Illinois highways as the way of the future? This blows.

"Roads and Highways Will Go Private, Thanks to the Iraq War"

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/03/roads-and-highw.html

Way more in depth treatment of the subject:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031603085_4.html?nav=rss_politics