When the hole is filled and the job is done, it’s a good idea to take get rid of the stuff used to steer traffic around it.

But it looks like the guys who dug a hole in the middle of an intersection in Flemingdon Park forgot to come back after they topped it up with asphalt, and still haven’t remembered it.

Flemingdon Park, near Don Mills Rd. and Eglinton Ave., is a densely populated community of highrise towers, with lots of pedestrian traffic and a steady stream of TTC buses to move people.

So when an intersection that’s on a TTC bus route and near a busy library remains pinched by an excavation that looks to be properly filled and ready for traffic, it’s hard not to attribute it to a faulty memory.

Louis Horvath emailed to say that about a month ago, a construction crew filled in a hole they dug in the middle of the intersection of St. Dennis Dr. and Deauville Lane.

After they finished whatever they were doing below the road, the hole was topped with asphalt and surrounded by barricades and signs to divert traffic away from it, said Horvath.

But for some reason, the barriers and signs are still there, where they’re an “obstacle blocking and the traffic and buses of our community,” he said.

“The forgetful crew is punishing our community with these darn fences and signs.”

We went there and saw a large, sturdy-looking asphalt patch that is flush with surrounding pavement and looks like traffic could pass over it with no problems.

The excavation takes up much of the two westbound lanes on St. Dennis and forces traffic to stack up behind vehicles — including lumbering TTC buses — waiting to turn left onto Deauville.

It looks like Horvath is correct, and that barricades were put up to allow the asphalt to firm up, but the people who did it have forgotten to come back and take them away.

STATUS: Hector Moreno, who’s in charge of road operations in that area, emailed to say he sent a field investigator right away to look into it and see what can be done to get the barricades removed.

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