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May 13, 2014
The UK is to introduce tougher sentences for serious driving offences. This will focus on those repeat offenders who are driving while disqualified…
May 13, 2014
Italian equipment manufacturers report encouraging signs in terms of sales. This follows a six year slump that saw the domestic market fall 80%,…
May 13, 2014
Chilean construction organisation CChC has published a study saying the country needs to spend some US$12.5 billion on road upgrades and construction…
May 13, 2014
The Humber Bridge Board in the UK is set to deploy an automatic tolling system at the famous structure near Kingston upon Hull in northern England…
May 13, 2014
The Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (Scirt) in New Zealand says it will cost US$1.53 (NZD 1.77bn) to repair roads and underground…
May 13, 2014
Austria is to invest €1 billion in its road network in 2014, with a further €1.3 billion investment in 2015 funded by drivers and the transport…
May 13, 2014
One of Poland’s major highway projects is now progressing on track, with regular shipments of asphalt proving crucial. The major Polish oil and…
May 13, 2014
A major innovation for California will be the wider availability of hydrogen as a ‘green’ fuel source for motor vehicles. Plans are in hand with the…
May 13, 2014
A consortium has won a key construction and concession contract in Russia for a stretch of the Moscow-St Petersburg highway. The construction…
May 13, 2014
Italian civil engineering group Astaldi is expecting to obtain a €1.7 billion contract from Russia that would see them build a 140km stretch of the…
May 13, 2014
The Peruvian government has announced that the US$182 million construction of a road to link Tacna (Peru) with La Paz (Bolivia), via Collpa, will…
May 13, 2014
Road transport pressure groups in Switzerland have criticised the Government's draft report on NAF, a national-road and agglomeration fund. While…
May 13, 2014
The German state should prioritise road maintenance over the construction of new roads, according to Christian Ahrendt, vice president of the German…
May 13, 2014
There could be up to 25,000 incomplete roadworks across the UK, according to breakdown recovery firm LV Road Rescue. The estimated figure equates to…
May 13, 2014
Paraguay's Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) has requested a US$289.45 million donation from the Mercosur Structural Convergence…
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