Once upon a time—when I was growing up in Brooklyn—one telephone area code covered not only the Borough of Hones and Churches, but also the other four boroughs of New York City.
Now there are seven. Soon there will be eight. Someone suggested, only half-jokingly, that a pothole on Bushwick Avenue is getting the new area code all for itself.
If that were the cases, and every street crater got an area code, New York—and many other cities—would have too many area codes to
Members of the Nantwich Cycle Group are going to count all of the holes and cracks in their local streets —sort of. The Cheshire club is planning a ride to locate places where the pavement has split, heaved, collapsed or otherwise become a hazard.
They hope to pressure the Cheshire Council East to make repairs.
Hmm…Maybe we should have a Five Boro Hole Tour here in New York City. I wonder, though, whether the Department of Transportation would pay any attention.
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