Mayor de Blasio vows to repave 1,000 miles of city streets, fill more than 400,000 potholes this yea
Mayor de Blasio vows to repave 1,000 miles of city streets, fill more than 400,000 potholes this year
CORINNE LESTCH
In a push to improve traffic safety in the city, Mayor de Blasio said he will go forward with repaving 1,000 lane miles of streets and repair more than 400,000 potholes.
"This is a major investment in infrastructure," de Blasio said at the reopening of the rebuilt Hamilton Avenue asphalt plant in Brooklyn, alongside his commissioner of Design and Construction Feniosky Pena-Mora.
The $25 million rebuilt plant will help increase the Department of Transportation's asphalt production and recycling capacity, officials said. Workers are now able to pave roads in temperatures as low as 15 degrees.
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