New ones stepping in is going to be a wishful thinking. The fact that there's hardly anyone willing to RO (which is actually the lighter load compared to your load). tells you all that there's not much drive from others to help out.
This may sound straight forward, but why not just step out...
Drove >600mi total in Berlin, Munich, and part of Austria. in country roads, city roads, Autobahn. Not a single pothole. Yet here in US, we can't afford to fix it. And we're the greatest country in the world?
Seen some school police and an IMPD car on some, on schools I pass by to work, which is good.
It is practical. It's impractical to not have it. Proactive approach is always better than reactive approach.