While the Albany City Council keeps talking about how to raise $6 million a year for street repairs, the city’s street crew keeps plugging away on temporary fixes by patching the broken asphalt one block at a time.
A couple of weeks ago the street department tackled one of the worst sections of Third Avenue, the block between Main Street and Madison Avenue. They scraped off the potholes on the driving lanes and applied a few inches of smooth asphalt.
The street crew does a few sections like this every year. So now, what’s next on the list, I asked Robb Romeo, the transportation manager in Albany Public Works…