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
Circus elephants took out their anger and frustration on parked cars recently in Denmark. One of the animals was wading in the sea and was hit by a trainer for not following his instructions. The animal reacted by breaking free along with two others, chasing tourists and battering a number of cars. A woman was knocked to the ground and suffered slight injuries. The circus said however that the tourists should not have been so close to the elephants and claimed that as the cars should not have been parked th
In Canada, the driver of a dump truck that slammed into a pedestrian bridge, partially collapsing it on to road below, may have to pay for his mistake.
Highway 132 in a suburb of Montreal was closed overnight while a demolition crew hastily tore down the remaining section of walkway over the road.
Police are questioning the driver of the snow-removal dump truck who reportedly was travelling down the highway with his dumper raised, hitting the bridge which was built in 1979 and had recently undergone a US$
A car owner in China had something of a shock when he returned to his vehicle and found it covered in ice. The car had been parked underneath a bridge in Changchun, in the northern province of Jilin and the day had started sunny and warm, which resulted in a thaw.
Road tolling is being used worldwide as a way to develop highway infrastructure, with road users paying for access. Tolled roads are not a new concept and date back centuries, but in recent times, as governments have struggled to fund highway development programmes directly, tolling has increased in popularity worldwide.
In Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America, tolled highways are now extremely well established. The specifics of the business models vary but state-owned toll-road firms ty
