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Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:04 AM Jan 2013

Never hit a pothole, again.



[div class="excerpt" style="background:#C8C8DA"]On a darkened on-ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, I once hit a pothole so deep that it dented the rim of my Integra. Years later, on a stretch of Lafayette Street near City Hall, I hit another pothole with so much force that the Golf I was driving freaking deployed the passenger-side airbag. Google the word "pothole" and the number one link is to Wikipedia's description. The number two link is to New York City's Department of Transportation website.

The NYC DOT's Pothole Gang (probably not their official name) fixes up to 4,000 potholes a day. Their goal is to fix them as fast as they find them. And to find them, they rely on agitated motorists like me taking the time out of our day to report a pothole's location to the DOT's website.

http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/local_motors_bmw_design_comp_yields_proposals_for_pothole_and_parking_problems_24232.asp#more

By the bye, for those interested, here's what the Pothole Gang does:

http://vimeo.com/56477894
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Never hit a pothole, again. (Original Post) Agschmid Jan 2013 OP
I actually found that interesting,especially since I once had very costly pothole damage. virgogal Jan 2013 #1
I saw this cute idea for potholes Claybrains Jan 2013 #2
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