I acknowledge the ability of governments to make some of these things an easier task. I don't agree that the task should be made easier at the violation of anyones consent.
The way this worked before eminent domain, is there had to be an agreeable route chosen by those involved before a road was built.
Much of the state I am located in will no longer be able to utilize eminent domain because people are choosing the idea that negotiating a route is a better idea than ignoring consent.
So in this particular area, (and many others) the market place of ideas is serving subjective value of individual sovereignty over central planning.
In the end the roads get built by the companies that should do the best in cost, quality and time. This will happen whether the state exists or not, the only difference is the amount of consent that is violated in the process.
There was never such a time in the US, when and were was that?
What state will no longer be able to utilize eminent domain?
with the state roads are built by private companies in the most expensive, shoddy and slow manner one can imagine until you go to a place where the state does not build roads, then they are fucking terrible dirt tracks or simply nonexistent.
Many entities (including untold municipal entities)in Texas lost the power of eminent domain recently, I think this is the section or one very similar that was being discussed:
(c) The authority of an entity to exercise the power of eminent domain expires on September 1, 2013, unless the entity submits a letter in accordance with Subsection (b).
(The municipalities that had not recently exercised eminent domain lost the power to do so.)
2013 was a while ago, these entities, many non-governmental, have the power of eminent domain in Texas:
https://coedd.comptroller.texas.gov/search/results?entity_type=&report_year=2018&filing_status=&eminent_domain_begin_year=&entity_category_type_code=