Dan’s Papers March 18, 2011 danspapers.com Page 27
Here a Pothole, There a Pothole, Everywhere... By T.J. Clemente It’s another pothole epidemic. The amazing record-breaking snows of January plus the blinding deep freeze have contributed to what some Suffolk County officials are unofficially calling the worst pothole spring ever. All pothole filling crews in the County have been scrambling to fill as many as 600 holes a day. County statistics reveal that the Town of Islip is in the lead, as usual, with 20,000 potholes already filled. Throughout the Hamptons, NY State Route 27 is the lifeline artery that stretches east to west. It seems that no matter what part of that thoroughfare is on your commute, the worst craters are in your path. Alex Gregor in Southampton and Scott King in East Hampton, the Town Highway Superintendents, are powerless at
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repairing anything on Route 27. As our representative in Albany, Fred Thiele, said, “On Route 27... the state fills the potholes...the towns have no jurisdiction. I have asked the towns to give me the worst locations, which I pass on to the State DOT [Department of Transportation] to do first. I have already contacted DOT to do this work,” he said. Believe it or not the County has jurisdiction on County roads and the Towns on Town Roads, even East Hampton Village has it’s own department of public works, which means there is a minimum of four separate pothole filling crews
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One final thing. On several occasions over the years, the Village of Sag Harbor, when it hasn’t got a whole lot to do, sometimes shoulders the burden of evaluating the behavior of Presidents and Prime Ministers around the world. They talk about something going on in the world, then they take a vote. As a result, there are times when a world leader gets a registered letter in the mail from the Village of Sag Harbor about how he or she is doing. Sometimes it is complimentary, sometimes not. (I recall them sending a letter
complimenting Gorbachev after meeting Reagan in Iceland.) Sag Harbor is just one example of how the fishermen and farmers and merchants and professional people over the years have grandly resisted the Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Keep Your Mouth Shut Program of Discipline and Courtesy so vigorously espoused by the Town Supervisor. On the other hand, as a lowly East Hampton Town Taxpayer, maybe I shouldn’t publish this article until I get the approval of the higher ups.
out there each day. The state’s resurfacing plan for Route 27 has not only been put off until 2013 (bids will be accepted in 2012), but the scope of the plan, which originally was supposed to cover the entire highway between Southampton and East Hampton, will now only be targeted on the stretch between Stephen Hands Path and Buell Lane in East Hampton Village. According to the State DOT, “Potholes form because asphalt road surfaces eventually crack under the heat of the day and the constant stresses of traffic. These cracks allow snow and rainwater to seep into the underlying dirt and gravel. During cold winter nights, this water freezes and expands. Some of the dirt and gravel is pushed out as a result, leaving a hole when the water eventually melts. Drivers continue to drive over these unseen holes, putting even more stress on the thin asphalt layer covering them.” As a result, driving becomes hazardous, with the driver being one pothole away from a thousand dollar repair bill, because almost no insurance or lease warranty covers damage due to hitting a pothole. In the meantime, spot-filling of the potholes will take place, and it won’t be long before the roads have those uneven asphalt patches on them for us to drive over.
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