The German province of Baden- Württemberg has issued a list of 20 ready to be built federal trunk road projects worth a combined US$1.01billion (€800mn).The first five could be started in 2014 and the next five in 2015 or 2016.
August 24, 2012
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The German province of Baden- Württemberg has issued a list of 20 ready to be built federal trunk road projects worth a combined US$1.01billion (€800mn).The first five could be started in 2014 and the next five in 2015 or 2016.
A delegation of 50 German CTE customers spent three days at the CTE plant in Rivoli Veronese, north east Italy.
The visitors saw demonstrations of ZED, TRACCESS and B-LIFT aerial platforms and work being done at the headquarters of Green Car Ponti sul Mincio (MN), the painting workshop for CTE. The full list of equipment presented and made available for demos was: CTE truck-mounted platforms ZED 21 JH; ZED 20 C; ZED 20 CH; and ZED 26 JH; B-LIFT 20.13 MULTIPURPOSE; B-LIFT 201; and B-LIFT 501 High Range; the
A framework document has been set up for public organisations and private companies to work on pilot projects under the SOCRATES2.0 interactive traffic management programme.
The pilots will start in June next year in the regions of Amsterdam, Munich, Antwerp and Copenhagen.
The framework is the result of an agreement last year by six road authorities from four countries and some international service and traffic information providers.
All three of Moscow’s main airports are to benefit from major upgrades to their road connections. The authorities in the Russian capital have plans to repair and improve eight key connecting roads to Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Sheremetyevo airports and with a target date for completion in 2015. The first section of the new Moscow - St Petersburg tolled highway forms part of the new route into Sheremetyevo airport and this is due for completion during 2014. In all some US$5.6 billion will be spent on repairing
An end to a thorny issue is close at hand concerning who will fund construction of a border customs plaza on the US side of a planned bridge linking Canada and the United States.
US President Barack Obama’s US$4-trillion budget did not set aside any money for the plaza for a second consecutive year, further irritating Canadian officials who are overseeing construction of the bridge.
It appears that the Canadian government might end up footing the entire bill, according to a report in Toronto’s Globe a
