(From the Intellectual Ammunition section in Volume 19, No. 12 of the Liberator Online. Subscribe here!)
Yeah, we've all heard that one ad nauseam. Now a British grandfather has pretty much 
settled it.
From "Rolling in money: Man makes toll road to get around roadworks", Yahoo! Finance UK and Ireland:
"A grandfather sick of roadworks near his home defied his council and built his own toll road allowing people to circumvent the disrupted section.
"Opened on Friday, it's the first private toll road built since cars became a familiar sight on British roads 100 years ago. Motorists pay £2 to travel each way and bypass the 14 miles diversion.
"Mike Watts, 62, hired a crew of workmen and ploughed £150,000 of his own cash into building a 365m long bypass road in a field next to the closed A431. He reckons it will cost another £150,000 in upkeep costs and to pay for two 24 hour a day toll booth operators.
"Speaking from the road in Kelston, Somerset, Mike said: 'Too many people are displaced by the road closure, their daily lives have been so disrupted by this.'"
Who will build the roads? Enterprising entrepreneurs like these — if the government will simply get out of the way.