> In Japan, for example, roads are abandoned due to lack of use. A trend that seems to be happening in other countries such as China and Korea. From what I saw

> In Japan, for example, roads are abandoned due to lack of use. A trend that seems to be happening in other countries such as China and Korea. From what I saw on my recent travels in Japan, I'd suggest it was more a case of government vanity projects, local government corruption/desire to spend budgets and other mismanagement that resulted in over-engineered roads being put in places where there was clearly a very low population density. The same was true of lovely new concrete/granite boardwalks and cycle paths on some of the remote islands in Okinawa Prefecture that were overgrown with vegetation and were impenetrable by bicycle (and almost impassible on foot). Similarly new roads are being built on some of those islands given that there is noticeable traffic congestion.