Hwy 44 Rough Road At Cuba

[denjac]

The stretch from Oklahoma past Carthage exit was just fine. All of a sudden they resurface it. I thought what a waste.

[skeeter]

Nice (kind of) to hear this bothers someone else. This has been a pet peeve of mine since that stretch of I-44 from the Leasburg on-ramp West to the Phelps County line was re-surfaced at the worst possible time of the year (late May/early June 2004?), right when schools let out and everyone was leaving for the lakes/vacation. There were weekends when people reported being in traffic jams over six hours trying to get through there both West AND Eastbound (Eastbound jams were way worse on Sunday afternoons). I bounce through there with a repetitive suspension oscillation no matter what vehicle I'm driving, particularly the pick-up. MoDot has been doing a lot of expansion joint repairs along there with little or no effect, just throwing money away again ! At least they are admitting a serious error was made in road bed preparation and someone's head needs to roll for this.

I am fed up with this continuing Government incompetence but what the hey, it's not their money they are wasting....! A huge, expensive project and it turns out worse than the original and causes extreme inconvenience for the motoring public and now is causing premature wear to vehicle suspensions. I mostly drive in the left lane through there and move over when someone wants to pass, it's a tiny bit better in the left lane, but not much. The entire length of road needs a fresh asphalt overlay to smooth this brand new concrete out, but if the roadbed is faulty the problem will transfer through to the asphalt eventually.

This project and it's laughable (oh yeah,they are professionals at MoDot ???) results reminds me of the boondoggle in St. Louis where they spent $650 million in taxpayer money to "improve" Highway 40/I-64 and then left the same old three lane bottleneck in place between Brentwood and Oakland. I and many others tried explaining and warning about this plan mistake to the project Engineer, Linda Wilson, and she was unreceptive to public input on that subject(surprise, surprise)and insisted her way was just fine and now drivers routinely complain about the same old traffic problems and wonder why MoDot didn't really improve anything but spent all that taxpayer money and shut the major East/West Highway thru St. Louis down for two years.

MoDot=MOronsDissipatingOurTaxes.

[Gilly]

On a positive note, 71 south of KC @ least to Nevada is a pretty decent stretch.

32 into Stockton can get a little tight when pulling a trailer. They've indicated that will never change.

Regards a state project engineer not listening, I had the same thing happen in NDOR. Told them the foundation design was faulty for some structures, they didn't listen. No sooner had we installed as per their specs the darn foundations started cracking. It was the biggest 'I told you so' I've witnessed. A simple modification up front would have saved a butt load of embarressment.

[shortfish]

I agree about the 40/61 project. A lot of work and money for not much gain.

I am noticing the new westbound stretch of Hwy 100 in franklin county from 44 to Washington has that same bumpy feeling.