The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is spending more than $7 million this year to repair broken concrete slabs and shoulders covering half of Interstate 70 between West Virginia and Washington, Pa.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the interstate’s concrete has been breaking up almost since it was poured in 1989. Several miles of the eastbound lanes are so bad that truckers traveling in a row sometimes see water squirt out of cracks and joints as their rigs cross the state line and roll over unstable pavement slabs, the paper said.
Crews will replace the concrete on 5.3 miles of I-70 from the West Virginia line east to Claysville, then cover the road surface with 3 1/2 inches of asphalt.
PennDOT will also be repaving about 3 miles of the Interstate between Taylorstown and Chestnut Street in North Franklin this summer.
The combined projects affect about half of the 16 miles of I-70 between West Virginia and Washington, where trucks make up one-fourth of the average daily traffic of 16,000 vehicles, the paper reported.