Is not just breakdowns that can hold up traffic, road vehicles also crash a lot more often than trains and congestion is harder to manage as you cannot regulate

Is not just breakdowns that can hold up traffic, road vehicles also crash a lot more often than trains and congestion is harder to manage as you cannot regulate flow in the same way. I am not anti-roads. Roads are great, they can link everywhere really easily, however they have issues that can be reduced by pairing them with high speed rail and air for long distance travel and light rail in urban centers for bike and foot passengers. Never mind just freight, imagine removing intercity traffic from roads and being able to visit the next town along without having to compete for the road with the folk going 500 miles.