I think the data point that people are always astonished to hear--I'm speaking to your 25 percent trying to get through Chicago--is that it takes freight cargo 48 hours to get from the Port of LA to Chicago, and then another 30 hours just to get from one side of Chicago to the other.
Duckworth highlights the inefficiencies in freight transport through Chicago.
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