Welcome once again to pothole season in Wilkes-Barre â and the rest of the northeast region, for that matter.
City Mayor George Brown said residents, workers and visitors can rest assured that city crews are working hard to try to keep up with filling the mini roadway craters caused by the seasonal freeze-and-thaw cycle in late winter and early spring.
In cold-weather states like Pennsylvania, when water seeps into the ground beneath roadways, it cracks the road surface as it expands when it freezes and contracts when it melts, leaving broken asphalt susceptible to further erosion from traffic.
A pox on drivers throughout the northeast, the resulting potholes screw up suspensions and damage wheels on vehicles whose drivers are unable to avoid them.