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September 2, 2015
Tenders for construction of connecting roads for Istanbul's third bridge over the Bosporus have been postponed for the fourth time. A tender for the…
September 2, 2015
In Slovakia work on three sections of the D1 highway will be complete shortly. One of these is for a 9km section of the D1 from Janovce -Jablonov,…
September 2, 2015
The authorities in Moscow will shortly open the tender process for the first section of the Solntsevo-Butovo-Vidnoye highway. The contract to build…
September 2, 2015
Key highway projects are being planned for Indonesia. The Indonesian firm Wijaya Karya (Wika) will work on three toll road projects in the country…
September 2, 2015
Bidding has been closed for the contract to construct the Toyo Tunnel in Colombia. Three offers for the project have been made. In all, eight firms…
September 1, 2015
Bankrupt Australian highway management firm BrisConnections is selling its 6.7km AirportlinkM7 toll road in Brisbane three years after the highway…
September 1, 2015
Interest is proving to be strong in the new Agua Negra Tunnel project which will link Argentina with Chile. A number of Chinese contractors are…
September 1, 2015
Tests carried out by VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, involving motorcycles and crash barriers have shown that a…
August 27, 2015
Road designers and local authorities are getting much better at integrating roads for vehicles and cycle paths, tracks and lanes. But sometimes…
August 27, 2015
Bad driving makes people significantly attractiveness to potential partners, with women finding it especially so, according to a recent UK survey.…
August 26, 2015
Further delays to the planned Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link between Germany and Denmark appear likely because of objections to the project during the…
August 26, 2015
The Indonesian government is looking to spend around US$385 million of a major loan from China to construct three toll roads in the islands of…
August 26, 2015
Mexico’s secretary of communications and transport, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, has confirmed that the second level of Mexico City-to-Tlalpan…
August 26, 2015
The Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC) has released a report summarising current US asphalt and concrete pavement smoothness…
August 26, 2015
The authorities in Vietnam have set a massive budget for road development in Ho Chi Minh City. Some US$5.54 billion will be spent on improving the…
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