Making your way onto Pleasant Street is, once again, anything but pleasant.
A belt of reoccurring potholes has returned, spanning both lanes at the base of the one-way street’s intersection with University Avenue, across from the Westover bridge.
Morgantown Communications Manager Andrew Stacy said the city has no plans to address the holes — some of which appear to have rebar running through them — because it’s the state’s responsibility.
Pleasant Street serves as a U.S. (119) and state (7) route as well as an entry point to the city’s downtown.
Stacy said the city has reached out to the West Virginia Division of Highways about the issue.
“The DOH is aware of this problem and is currently awaiting officials with the City of Morgantown to verify whether trolley tracks — which are rumored to be under the area — are, or are not, there,” DOH Spokesman Brent Walker said.
Walker said once the state receives that verification, the DOH will make “permanent repairs to the area, which may involve closing the road.”
Walker said temporary repairs to that location do not last due to the volume of heavy truck traffic through the intersection.
According to Stacy, the city has not found anything indicating there were trolley tracks on Pleasant Street.
Further, “City Engineering doesn’t have any knowledge of a WVDOH request for this information,” Stacy said.
In the meantime, it’s Pleasant Street in name only, and motorists have taken note.
“Welcome to Morgantown, sorry about your struts,” reads a social media post with a photo of the Pleasant Street intersection. The post had generated 125 comments as of Friday afternoon.
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