I assume that he&#x27;s referring to the private roads in America, which frankly, were generally good, until they were crowded out by the tax-funded roads that were, in many cases, literally built right next to the private roads.<p>It&#x27;s often hard to parse history without hearing it through the bias of the historians, but while many private roads had a hard time finding a profit, they weren&#x27;t entirely unsuccessful, and they definitely weren&#x27;t unpopular.