A B737 captain advised runway 31C repairs at mdw are unacceptably rough.

Attributes
ACN	967187
Time
Date	201108
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	MDW.Airport
State Reference	IL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 169 Flight Crew Type 14000
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

Narrative:

Runway 31C at mdw was just worked on and many concrete patches were visible. The runway was extremely rough during the takeoff roll; jarring the aircraft extremely hard during transit of those areas. The construction job was very poor.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B737 Captain advised Runway 31C repairs at MDW are unacceptably rough.

Narrative: Runway 31C at MDW was just worked on and many concrete patches were visible. The runway was extremely rough during the takeoff roll; jarring the aircraft extremely hard during transit of those areas. The construction job was very poor.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.