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A Day With NYC's Pothole Crew

Posted January 10, 2013 8:54 AM

From mental_floss:

The Daily Pothole is a blog tracking the number of potholes filled each day in New York City. It's published by NYC DOT workers who call themselves the "pothole gang": this is the core group who track the potholes on a mega-spreadsheet and dispatch workers to fix them. And there's a lot to be done; on January 7 alone the site reported that 1,325 potholes were repaired. Last year, more than 200,000 potholes were repaired. This is a busy, tough job. Here's a short film following six members of a pothole crew for a quick look into how it works.

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01/10/2013 7:30 PM

"So many potholes, so little time!"

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Re: A Day With NYC's Pothole Crew

01/11/2013 9:52 AM

Did you happen to notice that they did not videotape most of the crew just standing around, milling, while one guy shovels the blacktop into the hole and rakes it? That's typically the case with union DPW crews....

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