Monday, May 30, 2011

Welcome to the bungle


From the Daily News:

Workers took an average of 5.8 days to fix a pothole on city streets between July 2010 and February 2011, up from 4.3 days during the same period a year earlier — a 35% jump in average response time, stats show.

The response-time spike came as the city placed 555 road repairers on five-day furloughs to save $1 million this winter — only to turn around and put $2 million into its road repair budget to hire emergency crews to fix streets pockmarked after snowstorms.

City Councilman James Vacca (D-Bronx), the chairman of the City Council Transportation Committee, said the longer a pothole goes unfilled, the worse it becomes. He noted potholes not only damage vehicles, but injure pedestrians and cause accidents.

Vacca said he'll introduce legislation that forces the city to tighten the 30-day period it has to fill a pothole.

Relief for road-weary drivers could be on the way. The proposed budget for next fiscal year will eliminate pothole worker furloughs, and the DOT says it has increased staffing for repair work by 10% between 2010 and 2011.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

If they actually fixed all the potholes in an average of 5 days it would be reasonable and no problem. Have you been on the Queens Blvd ramp to the East bound BQE near the 7-11!?!?!? It's fucking horrendous and has been that way for months! A slower response time is no excuse for the lack of any repair to heavily damaged major roadways.

Anonymous said...

yeah , 5 days would be wonderful.

Anonymous said...

Bloomburg The Dictator. The CEO from Hell

ew-3 said...

NYC government has grown too large to effectively manage.
Time to break NYC government into the 5 boroughs. Each borough gets it's own mayor, school, fire, police. Only when control becomes local, you'll get the services you expect.

Anonymous said...

All the pavement markings are worn out.They rarely repaint,and when they do,they arenot reflective!