Potholes That Ate Indianapolis Devour U.S. City Budgets
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Rieth-Riley Construction Co. typically closes its Indianapolis asphalt plants from December through March. Not this year. Too many potholes to fill.
Officials asked Rieth-Riley to fire up a plant six weeks early to help fill what the city said is a record number of craters, a moonscape replicated across the nation amid a brutal winter. U.S. cities including New York and Pittsburgh and states such as Michigan are contending with an unprecedented road-repair season, straining work crews and budgets already depleted by plowing and salting.