Advice for Pothole Claim in Massachusetts?

[SuffolkD at aol.com]

Keith:  Rt 2 on ramp?  Commonwealth of Mass.  Contact Mass Highway.  File a 
police report.  Document everything.  Take a picture of the pothole: size and 
depth etc.
Contact the "local" District on the website which corresponds to your Rt 2 
pothole location.
Ask to file a claim..................see if they defer you to the Town.
Mass Highway maintains only interstates ( I-90, 91, 93, 95 128 495 291 391 
290 395 etc) within Mass.  Route numbers like 110, 99, 62 and the like are town 
issues.AFAIK.  (2, 3, 140, 213 I dunno.
Construction zones are the responsibility of the contactor at that site and 
they have to maintain insurance.

http://www.mass.gov/mhd/
-Scott by BOSTON  HTH 
FYI:  City of Boston Pot Hole submissions go to City Hall Room 610 WITHIN 30 
days of the incident:  NO MORE.

Greetings Audiholics,

A couple of weeks ago I finally got around to putting on my summer wheels 
which are Porsche "Cup" alloys machined to a 45mm offset. They are about two 
years old, and I clean them every weekend. They look beautiful, which is 
probably the reason why after only two days of them on the car, I managed to 
nail the biggest pothole this side of the Mississippi, which is in the Fort 
Devens area in central Massachusetts on an on-ramp to Route 2 West. This was 
the mothership, and as I was hitting it, I thought for sure I would not only 
bend one of my sacred rims, but also blow the nice new rubber, too. Rubber 
survived, rim bent and doesn't feel to good (shakey, vibrating) when driving. 

I am furious that such a large pothole was not maintained. I would like to 
be compensated by someone (city, state?), but fear that it is a wild goose 
chase, as I don't know who is liable.

Anyone have any advice or relevant info they could share?

Much obliged,
Keith Bedard
Westminster, MA
'95.5 S6 with one beautiful but crooked Porsche wheel