A request from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) in the US to provide road salt to local communities in need has received no bids from salt companies.
ODOT asked salt companies to bid on 9,071tonnes increments of salt to be delivered to seven strategic locations during three rounds. The aim was to receive at least 136,077tonnes of road salt that ODOT could provide to local communities where some supplies are depleted. The agency planned to charge nothing for the road salt and instead was asking
Plans are now being worked on for a new highway that will connect Serbia with Albania, running through Kosovo. The project is momentous and marks a considerable diplomatic advance, given that Serbia’s past relations with its neighbour Kosovo and Albania have been less than harmonious in the recent past. This new move is seeing a Technical Working Group comprised of experts from Albania and Serbia looking into the construction of a new highway link between the two countries, as well as new railway connection
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia will get US$224 million for road upgrades in 2019-20, a boost of $11.2 million over the current period.
Lloyd Hines, the province’s transportation and infrastructure renewal minister, said much of the additional funding will be for twinning portions of the province’s 100 series highways, including the 101, 103, 104 and the 107 Sackville-Burnside connector.
The plan includes rebuilding and upgrading gravel roads and around $15 million of the money has been earmarked
