Estonia's Greatest Pothole 2013

The museum invites everyone to take pictures of their neighborhood potholes, big and small. The photos will be part of an exhibition on road damage that will open on May 1 at the museum, which is located in the southern Estonian town of Põlva.

The contest may be an opportunity for Estonians to vent their frustrations over the poor state of the nation's roads. The latter suffer from a combination of maladies resulting from a lack of funding, poor construction, sodium chloride used to decrease slipperiness, bad weather and studded tires.

The City of Tallinn tends to bear the brunt of public hostility on the subject; Minister of Economic Affairs Juhan Parts recently suggested that the large number of potholes on Tallinn's streets are the result of a deliberate policy on the part of the city's mayor. Edgar Savisaar, Parts said last month, is "systematically harassing car owners. And moreover, the potholes don't vote. If this continues, I predict the state of the streets will get worse."

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