, by far, in almost every ward.
Ottawa residents made 24,658 road-surface-related calls between January and June of this year. That’s more than three times as many as the 7,908 requests for pickup of “organics,” the second most common call, city-wide.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/ottawa/2017/07/13/potholes-by-far-the-biggest-complaint-in-the-city-data-shows.html