"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Private Citizens Perform $4 Million Road Repair Job For Free in 8 Days
Though this example - which comes to us from Hawaii - is two years old, it's an awesome example of civil society and spontaneous order that directly answers the classic 'but-who-will-build-the-roads?' justification for the violent institution of government.
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If someone had began to garden and restore the soil where the road once was, they would have accosted by aggression.
The cost of pavement is only one consideration of how much government violence must be used to enforce and maintain city-Statists roadways upon the land.