Originally Posted by
ralfp
When pothole "repair" is done with cool asphalt and shovels, as it's done in Chicago, it's not really helping much (except create more jobs for pothole pluggers).
Yup. They throw some gunk in the hole, and an hour later, after a few cars drive over it, the hole is back almost as it was before. Useless.
I watched pothole patching in Eugene, Ore, this winter. Hot asphalt and a steam roller, in 3 or 4 minutes the road looked brand new. But Chicago follows the old Italian proverb: "he who screws up and has to do it over again is never idle".