The members of this family found out the hard way that when transporting a paint canister, it is best to keep it in the boot as in the event of even a small impact...
December 13, 2012
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The members of this family found out the hard way that when transporting a paint canister, it is best to keep it in the boot as in the event of even a small impact...
The Paris-based World Road Association – PIARC – is backing the Pavement Preservation Recycling Summit (PPRS) to be held in Nice next month.
PPRS, organised by Routes de France, ERF (European Road Federation) and IBEF (International Bitumen Emulsion Federation), is set for the Nice Acropolis on March 26-28.
How can we make our infrastructure ready for new sustainability challenges? What kind of investments are needed? And who will finance them? Tolling association Asecap has some thoughts. Geoff Hadwick reports from Lisbon
Police in the US state of Ohio recently found themselves in a high-speed pursuit involving a vehicle taken without its owner’s consent. The chase lasted for around one hour and the vehicle hit speeds of up to 160km/h during the pursuit, which covered a distance of around 72km in all between Cleveland and Milan. Officers managed to box the car in and bring it to a halt, without anyone being injured. The driver was a 10-year-old boy who took his mother’s car, the second time that the lad had done this in just
Larger road budgets would go a long way towards maintaining in top shape highway infrastructure across the United States and Canada.
But even considering what is being spent now, are road owners and highway contractors getting the biggest bang for their buck?
That’s what delegates to this year’s Pavement Preservation Recycling Alliance conference in the beautiful Canadian resort city of Niagara Falls will find out from October 13-15.
“One of the things that I learned in Paris at the first Pavement Preser
