This Ecuadorian pick-up truck proves so popular with passengers that is has standing room only: image courtesy of World Highways reader Jaime Erazo Pastor.
March 14, 2012
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This Ecuadorian pick-up truck proves so popular with passengers that is has standing room only: image courtesy of World Highways reader Jaime Erazo Pastor.
QMB has a Lindsay Road Zipper on duty near Montreal. World Highways deputy editor David Arminas climbed aboard
As vice president of Canadian barrier specialist QMB, based in Laval, Quebec, Marc-Andre Seguin is sanguine about the future for moveable barriers.
On the one hand, it looks good. The oft-stated advantage of moveable barriers is that the systems are cheaper to install than adding a lane or two to a highway or bridge. Directional changes to lanes can boost volume on a road without disrupting tra
The D-Kerb, a new machine that cuts granite kerbs to 45° without removing them, has just completed several road projects in London. Local authorities and highways maintenance crew no longer have the cost or inconvenience of replacing them completely, said Julie White, managing director of the company D-Drill and also a co-inventor of the D-Kerb machine. During a highways project in Offord Road, North London, technicians from D-Drill carried out the 45° cut of kerbs around the 45m circumference of a central
