I hope not. Although I thought I hated 'road spam' in the previous Civs, I've since come to realize that with 1upt it's a must-have, in order to reduce the terrible traffic jams that will ensue without it. It's realistic as well: there's hardly any areas near major cities that are without highways or other high capacity roads irl.
I think that if the 'directed' roads that we can build later on will cost 1 builder charge for each road tile, that will be enough of a deterrent to true 'spam on every tile' policy until the very late game, while still allowing for more roads in 'high traffic' areas if you want them. If you do spam your lands with roads though, it would help greatly if they gave up the confusing, curvy outlook of the roads and instead made them simple 'crosses', with spokes radiating from the middle of the tile to all the durections that have outgoing roads. They wouldn't have to be *totally* straight, but, well, just look at Civ V roads for an example of what to avoid with the new road graphics!
It was specifically mentioned in several of the previews that the automatically-generated roads had no upkeep cost.
The "Ancient Roads" do appear as an item in the tile mouse-over tooltip, but there's no information yet on what benefit (if any) they have on movement. I would be very surprised if roads were purely cosmetic.
Sure, but it's rare that forts outside the city radius are useful. In Civ V I build forts in spare tiles when my Workers aren't doing anything else (even though I rarely get any use out of them), but in Civ VI improvements cost Build charges, so I don't think you'll want to waste them on something that's so questionably useful.
This is my thought exactly.
There are a couple of different kinds of bridges in the screenshots.
