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Roads & Sidewalks

Road repair, sidewalk repair, alley repair, pavement markings, and safety concerns. This is DPW's largest service group by open backlog.
Currently open
6,118
Total requests (2022+)
26,758

Includes records the city’s system still flags as open, regardless of last-activity date. About 23% of currently-open requests in this category were submitted before 2022 and most have not been modified in years. See methodology for how this number relates to the city’s published charts.

Open Requests by Subtype

Subtypes with no currently-open requests omitted from the chart; they appear in the table below.

Completion rate vs median resolution days

Each point is a subtype. X = median calendar days from submission to closure. Y = share of submitted requests that have closed. Point size = total volume.

Open Requests at Month-End

Monthly snapshot of open requests in this category. 2022–present.

Subtype detail

SubtypeOpenTotalCompletion %Median days
Concrete Sidewalk Repair2,8933,92047.6%49
Curb and Gutter Repair73281539.9%554
Brick Sidewalk Repair5821,29968.1%39
Gravel Alley Repair3592,20184.2%97
Street Pavement Repair2642,54590.1%116
Report motor vehicle safety concern25066962.6%8
Repair Curb Ramp1401,05586.7%12
Cobblestone Alley Repair13718340.4%388
Repaint Pavement Markings13441868.4%46
Report pedestrian safety concern12244172.3%5
Pothole Repair1129,04798.9%26
Asphalt Alley Repair8382791.2%137
New Pavement Markings8046484.7%36
Cobblestone Road Repair6610747.7%457
Report bicycle safety concern538336.1%5
Right of Way Blockage or Encroachment44
New Speed Control302,14198.7%8
Right of Way Hazard18
Roadway Hazard1222997.4%18
Guardrail Repair on Roadway4
Bridge Repair15998.3%14
Open or damaged sidewalk grate or coal chute12996.6%9
Report Speeding Location to Police/or Info on Speeding Location1
New Curb and Gutter032100.0%792
New Ramp097100.0%842
New Sidewalk097100.0%861

Open is the all-time count of currently-open requests. Total, Completion %, and Median days are computed from requests submitted 2022 onward; subtypes with fewer than 25 requests in that window show —.

Definitions, status codes, and limitations: RVA311 methodology.