NYC Has The Biggest Potholes

[Old Moparz]

Driving in New York City has always been a challenge. I still go there occasionally, but never take a "nice" car there for fear of something happening to it. I've hit a few potholes in my day, but this one is a hair bigger than the ones I've knocked out alignments with. 


SUV Falls Into Sinkhole in New York

NEW YORK (March 27) - A city street collapsed under a sports utility vehicle early Monday, leaving the vehicle nose down into a deep sinkhole that officials said was caused by a water main break.

The driver of the SUV escaped without serious injuries but was taken to a hospital for treatment of shock, said Fire Department spokesman Brian Conlon.

From street level, the vehicle was barely visible inside the 12-foot-wide hole Monday morning.

It was resting atop a gas main, and crews had to wait for the gas to be turned off before removing it, said Ian Michaels, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection. Part of a subway line that runs beneath the Brooklyn street was also shut down.

The damage to the street was probably more extensive than was visible, since water leaking from the 8-inch main could have been washing away soil beneath the street for days, Michaels said.

"It's unlikely that the only part of the roadway that was damaged was that car-shaped hole," he said.

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[PocketThunder]

    

[4402tuff4u]

I've hit potholes in the west side highway in Manhattan prior to the new highway by Chelsea that have actually made the vehicle I was driving change lanes without me moving the steering wheel!  I also hit one in Brooklyn in Kent Ave that gave me an instant flat and you could see a dent on the rim!! The Belt Parkway is a night mare too, that's why I'm a bit leary of driving the Charger once I get on the road to get out of Long Island and the other options such as the bridges are not any better.

[NYCMille]

SO THATS WHAT MESSED UP MY COMMUTE YESTERDAY!!! ERRRRR..... 

[sixty6charger]

Apparently you've never driven in Michigan. Its not an isolated pot hole here or there... they are everywhere!!! You would think you were driving off road on a dirt back road no matter if you are on a city street or highway.

[Charger_Fan]

That happened in Salt Lake once, back in about 1983. It swallowed some little car as it waited for a red light!

[MassCharger73]

I pulled up this thread to brag on the roads in Taunton, MA for being bad, but that picture took the wind out of my sails !!! 

[Highbanked Hauler]

I pulled up this thread to brag on the roads in Taunton, MA for being bad, but that picture took the wind out of my sails !!! 

Mass roads leave a lot to be desired anywhere in the state.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Thats why I took off my KYB shocks & put on a nice set of Monroe's.......our streets suck!

[MassCharger73]

Speaking of bad roads, do they do this where you live? To extend the life of the blacktop they pour a tar on the road then spread stones on it and let the traffic embed it ? Sooo for weeks when you drive on it the rocks jump up and bounce off your car. It gets exspensive airlifting your car home every day.

[73dodge]

Speaking of bad roads, do they do this where you live? To extend the life of the blacktop they pour a tar on the road then spread stones on it and let the traffic embed it ? Sooo for weeks when you drive on it the rocks jump up and bounce off your car. It gets exspensive airlifting your car home every day.

In Cleveland they just fill in the hole until it's 3 inches above the surface of the road and then instead of a hole they have a mountain. So it's like driving on a road with a hundred speed bumps placed randomly on the road surface.

[TruckDriver]

Speaking of bad roads, do they do this where you live? To extend the life of the blacktop they pour a tar on the road then spread stones on it and let the traffic embed it ? Sooo for weeks when you drive on it the rocks jump up and bounce off your car. It gets exspensive airlifting your car home every day.

It is called chip sealing. And yes, it sucks.

[Charger_Fan]

Speaking of bad roads, do they do this where you live? To extend the life of the blacktop they pour a tar on the road then spread stones on it and let the traffic embed it ?

YES! And it's usually 3 weeks after I buy a new stinkin' windshield in order to pass the stinkin' inspection too...then about 2 weeks later, I've got another stinkin' stone chip in my brand-stinkin'-new windshield!

There's an 11 mile stretch of road on my commute that they paved about 5 years ago. That paving job is the smoothest paving job I've ever seen anywhere! There was like one itsy-bitsy bump in that whole thing...it was so smooth that it kinda freaked me out when I rode my motorcycle on it for a while. I'd be humming along, with absolutely no vibrations or bumps being fed back through the bike...kinda like I was standing still, in a 70 mile an hour wind!
It took about 2 years for it to feel like a normal road again.

[hemihead]

Try the roads in the Pittsburgh area.I have already seen this many times. 

[Bandit72]

Speaking of bad roads, do they do this where you live? To extend the life of the blacktop they pour a tar on the road then spread stones on it and let the traffic embed it ? Sooo for weeks when you drive on it the rocks jump up and bounce off your car. It gets exspensive airlifting your car home every day.

they do the chip and seal thing here too...actually i'm convenced that allen county has never actually "PAVED" a road...it's just layers upon layers of this crap...if you walk on it in the summer, you get stuck too it...if you drive on it 24 hours after they pourded it, it's all over the side of your car....o well this is the same county that as a solution to having to regravel the country roads around here they just dump like an entire foot of gravel on the road about once a year and leave it that way.....

later 

[dkn1997]

I thought It was called "tar and chips"  anywho.....I worked on eastern Long Island for over 13 years in the town of Quogue.  They do pretty a lot  of the roads with tar and chips.  they just go over it every year.  IMHO, this is an excellent way to maintian a road.  There are never any potholes on these roads and it just sucks for a few days after they "freshen it up"  I would not drive the charger on them on day 2, but for the rest of the year it's fine.

[Steelman]

The Taxi cab drivers are more dangerous than the pot holes.

[Bandit72]

I thought It was called "tar and chips"  anywho.....I worked on eastern Long Island for over 13 years in the town of Quogue.  They do pretty a lot  of the roads with tar and chips.  they just go over it every year.  IMHO, this is an excellent way to maintian a road.  There are never any potholes on these roads and it just sucks for a few days after they "freshen it up"  I would not drive the charger on them on day 2, but for the rest of the year it's fine.

i wouldn't have a big problem with it except that where i live there are 2 major cement plants within 10 miles of each other and all of most of there quarrys are on the old 169 highway...so when these trucks drive over the fresh tar they make "ruts" and they don't go away...and if there are enough trucks going through on the first few days they tend to "push" the chip and seal into little "waves" in the road....other than that i really wouldn't have too many complaints about it..,

later 

[Lightning]

it happens every-so-often around here. That thing went in deep though!

[Mike DC]

       
Maybe we should just leave the country's potholes unfilled and use them for "Ricer-filters." 

A big American truck or SUV will usually pop right in & out of big potholes, but the little Ricers fall to the bottom & get stuck.

       

[MassCharger73]

Maybe we should just leave the country's potholes unfilled and use them for "Ricer-filters."



And then the government can mandate that all the foreign cars have black roofs so they blend in with the blacktop.

[BigBlockSam]

manhatten sucks pot holes, taxi's, tickets . i'm there at least 3 times a week for business. i smashed the front wheel of my harley. that sucked. i smashed the oil pan on my roadrunner on a  raised manhole cover. it's a wonderful town.