Hwy. 6 between Iowa City and West Liberty - worst stretch of road in the state?

[rurallib]

We should have a contest to determine which is the worst stretch of road in the state.
My nomination is for Hwy 6 from IC to WL. It has it all, huge potholes, disappearing sides, rolling bed that has a nasty roller coaster effect. It is turning into a gravel road right in front of our eyes. This didn't happen overnight. It has been in bad shape for at least 6 years.

When I brought this up at the legislative forum in Muscatine last weekend my reps- Republicans Jeff Kaufmann and Jim Hahn - spewed some mumbo jumbo about funds transferred blah,blah, blah. Hahn ended by saying that highways are bad all over, get used to it.

I always thought gravel roads were made by having gravel poured on them, not by paving a road and letting it deteriorate. Learn something new everyday.

Hwy 6 carries a huge amount of traffic between these two towns. I swear I will get picked up for drunk driving just trying to avoid problems. But one good thing, traffic flows at about 55 mph on there.

[Bluzmann57]

1. I was just on that highway the other day

And it is rather bad. I haven't really been on too many state or federal highways lately except that and I-80, but here in Davenport, the roads are truly awful. But to be fair, our mayor is trying. But they are so old and used that the holes will just keep on happening every winter until we see some new stuff. And that won't happen unless we have more money. Thanks repubs for wanting all these tax cuts. I enjoy paying repair bills for my car's front end and muffler. Nothing I'd rather do except maybe have a root canal or get kicked in the 'nads.

[rurallib]

2. Hwy. 6 was repaved about 25 years ago

and it was a really bad job that had to be redone the next year. From there it has just gone downhill.
The odd thing is that the bad part is in the section represented by repugs. The last 5 miles or so into Iowa City has almost always been represented by Dems and isn't in too bad of shape.
I know that is probably a coincidence. The highway starts falling apart right at the district line.

[Bluzmann57]

3. Something occured to me the other day

while I was thinking about that highway; the company I work for loads a lot of trucks and these truckers get paid by the ton and by the load rather than by the mile because they are not otr drivers. A lot of our product goes to Iowa City as well as other places in that area. A lot of them also do not care if they are over the 80,000 lb total weight legal limit because, as stated earlier, they get paid by tonnage hauled. More tonnage, more money. So a lot of these outlaws take highway 6 as well as other alternate routes so they can avoid the DOT. So that is quite possibly a reason why the highway is so torn up.
My employer says they are going to put a stop to any truckers leaving the property overweight, but that is another subject for another time.