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"Take off your sunglasses and put this around your head," my Afghan colleague said, apprehension in his voice as he handed me a checkered scarf. It was a sure sign our road trip was entering Taliban territory.
Millions of drivers in Thailand will have to stop in their cars when the minute-long national anthem is played twice a day, if a new law is passed. But it is feared that such a move would cause chaos on the roads.
When Mother Nature wants a river she puts it where she wants it.
In the face of rising costs and voter backlash against higher taxes, states are turning to private leases of major thoroughfares.
More than a half-million overweight trucks are allowed onto the nation's roads and bridges -- an increasingly routine practice that some officials say is putting dangerous wear and tear on an already groaning infrastructure.
England's last remaining pristine, quiet countryside could disappear by the end of the century if the rate of urban blight continues at the pace seen in the last decade, campaigners warn.
Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against US troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in US rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province.
Try following along with Scott Brusaw's series of convoluted calculations — premised, of course, on his own conservative assumptions — and you should come away agreeing with his basic argument: that a series of roads built out of solar panels could supply all of our country's …
Collapsing bridges, flooded subways, trapped miners: our recent disasters recall a novel from a half century ago.
"So, what do you see?" Martin Pietrucha I asked, turning around in the driver's seat of his mint green Ford Taurus. It was a cold day in January, and we were parked in the middle of a mock highway set on the campus of Pennsylvania State University in State College.
President Bush is facing growing unpopularity with the virtual citizens of his game of SimCountry. Despite repeatedly trying to appease public opinion, the President faces fresh outrage in the face of a series of dramatic road failures in the Simmeapolis-St.
The cost of improving the nation's roads and bridges to the levels needed is estimated to be $155.5 billion, according to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
One of Congress' more obscure priorities -- the upkeep of the nation's infrastructure -- has gained urgency in the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse. But the job of rebuilding it might be easier for engineers than politicians.
These are some of the most dangerous roads around the world that you'll ever see.
We leave the city limits just before the morning traffic starts to boil. Because I have the fattest ass, I get the honor of being in the front passenger seat. Nikki, Augú in his car seat, Uyanga and male Byaamba have to share the back.
Link goes to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics 2005 Road Bridge Condition report. Your tax dollars at work. Here in Virginia we've got 13,248 bridges - 1,192 of which are "deficient," another 2,198 are "obsolete," representing 1 in 4 in the state.
An activist group is considering filing a lawsuit against the cities of Orlando, Apopka and even Orange County over red-light cameras on roads.
Fresh doubts have been raised about the Government's speed camera programme after the latest casualty figures showed a 20 per cent rise in the number of children killed on the country's roads. Child road deaths rise by one fifth The number of children killed on the roads re …
Can someone say poison chalice? Leighton and ABN Amro must have one hell of a business plan for this subterranean disaster, which has a habit of ruining reputations faster than a Washington call girl.
This blog post has some amazing photos of some of the most dangerous roads in the world. Some of them really make you wonder, "What were they thinking?!" Highlights include roads from Bolivia, China, and Russia. Take a look, and hang on to your seats.
Why this is the State's fault is that they set a speed limit that is obviously at odds with most of the driving population and which, in effect, encourages erratic driving conditions.
Motorists face congestion charges of up to £5 to drive into central Manchester and out again on the busiest roads at the busiest times.
Ancient Romans built their towns using astronomically aligned grids, an Italian study has concluded.
One of the things that really get members of the Torquecars tuning club wound up are the state of the roads - particularly the surface of them (and they are not riled that easily) .
Why slow drivers are like cholesterol and should be flushed off the roads.
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