New York, NY – New York City should be quicker to repair potholes, which have cost taxpayers $138 million in settlements over the last six years, City Comptroller Scott Stringer said Thursday.
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Stringer released an analysis that showed that the Belt Parkway had the most pothole claims involving vehicles over the six-year period — 706 — and Broadway was the street with the most pedestrian trip-and-fall claims at 195.
“If you happen to drive on the Belt, please know that you are in our thoughts and prayers,” Stringer joked at a news conference in Greenwich Village.
Stringer said it took an average of 6.7 days for the Department of Transportation to complete a pothole work order in the first four months of fiscal year 2015, nearly triple the 2.4 days it took in the previous year.
“We need to speed up the process of plugging the potholes,” he said.
The transportation department responded that it has filled 370,000 potholes since the beginning of 2015.
The department said in a statement that it repaired almost 100 percent of potholes within 30 days during the last fiscal year.
A department spokesman added that during last winter’s peak pothole season of December to March, half the pothole work was completed within an average response time of 2.2 days.
There is a pothole on the side of 18th Ave. It has been there for 3 YEARS. I have called Mr. Greenfield’s office numerous times — nothing!! Jim Brennan’s office — they fixed another one but left this one. I called 311 first nothing. If you get out of a car or off of a bus in the wrong place you might break an ankle. When the leaves start falling the hole will fill and disappear — then somebody has to show DOT the hole. Then the snow covers it or water fills it. But all the busdrivers know it is there/ They avoid it.
They fall into it and get stuck!!