Ride safe. Report it.
Motorcycle Pothole Reporter
One tap logs the spot. It goes to VicRoads or the right council, and onto the riders' map so others know it's there.
VicRoads roads Potholes on VicRoads roads statewide. They also count in their council's area above.
Send it to your riding mates
Or point a phone camera at this.
To send
Did the email send?
Delete all reports?
Pothole been fixed? Tap Fixed: it comes off the map but still counts. Delete (or swipe left) is for mistakes: it also removes the pothole from the riders' map and the counts.
How's the app working for you? Send feedback
One tap from your home screen
No time to open the app when a pothole comes up? Set up a home-screen button that logs one the moment you tap it.
You're in the installed app. Skip to step 5.
Android, in Chrome. Takes about a minute.
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Got an old Moto Potholes icon? Hold it and tap Remove or Uninstall first. Old icons don't get the shortcut.
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Open this site in Chrome. Tap the ⋮ menu at the top right, then Add to Home screen.
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Choose Install. Not Create shortcut, which makes a plain bookmark that can't do one-tap logging.
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Open Moto Potholes from your home screen. No Chrome address bar at the top means it's installed properly. Tap Allow when it asks for location.
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Press and hold the Moto Potholes icon. Tap Log a pothole and it's logged straight away.
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Want it as its own button? Hold Log a pothole in that menu and drag it onto your home screen.
Testing it? Delete the test pothole from To send afterwards so it comes off the riders' map.
iPhone: iPhones don't do shortcuts. In Safari tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. The app opens with the big button at the top, ready to tap.
Riders' pothole map
Every pothole riders have logged. Only the spot, which way the rider was going, and how long ago are shared. Tap a pin to say it's gone, “fixed”, or still there. Once enough riders say it's gone, it comes off the map.
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Move the map until the cross is on the pothole. It's sent as an estimated location, so councils know it wasn't logged on the spot.
Council contacts
Where each Victorian council takes road hazard reports. Local-road potholes go to the council for that spot, main roads to VicRoads. Want reports to go somewhere else? Tap Change email. It's saved on this phone only.
Council details from the Vic Councils (Municipal Association of Victoria) contacts list.
Your details
Added to the bottom of every email. Saved on this phone.
Shares only the spot, which way you were going, and the day. Never your name, phone, email or the time.
Sent
Pothole been fixed since you reported it? Tap Mark fixed. It comes off the riders' map but still counts in the totals.
Clearing this list doesn't change the map, but you won't be able to mark those potholes fixed later.
Pull over before you fiddle with the phone. Urgent danger on the road? Call 13 11 70 (24/7). Emergencies, call 000.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Melton sorting also uses the council's list of VicRoads-controlled roads.