Every hole wants a trophy.
Seven competitions, zero prizes, infinite civic pride. Measurements are community estimates from a safe pavement. Treat them as folklore with a tape measure, not a survey.
Consulting the tarmac records…
The longevity games.
Days since the first documented sighting. A date of death is only recorded once a moderator verifies a repair report.
🏆 Survival of the deepest
Still standing, still ruining suspensions.
Pothole paradises.
Roads with a booming hole population. Town planners, avert your eyes.
🛣️ The busiest roads
Girth matters.
Community-claimed width, in millimetres. The Great Wide Ones.
↔️ The widest
The abyss watch.
Community-claimed depth. Please do not test these with your own ankle.
↓ The deepest
Dangerously adorable.
One "that's adorable" verdict per account per pothole. It remains a road hazard; it is simply a cute one.
🐾 The cutest
Ready for their close-up.
The most photographed residents, by approved community sightings.
🎨 The most decorated
The generosity derby.
Unpaid charitable pledges per pothole. No money moves. This is a promise ledger, not a till.
💷 The most sponsored
The council's own paperwork.
While residents compete here, the country's authorities keep records of their own — Leeds, York and Northern Ireland's Department for Infrastructure send us 434,000-plus named entries. Boards within a single authority are fair fights; across authorities, different paperwork measures different things, so treat cross-council rank order as gossip, not an audit.
⚡ Quickest with the trowel
Median days from report to completed repair, per authority-year — latest seasons first. Fewer is mightier.
⏳ The SLA honours
DfI NI defects repaired within the department's own published response windows. R1 is one day; R2 five working days; R3 four weeks.
🔁 The repeat offenders
Roads and wards that keep producing new entries. The tarmac keeps confessing.
🦕 The ancients
The oldest defects still marked open in the ledger. Respect your elders.
💰 The costliest fillings
Where Leeds published a repair bill, the heftiest invoices. Money actually spent on tarmac — a promise ledger this is not.