{"id":896783,"date":"2026-10-27T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896783\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:08:10","slug":"montreal-pothole-vigilantes-work-holds-up-as-city-patches-crumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896783\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal pothole vigilante&#8217;s work holds up as city patches crumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in April, Saad Tekiout <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-tells-vigilante-pavers-to-stop-patching-city-potholes\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-tells-vigilante-pavers-to-stop-patching-city-potholes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">gained popularity<\/a> for filling the city\u2019s potholes on his own dime and during his spare time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The residential landscaper posted videos of himself on Instagram responding to requests from Montrealers to patch troublesome potholes throughout the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It led Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada to ask him to leave the work of filling potholes to companies hired by the city. If he really wanted to do that work, he could bid on new contracts to manually patch potholes, <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-mayor-potholes-new-measures\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-mayor-potholes-new-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">she said in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in April, Saad Tekiout gained popularity for filling the city\u2019s potholes on his own dime and during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-896783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}