Interstate 40 On List Of Worst Roads

I'm shocked, shocked:

Truckers participating in a magazine survey said Interstate 40 through Oklahoma City is one of the worst roads in America.

Parade magazine polled drivers with a Tennessee-based trucking company.

They say I-40 is rough and potholed.

Driver Paul Griesbach said Oklahoma has the roughest stretch of the highway, and said driving it was like riding on a washboard.

State Transportation Department spokeswoman Brenda Perry said the state will use money from the federal economic stimulus package to do some work on the west end of I-40.

Oklahoma is expected to receive about $340 million to be used for road and bridge projects. Officials are planning $72 million worth of improvements on I-40, using stimulus funds to start those projects this summer.

The problem is Oklahoma, to be sure. Cross the state line into Texas, Arkansas, or Kansas and the road problems magically disappear.

That's one part of the stimulus package I can get behind.