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Road Conditions: Rt 376 at Red Oaks Mill

These potholes have been growing despite the cold-patch:

Potholes - Red Oaks Mill intersection
Potholes – Red Oaks Mill intersection

This is the northeast corner of the Red Oaks Mill intersection:

Potholes - Red Oaks Mill intersection - map
Potholes – Red Oaks Mill intersection – map

Taken with the Fly6 rear camera, cropped to 4:3.

A few days after I wrote that up, NYSDOT filled the potholes:

Potholes Repaired - Red Oaks Mill intersection
Potholes Repaired – Red Oaks Mill intersection

Now I can measure how long a filled pothole remains filled.

Taken with the HDR-AS30V helmet camera, uncropped.

Comments

2 responses to “Road Conditions: Rt 376 at Red Oaks Mill”

  1. Red County Pete Avatar
    Red County Pete

    We get a few potholes, but the ruts from studded snow tires get fixed every few years with continuous strips of hot asphalt. Seems to work, though the warm-weather types west of the Cascades hate the studs. They don’t have the persistent ice we can get, but I don’t think they care… Not much road-salt is used, except on the highway over the Cascades, so that help prevent potholes.

    1. Ed Avatar
      Ed

      continuous strips of hot asphalt

      They do that here, too, except that it’s rolled halfway across the shoulder to produce a vertical cliff that’ll flip your front wheel…