Potholes in Melbourne
Melbourne City Council
Hit a pothole in Melbourne? Put it on the public record — a photo, the location and the date, in about 30 seconds and with no account. We work out which authority owns that stretch from where you pin it, so a report on a state arterial does not sit in a council queue that was never going to action it.
Roads in Melbourne that are not Melbourne City Council's
71 roads through this council area are managed by the Department of Transport and Planning. Reporting a defect on one of them to the council is the most common reason a pothole report goes nowhere — it was never theirs to fix, and the clock that matters for a damage claim never starts.
- Alexandra Avenue
- Ascot Vale Road
- Batman Avenue Tollway
- Boundary Road
- Bridge Road
- Brunton Avenue
- Cemetery Road East E
- Cemetery Road West W
- City Road
- Clarendon Street
- College Crescent
- Commercial Road
- Cook Street
- Curzon Street
- and 57 more
Source: DTP Managed Roads, State of Victoria, CC BY 4.0.
On the register in Melbourne
- On the register
- 1
- Still open
- 1
- Median repair
- —
- Oldest open
- 24 days
If a pothole in Melbourne damaged your car
Victoria's Road Management Act sets a threshold below which a road authority has no liability at all. For 2026-27 it is $1,681, assessed against the financial year the damage happened in. What that means for a claim.
Suburbs in Melbourne
21 gazetted localities. Each one lists its own roads and who maintains them.