I propose that asphalting should only be allowed on public roads - where the main traffic flows. On all local roads, where the limit is e.g. 30 km/h, the use of asphalt and concrete should be banned. Concrete and asphalt can also be banned in courtyards and driveways, and this can also be taxed further, as some European countries have already done. In urban areas and wherever traffic is restricted to residents, etc., all asphalt and concrete could be replaced with paving stones, slabs, cubes or anything that will allow water to seep back into the ground. For example, wherever the speed is reduced to 30 - 40 km/h due to the development, where it is exclusively access roads to houses, blocks of flats, garages... Wherever there are lorries, buses, city traffic, main traffic routes (regional roads), the asphalt is left in place. Everything else OUT! This would reduce the heating from the concrete and asphalt surfaces, plus the soil would drink the water, instead of all the rainwater going down the concrete drains and then back into the concrete protected river beds (!!!!). No wonder there are such severe droughts and no wonder there are floods. Because there is nowhere for the water to go, because everything is asphalted and concreted. It would also make it easier for the municipal services to deal with the water and sewerage infrastructure, as they would just remove the paving stones and get to the pipes more easily. Once the work is finished, the paving stones would simply be returned to their previous location. Piles of broken asphalt in landfills would be reduced and no new asphalt would have to be laid.