(DNAINFO)  Melanie Shi | March 15, 2016 — The potholes that mar city streets this year are on track to be as bad as the pockmarked roads of the 1970s unless Bill de Blasio devotes serious funding to resurfacing efforts, a former Department of Transportation commissioner warns.

Lucius Riccio, an operations researcher at Columbia University who led the DOT under the Dinkins Administration, analyzed nearly 20 years of data and found that New York could see between 250,000 and 300,000 potholes by the end of spring — one of the highest numbers in recent history.

That would put roads on par with the roadways of the 1970s, he told Columbia’s Data Science Institute.

Source: City Potholes on Track to Be as Bad as in 1970s, Ex-DOT Commissioner Warns – New York City – DNAinfo.com New York