Potholes being a constant local concern, in February I wrote about the rocky shape of Sixth Avenue in front of Albany General Hospital. So I was interested to see what the City of Albany has just posted on social media.
“Heads up if you’re parking at the hospital Monday,” the city’s Facebook page said. “We’re doing a quick overlay at the Sixth Ave[nue] entrance of Samaritan Albany General Hospital to improve the road surface.”
This looks like one of those patch jobs the city’s street maintenance crew has been doing each summer on a few streets where the pavement is particularly bad. As has been explained, these patches don’t rebuild the street but make the driving surface tolerable until the city can afford a longer-lasting reconstruction…