Central Auckland's Worst Pothole Streets — Remuera Rd and Dominion Rd Top AT Data
- PotholeExpert
- Jun 11
- 4 min read
Central Auckland doesn't have the region's most potholes — rural Rodney and Franklin own that title. What the isthmus has, on Auckland Transport's own numbers, is the region's worst response record: 85.4% of dispatches met target (every other area beat 91%), the slowest 10% of public reports waited 3.5 days or more, and 47.9% of public reports were closed with no repair recorded.
The data is AT's complete pothole dispatch log — 26,863 records, January 2024 to June 2026 — released to us under LGOIMA (case CAS-1344360-H7J1V4). Central's share: 3,698 dispatches across Remuera, Mt Eden, Mt Roskill, Onehunga, Ponsonby, Grey Lynn and the CBD, costing $1.22M in itemised claims — the highest spend of any area in Auckland.
Street level, the list runs from blue-chip to bus-route. Here are the 15 worst, straight from the log.
The 15 worst pothole streets in central Auckland (AT's own data, Jan 2024 – Jun 2026)
Ranked by pothole dispatches recorded in AT's log over 29 months:
Remuera Rd (Remuera–Newmarket) — 63 dispatches, 44% closed no-action
Glass Rd (Mt Roskill) — 60 dispatches, 62% closed no-action
Dominion Rd (Mt Eden) — 51 dispatches, 22% closed no-action
Great North Rd (Grey Lynn–Pt Chevalier) — 51 dispatches, 33% closed no-action
Wellesley St West (CBD) — 46 dispatches, 46% closed no-action
Pilkington Rd (Panmure) — 45 dispatches, 53% closed no-action
Victoria St (Onehunga) — 44 dispatches, 43% closed no-action
Grafton Rd (Grafton) — 42 dispatches, 79% closed no-action
Great South Rd (Newmarket–Greenlane) — 41 dispatches, 49% closed no-action
Hillsborough Rd (Hillsborough) — 41 dispatches, 68% closed no-action
Dominion Rd Extension (Mt Roskill) — 39 dispatches, 36% closed no-action
Target St (Mt Albert) — 34 dispatches, 53% closed no-action
Onehunga Mall (Onehunga) — 33 dispatches, 42% closed no-action
Richardson Rd (Mt Roskill) — 33 dispatches, 36% closed no-action
West Tāmaki Rd (Glen Innes) — 30 dispatches, 87% closed no-action
Method: Auckland Transport pothole dispatch log, released under LGOIMA (case CAS-1344360-H7J1V4, 9 June 2026) — 26,863 records, 1 January 2024 to 3 June 2026, as recorded by AT. "Closed no-action" = AT status "No Action Required": closed with no repair recorded. AT formally declined (LGOIMA s17(e)) to provide reasons — it holds no reason breakdown. Road names as they appear in AT's log. Full regional analysis in our AT pothole data breakdown and the interactive AT Pothole Index.
Central's problem isn't volume — it's the misses
Put Central's numbers next to the rest of the region and the pattern is unmistakable. South Auckland's crews hit response targets 99.1% of the time; Rodney's 99.0%; the regional average is 96.1%. Central: 85.4% — one dispatch in seven missed its target, and the 90th-percentile response on completed public reports stretched to 85 hours. If a pothole report in Auckland is going to sit, it sits on the isthmus.
The bin rate compounds it: 47.9% of Central's 2,468 public reports were closed "No Action Required" — no repair recorded, no reason logged (AT declined our request for reasons under LGOIMA s17(e); it holds no breakdown). Grafton Rd's reports closed no-action 79% of the time; West Tāmaki Rd's, 87%. Duplicates on busy commuter streets explain part of that — a Dominion Rd pothole gets reported by fifty people — but the data can't say how much, because nobody recorded why.
And it's the region's most expensive area to patch: $1.22M in itemised claims over 29 months, a third of Auckland's entire itemised pothole spend, on just 14% of its dispatches. Dense traffic, night-works requirements and traffic management make every isthmus repair dearer.
Body corps, villas, commercial forecourts: where central's private asphalt fails
Central's private asphalt is old, shaded and shared: villa-era driveways in Mt Eden and Remuera, body-corp ROWs in Epsom and Grey Lynn, retail and café forecourts on the Dominion Rd and Ponsonby strips. Most of it was laid decades ago, and shared drives concentrate wheel loads exactly where the seal is weakest. The early warnings are the same as on the public network — water pooling, then alligator cracking, then the hole.
AT fixes none of it: past the road reserve, it's the owner's — or the body corp's. We quote from photos at a fixed price: asphalt pothole repair across the isthmus — Remuera, Mt Eden, Mt Roskill, Onehunga — and carpark scoping for property managers via the carpark repair guide.
Frequently asked questions
Which central Auckland street has the most potholes?
Remuera Rd — 63 pothole dispatches in AT's log between January 2024 and June 2026, ahead of Glass Rd in Mt Roskill (60) and Dominion Rd (51). By spend, Central is Auckland's most expensive pothole area: $1.22M in itemised claims.
Why does my pothole report in central Auckland take so long?
Central has the region's worst response record on AT's own measure: 85.4% of dispatches met target (regional average 96.1%), and the slowest 10% of completed public reports waited 3.5 days or more. Dense traffic and traffic-management requirements are the structural reasons; the data doesn't record case-by-case causes.
Half the reports get closed with no action — why?
47.9% of Central's public reports were closed with no repair recorded. AT holds no reason breakdown (it declined our LGOIMA request under s17(e)). Likely contributors: duplicate reports on high-traffic streets, damage below AT's 100 mm / 50 mm intervention threshold, and reports about private surfaces — but the proportions are unknowable because the reasons were never logged.
Who repairs a shared driveway or body-corp ROW in Mt Eden or Remuera?
The owners — AT's responsibility ends at the road reserve. Body corps and property managers: send photos via the quote form for a fixed price within 24 hours; multi-owner sign-off paperwork is something we handle weekly.
One in seven central dispatches misses its target — don't let your own asphalt join the queue. Private drive, ROW or forecourt on the isthmus: photos via the photo-quote form, fixed price back within 24 hours.
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