Thankfully no workers were injured when an excavator plummeted onto a road during a bridge demolition in the US state of Ohio.
An amateur video captures the moment the bridge gave way, leaving a second excavator luckily in place on the other half of the bridge.
The incident occurs at the very start of the video clip, so viewers may have to ‘rewind’ several times to get the best picture of the excavator hitting the ground.
It’s 1948. The grand scheme of creating an Interstate Highway system in the US is still barely a twinkle in President Dwight Eisenhower’s military eye. Highway construction improved greatly in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the American contractors became more mechanized and therefore efficient at laying roads faster and of better quality.
But how did they build a road back then in 1948?
Thanks to Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, we have a movie of just how a concrete highway was created. The constr
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Video footage shot in Spain recently reveals the driver of a car playing guitar while at the wheel. The passenger in a car driving past shot the video clip as the vehicles travelled along a major highway route. The strumming driver was presumed to be steering with his knees at the time. Qui
A new UK report suggests local authorities should think twice about automatically incorporating cycle lanes in road design. David Arminas reports
Environmental and social arguments for getting more people onto bicycles are well known. The theory is the more people cycling, the less traffic congestion and less air pollution from cars. Well-defined cycle lanes can encourage people who might otherwise be too nervous to take to a bicycle.
But just how effective are cycle lanes for increasing the safety of
