It’s a bad year for potholes in the city, or rather a bad time for vehicles who hit the scores of potholes streets have developed this winter.
Technically a pothole is either a circular-shaped or a shallow hole or crack in the street surface, but there are other forms of road depressions (cave ins, street excavations that were improperly filled in).
In NYC, pothole season begins around the spring when more potholes form on roadways because of high-moisture, winter weather conditions, and a cycle of freezing and thawing conditions.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Mike Flynn announced a citywide pothole repair blitz on March 13.
NYC DOT has repaired more than 50,000 potholes, maintaining a response time of just over two days, since January 11. More than 10,000 potholes were filled in the week prior to the Mayor’s announcement. The accelerated repair effort coincides with the City’s annual road resurfacing season, which begins this month and includes full curb-to-curb repaving projects.
In his March 17 newsletter, NYC Council Member Lincoln Restler conveyed, “we have heard from many neighbors about the proliferation of potholes over the past few weeks. Mayor Mamdani and the Department of Transportation responded with a pothole blitz over the weekend to fill over 7,000 potholes. Additional blitzes are planned for later this spring, please report it and let our team know at district33@council.nyc.gov so we can make sure it gets filled.”
Apparently there has been a wave of complaints. The New York Post reported on March 22, “A jaw-dropping 22,887 pothole reports have been made in the Big Apple through March 21 — marking a 119% increase over the 10,408 complaints made in the same period last year.”
Anyone can make a complaint by calling 311 or reporting it on line here: https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-01095
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