We’ve complained about potholes before. And though there are plenty of them around the city, it has been a particular set of potholes that have tested our patience day in and day out over the last two years.

Anyone who walks from the Foggy Bottom Metro station to Georgetown knows of them. There they are, a row of potholes along the southern edge of Pennsylvania Avenue, just beyond 24th Street. They start as mere dips in the road, stretching over roughly 15 feet and climaxing at a deep pothole sandwiched between two manhole covers. It’s not the that they’re blemishes in an otherwise well-maintained road that bothers us. It’s that they are always filled the water. Always. And even worse, they are strategically located so that passing traffic and Metrobuses — which stop at the corner of 24th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue — invariably pass over and through them.

Experienced District walkers know to swerve away from the lip of the curve while passing the potholes. But those that know not of their presence of simply forget are often splashed with what is likely three-day-old standing water as a Metrobus pulls to the stop. Many a day has been ruined by these particular potholes.

So, District officials, can you send someone over ASAP to fill these potholes in? Why the rush, you ask? Because these potholes are necessarily making life harder for drivers — they’re making it harder for pedestrians, not to mention the poor cyclists who might unknowingly veer into them. We’re looking forward to the day that our groggy morning walks to Georgetown are not rudely interrupted by having to jump clear of oncoming splashes from the depths of those potholes.