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For Phila. pothole squad, there's no spring break

Like many Philadelphians, Paul Pettet spent much of Friday and Saturday, the unofficial first weekend of summer, driving. Except Pettet wasn't headed for the Shore or the Poconos. The 27-year city Streets Department employee was pushing on the gas pedal with his salt-stained work boots, guiding a six-wheel patcher truck down East Luzerne Street in the Juniata Park section, patching up the wounds of a brutal winter: the potholes.

The boom on a Pothole Killer forces patching material into a pothole in the Juniata Park section of the city.
The boom on a Pothole Killer forces patching material into a pothole in the Juniata Park section of the city.Read more
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