First, check your city’s local resources for reporting potholes. Yes, those do exist for some cities. It might be they just aren’t aware of it and hopefully someone will come out and fill the sucker, but they probably have greater priorities. This might not work though, because sometimes they suck.

Road repair is a thankless job with some unique constraints, setting aside lack of funding and return on that investment. First, It’s often seasonal work depending where you live, and blocking off roads pisses pretty much everybody off. Business owners getting blocked off by road repair introduces a political element to it as well. This is without going down the rabbit hole of privately owned roads as we all know how that goes down.

In crowded areas like big cities it can be difficult to plan around, and in less crowded areas the priority is probably going to be the highest density roads and highways.

Why? You’d think just general safety, but also consider these roads are most likely where precious commodity-carrying semi-trucks travel so the government is incentivized to keep them useful, but also those roads often require more routine maintenance because they are quickly deteriorated as trucks with trailers weigh a fuck ton and just destroy them.

So why isn’t your road fixed? It’s probably a combination of not being a busy or useful road to the local economy, combined with low resources for infrastructure, local business politics, or simply nobody knows it needs fixed. Also what /u/Uncle said.

Anyways, I’m not an expert so most of this is probably bullshit.