Jesus the quotes in this article are a real bleak loom into how fucked we are as a country:

“Some will say these maps are political. Let me be clear,” Sen. Chris Garten ®, another backer, said as he slapped the lectern. “You’re God damn right they are!”

and also:

“President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state,” Heritage Action wrote on X. “Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.”

Because semis put a ton of wear and tear on roads and Indiana is a huge bottleneck between the Northeast and the North/Northwest.

If only there were a better way to move freight from one dedicated location to another dedicated location. If we could basically teleport goods between Chicago, Atlanta, Kansas City, and Dallas, THEN we’d be able to have semis (or even smaller trucks) only handle the more local portions, and we’d save easily billions on road maintenance.