I didn’t say we need to remove roads. I said governments should prioritize roads rather than wasting money unnecessarily.

So until the government (which?) meets someone’s (whose?) intuitive guess (how?) at what an appropriate degree of efficiency is, then we should not have public investment?

Given almost any degree of govt efficiency I’d prefer a more efficient one, but we do in fact need to be able to walk and chew gum. It’s just not the case that letting roads deteriorate will increase discipline in whatever area of govt your particular hobby horse lives.