Hole lotta fixes ahead
The Department of Transportation expects to fill a record number of potholes this year after Big Apple streets were torn up by the ravages of winter, Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan told the City Council yesterday.
“We expect to fill 400,000 potholes this year, the largest number ever,” she said, adding that the department usually handles 250,000 a year.
The warm-again, cold-again winter was brutal on roads — and therefore motorists.
In March alone, 85,000 potholes were repaired — essentially two every minute, Sadik-Khan said.
It takes crews an average of 4.1 days to repair a pothole from the time it’s called in to 311 to completion.
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