Pothole repair started Sunday to continue 24/7, McNally says

YOUNGSTOWN

City street department employees are working round the clock, weather permitting, to temporarily fill potholes, starting with some of Youngstown’s most-traveled roads.

“We expect this to continue until we have the issue under control,” said Mayor John A. McNally. “They’ve got a lot of work to do.

Every major road has major issues.”

As for how long the cold-patching work will occur, McNally said: “It will take many, many days. Getting these major holes or a string of holes filled is a top priority. I don’t recall the potholes being as bad as this last year. Roads that haven’t been paved have fallen apart quickly.”

The round-the-clock patching started at 11 p.m. Sunday with work done on Fifth, Wilson, South and Glenwood avenues as well as Meridian and Canfield roads and main downtown streets.

At 7 a.m. Monday, the city went to 12-hour shifts of patching with four crews, each having three members, McNally said. That crew handled more of Wilson and Fifth as well as Early Road, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Gypsy Lane, Indianola Avenue, Powersway, Southern Boulevard, Vestal Road, Industrial Road and Salt Springs Road, said Sean T. McKinney, the city’s buildings and grounds commissioner who oversees the street department.

McNally specifically mentioned Industrial Road, calling its condition “a nightmare.”

Read more about the repair work, and paving plans, in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.