Given a choice between investing in fixing potholes or securing elections, Hall says, most local officials will spend money on potholes.
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There he saw how waste plastics were put into potholes and set alight until they melted into the craters, sealing the potholes.
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The Fatal Potholes of Mumbai Deep potholes on the roads of the state of Maharashtra are a persistent nuisance, especially during the monsoon season.
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He fixed all the potholes along my commute to work.
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POTHOLES are a scourge of rich and poor countries alike.
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Public works remain unfinished, and streets are filled with potholes.
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But, federal grant policy has produced decades of actual potholes.
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Roads with more potholes than flat patches have been repaved.
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"I am at the mercy of the potholes," says Bachor.
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The road leading to the house was dotted with potholes.
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Workers were filling potholes and resurfacing parts of the road.
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"That's what it comes down to: traffic, potholes," he said.
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Skipping #flashfloodfriday to look at these fuckin Mardi Gras potholes.
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The potholes in and around New York City are horrific.
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Mr. Trump's potholes, a military buildup and tax cuts beckon.
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THERE ARE NO POTHOLES OUT THERE, LENDING HAS BEEN PRISTINE.
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Having avoided the religious potholes, he stepped into a secular one.
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We were talking about fixing the nation's potholes, certain things. Education.
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But investors need to keep an eye out for potholes ahead.
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Now, it's going to be on the lookout for potholes, too.
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With the arrival of spring, potholes are sprouting across the country.
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Stopping potholes growing in existing surfaces, by contrast, means eternal vigilance.
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The road to Unity eight years ago wasn't devoid of potholes.
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Motorists navigate through potholes on streets buckling under the equatorial sun.
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"Who cares about potholes if Venice is under water?" he said.
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UBER HAS hit a few potholes on its ten-year journey.
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The downside of these sudden jumps (aside from wardrobe confusion): potholes.
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In Des Moines, the city fills about 7,000 potholes a year.
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They repaired the potholes in the road faster and kept electricity going.
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Milford received a $5,000 grant, which covered the repair of 40 potholes.
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Potholes in the online world apparently are not always easy to see.
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The roadway is littered with potholes and eventually becomes a dirt road.
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On busy sidewalks, riders have to maneuver around pedestrians, pets, and potholes.
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When it comes to infrastructure woes, potholes are like the common cold.
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Recent rains had turned it into a morass of muck and potholes.
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The government relies on fuel taxes to fix potholes and crumbling roads.
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Ways of repairing potholes more cheaply and enduringly would thus be welcome.
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Potholes and washed out roads have made traveling over the island difficult.
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And you really need to avoid the potholes from a structural perspective.
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We wouldn't tolerate gaping potholes in our highways or sparking power lines.
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There may be some potholes along the way, but stick with it.
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Every inch of snow, meanwhile, correlates to nine hundred and thirty potholes.
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Anyway, the resurfacing gap gradually increased, and the potholes began to proliferate.
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Streets are strewn with potholes, and public transport is limited and unreliable.
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Simply put, more freeze-thaw cycles result in more potholes, he said.
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We curse them when they're choked with traffic or riddled with potholes.
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Sure, there were a few potholes, but nothing she couldn't get past.
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Guess who gets the blame for potholes or traffic jams on those bridges?
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The self-driving car detected obstacles, people and even potholes, and responded intelligently.
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The sturdier design and wider wheel is designed to handle potholes and curbs.
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Even before the arrival of spring, potholes are already sprouting across the country.
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Meanwhile, mayors are finding that their responsibilities extend beyond policing and filling potholes.
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IN THE grand scheme of things, potholes may seem like a trivial problem.
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If Tesla can power through these deepening potholes, the $2 billion may suffice.
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The government could subsidize jobs as varied as school repairs and fixing potholes.
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The trip involves driving on a forest road with potholes and protruding rocks.
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Many municipalities struggle to fill their potholes, let alone install smart city technology.
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Now that you're clear on my formative potholes, let's hit the road already.
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The highways are in such bad shape, they're hitting potholes, they're hitting everything.
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But he also pointed to the potholes that remain on many smaller streets.
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They'll be the people who deal with potholes, school budgets, and zoning issues.
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The road to the school is a long stretch of dust and potholes.
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It was built on doing practical things in the 1990s, like filling potholes.
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It was a difficult job, interrupted by potholes and bad drivers, he said.
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No serious potholes or pavement cracks, but plenty of little bumps and divots.
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The mental toll from navigating around the inevitable potholes of a flawed system.
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"I'll drive a snowplow; I'll fill the potholes," he said, perhaps not literally.
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But in reality, dodging potholes on bumper-to-bumper freeways is the norm.
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"Do you all know what prairie potholes are?" he asked a laughing audience.
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You can spot potholes, black ice, traffic accidents, you can communicate to cars.
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And should anyone forget that filling potholes, like snow removal, is a sacred staple of constituent services, transportation officials have compiled the number of potholes the city has filled — more than 1,786,300 — since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014.
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It's also an old city with an irregular grid, bridges and lots of potholes.
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Would they be able to handle the cracks and potholes of a city street?
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There is very little traffic on the scarred road, which is filled with potholes.
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But President-elect Donald Trump's plan to fix it may hit a few potholes.
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Roads are virtually an obstacle course of poorly-marked lanes, broken pavement and potholes.
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"[His idea is:] let's fix potholes first before we talk about Mars," says Dreier.
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Those hazards could refer to roadkill, potholes or even objects flying off moving cars.
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When he first arrived in the early 1990s, his Mercedes rumbled in the potholes.
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There were potholes in the cart path filled with rainwater from a morning storm.
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Money would be earmarked for local governments to police the streets and repair potholes.
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The potholes have caused untold accidents, hours of traffic and windfalls for tire dealers.
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" A corruption and bribery scandal exposed the plots that led to "the killer potholes.
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He fixed potholes and stood on the side of the road, hoping for donations.
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Larry Zanko has been thinking about potholes for the better part of three decades.
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But bumping against the city's potholes can make everyone nauseated, and it's noisy, too.
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Workers planted flowers, repaired potholes and hung the Chinese president's portrait on electricity poles.
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The filling of potholes is a common, if trivial, yardstick of a mayor's success.
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Here's a look back at some of the potholes he hit along the way.
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There's Potholes of Philadelphia, which lavishes a reflective touch upon the city's watery pits.
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With donations rolling in on GoFundMe, the vigilantes have now filled over 50 potholes.
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Now his father honors the teen's memory by filling hundreds of potholes in the city.
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This is handy on Michigan roads, where post-winter potholes are the size of bathtubs.
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"It looks pretty much like a parking lot with large potholes right now," McKenzie said.
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I'm thinking about when Domino's started "Paving for Pizza," filling potholes in towns across America.
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The cul-de-sac was cracked and pitted, and filthy water pooled in the potholes.
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Small potholes are a nuisance; big ones can damage cars, and even cause fatal accidents.
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Even conscientious drivers are handicapped during monsoons due to low visibility, slippery roads and potholes.
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Personally, it's refreshing to not have to worry about cobblestone, small potholes or uneven pavement.
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This collects vibration data from moving cars to pinpoint potholes that need to be filled.
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"Corey's out there filling potholes when he's not asked to do it," Mr. Furey said.
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Occupational hazards include barreling trucks, barely visible potholes and taxi doors flinging open without warning.
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This makes them less stable and more vulnerable to potholes and cracks in the road.
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It cleaned alleys and repaired potholes, and hired local ex-offenders to do that work.
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Each lane mile short of a thousand, he found, seems to be worth eighty potholes.
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Street surfaces are affected by winter weather, too: Last year, the city filled 255,3003 potholes.
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I also thought the Sonata rode well, soaking up bumps and potholes with little drama.
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It's your money that won't be used to fill the potholes that damage your car.
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LIMA, Peru — In this seaside capital, the tales of graft were multiplying like the potholes.
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But it also brings a new set of worries: potholes, clogs, flooding and ice jams.
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The idea for the startup was born when CEO and co-founder Toby McCartney - who happens to live on a road plagued by potholes himself (delete 'himself') - visited India and witnessed people melting down plastic they found on local landfill sites to repair potholes.
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Neither tax credits, nor tolls, are likely to pay for repairing unsafe bridges and fixing potholes.
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She wants to fix America's infrastructure, fill in potholes, and work with Republicans to do it.
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It's an oil-based sealant, the kind that prevents roads from cracking and potholes from forming.
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"If you're looking for potholes out there, there are not a lot of things," he said.
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In Milford, Domino's said its crew helped fix 40 potholes on 10 roads in 10 hours.
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A: The potholes are so bad in Michigan, but people are disproportionately upset at their government.
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Re-imagining and re-building our infrastructure means more than filling potholes and rust-proofing bridges.
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In parts of rural South Sulawesi, for example, endless potholes make for bone-rattling bus rides.
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Most potholes start as small cracks in a road's surface, which allow water to seep in.
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Mr Bennett reckons his new system can anticipate potholes with a success rate of about 85%.
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Every day, they drive on roads with unforgiving potholes and over bridges that are in disrepair.
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One such is alerts about potholes or when a car around a blind corner suddenly stops.
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During monsoons our roads turn into a veritable minefield of submerged potholes, which are extremely dangerous.
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Residents shake their heads and blame corruption, potholes, undisciplined drivers and growing affluence for the jams.
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So far, no one has claimed the dog, but potential adopters have popped up like potholes.
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Whereas if you have existing corridors with potholes, the returns to fixing that are very high.
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And although no one speaks of it, I know it's not potholes my uncle's worried about.
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Just a few miles out of Bouaké the tarmac starts to develop potholes several metres long.
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In India, meanwhile, the cost of potholes is often paid in a harsher currency than dollars.
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Lore has it that he started laying them down after potholes nearly overturned the pope's carriage.
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"The old WOTUS rule put Washington in control of ponds, puddles, and prairie potholes," he continued.
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Nearby residents have long complained about congestion, pollution and noise and vibrations from cars hitting potholes.
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Sometimes, they were just photos of troublesome potholes, but other times they were leaked government documents.
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Another, Paving for Pizza, is a partnership with towns and cities in the U.S. to fix potholes.
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It's not an easy task considering that the ground is similar to a street filled with potholes.
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There are potholes the size of bathtubs and this Audi is equipped with rubber bands for tires.
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One of the biggest complaints to local councils is about the state of the roads, especially potholes.
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But as is so often the case in Africa, the road to modernisation is full of potholes.
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But the downside is that this porous asphalt isn't durable; that's how you get cracks and potholes.
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Puncture resistant tires means I've never had to worry about potholes or broken glass on the road.
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Time workers spend navigating potholes is time they're not producing, and employers are well aware of that.
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Distracted, Taing drove the car into one of the deep potholes in the road and got stuck.
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When she encounters large potholes during her commute along the scenic George Washington Parkway, she reports them.
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Will you make it to the summit— The flying slag, the potholes Red as an open wound?
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"I was watching the news last night, and I saw the mayor filling potholes," Professor Sherrill said.
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The city has unveiled its "Pothole Patching Machine," which it claims can fill 0603 potholes a day.
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People also posted pictures of huge potholes and asked what his department was doing to fix them.
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His book is mostly about how as mayor he faced problems like snow removal and fixing potholes.
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Not to criticize Oregon's roads, but the Countryman's suspension absorbed some hefty potholes with proper English resolve.
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He bemoaned the potholes defiling the runways at La Guardia Airport, where he parked his two planes.
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If only city officials acted this quickly and decisively to fix potholes and Austin's legendary traffic congestion.
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People want us to fix the potholes, they want us to make sure the streets are safe.
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DeGrom's road to recovery came with potholes, and it took Matz two whole years to pitch again.
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These "franchisees," as one volunteer jokingly referred to herself, have filled an additional 30 to 50 potholes.
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"If you think places like Wisconsin, Minnesota and New England have potholes now, just wait," he said.
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Of the interviewed riders, 50% believed that road conditions such as potholes and cracks contributed to their injuries.
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The new ban is expected to stay clear of some of the legal potholes the first one hit.
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Such vehicles inch along behind the crews filling potholes, striping lanes, or clearing clutter from along the roadway.
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The pizza company&aposs new topping is one that covers street potholes helping fix the nation&aposs infrastructure.
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THE main road from the Sierra Leone border to Guinea's capital is lined with more than just potholes.
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The same freeze-thaw cycle beats up concreate and asphalt roads and bridges, resulting in teeth-jarring potholes.
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The Jakarta police traffic feed, alerting commuters to jams, accidents, potholes and protests, has over 5 million followers.
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Despite a few potholes toward the end, writer-director Edgar Wright's stylish thriller consistently clicks on all cylinders.
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It thunks into potholes without much softening, though it relaxes considerably on the highway and is always quiet.
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The most common cause of potholes is water penetrating cracks in a road's surface and weakening its foundation.
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Leaving Pyongyang, we passed through a checkpoint, and smooth asphalt eventually gave way to potholes brimming with rainwater.
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Shortly before he announced his opposition to Farr, he warned that Republicans were missing "obvious potholes" on race.
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There are a lot of potholes, and if you're not surrounded by the right inner circle, you'll trip.
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Now he's asking voters to put him in charge of everything from Baltimore's police force to its potholes.
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These are protest votes to blow up our political system rather than a practical demand for fixing potholes.
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Cohen, he added, embodied his native city, its multiple cultural identities, the poetry of its potholes and imperfections.
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Schoolchildren help to fix potholes in a rural road in North Korea's North Hamgyong province in June 2014.
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The truck bears the marks of storms, potholes, high-speed rushes to crime scenes and abrupt parking jobs.
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Yes, so Domino's will be filling potholes — not to be confused with their normal business of filling potheads.
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In these conditions, the Africa Twin would excel, with its long-legged suspension capable of gliding over potholes.
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Local government is really on the frontlines of helping people with every issue, from potholes to pension funds.
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"We've had 'Legalize marinara,' and 'Our pizza is deep as potholes,' 'Free box with every pizza,'" he said.
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We've got an aging infrastructure with potholes and highways that aren't working and bridges that are in trouble.
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It even proposes a "right to food", perhaps to match the Tories' promise to fill the nation's potholes.
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All that snow and ice, he said, have left behind about three times as many potholes as usual.
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One of the biggest potholes that the software design team has ever hit, in my opinion, was iOS 7.
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The roads are the same, though the familiar potholes I remember have been filled in, the blemishes made smooth.
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The city's chief issues include dilapidated properties and potholes, thanks to frequent flooding and decades of poor infrastructure management.
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The Israeli startup wants AVs to "feel" the bumps, curves and potholes under their tires, just as humans do.
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In the air, there are no pedestrians, potholes, construction sites or any other obstacles that give computers a headache.
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Rome is plagued by overflowing rubbish bins, untended parks and gardens, inadequate public transport and roads dotted with potholes.
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Natural potholes would still fill without bighorn to lap them, and the grasses would grow without bison to graze.
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The vehicles were also tested on a moderate off-road course whose dips and potholes would damage many cars.
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Potholes, gas prices and other factors play a role in driver satisfaction, according to a recent study from Waze.
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Park visitors are met with dangerous roads, jaw breaking potholes, traffic snarls, road construction delays and overflowing parking lots.
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The administration's plans, including its Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure in America, may have metaphorical potholes, as Wallace suggested.
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Initiatives like those have become a "fill the potholes" reality for many mayors, regardless of political games in Washington.
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Ask some New Yorkers whether they might like that kind of assistance to fill the potholes in midtown Manhattan.
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ALONG A DIRT track bordered by rice paddies and studded with potholes, soldiers and villagers labour side by side.
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"There were old rail lines, lots of drains and manholes, plenty of potholes to look out for," he said.
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But the 2008 meltdown showed that the road to recovery can be treacherous, with countless potholes along the way.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An algorithm predicts where potholes will emerge so road crews can resurface streets before cracks appear.
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Large swaths of it were unpaved and under construction and full of potholes from intense, constant dumps of rain.
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An adaptive suspension uses a forward-facing camera to spot potholes or speed bumps, adjusting the ride as necessary.
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However, Mr. Glimcher said, that is probably not the result of fewer potholes, but rather fewer people with smartphones.
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A child learns how to ride by falling off, by balancing herself on two wheels, by going over potholes.
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Minuscule potholes in the surface of magazine paper, for example, can for some clash disagreeably with its apparent glossiness.
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Uber has launched a bike share program in Rome, where potholes, vandalism, traffic and theft have defeated previous attempts.
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Riccio's pothole equation, "the F=ma of potholes," as he calls it, can be expressed as P=s+g .
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Inches-deep ruts are common, as are potholes and fissures running parallel to faded white lines between the lanes.
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Bicycle crashes, potholes, customers not where they say they'll be and unpredictable weather are regular occupational challenges for Licatovich.
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Our trains are over capacity, our highways pockmarked with potholes, and our airways are controlled by outdated, 20th century technology.
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Other commitments include £212 million for counter terrorism, £503 million to tackle potholes, and £250 million for spending on schools.
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Milford&aposs public works director, Mark Whitfield, says an abnormally harsh winter left the city with more potholes than usual.
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And James Watson, one of the discoverers of structure of DNA, suggested he should "fix the potholes" here on Earth.
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At Princeton Junction, I managed to pass over the potholes in a couple concrete ramps in dire need of repair.
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Mr McCartney decided to develop specialist recycled-plastic additives after watching a practice sometimes employed in India to repair potholes.
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In case you were not aware — I was certainly not aware — pouring cereal into potholes is kind of a thing.
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Like our government could definitely be doing a better job, and they should, but like, potholes are going to exist.
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He'll get the money by exploiting the company he worked for, which is fixing potholes in the nearby NASCAR arena.
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Some states, meanwhile have stepped up to fill in the funding gaps — and the epidemic of potholes on state highways.
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The job of those who are elected is to coax local governments to fix potholes, supply water and the like.
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Century-old pumps are in constant need of repair, catch basins repeatedly clog, and potholes and sinkholes form seemingly everywhere.
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After all, there are no "Rs and Ds" adorning the bone-jarring potholes, contaminated water pipes and rusting steel trusses.
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The controls are brawny and well-weighted, the interior is basic and the truck soaks up potholes and big undulations.
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They deserve more than a scam that will make potholes roads worse and our bridges and transit systems more dangerous.
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Angry citizens would rather have seen that money go toward repairing potholes or funding new public transportation projects (The Guardian).
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But Mr. Hamann said that major springtime collapses were the result of the same freeze-thaw cycle that creates potholes.
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Of course, you do have to be careful about potholes and speed bumps with that kind of minimal ground clearance.
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Imagine an updated, stable power supply; imagine reliable Internet access, and roads and bridges free of potholes or dangerous vulnerabilities.
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The garbage has to be picked up and potholes need to be filled, and city leaders get it all done.
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Public buses have caught fire, and some neighborhoods have even seen wild boars picking through the trash and sidestepping potholes.
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Neighborhood scouts lined up victims willing to fall in potholes or deliberately trip outside of restaurants, bodegas and dry cleaners.
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When national highways are clogged with congestion and filled with potholes, coordinating the logistics of truck delivery shipments grows complicated.
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For one thing, it took us longer to get there, partly because the road was pocked with many more potholes.
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I turned the MIFA back to the slush-brimmed potholes, but from now on, it would be a little different.
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And, added the proud mother, a crew showed up to fix the potholes for good after her video went viral.
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"If Domino's can fill potholes, I guess Taco Bell train is the next logical step," a Redditor named AHPpilot commented.
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The vehicle also has the ability to "see" potholes and uneven pavement and adjust the suspension to keep the ride smooth.
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It made me want to jump curbs and ram the front shock absorber into potholes just for the fun of it.
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But the next step will allow tires to signal when they run into potholes, broken pavement, gravel, snow or black ice.
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Other concerns among Barnet's Jewish population are more prosaic: schools, the environment and potholes—"the same as everybody else," he says.
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I agree that we need to fix our potholes, that we have to do a better job with airports like JFK.
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"It's still very much like another country," said Mr. Symons, author of "Potholes in Paradise," a book about life on Orcas.
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"He was talking potholes and trash and sewage, and I was talking about education and environment and other issues," she says.
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Lime recently unveiled a new scooter with safety improvements, such as larger wheels, intended to better handle potholes and uneven roads.
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McKenzie shared before and after photographs of the building, describing it as a "parking lot with large potholes" and "not memorable."
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He also explained how residents can report potholes and noted that most Indiana roads could benefit from additional sustained infrastructure funding.
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A new program, "Plan Bolivar 220," ordered troops to fill potholes, clean highways, refurbish schools and carry out other public works.
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Fixing that is crucial: A weakened runway can suffer potholes, increasing the risk of planes losing control as they touch down.
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Before they can succeed here as much as they have in Europe, e-bikes will have to negotiate a few potholes.
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The Federal Communications Commission is right to work toward restoring light-touch regulation before the information superhighway becomes marked with potholes.
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Although these mean streets have more potholes than pavement, aspirations, achievements and a sense of community also find themselves at home.
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Two months ago, it was the Domino's pizza chain, which paid for fixing potholes in the small town of Milford, Del.
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This is particularly true in Oakland where tens of thousands of unfilled potholes wreak havoc on Bay Area drivers every day.
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That money will be spent on a variety of road infrastructure needs, ranging from filling in potholes to building new major routes.
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"When you live in an urban area, there is money needed for public safety, public health, even just repairing potholes," Oxford said.
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The documents, for instance, point out that one Mayor asked the Marine Corps to find potholes in his city using its drones.
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For a council that has had its annual budget cut by £350m in the past six years, it was PFI or potholes.
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Each node of this network of gadgets shares information with the other nodes — warning of traffic snarls, potholes, construction and so on.
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In the last five years, some 16 million drivers have suffered vehicle damage related to potholes, according to a survey by AAA.
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Beyond the obvious benefits of roads without potholes and water pipes without leaks, investing in infrastructure can benefit both people and nature.
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Domino's Pizza on Monday announced a new initiative that will allow consumers to submit their town for potential grants to fix potholes.
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ANNE WATSONJOHN MASONEmeritus professors of mathematics educationUniversity of Oxford Technology is certainly the solution to mending potholes ("The hole story", June 11th).
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Until the last 10 years or so Nairobi's urban infrastructure -- featuring potholes, bumpy roads and few sidewalks -- wasn't exactly a smooth ride.
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In some years, his association receives dozens of complaints about congestion, pollution, and noise and vibrations from cars hitting potholes and bumps.
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"It's a disaster," said Mr. Davoli, who has made filling potholes his personal mission, risking fines for filling them in unauthorized areas.
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I then got enough to make good guesses at POTHOLES, LOCKSMITH and SYMBOLISM, and the rest of the grid slowly filled in.
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There's a display of hubcaps that have literally popped off passing vehicles and rolled into the bar, victims of Philly's infamous potholes.
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In services, the company continued to get work filling potholes or maintaining public housing, where budgets were generally ring-fenced, Mursell said.
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"Municipal officials in the Northeast, we deal with snow, we deal with potholes, we deal with property taxes, trash pickup," he said.
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You know, people are joining the workforce, a lot of capital, markets are wide open, no major potholes in the American economy.
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Motoring to the grocery store in comfort mode, the Continental mostly shrugs off big bumps and potholes while quelling float and wallow.
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In exchange for topping the fixed potholes with the Domino's logo and the saying, "Oh, yes we did," the city got $5,000.
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Her father used to zug crooked lines and potholes into his three sons' hair when they were young and not yet vain.
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With talk of filling potholes and fixing bridges, Trump has promised to to redirect globalization funds to rebuilding and improving domestic infrastructure.
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"No community has benefitted more from Mayor Joe Hogsett's policies than us potholes here in Indianapolis," declared the account in a statement.
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The third-edition Spin scooter has 10-inch tires, a feature meant to better absorb shock from potholes and other rough road conditions.
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Your third or fourth favorite pizza place is now addressing America's crumbling infrastructure and has taken it upon itself to start repairing potholes.
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In America, for instance, both state and federal governments find potholes by manually examining video footage of the country's 4.12m miles of roads.
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Lots of tech players are looking at potholes, including HERE Technologies, which uses its mapping vehicles to track road quality, among other things.
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Milford patched 217 potholes with its $2100,2000—and held a staff pizza party with the $3533 in gift cards it received from Domino's.
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And the amount of construction currently happening in downtown Austin means there are numerous potholes and less usable space than in the past.
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In the capital Harare, motorists often dodge potholes that constantly damage vehicles, angering residents, who accuse the government and local councils of neglect.
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If that road is bad, nobody's going to fix it, so we all have to buy high cars to get over the potholes.
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In 2015, Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber came up with a novel solution to the problem: He advised residents to pray the potholes away.
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The higher-sitting Urus has Lambo's signature power, engine sound and bold angles but can easily glide over potholes, dirt and steep bumps.
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They had so much food, the girls told Mr. Nkeki, that sometimes they used sacks of rice to fill potholes or control erosion.
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"We don't necessarily have a position as a brand, but it definitely seems potholes are something people feel pretty passionately about," Fouracre said.
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" Looking thrown off, Bill laughs, nods his head and tells me to "be careful," as I narrowly avoid cars, potholes and pedestrians. "Wowzers!
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One version has patients tilting a tablet to steer the character's hoverboard, dodging fiery potholes and looking for special orbs along the way.
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That honor seems like it's owed to Pat Tomasulo, who recently used Vienna Beef's giardiniera to fill a few of the city's potholes.
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" The Republican Party, Mr. Scott told reporters, is "not doing a very good job of avoiding the obvious potholes on race in America.
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Once-busy roads are empty except for the workers repairing the potholes from the damage done by truck traffic in the last boom.
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There was no explanation of how the fixing was going to be accomplished through private investors, who want new tolls, not less potholes.
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On her signature issue — filling the state's lunar-looking potholes and repaving its threadbare highways — the governor has failed to broker a compromise.
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Water and sewer services in the camp are unreliable at best; the streets contain potholes big enough to lose much of a car.
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If I'm plowing the snow and filling in potholes then I'm a good mayor and if we fail to do that, I'm not.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Clutching the door frame, Sheriff Safania Maina leans out of the bus as it hits potholes going 45 miles per hour.
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On her signature issue — filling the state's lunar-looking potholes and repaving its threadbare highways — the governor has failed to broker a compromise.
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Most states and cities are also filling potholes, and the average roughness of most roads has steadily declined for the last two decades.
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They have a wealth of talent — craters for everyone else are potholes for them — and a coach who set a foundation for success.
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Instead of filling in potholes, 88 percent of New York's gas-tax revenue was used as a slush fund, propping up lawmakers' overspending.
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Potholes of Detroit, however, is decidedly less artful in its depictions of the former industrial powerhouse's perilous craters, conveniently accompanied by specific intersections.
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The state is filled with New Deal–era bridges — nearly two-thirds of them deficient — and with roads so pocked with potholes that Gov.
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Jack spilt the tea (and then didn't spill the tea) while testing out Clearmotion's fancy new suspension, which smooths the ride over rough potholes.
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Underspending on infrastructure has left them filled with potholes, something the AAA estimates costs drivers $3 billion a year in repairs to their cars.
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Gene Gurkoff, founder of Charity Miles, acted as her eyes on the course, helping her navigate potholes, other runners, and water and fueling stations.
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The roads are full of potholes, there are regular power cuts and big companies talk openly about moving across the border into Ivory Coast.
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Cornell University researchers used data from sensors and accelerometers combined with machine learning algorithms to detect and assess potentially damaging road conditions, including potholes.
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We found ourselves going out of our way to hit potholes dead on just to watch the Raptor shrug them off without a whimper.
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Indeed, "The Father" was written as a retort to "A Doll's House," which Strindberg described as "swinery," filled with logical potholes and tendentious argument.
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Sadly it has always been my experience that councils view potholes through a Keynesian lens: holes to be filled equals work for the boys.
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We've all groaned and said some choice words when hitting deep potholes or been late to an appointment due to road or bridge closures.
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Related: Our children's plastic lives seen through lunches Inspired by India's plastic potholes McCartney first encountered plastic in roads while traveling in Southern India.
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They all had their trusted bootleggers who negotiated the potholes of Karachi at high speed on disintegrating motorcycles, the hooch stashed on the back.
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While the CX-5 definitely doesn't have the pillowy softness of some of its beiger competitors, it handles bumps and potholes with total competency.
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"That's called an emergency intervention," said Mr. Davoli, a vigilante hero in the battle against the voracious potholes that have opened across the city.
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But as the strike and the chaos linger, some drivers are staring at the potholes, not the teachers on the sides of the roads.
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Donkey's is just a bar, of course, and it won't make the schools better or raise the city's median household income or fix potholes.
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This month, some central stations failed to open at all and a member of Parliament proposed bringing in the army to fill the potholes.
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Except when the stiff-framed Q50 Red Sport is negotiating city streets in cities such as New York, land of potholes and uneven paving.
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The Mayor's Management Report reveals New York City government in glorious minutiae, from the number of potholes filled to the number of condoms distributed.
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Especially not one that could handle life on the road, including the abuse of extreme temperatures, potholes, and being pelted with gravel and salt.
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"We can't be boxed in," Mr. Veke said, sitting in his office on the main road through Honiara, where dust and potholes still dominate.
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A strike by rubbish collectors has left many trash cans overflowing, potholes riddle the roads, while the local transport system is in permanent crisis.
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Snow-related alerts now join as many as 25 other reportable hazards, including oil on the road, potholes, roadkill, missing signs, and even tornadoes.
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It's pothole season, or really, now that the magnolias, and the Mets, have wilted, the season for filling potholes and then boasting about it.
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Investors can expect higher stock prices but also a lot of potential potholes in 2020, according to the investment forecasts of major asset managers.
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Donald J. Trump's one mention of the space program during his campaign was to tell a kid that potholes on Earth need fixing first.
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Despite the number of potholes on my street, we do tend to enjoy fairly well maintained and clear roads here in the United States.
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The caravan of vehicles moving from one Caracol to another was slow, due to potholes, roads that weren't fully paved, raging downpours, and intense heat.
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One-third of the 33,000 U.S. annual traffic-related deaths involve poor road conditions, with potholes alone causing $3 billion in vehicle damage per year.
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That campaign promise is a reliable applause line for American voters dodging potholes, waiting in long lines at airports and worried about their drinking water.
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As federal funding has dried up, some states are stepping up to fill in the funding gaps and the epidemic of potholes on state highways.
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As federal funding has dried up, some states have already stepped in to fill the funding gaps and the epidemic of potholes on state highways.
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A new LED street light system has been rolled out, and residents' calls to the city for issues like potholes and trash removal are down.
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Each week staffers had to file short reports about their area of responsibility in "crisp, military-style language" on everything from potholes to Israel policy.
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You feel like the security teams are getting a little better at handling those kinds of disruptions, and after all, every place has potholes, right?
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"I got doored, I got cut off, there were potholes galore," he said, rattling off the hazards of biking on the streets of New York.
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You can better avoid tripping on craggy sidewalks, potholes, or root-strewn trails if you can see where you're going in the dark between streetlights.
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"@BilldeBlasio when will you have @NYC_DOT repave First Ave," one user wrote in March alongside a picture of potholes along a stretch of Brooklyn roadway.
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Suburban Virginia Republicans focused on their dedication to constituent service, including filling potholes, and trumpeted their willingness to break from party orthodoxy on some issues.
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The resulting potholes are expensive for cities to fix, and AAA estimates pothole-related car damage costs US drivers more than $3 billion a year.
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Now, with austerity measures slashing maintenance budgets and leaving streets gashed with potholes, councils are also contending with proposals for what they call glorified billboards.
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At one point, I almost got too close — I stumbled on a sharp rock, lost my balance and fell close to one of the potholes.
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But force scooters into the streets and they are slow and vulnerable amid two-ton vehicles, not to mention potholes that can swallow small tires.
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Even as Mueller's team methodically piled up evidence of Manafort's alleged tax and bank fraud, jurors have seen the special counsel's case hit some potholes.
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Potholes, worn paint and other irregularities — standard fare on too many of today's roads — will potentially become even greater safety hazards than they are now.
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In this case, that involved adapting a dance that had been developed in a studio to a slanted hillside road full of potholes and dirt.
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These are the people who work tirelessly to put out fires, rescue those in need, fill potholes, arrest thieves and thugs, and yes, deliver mail.
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"That's not been an easy task, and I give him credit for avoiding the landmines and potholes that have tripped up other investigations," Collins said.
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"It's great that they came and fixed it, but my gosh, if this is what it takes to get potholes fixed, we'll never get anything done."
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So, your chubby self just can&apost wait for your pizza so you complain about the potholes, so you&aposve got to get your food faster.
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That wheelbase also contributes to an utterly sublime ride, so smooth and soft that it erases the potholes and pimpled highway surfaces that define Detroit motoring.
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Wall Street is getting worried that the Federal Reserve's aggressive efforts to control short-term borrowing rates have run into some potholes, with more danger ahead.
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Why commute to work on a bike, fighting traffic and dodging potholes, when you could ride a stationary bike mounted inside a bus while you commute?
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Driving slowly to dodge the potholes and fallen wires, I have to squeeze through narrow passageways carved out of a landslide every 800 feet or so.
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Factors include the weather, the car's tire pressure, potholes, how many people are in the car, what pedestrians are doing and how assertive the car is.
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Drainage work is due to start next month on the next street over, whose sandy surface is carved with potholes and grooves from the rainy season.
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But Waze and Esri have also worked together to allow drivers in Johns Creek, Georgia, to report potholes and the city to respond by patching them.
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Many of Rome's roads are riddled with potholes after a particularly cold, wet winter, while almost 50 sinkholes have opened since the start of the year.
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And when you're done with your tomfoolery for the night, the Stinger is a quiet and composed highway cruiser that tackles bumps and potholes without drama.
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When a neighborhood starts to gentrify, a city may repave the road so that there are no potholes or other dangerous road conditions, according to Goldson.
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Years of increasing visitation and flat funding have left many of our national parks full of potholes, crumbling bridges, leaky water pipes and faltering power grids.
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The post went viral as people all over the country wondered why their cities and states can't fix the "blankety-blank-blank" potholes on their streets.
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For the final 10 miles, Wheatcroft ran as he had in previous marathons, with Bacon and Croak alongside, advising him of turns, potholes, curbs, water stops.
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"We often see people who hit potholes or curbs and end up fracturing their arm or elbow because they fall," she said in a phone interview.
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I'd already given up on my bike because of the potholes and the lack of bike lanes that make your ride a perilous zigzag through traffic.
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Mr. Parker said workers were continuing to patch potholes, which pocked the city's 103,400 lane-miles of street after a brutal cycle of freezing and thawing.
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In between knocking on doors and handing out fliers around the district, he could not resist calling in potholes and garbage piles to the city's 311 hotline.
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News outlets report national delivery-based pizza chain Domino&aposs is aiming to make commutes around the country a little less hellish, by helping to repair potholes.
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There's a long road ahead, full of potholes and pitfalls, made worse by the fact that we're trying to fix the car while we're still driving it.
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If there are 35 Domino potholes in your neighborhood and none of your kids play outside, there&aposs a good chance you&aposve got a chubby neighborhood.
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Boosted wanted its first scooter to be "vehicle grade," strong enough to withstand the bumps and potholes of city-riding, but designed to handle any terrain imaginable.
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He has swung by to inspect a street where tarmac and new sewage pipes have just been laid, and where weeks ago there were potholes and mud.
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An even better approach, however, would be to stop potholes forming in the first place, by sealing the cracks that cause them before any damage is done.
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The previous Elantra had three problems: The steering hero-worshiped Novocain, occupants grew hoarse from shouting over road noise, and large potholes betrayed a lack of structure.
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By raising the prospect of potholes going unfixed and construction workers being laid off, Mr. Christie ratcheted up the pressure on state lawmakers to reach an agreement.
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Along with maintaining the runways, the "Dirt Boyz" build sidewalks, manage Luke's drainage systems, fix potholes and repair any damages to the barriers along the base perimeter.
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"Americans rely on our nation's roads and bridges every day, and more funding is desperately needed to prevent potholes, other unsafe conditions and longer commutes," AAA continued.
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Their attention is inward and downward, on the marathon blue line, on the possible potholes, with the occasional glance over their shoulder to see who trails behind.
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It's clear by the city's official pothole tracker that public services in Chicago patch a lot of potholes, but maybe not enough, given Tomasulo's rogue pothole fixing.
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I stood at the lip of one of those potholes, marveling at the sheer improbability of rock become fluid, and thrilling to be so close to it.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "Domino's Pizza announced this week that as part of a publicity campaign, the company will start to fill potholes in select towns across the country.
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Deep in Sicily, off a terrible road whose signs resignedly warn of potholes, lies the isolated town of Sutera, built around the base of a steep mountain.
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"I Choose Love" acknowledges the work it takes to maintain a bond that has developed the usual potholes once the initial thrill of discovery has worn off.
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Especially in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, hefty amounts were redirected to balancing budgets and fixing potholes, rather than to local prevention and treatment programs.
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Especially in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, hefty amounts were redirected to balancing budgets and fixing potholes, rather than to local prevention and treatment programs.
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Andrew Salzberg, the head of transportation policy for Uber, said one of the priorities for the company is to fix existing infrastructure, be it potholes or subways.
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Yet among the super wealthy, the actual quality mix of cars and highways in the United States more closely resembles Ferraris on potholes than Porsches on smooth asphalt.
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The most noticeable difference from a human driver is that the vehicle makes no attempt to avoid Pittsburgh's notorious potholes, so the ride is slightly bumpy at times.
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About half of the Fed's policymakers used public appearances on Wednesday to show an increasingly unified view that the U.S. economy was not headed for any obvious potholes.
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My second traverse: taking my found hiking boots through the streets of NYC, where potholes and construction workers served as my switchbacks and subway stairs as my summit.
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As for the aforementioned potholes, the movie does labor a bit in its final laps as Wright seeks to prolong the tension, but not in any significant way.
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And as the town of Elwood scrambled to pave its potholes, its inability to collect taxes from the facilities plunged it into more than $30 million in debt.
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"The prince asked me how difficult it was to maintain and I said the most difficult thing was the steering system because of all the potholes," said Gonzalez.
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Each year artist Jim Bachor launches a crowdfunding campaign to produce a series of colorful mosaics that he uses to fill in potholes on the streets of Chicago.
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Yet, among the super-wealthy, the actual quality mix of cars and highways in the United States more closely resembles Ferraris on potholes than Porsches on smooth asphalt.
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Just beneath our feet, visible through those potholes in the newly cooled lava, you could see a river of incandescent liquid rock flowing at a more inexorable clip.
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We are at a tipping point and our policymakers must realize infrastructure investment cannot solely focus on filling potholes, painting lines, installing signage, and building additional lane miles.
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Dimon: So, when I say no potholes, the household in good shape -- Cramer: Okay – Dimon: People going to work – Cramer: FICO scores, high -- Dimon: FICO scores are fine.
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To assist motorists, the city last year posted an "Indy pothole viewer" map online, which currently shows 4,388 open potholes, marked by a swarm of angry red dots.
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"It's uniting the city behind our frustrations with the potholes," said one of the men, who asked to not be identified to retain the anonymity of the account.
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All-wheel drive may make it better for northern climates, but the inability to tackle potholes makes it a tough sell for places where the winters wreck the roads.
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Chinedu said with the help of policemen and Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officers he was able to navigate through heavy traffic, bumps and potholes on the road.
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To ease the jarring pain of driving through potholes that could be mistaken for craters, Ford's new Fusion V6 Sport sedan now offers a computer-controlled shock absorber system.
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Both potholes and waste plastic are potentially hazardous - uneven road surfaces increase the likelihood of road accidents, whereas plastic lying dormant in landfill sites is harmful to our environment.
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Potholes cost the country's road users an estimated $3.4 billion per year in vehicle repairs and injuries, according to the South African Road Federation, as well as damaging freight.
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As Bob Bennett, its chief innovation officer, describes, the city is using a mix of sensors and computer algorithms to work out where potholes are most likely to form.
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There are nails and potholes waiting to destroy your tires, cars waiting to smoosh you, and thieves waiting to steal your bike as soon as your back is turned.
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In January, CP+B approached the cities of Athens, Georgia; Bartonville, Texas; and Milford, Delaware, offering them each grants of $20163,000 to help them repair potholes in their town.
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Once a month in a dilapidated Oakland warehouse with graffiti-filled walls, potholes and no electricity, two tech CEOs and a bunch of technologists gather to race autonomous vehicles.
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The de Blasio administration wants to combine those goals with an effort to overcome the mayor's image as a leader more interested in making grand pronouncements than filling potholes.
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In their natural habitat, tribe members can be seen texting, watching videos and conducting financial transactions, all while dodging cars, tripping in potholes and jamming up subway station entrances.
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While the green energy drive will provide promising financing opportunities for Taiwanese banks, the road is fraught with hurdles relating to credit risks, exposure limits, and potential political potholes.
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On top of that, he promised infrastructure improvements to schools and hospitals and affordable housing, vowed to improve life expectancy and enrich the regions, as well as fixing potholes.
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Residents there said that they, too, had heard of the vice president's impending arrival and pointed to the recent, unexpected filling of potholes on their street as credible evidence.
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Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced more planned spending on health, education, defense and even fixing potholes, but he said it hinged on reaching a Brexit deal.
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On the Estonian side, streets are generally clean and well-repaired, while many in Ivangorod are scarred by potholes and, in the fall, scattered with leaves and other debris.
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Potholes go unfixed, it says, and all of Islip's five brownfield sites — land that has been environmentally contaminated and often abandoned as a result — are in or near Brentwood.
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Romans have for years bemoaned the degradation of their city: the potholes, the burning buses, the unkempt parks and the uncollected garbage, stinking its streets and clogging its river.
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Trump's attitude toward space seems to be that, while it is a wonderful thing, it has to wait for earthly problems, in his case fixing potholes and repairing bridges.
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And with delivery trucks double-parked, you don't have a lot of room to avoid the potholes or the cyclists who hit them and go flying through the air.
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For years, an uneasy truce persisted: Public works crews would fill potholes and perform other maintenance work on those roads, but insisted that residents pay if they wanted repaving.
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In their natural habitat, tribe members can be seen texting, watching videos and conducting financial transactions, all while dodging cars, tripping at potholes and jamming up subway station entrances.
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But the fast-rising temperatures were also causing a new set of risks to contend with, including the potential for flooding, abundant potholes and clogged storm water drainage systems.
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In the latest attack, just days ago, he was traveling slowly over potholes in a convoy with four other trucks after dark, when assailants jumped on and started grabbing produce.
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And it was under Clinton that the language of politics shifted from that of equity, justice, and potholes to the finance-speak of redistribution, growth and investment, and infrastructure decay.
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Drivers will be able to earn digital currency by enabling tech in connected vehicles to report road condition data — such as traffic or potholes — to navigation providers and local authorities.
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And so in addition to being on the lookout for cars, pedestrians, and potholes, the constant directional awareness required means it's impossible to zone out and settle into a pace.
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Automakers have intensified the race to build self-driving cars and are investing in sensors that help these cars navigate on roads with poor or faded lane markings and potholes.
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"The real concern for the House here is that there are all kinds of legal potholes that might end up knocking the case out of court," Stern told VICE News.
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"It looks pretty much like a parking lot, with large potholes," said Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East.
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On Monday the pizza chain said it was partnering with towns and cities in the U.S. to fix potholes, with the goal of providing smoother rides for Domino's delivery drivers.
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Live data fed from radars, standard cameras and 3D laser sensors on thousands of cars is then used to keep maps updated, in case potholes or new street signs emerge.
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If you peel out of every green light, brake hard, drive full-speed over potholes, or generally drive aggressively, your car is going to show signs of wear-and-tear.
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Of course, filling potholes is a band-aid solution in a country whose road infrastructure scored a D grade in the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2017 Infrastructure Report Card.
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The convoy bounced over a road riddled with potholes, past remains of burned-out trucks, through a sandstorm and rain, and then into fields of sucking mud and soft dunes.
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It's too harsh to be a proper grand tourer or cruiser, with a overly stiff suspension that — even in its comfort setting — crashes through potholes and jolts over uneven surfaces.
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OMAHA — After living more than 40 years along a road plagued by potholes, Jo Anne Amoura was excited to see city crews shred her block of Leavenworth Street into gravel.
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Mr. Booker was one of the first politicians to fully embrace the direct reach of social media, tweeting out direct responses to Newark residents complaining of potholes and broken heaters.
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Roaring past New Orleans's aboveground cemeteries and homes still dilapidated from Hurricane Katrina, past new housing projects and around the city's infamous potholes, the women receive a rowdy, happy welcome.
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The problem is we do have to fix the roads, the roads are full of potholes and somebody's got to fix the roads, but you have to find the money.
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"This week we're looking at an increase" — maybe 123 to 212 percent more new potholes than last week — said Joseph Carbone, the pothole chief of the city's Department of Transportation.
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Do reporters continuing to write stories about potholes in Cambodia or festivals in Thailand allow for plausible deniability of the very real problems that are left out of the reporting?
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"I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty," interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents.
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Yet the firm is also facing some potholes quite unlike the regulatory barriers erected elsewhere in the world (such as, in Paris and Frankfurt, rules that stop it using unlicensed drivers).
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During a rare downpour, villagers driving carts drawn by zebu cattle emerged on the region's main road to fill jerrycans and drums with rainwater collected from the highway's crater-sized potholes.
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Instead, governments are reducing the share of spending they devote to agriculture, perhaps because city-dwellers complain more loudly when their roads have potholes or their hospitals run out of medicine.
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His initial comment supporting a 25-basis point rate hike dropped his own stock, but it quickly bounced back as he said he saw no real potholes in the U.S. economy.
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Boosted says its new scooter is weatherproof and ready to take on street conditions (but have they seen the potholes in the Bay Area?), and even offers a 12-month warranty.
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And while that aggregated and anonymized data holds critical information about traffic patterns, road hazards, potholes, accidents and even road kill, the burden is on cities to make sense of it.
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Even apparently neutral apps such as Street Bump may have unintended consequences: the service could give priority to wealthier neighbourhoods where people can afford smartphones, leaving potholes in poor areas unfilled.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday made lofty pledges about the benefits of the work-in-progress Republican tax plan — and threw in a promise to rid roads of potholes, to boot.
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Thousands of miles of trails are rated in "poor" or "seriously deficient" condition, and many more miles of roads and bridges are strewn with potholes or slumping from decades of use.
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A 2016 report by a nonprofit group indicated that 42 percent of Wisconsin's major roads are in poor or mediocre condition, showing signs of deterioration such as rutting, cracks and potholes.
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We walk this Earth and feel the pebbles in our shoes; we know where the potholes are on our commutes to jobs that we've got to work every day or else.
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That is, you can estimate the number of potholes by adding s (total snowfall, in inches, times nine hundred and thirty) and g (the resurfacing gap, in lane miles, times eighty).
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Consecutive quarters of strong profits also show Baidu has learnt to navigate regulatory potholes in China after previous missteps even as competitors suffer temporary bans and fines for failing to censor content.
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Whether in glitzy Bentleys beloved of the South African elite or the beaten-up Toyotas swerving to avoid Harare's potholes, the devices made by employees of Chloride Exide keep the region moving.
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About half of the Fed's policymakers, including chairman Jerome Powell, used public appearances on Wednesday to show an increasingly unified view that the U.S. economy was not headed for any obvious potholes.
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The road was strewn with potholes and makeshift speed bumps, and several animals including a dog and a cow had already attempted to kill us all by wandering into view without warning.
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The energy I would have spent thinking about the magical hedgehog who steals pearls in the Fantastic Beasts trailer will instead be spent petitioning the city to fix potholes on my street.
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But there are some potholes to avoid for those who hope to maximize the value of their contributions and minimize the total cost for a family of sending a student to college.
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The next day, we headed to Kingston via the recently completed toll road — no goats or potholes, but Rose was disappointed with the lack of roadside shacks selling fresh mango and chinaberry.
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Pete Buttigieg, the Indiana mayor and 6900 Democratic presidential hopeful, took to the streets of South Bend on Tuesday to fill in potholes while attempting to underscore his commitment to local issues.
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Instead of filling in potholes, the report said, 88 percent of New York's gas-tax revenue was used for "state operations" and "debt service," things intended to be funded through general revenue.
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"Before Buttigieg wastes time on a presidential campaign, he should focus on his town's sea of potholes and sky-high crime rate," said Michael Ahrens, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee.
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People in the Belhaven neighborhood of Jackson, Mississippi are known for their "quirky" neighborhood pranks, Jordan Lewis told KFVS, like decorating caution signs for the holidays and putting Christmas trees in potholes.
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They ran their own state, collecting tens of millions of dollars in taxes and using the proceeds to fix potholes, issue birth certificates, finance attacks and recruit followers from around the world.
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Every year and a half, the Department of Transportation judges each block and rates it on a scale of one to 10 — with an eye toward potholes, cracking, wear and general distress.
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Cuba: A writer and a photographer set off on a 12-day journey across the island, past potholes and beach towns and rolling green hills, to better understand the country's musical roots.
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Cuba: A writer and a photographer set off on a 12-day journey across the island, past potholes and beach towns and rolling green hills, to better understand the country's musical roots.
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In the brief time I had with the bike, the dual-suspension system combined with the fat, 20-by-4-inch tires really made Manhattan's omnipresent bumps and potholes just melt away.
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The ritual is invariably followed by reports in state media about how crumbling schools, broken heating systems, giant potholes and other problems raised by callers have been fixed on Mr. Putin's orders.
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Google Assistant in Waze Google Assistant will be built into the Waze, and will be up "in just a few weeks," allowing you to do things like report accidents or potholes by voice.
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Every couple of minutes someone uncovered new tracks made by theropods (bipedal carnivores whose prints show three talonlike toes) or sauropods (plant eaters that walked on all fours, leaving circular prints like potholes).
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This would reward Jaguar car drivers with IOTA coins for actions such as enabling their vehicles to automatically report useful data, such as traffic congestion or potholes to navigation providers or local authorities.
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Next to it is a chart tracking the number of potholes filled every day, which makes way for a map of Boston's neighbourhoods coloured according to how often Mr Walsh has visited them.
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The Wentz Wagon hasn't blown a tire or busted an axle, it's just hit a pothole—and as bad as Detroit potholes can be, this wagon should still carry the Eagles pretty far.
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There are potholes in West Jackson, which is predominantly populated by people of color, so large that on days after it rains, they look like concrete lakes in the middle of the street.
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She's trod willingly into a few of those potholes and can turn defensive when her credentials are challenged -- understandably so, in many cases, after having spent years being caricatured as the American Trotsky.
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The perpetually embattled mayor, Virginia Raggi, this month inaugurated a 17 million euro "Marshall Plan" (not to be confused with February's 90 million euro "Pothole Plan") to patch up 50,000 potholes a month.
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The first method uses microwaves to heat potholes and surrounding pavement before filling them with a mix of magnetite and recycled asphalt; the final step is nuking the patch to create a seal.
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As the taxi driver told me that he couldn't wait to retire because of all the traffic and potholes, and as we approached the area around Parliament, a tremendous boom shook the street.
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Giant Escape 28 Specialized Alibi Due to potholes and bumpy roads, flat tires are one of the most common issues city commuters face — and one that can mean showing up to work late.
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Potholes form when water and salt seep into cracks, freeze and expand, creating a larger crevice, said Joe Carbone, who works for the Transportation Department, where he is known as the pothole chief.
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This hijacking of gas tax dollars helps explain why we have so many potholes the size of a beach ball -- and why the problem will get worse if the gas tax is raised.
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In the month of May alone, according to Ryan Russo, the director of the Oakland Department of Transportation, their crews filled over 5,000 potholes, dwarfing by orders of magnitude the vigilantes' small tally.
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They are an opportunity for city residents to come together to bitch and moan and drone on about various minor issues plaguing the community, from potholes to taxes to their neighbors' annoying-ass pets.
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It includes both sober promises, like fixing potholes, and fanciful ideas, such as creating a "world-leading" railway network (taken at its word, this would require sending Japanese style bullet-trains across the country).
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Form: Experts also point to attributes of scooters like smaller wheels and lower center of gravity as factors that make them less capable of smoothly riding over uneven roads, potholes, swerving, and so on.
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Aside from spawning an epidemic of potholes, the spending cuts have thrown cold water on the ongoing economic recovery, according to a report Thursday from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
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Bikes in public bike-sharing systems tend to be heavier and feature wider tires, making them sturdier and better able to deal with bumpy roads and potholes (a leading cause of cyclist-only crashes).
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In Ohio, for instance, one school district had to change school bus routes to avoid potholes, leading to a fourth-grader dangerously walking along a street without sidewalks to reach her new bus stop.
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In 2013, he was among a group of business owners and mechanics evicted from the area, with its broken streets and potholes as big as a bathtub, to make way for a planned redevelopment.
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Self-driving cars still struggle with simple potholes; no one has come even close to demonstrating a completely driverless car that could do the work of a Manhattan taxi driver on a rainy day.
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"It's time to make up for decades of underinvestment that today is evident in everything from bone-rattling potholes and endless traffic gridlock, to deadly train derailments and destructive water main breaks," he said.
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"Its time to make up for decades of underinvestment that today is evident in everything from bone-rattling potholes and endless traffic gridlock, to deadly train derailments and destructive water main breaks," he said.
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Throughout the country, the roads tend to be terrible; clogged with traffic, potholes and pedestrians, marked by ever-shifting routes and a freewheeling interpretation of automotive rules that is almost balletic in its lawlessness.
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In his State of the Union address in March, ahead of his re-election as president, Putin promised to fix a plethora of domestic issues, from unemployment and urban development to pay and potholes.
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Once demeaned as people who fix potholes and make sure the trash is emptied, mayors now confront issues that also preoccupy presidents: climate change, health and education policy, terrorism, gun violence and even immigration.
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But his big political message was a promise to end a long-running squeeze on public spending with an injection of extra money for health, education, defense and even for repairing potholes on highways.
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Collins ended her speech by declaring that Trump will help America recapture the pioneering spirit of the Apollo era, even though the candidate has said that fixing potholes is more important than exploring the cosmos.
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A few brave Gizmodo staffers used the tool to look up their apartments using the extension and luckily no one found anything too disturbing: horns, potholes, homeless assistance, dead trees, and the occasional rat rager.
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The 25-year deal ranges from potholes to lamp-posts, but it is the fate of the city's 36,000 roadside trees that has triggered a year of suburban warfare between residents, the council and Amey.
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For cities, Nexar's tools helps them find ways to fix traffic bottlenecks or spot potholes, cracks and other potentially dangerous road damage by creating a "digital MRI of the city," said Shir in an email.
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EARLIER this month in Fiji's capital, Suva, a convoy of lorries, carrying 25 sealed shipping containers and under a heavy military guard, dodged the potholes along Mead Road and snaked into the Queen Elizabeth Barracks.
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This technology, which is currently undergoing testing at Jaguar Land Rover, will allow the car to automatically report "useful" road conditions, like traffic congestion or potholes to entities such as navigation providers or local authorities.
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In an email, the organizers of this project told me why: According to the Portland Mercury, the anarchists have already repaired five potholes on three blocks of SE Salmon Street between 37th and 39th Avenues.
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And there are many reasons for this: For one, most of the roads in the US are ill-equipped to handle driverless cars, as potholes and poorly marked lines don't lend themselves to high tech.
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That has everything to do with the fact that we drive across a lot of potholes — it's very bumpy — and things like deep fryers and rice cookers were not created with this use in mind.
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More than a third indicated that they expected to slash children's services, and nearly a sixth of council leaders said they expected to sharply restrict services like repairing streetlights, picking up garbage and filling potholes.
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Rome is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and priests and nuns are as much a part of the fabric here as ancient ruins, Baroque churches and lately, heaping piles of garbage and potholes.
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Because most governing in Twin Falls is done by a city manager, these meetings tend to deal with trivial subjects like lawn-watering and potholes, but Brown could tell immediately that this one was different.
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That overdue admission has led to restructuring of both the facilities and the ticket pricing at Yankee Stadium, where attendance has been creeping downward and the starting rotation features more potholes than the Grand Concourse.
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The push has been especially aggressive in Illinois, where state money is tight, many cities are struggling and municipal leaders need any resident they can find to help pay for filling potholes and employing firefighters.
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The new brief from the DOJ and the CFPB probably brings us closer to a Supreme Court reckoning for the CFPB, but the road to a final destination is likely to be strewn with potholes.
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However, one of the issues with mapping is that if that if an actual road changes in any way—newly painted lines, road work, potholes, detours—a new map will likely need to be created.
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It became a drink associated primarly with fuckheaded students, students who were suddenly rampaging through city centres, pissing on commemorative plaques, throwing traffic cones at horses, and shagging potholes outside Gourmet Burger Kitchen for kicks.
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It's a lot harder to have a partisan view about bridges and roads, since Americans from both major political parties hit the same potholes driving on the same streets and drive over the same aging bridges.
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There is also significantly less congestion at thirty thousand feet than on the road—no pedestrians, children, bicycles, potholes, construction zones, ice slicks, mattresses, or any of the other innumerable hazards that car drivers routinely face.
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Stirred by swarms of motorbikes bumping over potholes, and through builders' heaps of sand, gravel and cement made ubiquitous by the devastating earthquake of 2015, the permanent choking cloud blots out stars in the night sky.
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In a rally Wednesday near Los Angeles International Airport, Mayor Eric Garcetti said that in Los Angeles alone, the excise tax is funding billions in dollars in transportation projects – from replacing aging bridges to filling potholes.
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A feud he appears to be trying to engineer with Mike Pence represents another bid to elevate his modest record in South Bend, battling potholes and derelict housing, into the grander fight over values he wants.
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It kind of sucks the pleasure out of driving your Lamborghini if you have to keep a constantly watchful eye out for potholes and speed bumps and if you can't even really navigate your own driveway.
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So the idea of government-as-a-service is nothing new — the idea that we can report issues as minor as potholes or as major as corporate corruption using online tools are familiar to us all.
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With the development of autonomous vehicles, that sort of information becomes even more important, enabling a car to learn about road conditions from other vehicles and safely navigate around accidents, tie-ups, potholes and flash floods.
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"On upgrading from a scooter to a motorcycle: "There are so many potholes in New York, I wanted to focus on learning how to navigate through the streets safely before I had to manage the clutch.
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Indeed, a drive down any street leading away from the gleaming blocks along the ocean reveals a starkly different picture — aging homes with crumbling stone front steps and weedy lawns, vacant storefronts and tire-destroying potholes.
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He said that he was interested in local issues like "potholes, streetlights, policing, litter," and that his Albany experience was also a plus because the city depended so much on decisions made in the State Legislature.
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Like picking up the trash, fixing potholes and responding to emergencies, these efforts signal that no matter where you live in Detroit, you are no longer forgotten — that government here can finally keep its basic promises.
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Mr. Franklin-Hodge shared a list of detailed requests that could aid future urban development, like demand patterns around car-free tenant housing, locations with likely potholes and the most common pickup and drop-off locations.
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The most successful are forging what I call "complex adaptive coalitions," where business, labor, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, educators and local government all network together to create jobs, attract businesses, grow housing, fix potholes and improve schools.
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Even under the best of circumstances the road to his infrastructure-spending plan is strewn with 216 potholes in Congress, many of whom are at least as bad as any we would find on the nation's roadways.
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I just wish -- you know, they want the pizzas to get to my house in good shape, so they fill the potholes, but when the pizzas leave my house, I want them to unclog the sewer drains.
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And because the addition of plastic helps to seal up small holes, which allow water to get below the surface of a road and cause it to break up, the modified asphalt can help to prevent potholes.
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Forget about the cost-per-truck of de-icing for a second: salt corrodes bridges, causes potholes, rusts cars, destroys plants, and messes up groundwater and wildlife, all to the tune of several billion dollars per year.
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That can work as a temporary fix until the road can be resurfaced properly, but often as not this job gets delayed almost indefinitely, which results in more cracks appearing around the fill and yet more potholes.
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After a night wandering among the city's wooden houses, I boarded a minivan, which shot through the Siberian countryside at a white-knuckle pace, the driver hitting potholes with the relish of a surfer catching a wave.
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"Every consumer/customer can relate to potholes, especially in the north where snow and plowing erode the surfaces more aggressively," said Darren Tristano, CEO of CHD-Expert, a food marketing research firm, in an email to CNBC.
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"Given that a series of political and market potholes is likely to emerge over the coming months, we have decided to cut our weighting on emerging market shares to neutral from overweight," Paolini said in a note.
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From the start, Mr. de Blasio framed his ambitions beyond the traditional municipal charges of trash and potholes — but in terms of enacting a progressive agenda as the first Democrat to rule the city in two decades.
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They knew it when he was mayor — more iconoclast technocrat than conservative crusader — with a habit of scooping up sidewalk trash, calling in potholes and staring up, nodding, at park-dwelling homeless men with grievances to air.
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I am not talking about the obvious (fresh pretzels, fresh pretzels with cheese, fresh pretzels with cheese and pumpkin seeds, no potholes, universal health care) but the less known differences that come with spending time in schools.
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First, politicians don't prioritize maintenance, because while you can put your name on a bridge or attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a road, few cheer for the beams you quietly reinforce or the potholes you fill.
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According to the E.P.A., every year more than one million pounds of lead end up in the woods or waterways near roads when the weights fall off vehicles after they hit potholes or are involved in collisions.
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I topped it all off with a gallon of gas-station coffee and powered my way back home through snow flurries and potholes: 20 hours of driving in a little more than 36, a tombstone every mile.
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In the Great Plains, the E.P.A. will no longer conserve freshwater marshes known as prairie potholes that fill with water in the spring and provide critical, timely habitat for more than half of North America's migratory waterfowl.
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For two long days in 265, I had bicycled south with two intrepid college friends along its coast, into a relentless gale, the rainy headwinds leaving us exhausted, our flat tires as frequent as East Coast potholes.
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Putting one on a car would mean demanding it be able to keep working for a decade or more, over tens of thousands of miles, all while plowing through potholes and suffering through rain, snow, and hail.
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The road widens while the pavement narrows, massive trucks trundle along tarmac pocked with potholes and the scale of the buildings—a cheerily named waste disposal business, a joiners, a Carpet City further down—seem immediately boosted.
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"Bring your rubber boots as it is very very muddy and don't expect a smooth ride as our road are filled with potholes," Dean Angellips, who works at the Pikangikum education authority, wrote in a Facebook post.
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How about get off your butt and go walk and get the pizza, but I guess, I feel like, you know, it is good but again, I would rather have potholes in my street littered with Domino signs.
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And whether you've had to evacuate a town in the shadow of a crumbling dam, buy filters for tainted municipal water, or even just bounced over potholes on a highway, you've experienced the problems the president alluded to.
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In that format, the weird, gonzo plot twists that caused so many weekly viewers to throw up their hands in frustration were reduced from a series of jarring potholes to a bunch of minor bumps in the road.
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Before the Brexit Road was built, it would take truck drivers about eight hours to transport shallots from farm to market in Jakarta, negotiating potholes, regular flooding of the highway and flag-downs by people demanding random charges.
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It's an even more compelling and, if occasionally frustrating, admirable iteration of Clark, a woman navigating far more potholes and pitfalls, professionally and personally, than simply trying to win what became known as the Trial of the Century.
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While it's unreasonable to expect anyone to get up to full speed without stepping in a few potholes, learning from the mistakes of more experienced entrepreneurs can save new founders headaches, as well as lost time and resources.
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Americans have lost tires and wheels to potholes, have put up with mounting flight delays, have been evacuated from their homes due to floods and dam failures, and they have had their health threatened by outdated water networks.
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"We're not doing a very good job of avoiding the obvious potholes on race in America and we ought to be more sensitive," Scott said, adding that there were picks other than Farr for the district court seat.
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The eighth episode does feature a parade that places most of the characters in the same place at the same time (and consequently features some of the season's best gags), but the road there is filled with potholes.
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Meanwhile many well-wishers have left small notes at his dead roots, encouraging him to "resist" or reassuring him that, however ugly and bare he may be, he is loved — much like this city itself, potholes and all.
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For at least some voters, the choices seemed less about fiery debates over illegal immigration or who ought to be on the Supreme Court and more about meat-and-potato matters like repairing potholes and paying for schools.
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A far-flung group of engineering students, from schools like M.I.T., Harvard and Birzeit University in the West Bank, have developed an app that turns a smartphone into a tool to track potholes and measure overall road quality.
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Yet at the same time — a fact not lost on the vigilantes or their supporters — the city announced a $100 million paving program, including crews working twelve hours a day, seven days a week, specifically to fill potholes.
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"We told them to start with roads so that they can be able to transport the timber but they are just moving on the bad roads with a lot of potholes," said Lodofiko Khamis, 74, one Katire-area resident.
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He has grown to believe that Trump often has a long-term vision for where he wants policy to go, though he does not necessarily share his thinking with anyone and frequently encounters potholes along the way, sources said.
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A number of firms, including Ford and Jaguar Land Rover, are developing ways of using forward-facing cameras (which are increasingly common on new cars) to detect potholes, in order to adjust the car's suspension before it hits them.
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"There's still a lot of risk in the market, like massive amounts going into passive rather than active managers and valuations being elevated, so we could run into potholes as we did back in December and May," James said.
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Analysis by the RAC Foundation, an independent think-tank, found that the number of potholes being filled in per year has increased fourfold since 2005, suggesting that costly, long-term repair is being sacrificed in favour of patching up.
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Most of the favela's streets got temporary pavements about five years ago but Teixeira said it happened only after she asked a politician for help because taxis were refusing to enter Canaa because the roads were full of potholes.
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If they can get a settlement and these communities can be reimbursed, good for them," Kasich told AP. "But I don't want the money to go to fill potholes or to fill a budget gap or something like that.
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"There's still a lot of risk in the market like massive amounts going into passive rather than active managers and valuations being elevated, so we could run into potholes as we did back in December and May," James said.
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But critics worry most about beginner urban riders navigating the segmented nature of the city's designated bicycle lanes: They begin and end seemingly at random, forcing cyclists to veer into four-lane roads stippled with potholes and urban grit.
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Weighing 150 pounds, it has an aluminum frame and sits on three small but durable bicycle tires with a heavy-duty suspension system in front — one meant for all-terrain vehicles — which helps to navigate the city's innumerable potholes.
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"I have endured driving my only car amid potholes for over a decade, and surely if the state of our roads could be improved by building concrete roads, I tell you I will be the happiest motorist," Mhike said.
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Down south, the potholes of New Orleans and Atlanta have each merited their own Instagram accounts, though their silence of late might suggest a lack of dedication to the social media cause, rather than a significant public works victory.
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Consider this thought experiment: Which experience would a wealthy car enthusiast prefer — driving a Porsche 911 Turbo (purchase price $150,000) on smooth, well-maintained highways or driving a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta (purchase price $19403,000) on roads riddled with foot-deep potholes?
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DOMINO&aposS EMPLOYEE FIRED AFTER REPORTEDLY CALLING CUSTOMER N-WORD The "Paving for Pizza" initiative will fill "cracks, bumps, potholes and other road conditions [that] can put good pizzas at risk after they leave the store," the press release said .
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If you want funding for education or reproductive rights or for the potholes in the street in your community, you need to vote, because you need to be able to say, 'I voted for you, I want to get this done.
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In the long run, the company hopes to partner with cities and provide them with data they can use to improve safety, such as where people are speeding, which streets have potholes and where accidents are most likely to happen.
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Instead, players are placed into an AT&T-branded car and tasked with completing the course as quickly as possible while dodging obstacles like potholes, water spills, and, of course, slower cars in oddly convenient red, yellow, and magenta color schemes.
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Unfortunately, that commitment to investment has declined; leading to more potholes and congestion on roads, levees no longer able to provide adequate protection, insufficient safeguards for communications systems and technology, and situations where drinking water is not safe to consume.
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And sure, it doesn't do well over bumps and potholes, the open-air design is sure to turn off a number of people, and I had to make myself forget what might happen if I got sideswiped by a bus.
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In Texas, the road has been blamed for flooding a small town, feral hogs roam dangerously across it and unrepaired potholes make for a bumpy ride, according to an investigative report on the project by the San Antonio Express-News.
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While the settlement produced many good outcomes, results might have been even better had states fully dedicated those funds to tobacco prevention and treatment instead of diverting too many of those dollars to non-health related expenses — such as fixing potholes.
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LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Swiss wealth manager Pictet said on Tuesday that it was time to trim back on emerging market equities following their red hot run this year and as a series of political and financial market "potholes" loom ahead.
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"Frankly, there's never a good time to take down an asset and never a good time to fix the potholes in the road," said Ms. Dodd, who is also director of the group that manages the Deep Space Network for NASA.
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What Mr. Guare seems to be after is a dramaturgy that is absurdist not for its own sake but as a kind of last-ditch naturalism, replicating the absurdity of actual life with all its serendipities, hyperlinks, potholes and misprisions.
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Just as many Chinese people are underwhelmed by the outdated New York City subway systems and by potholes on the highways in Silicon Valley, they are increasingly losing interest in the Hong Kong model of free borders and freedom of speech.
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By the time people reach Kawi they tend to look rattled; New Yorkers who will easily weave their way around broken sidewalks, potholes, garbage piles and al fresco rat conventions come undone when faced with the interior of a shopping mall.
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They fled countries with dysfunctional governments, oppressive rulers, shoestring democracies, ethnic warfare and mass violence, and have found themselves rubbing elbows and bumpers in a wealthy Texas city where potholes, traffic, mosquitoes and pension reform are some of the biggest concerns.
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In one tweet Trump referred to Sessions as "our beleaguered A.G." Now "beleaguered" means under attack, and this was sort of like taking a jackhammer to the street in front of your house and then complaining to the city about potholes.
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"The city was proud of the fact that they filled three hundred thousand potholes," he said in a ted x talk, in the spring of 2014, after displaying a slide of Mayor de Blasio, in neon orange, tamping down fresh asphalt.
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He should have paid closer attention to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who, in her rebuttal to the State of the Union, celebrated Democrats all over the country for their ability to come together to "fix potholes," and solve their local problems.
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And the General Motors plant that straddles the city's border is scheduled to close in January, meaning a major loss in tax revenue in a place where government services have been stretched so thin that frustrated volunteers sometimes fill potholes.
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It is a fact that they both seem aware of, in the music they make together, but they treat those tropes as potholes on their journey through the outer realms of experimental music—acknowledging their presence and gleefully stepping around them.
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"I get to see what kind of behaviors are their triggers, are their tendencies, what motivates them to start and keep going, what are their defaults, and what are their kind of potholes in the kitchen where they struggle with," she added.
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While McCartney's trip to India saw him witness waste plastic being crammed into potholes, doused in petrol and set alight, MacRebur's approach to using plastic in new and existing road composition has a little more strategy and environmentally conscious thought behind it.
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Rather than simply filling holes with the plastic that may wear away faster than traditional road materials, MacRebur is pelletising a mix of waste plastics and adding them to existing road materials, strengthening the material used to fill potholes and create new roads.
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The big, fat wheels made it easy to handle bumps and potholes that I'd typically scramble to avoid on my regular bike, and disc brakes on both wheels made it easy to quickly stop even when I was cruising at top speed.
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We hit a really rough part of the freeway where the road was full of potholes as well as a concrete road with the tiny grooves that usually send me bouncing on my older machine, pulling my tires and making me feel unstable.
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More importantly, that lack of focus on aviation infrastructure represents an invisible and gradual overcrowding of the highways in the sky that, while perhaps not as obvious as potholes, could eventually present crippling damage without accelerated, predictable funding for the Federal Aviation Administration.
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To fix the potholes and crumbling roads, federal, state, and local governments rely on fuel taxes, which raise more than US$217 billion a year and pay for around three-quarters of what the US spends on building new roads and maintaining them.
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Rendell added that if Trump were to come out with a more detailed plan that includes dramatic new spending on infrastructure, it could appeal to some Democrats and independents who are frustrated by the country's congested roads, frequent potholes and deficient bridges.
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Imagine that you are a wealthy car enthusiast facing two options: Driving a Porsche 911 Turbo (purchase price: less than $160,000) on well-maintained highways, or driving a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta (purchase price: more than $320,000) on roads riddled with foot-deep potholes.
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But even the most gently priced bottle can go only so far to smooth over the potholes on the menu, and the suspicion that the best Peking duck in Beijing has turned into something that would struggle to stand out in Parsippany.
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For many critics of Rome's mayor, a member of the populist Five Star Movement, the mangy tree was a symbol of everything wrong with the capital, where garbage goes uncollected, potholes transform many streets into slalom courses and buses occasionally burst into flames.
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One of the biggest criticisms of the Big Tobacco settlement some 20 years ago, which was brokered in large measure by state attorneys general, was that most of the money wound up in legislative funds to balance budgets and even fix potholes.
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But the obstacles to a bike share program are daunting: Rome's infamous potholes, its mounds of uncollected trash, double-parked cars, a strong vandal spirit in place since the actual Vandals sacked Rome, and a local resistance to change and physical exertion.
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As of last year, the city had accumulated a resurfacing deficit of around twenty-five hundred lane miles and so was essentially starting this year with a likelihood of having at least two hundred thousand potholes, before the first snowflake even fell.
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These voters want a good job and fair wages, they want the potholes fixed, they worry about the pernicious influence of a left-wing culture gone mad, and they fight over who is going to pick up the kids after day care.
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No matter how you feel about scooters, they often look a lot like lawsuits waiting to happen: People whizzing down the street in the opposite direction of traffic without helmets, jolting over potholes, sometimes thudding up onto the sidewalks and back down again.
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This past rainy season, the muddy red road from the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé to Lobéké National Park was studded with crater-sized potholes and carcasses of unlucky trucks as it wound through logging towns and jungle villages plastered with reelection posters for President Biya.
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Washington (CNN)Nearly 40 million Americans will kick off one of the busiest travel seasons in history this Memorial Day weekend, jarred by potholes on America's roads, crossing her aging bridges, riding her antiquated railways and taking off from airports that draw international scorn.
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That stew of data is seasoned further with information such as the date on which the road was last repaired, the type of asphalt used, whether the road lies on a bus route, and whether it has proved prone to potholes in the past.
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While wine investments are staging a buoyant recovery, helped by a recent turnaround from a profound slump in buyers' enthusiasm for Bordeaux in the last few years, growth in classic cars is now hitting more potholes than experienced over the most recent five-year period.
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Yes, but: This car's technology will still blow you away, though, like the predictive suspension that scans the road ahead to skip over potholes and the 4-wheel steering system that gives this 17-foot-long behemoth the turning radius of a nimble A4.
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Waterfowl from the refuge wetlands can travel a mile or more to nest in the uplands, Herman notes, and this oasis in the midst of the southern Oregon desert boasts waterfowl production to rival the world-renowned prairie potholes region of the northern Great Plains.
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In a video for his YouTube show, Man of the People with Pat Tomasulo, Tomasulo picks up buckets of the pickled vegetable topping from the Vienna Beef store, plops them into a wheelbarrow, and shovels the squishy vegetal mixture into potholes in a Chicago road.
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Recently, Domino's has also announced their new Domino's Hotspots— unexpected locations such as beaches, parks, and more to which customers can have pizza delivered - as well as their "Paving For Pizza" initiative in which the chain helps towns across America repair potholes and deteriorating roads.
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As mayor, Mr. Turner set out to be a unifier, bragging about the 10,000-plus potholes he had filled — a few of them personally, with a shovel — and vowing to tackle the city's financial problems and bring new public transportation to ease clogged traffic.
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Still, its Boost feature has dystopian shades that mirror efforts like Natural Light&aposs pledge to donate $10 million to student loan payments, Domino&aposs move to fill potholes around the country, and Kraft&aposs feeding federal workers during the government shutdown in January.
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The sound of everything we own smashing together as we went over potholes kept us alert on the way here, and we only had to pull over once to close every one of our kitchen drawers after they all flung open on a wide turn.
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The way I went about the job, about the potholes, the stresses, the deadlines, the constant travel, the little bit of personality management, all those things the people don't think when they see that picture of Jimmy Page drinking Jack Daniel's, those are the interesting things.
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Some focused on infrastructure ideas, like RoadBotics, designed to cure the pavement of potholes through machine learning, or Swiftera, a company that makes high-altitude balloons to generate hi-res maps, or the San Francisco based car-sharing company Upshift that specializes in loaning out Toyota Priuses.
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The non-adjustable suspension is a bit stiff for San Francisco's potholes, but once out of the city and atop winding Skyline Boulevard, the combined work of the motors, turbocharger, and supercharger ensure that every flex of the right foot results in a burst of power.
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Thus far, the deal has hit potholes on the road to ratification, as a handful of states in mainland Europe have been skeptical of how the deal's investor-state dispute mechanisms — legal tools that could allow corporations to sue governments over their laws — could come into effect.
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Castle, which is built on a decommissioned Air Force base roughly 120 miles from San Francisco, resembles a miniature city, with many of the realistic elements a self-driving car might encounter on the road — like cul-de-sacs, traffic signals and a smattering of potholes.
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"The investigation included interviews with the drivers, inspections of the vehicles that traveled through the area on Tuesday afternoon, and a review of video footage from the trucks that record events such as collisions, sudden lane changes or running over debris or potholes," the statement read.
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It's Infrastructure Week, and if potholes, watermain breaks and failing bridges from coast to coast aren't enough to motivate Congress into action, then maybe another piece of dire news will: America is once again hurtling toward a highway funding cliff that should sound alarms for lawmakers, particularly budget hawks.
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"The Trump administration is clearly committed to recapitalizing the GSEs and ultimately ending the conservatorships, but there are still political and practical potholes on the road to resolving this issue," Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Washington-based Compass Point Research & Trading, wrote in a note on Wednesday.
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As a longtime resident of the Upper East Side, I can attest to sleep deprivation due to trucks, understandably taking advantage of reduced traffic at night, storming up Third Avenue with their loads crashing up and down on their platforms as they charge through potholes and over steel plates.
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Meanwhile on the East Coast, Jan Devereux, the vice mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where scooters just showed up, told BuzzFeed News she's particularly worried about how scooters will fare on Massachusetts streets, which tend to get ripped up and perilously full of potholes from the ravages of cold winters and snowplows.
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To the extent that people have gotten cynical about their drinking water, about government writ large, one of the ways you can restore trust is by showing the public that you're delivering on the most basic things: safety in the streets, potholes that are filled, and children are getting an education.
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And although we acknowledge that there are many real and pressing budgetary concerns that must be balanced — including the need to fill potholes — we argue that there is nothing more pressing than saving the lives of citizens and averting the damage caused by addiction to every sector of the community.
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It started early with his commitment to personally answering phone calls for fixing potholes and the throwing of backyard barbecues, and his support grew exponentially as he tapped into a deep well of suburban resentment, attacking any spending by City Hall as a waste of money by and for downtown elites.
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We don't want a president who goes to military school but never leaves; who loves generals but trashes Gold Star parents; who wants the sort of chesty military parade that we mock Kim Jong-un for, a phallic demonstration of overcompensation that would only put more potholes in the D.C. boulevards.
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In local elections in 290, Mr. Tsheko, enraged by the A.N.C.'s endemic corruption, voted for the first time against the A.N.C. His vote helped sink the party in Chantelle, a suburb of Pretoria where he and his neighbors complain on a WhatsApp message group about faulty street lamps and potholes.
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Take the Lane: Your local rules may vary (here's a list of laws by state), but most locales permit cyclists to ride in the middle of a regular car lane if a road's shoulder is narrow or "subpar," meaning it is full of gravel or potholes or is otherwise dangerous.
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Consumers are in good shape, their balance sheets are in good shape, there are no potholes out there, lending has been pristine, capital expenditures are going up, more people are going back to work, unemployment may hit a post war low at one point this year....those are all positives.
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When you share your home with 17 other families, all those conversations that you'd normally just have with your spouse or your kids — about what to do when two kids from different families get in a fight, or whether to prioritize filling potholes or weeding the garden first — those conversations become much bigger.
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Scientists around the world have been pondering the problem of potholes for decades—and as it turns out, we might be just a few years away from more long-lasting solutions than the current method, which involves throwing some stuff in a hole and running over it a few times with a truck.
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In Jidda, a port city on the Red Sea where potholes and sinkholes are so large that they are the subject of national jokes, a group of girlfriends in their 20s, who travel abroad and consider themselves politically liberal, said it would be a physical chore to navigate the poor roads each day.
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Difficulties with potholes from so called "weekend-warriors"—people who come with good intentions but dig a fire pit and use up communal wood to warm very small groups—have sparked the need for a crew that can go fill in the fire-pits but also understands the sensitivity around taking dirt from this area.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE and his team are deeply entangled in the controversy over the firing of FBI Director James Comey — and there are several potholes on the road ahead.
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" A 1983 profile by Jon Margolis actually took this observation so far as to end up assuming that "Sanders, even if re-elected, probably will not have much impact outside Burlington" because Bernie was aloof from national socialist organizations and "prefers to make the revolution in one city, fill the potholes, and keep the tax rate down.
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More in pizza news... Domino's Pizza fixes streets, fills potholes across America Study finds pizza can increase work productivity Staten Island baseball team renamed 'Pizza Rats' after fan vote 6 tricks to make great pizza at home Domino's employee fired after reportedly calling customer N-word Ontario Provincial Police were called to a restaurant in Elgin around 10 p.m.
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Local politics influence all of the decisions that have a direct influence on our day-to-day lives, from the laws we're most worried about abiding by, to the streets we drive on and whether or not they're riddled with potholes, to whether or not we'll have to pay for plastic bags at the grocery store, and more.
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Brenda Lozano, a member of the artistic team that helped bring the skeletons to "life," told Riviera Maya News the skeletons took two days just to assemble, and despite the rubble all around them are not emerging from potholes, but merely look that way due to how the salvaged rubble was placed around their bony extremities.
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" The way the city takes care of the neighborhood can be a good indicator of whether or not the area is on the up-and-up, he says: "If a city is not taking care of the potholes and they're not trimming the neutral ground, that means that they don't think this neighborhood is that great.
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They do so because of the irrevocable, God-like sanction involved – one that human beings, particularly state governments with a penchant for messing small things up, like fixing potholes – should never be allowed to engage in (except in war, and then, only when assisting the federal government in self-defense with the sober understanding that, "war is hell").
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But more than a bulwark against the sundry potholes afflicting the road to half-decent cinema experiences today, Metrograph is a celebration of film-going in all its aspects — from the private exhilaration of admiring a familiar film in an anonymous crowd to the communal ecstasy of discovering an unknown masterpiece elbow-to-elbow with others equally in awe.
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There is a way in which ClearMotion's tech might be useful in a self-driving future, however: The company says its technology can help with the goal of making the in-cabin experience of riding in a self-driving whip much more enjoyable, and potentially more productive — you don't want work in your mobile office interrupted by potholes, after all.
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Among the findings in the latest report, released this week: The Fire Department response time to building fires ticked up slightly, to 4 minutes and 20173 seconds in the 2018 fiscal year, compared with 4 minutes and 49 seconds four years earlier; 239,426 potholes were repaired on local streets; and annual memberships in Citi Bike increased 11.8 percent from the previous year.
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Having steadfastly denied for months that there would be any difficulties, its officials issued excuses faster than a ballot-box stuffer could stuff a ballot box: it couldn't print the ballots because it did not know who was supposed to be on them; bad weather grounded planes that were meant to distribute voting materials; potholes delayed the lorries it rented to replace the flights; some of its offices were burned down.
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A sniff at the acrid, dust-laden air of Kathmandu (with a whiff of untreated sewage from the mountain streams that converge in its centre), or a glance at traffic gnarled in a moonscape of potholes, or a tally of citizens still living in temporary shelters more than two years after the earthquake in 2015 that killed nearly 9,000 people, all substantiate an impression of strikingly inept government.
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They include the detection of downed power lines (difficult to detect at all, then to interpret), flooded roads (water may appear to be the road surface), large potholes and road debris (some are potentially damaging, some not), temporary traffic-control devices (unexpected but critical to respond to appropriately), fire and smoke on or near the road (may not be detected by all required sensors) or other unusual hazards.
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If you have been solving for awhile, you've seen vowel-run themes — usually early in the week — in which certain words in phrases are put in "vowel order" (A, E, I, O, U). For example, the theme entries in Mr. Kingsley's puzzle constitute a short vowel-sound run where all the first words begin with the letter P: PAT RILEY PET CAT PIT BOSS POTHOLES PUT OUT And that's it, right?
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Think of it this way: Every time you challenge the mayor on why the potholes aren't filled, ask when the leak in the library roof is finally going to get fixed, demand answers from the airline when it loses your bag, advocate for your candidate, criticize the city council, post an opinion about a proposed tax increase or tweet about the benefits of mindfulness meditation, you are participating in a free press culture.
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The truck must be durable, but so does the kitchen equipment inside, which has no back-up infrastructure "You build a little restaurant on wheels -- an electric generator, propane, hot and cold water, fridges, freezers -- and then, you drive it over potholes at 50 miles per hour and things break," Kirk Francis, who co-founded the now quartet of Captain Cookie & the Milkman food trucks that sell cookies and made-to-order ice cream sandwiches in the Washington, D.C. area.
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As mentioned, GM is offering up access to around 400 of these, which compares to less than 50 in the competing automaker SDK with the next highest number of available data points, according to GM. "If you were somebody like a map provider, for example, you could actually read the suspension data coming off the vehicle and use it to determine where potholes were at in the street, for example," Wrenbeck said, by way of illustrating how third-parties might employ the available data feeds.
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