> Frontier areas are enormous, and roads barely last a few decades before they need replacing. I think the issue is that you need to have the roads in the rura

> Frontier areas are enormous, and roads barely last a few decades before they need replacing. I think the issue is that you need to have the roads in the rural and frontier areas to get the food to the cities, i.e. even if nobody lived there, you'd still need to maintain them until we switch to soylent green and the cities become self-sustainable.