It’s all a matter of perspective. This is not a cliff.
This story is about a pothole. Not just any pothole. Not the kind of pothole which Albany’s older local streets have in abundance. This pothole is special, or it seems that way.
Why special? Because while most potholes are either round or have some irregular shape, this one is almost perfectly square.
For quite a while now, the odd shape of this pothole has attracted my attention when the bike and I go south on Waverly Drive and turn west on Fourth Avenue.
I haven’t kept track of the number of times I noticed and briefly wondered about this feature in the pavement. My impression is that the pothole has been there for at least a year, though I could be wrong about that.
The shape suggests this pothole is manmade. But if somebody made it to do some kind of repair below the surface, surely he would have filled it in again when he was done. Right?
Okay, it’s not a life-or-death question. It’s not really all that interesting. It’s much less important than almost anything else you can think of.
Still, can someone explain why there’s a square pothole, about three inches deep, at the corner of Waverly and Fourth? (hh)
From the bike, you notice this square pothole at the intersection of Waverly and Fourth.
Then you stop and take a closer look.
And finally, the scenic shot from the level of the street. Dead leaves make the hole look shallower than it is.
A square patch was put into the street to fix probably a round-ish pothole. The patch was defective and never sealed and solidified, so it came undone in the same shape it was put there….square, that is.
It worked, may HH ask questions??:?
Well, well. There’s one thing for sure. You made “talking” about a square pot-hole interesting. Sort of….. lol
The hole appears to me have been cut out using a chisel of some kind. ( Note the serrations along to side away from the camera) This is a good indicator that it was man made, then another human trait took place, loss of memory and job wasn’t finished., what ever the job was in the first place.
Unrelated subject: any idea what’s happening at the corner of N. Albany and Thornton Lake? Field has been cleared and leveled, like someone’s getting to build.
Checking on it.
Lepman busy, very busy at work. Excellent spot for apartments. Right near the schools.
A couple/few years ago or so, there was a city project to inspect and maintain sewer lines, and I think that pothole appeared as part of that project. At least, there was weird looking equipment being used there at one point and there was supposed to be sewer line work being done in the area at about the same time. The pothole was filled in but they didn’t do a great job of it because it gets deeper and deeper all the time. Source: me, I live in the area and keep noticing the hole