If the picture is accurate (as opposed to a file photo) it is pretty clear it was a cut for utility work. But most of those have warning signs and are only there for a few days before the work is done and the patched instead of being left open for weeks.
The utility workers should be putting plywood over the hole, when they aren’t working on it so cars don’t lose their frames driving over it.
It was obviously a service cut, it seems that a celebrity ex-Governor could have called the city and the gas company and his call would have been received.