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Crimean Venture Company (CVC) is ready to invest over US $ 1.5 billion in infrastructure projects, including road-based projects, in the Autonomous Republic Crimea. The list of projects also features development of railways, the construction of a sea port, a new airport, reclamation systems, industrial and logistics complexes, waste processing and disposal plants in the north of the peninsula. The development of tourist complexes in the south-eastern part is another element of the $ 1.5 billion investment.

The construction of the 14.4km D1 motorway stretch between Budimir - Bidovce near Kosice in eastern Slovakia could begin in 2014 or 2015. Building works for the Budimir-Bidovce D1 route should take three years, followed by the construction of another stretch of the D1 from Bidovce up to the Ukrainian border. The latter works are estimated for completion sometime after 2020. Meanwhile, the construction of the 13km D1 stretch linking Bidovce - Dargov and the 18.7km stretch Dargov - Pozdisovce should start in

More than 40 so-called ‘zombie’ road projects previously defeated for environmental reasons or abandoned by previous governments are reported to have been resuscitated. While 44 schemes are planned or are under way, a further 150 projects have been identified by the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT). The UK is engaged in the largest road construction programme in 25 years. The CBT worked out that the 190 projects it is aware of would cost at least US $ 32.01 billion (£20bn). They claim they would lead to