{"id":379958,"date":"2026-10-22T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379958\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:02:08","slug":"dot-fills-178000-north-country-potholes-so-far-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379958\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT fills 178,000 North Country potholes so far this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, New York (WWNY) &#8211; State workers have filled more than 1 million potholes on New York roads so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gov. Kathy Hochul made the announcement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cPotholes can\u2019t run and they can\u2019t hide, and we are finding them and putting them out of everyone\u2019s misery,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State Department of Transportation crews and contractors have filled more than one million potholes, using more than 39,500 tons of asphalt, Hochul said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the North Country, 178,000 potholes have been fixed so far in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Outside of New York City, motorists can call 1-800-POTHOLE (1-800-768-4653) to report potholes on any state-owned highway.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, New York (WWNY) &#8211; State workers have filled more than 1 million potholes on New York roads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5459,139395,9,11,10,49,51,50,2310,67322],"class_list":["post-379958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-filled","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-north-country","tag-potholes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379958","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=379958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}