From the article's third page: "Eventually, however, if you drive on gravel roads on a daily basis, your windshield breaks, your tires wear out, your front end

From the article's third page: "Eventually, however, if you drive on gravel roads on a daily basis, your windshield breaks, your tires wear out, your front end goes out of whack". Gravel roads are worse than paved roads. Yes, gravel roads are cheaper. A mud hut is cheaper than a marble building. Inferior things are often cheaper. Yes, they generate lower speeds. The point of a road is not to generate lower speeds. It is to facilitate transportation. Gravel roads do that less effectively than paved roads. You're just rationalizing our society's backsliding. It's depressing enough that we're regressing a less-developed form of transportation because we can't afford to maintain our forebearer's technology. We don't have to celebrate it!