No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru
January 21, 2014
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No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru
You thought you were good at backing up, until you saw you saw this video of the world’s best practitioner.
Pedestrians and motorists in a small Norwegian town were recently surprised – shocked, in some cases - by the driver of a Volkswagen car with a trailer attached who insisted on backing up wherever he went.
And he went everywhere, too.
Road transport is the key to improving Africa's links within its own territory, and further afield as Patrick Smith reports. Development of road transportation is the key to the future of the African economy, and countries on the continent are making great strides. According to a report by a transport infrastructure expert at the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), within the next 15 years the value of trade in Africa could reach US$250 billion if a $32 billion investment is made to integrate
Pop stars are noted for taking the most outrageous limousines to their gigs. But what should a singing group do if their transport doesn’t show up, leaving them stranded in a strange city?
That was the question facing New York’s hip-hop legend Public Enemy when recently in the United Kingdom they found themselves in a record store and their taxi to their gig nowhere to be found.
Public Enemy had booked a normal taxi amid their concern that their large tour bus could not navigate the narrow city street
