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Arizona Daily Sun
As we report today on the front page, the pothole season isn’t just nearly upon us again. To many drivers in the Flagstaff region, it never left this year.
A trip along I-17 and I-40 in any direction from Flagstaff provides the proof. Dozens of little white patches dot each mile of the right-hand travel lanes, some crumbling into divots and crevices. Meanwhile the passing lanes are nearly as full of vehicles as the travel lanes – who wants to bounce and swerve all the way to Williams when relief is just a lane away, even if it does create dangerous passing conditions?
