There are a growing number of abandoned young children because when the family set out on a 40km bike ride to visit the in-laws, the 4 and 5 year olds just can’t keep up, and are left to perish on the roadsides. It’s particularly bad during stormy weather.
I think roads are great. I have one right outside my home that I use fairly often. Couldn't imagine it being taken away and sold to China, although it must be a possibility given that the Greens are polling well at the moment.
Aside from this though, there are other solutions. I'm very much in favour of reintroducing the huge Zeppelins that can carry tonnes of freight - ideal in small countries such as NZ where roads over hills seems to defy modern science unless billions of dollars in environmental impact studies are conducted in 10 year intervals leading up to a decision to think about it every 100 years.
The cool things about Zeppelin technology is you can have point to point delivery without clogging roading and train infrastructure. And with Global Warming in the realms of "settled science" we'll have lots of hot air to fuel them.
You know I make sense.
[Photo is a Zeppelin in the tropical country of the UK, hardest hit by Global Warming as per predictions from Climate Scientists back in the year 2000]