By Gary Martin
Gary B. Martin is an illustrator and animator who has lived on the Upper West Side for more than 30 years. His illustrations appear in the Rag on Sundays, chronicling life in the neighborhood, New York City, and the Universe. See them all here. For a broader range of Gary’s work, including animations and other motion graphics, please visit www.martoons.com
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I don’t think Necessity is the Mother of Invention, I think Gary’s weird imagination is.
I expect Wegman’s is planning a much larger footprint.
A pothole is what happens when you smoke too much weed.
Hahaha. All great ideas!
Brilliant! As a.ways, Gary gets it!
Fill them with Easter eggs.
Don’t text and walk.
The issue with potholes is that the City never learns what the actual issue with potholes is.
The DOT comes along, pours some tar/macadam or whatever into the hole, goes over it a few times with a hot roller to flatten it (and sometimes doesn’t even do that) – and then leaves to fill the next pothole.
But it takes only weeks, sometimes just days, before a combination of heat, rain, and vehicles riding over it loosens the new tar/macadam/whatever and the pothole re-forms, though perhaps a bit less deep the second time.
Why has the City not figured out a way to stop this very obvious cycle from occurring, and fill potholes so they DON’T simply become potholes again in such a short time? I’m sure they can come up with SOMETHING. Or is the species that just sent a manned rocket to orbit the moon incapable of figuring out a way to more permanently fill potholes?