Ice puts dent in Oklahoma City commute

 
BY PAUL MONIES
Published: February 8, 2009

The ice may be gone, but it left behind the curse of drivers everywhere — more potholes.

"Water’s the enemy,” said Tim Ishmael , unit operations supervisor for Oklahoma City ’s Street Maintenance division. "The freeze-thaw cycle causes most of these potholes out there now.”

Ishmael estimates about 8,000 potholes a month are patched along the 13,000 lane miles in Oklahoma...


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