{"id":186162,"date":"2026-04-05T09:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186162\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:52:17","slug":"applyrs-vows-10-day-blitz-to-fix-every-pothole-in-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186162\/","title":{"rendered":"Applyrs vows 10-day blitz to fix every pothole in Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY\u00a0\u2014 If you hit a pothole on April 14, call the mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Dorcey Applyrs on Friday vowed to fix every pothole on city streets in the next 10 days. Speaking at the city Department of General Services headquarters in front of a new, purpose-built pothole-filling truck\u00a0DGS workers have come to call \u201cThe Beast,\u201d Applyrs said she had heard the pleas from residents\u00a0\u2014 drivers, cyclists and pedestrians alike\u00a0\u2014 to do something about the state of the city\u2019s\u00a0roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the number one complaint I get as mayor,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said DGS workers would be fanning out across the city to blitz the offending divots and foxholes with asphalt. Applyrs said another goal of the initiative was to zero out the number of potholes on the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albanyny.gov\/2443\/See-Click-Fix\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SeeClickFix alert page,<\/a>\u00a0which currently stands at 150.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if reporters had heard correctly that the job would be done in 10 days,\u00a0Applyrs said, \u201cYes, that is correct.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said workers could be traveling on designated routes to fill potholes before any complaints are even lodged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is also where \u201cThe Beast\u201d comes in. Where in the past multiple trucks were needed to carry the materials, tools and personnel to fix a pothole, the new $275,000 task-specific vehicle can carry five workers and haul four tons of hot asphalt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of an all-in-one tool to fill potholes,\u201d said DGS Deputy Commissioner Frank Zeoli. \u201cWe\u2019re really excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like other cities, Albany had been using a less resilient form of asphalt known as cold patch to fill potholes during the winter months. With the merciful dawn of spring, potholes can now be filled with sterner stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re using the hot asphalt, it stays in permanently,\u201d Zeoli said. \u201cThat\u2019s your hope.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY\u00a0\u2014 If you hit a pothole on April 14, call the mayor.\u00a0 Mayor Dorcey Applyrs on Friday vowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30394,844,610,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-186162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alco","9":"tag-latestnews","10":"tag-local","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}