That's largely because the St. Paul Police refuse to enforce the truck route ordinance on that stretch. The law bans vehicles over 15,000 GW from the street except for city vehicles and buses and those making deliveries on the street. The weight of the multiple 18-wheelers and very large box trucks using the street is tearing up the street, which is why is resembles Pierce-Bulter, which IS a truck route.

The solution is to get these heavy vehicles off the road through enforcement, and to fix the road. Unless the vehicles are gone, any fix will just deteriorate again.