Back in April, Saad Tekiout gained popularity for filling the city’s potholes on his own dime and during his spare time.
The residential landscaper posted videos of himself on Instagram responding to requests from Montrealers to patch troublesome potholes throughout the city. It led Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada to ask him to leave the work of filling potholes to companies hired by the city. If he really wants to work full time patching holes, he can bid on the new contracts to manually patch potholes, she said in May.
Perhaps Martinez Ferrada might reconsider Tekiout’s offer to patch holes, as a recent examination of his work shows that the homemade pothole patches might hold up just as well and perhaps even better than those done by the city through contracts with private firms or by its blue-collar workforce.