{"id":187666,"date":"2026-04-06T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187666\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:54:10","slug":"new-york-aims-to-fix-175000-potholes-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187666\/","title":{"rendered":"New York aims to fix 175,000 potholes this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul says state crews will take on a pothole blitz this year, with plans to fill 175,000 in April alone.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Gov. Kathy Hochul joins a New York state Department of Transportation crew to fill potholes on April 6, 2026, and announce statewide road improvement efforts.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"587\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775512450_824_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Groll<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p>Office of the Governor<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul joins a New York state Department of Transportation crew to fill potholes on April 6, 2026, and announce statewide road improvement efforts.<\/p>\n<p>She made the announcement Monday, joining a state Department of Transportation crew working in Albany.<\/p>\n<p>The winter took a toll on the state\u2019s roads, she said, putting drivers at risk for costly repairs while they already face rising costs, including for gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, our drivers are under enormous stress,&#8221; Hochul said. &#8220;So if we can alleviate that by aggressively going after those potholes, that is our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul also touted what she called record state spending for paving projects as that season gets underway. That\u2019s around $600 million for more than 180 DOT paving projects totaling an anticipated 4,000 miles across the state.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be the biggest year in state history for road paving,&#8221; the governor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul says state crews will take on a pothole blitz this year, with plans to fill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-187666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187666","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=187666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}