And in the USA some rural areas have been "unpaving" roads because they have done the financial math : https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastru

And in the USA some rural areas have been "unpaving" roads because they have done the financial math : https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/sl-dirt-roads.html https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructu... https://www.nap.edu/read/21935/chapter/1 https://www.nap.edu/read/21935/chapter/1 very limited discussion a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15272140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15272140