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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
5,505
Total requests (2022+)
28,123

Includes records the city’s system still flags as open, regardless of last-activity date. About 24% 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 Repair2,9304,12148.7%53
Curb and Gutter Repair56985858.7%592
Brick Sidewalk Repair5311,35471.2%42
Report motor vehicle safety concern22583473.0%8
Gravel Alley Repair2032,29891.6%102
Report pedestrian safety concern16559872.4%5
Cobblestone Alley Repair14519339.4%388
Repair Curb Ramp1411,06986.8%12
Repaint Pavement Markings12245473.6%65
Street Pavement Repair842,72197.3%103
New Pavement Markings8046484.7%36
Report bicycle safety concern6911841.5%8
Cobblestone Road Repair6811146.8%453
Pothole Repair499,37299.6%24
Right of Way Blockage or Encroachment44———
New Speed Control292,14398.7%8
Right of Way Hazard18———
Asphalt Alley Repair1686599.3%125
Roadway Hazard1222997.4%18
Guardrail Repair on Roadway3———
Bridge Repair16398.4%14
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 or damaged sidewalk grate or coal chute032100.0%8

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.