Crews Hard At Work Patching Up Potholes
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- After a brutally frigid winter of snow, ice, salt and snow plowing, potholes are making for bone-jarring, teeth-rattling rides throughout the Tri-State area.
In Westchester County, emergency repairs will be made on the I-287 ramp to I-95 north during off-peak hours for the next week, WCBS 880's Sean Adams reported. Drivers should expect lane closures and delays.
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A livery cab driver told Adams he hit a pothole so big on I-95 in New Rochelle that it woke his sleeping passenger.
Crews Hard At Work Patching Up Potholes
"He woke up and was like, 'What happened?'" the driver said. "And I explained it to him, like it was a big pothole. When you're driving, you try to switch lanes from the pothole. Even if you push the brakes, somebody's going to hit you."
In New York City, 2,500 pothole crews are at work. Nearly 160,000 craters have been filled in the city.
Queens seems to have it the worst, and drivers say the Grand Central Parkway really resembles the surface of the moon.
It's not just highways, though, getting ripped open from the frigid winter.
"I've seen more (potholes) on the side streets, especially the narrow roads in Westchester," said one driver from North Castle, who recently replaced the tires on his BMW, one of which was the casualty of a pothole.
