EditorialMembers of the Vallejo Pothole Vigilantes fill buckets with asphalt to repair a pothole on a road in Vallejo, Calif., April 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Vallejo Pothole Vigilantes fill buckets with asphalt to repair a pothole on a road in Vallejo, Calif., April 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Vallejo Pothole Vigilantes fill buckets with asphalt to repair a pothole on a road in Vallejo, Calif., April 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Vallejo Pothole Vigilantes fill buckets with asphalt to repair a pothole on a road in Vallejo, Calif., April 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Vallejo Pothole Vigilantes fill buckets with asphalt to repair a pothole on a road in Vallejo, Calif., April 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Vallejo Pothole Vigilantes fill buckets with asphalt to repair a pothole on a road in Vallejo, Calif., April 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialA municipal worker repairs damage to an asphalt road in Staryi Saltiv, Ukraine, in the Kharkiv region, Oct. 17, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialA man walks past a Russian rocket embedded in the asphalt on a nearly-deserted street in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialA young visitor rides the Shake N Roll double drum roller, a smaller versions of an asphalt roller, at Diggerland USA, a construction-themed amusement park in Berlin Township, N.J., Aug. 8, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialAn unexploded mortar round wedged into asphalt in Bucha, a recently-liberated town northwest of Kyiv, on Saturday, April 2, 2022. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)