Spring Is Here, and the Potholes Are in Bloom

New York City fills its two-millionth pothole, while U.K. design student Pete Dungey proposes a different solution.

Last week here in New York, drivers feigned celebration over the most depressingly noteworthy of city stats: the transportation department filled its two-millionth pothole. It's a springtime ritual on city streets worldwide. Wintertime road salt eats away the tar, rain and snow fill the cracks, the water freezes, thaws, freezes again, and, pop! Pothole.

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Fortunately, they can...