I assume it has something to do with the blacktop

Remember how “walls don’t keep people out?” And how “a few American rednecks with AR-15’s can’t fight off the US government with its F-15’s and nukes” (just before the Taliban took over an entire friggen’ country)? Well, now roads are racist and keep people geographically isolated better than force fields:

I half keep expecting to wake up one day and find out that the current administration has finally admitted that they are just a bunch of edgelord comedians whose practical joke in seeing how far they can troll a nation simply got out of hand.