Thanks to a more active response, complaint calls to 311 about potholes are down 20% in the first quarter of 2021 over last year.
It's an influx of FEMA money funding road construction work which is paying to have the potholes filled and roads fixed.
While potholes are getting filled the whimsical reference to existing potholes is up.
No one knows where an eight foot orange cone will show up next, or if a display with a toy 4-by-4 stuck in a hole will turn up.
But they do make street side art Instagram pages frequently.