One of Morocco’s most dangerous roads could get tunnels in a bid to improve its safety. A feasibility study on the potential installation of tunnels on the RN9 mountain-passing route will begin in December 2014.
January 9, 2014
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One of Morocco’s most dangerous roads could get tunnels in a bid to improve its safety. A feasibility study on the potential installation of tunnels on the RN9 mountain-passing route will begin in December 2014.
The world's largest tunnelling machine is completing Italy's important road connection between Bologna and Florence - Adrian Greeman reports For just under a decade a huge programme of highway construction has been underway in the mountainous region between Bologna and Florence, realigning a section of the A1 highway nearly 70km long. The new section, through major tunnels and across high viaducts, will greatly increase capacity on Italy's most important highway.
Figures have long since become an important part of our daily lives. Data on all the humdrum events around us is regularly used to shape political policy that is in most instances, designed to improve our well-being.
A report from insurance firm AIG warns that up to half of Colombia's 4G highway concessions could face financial hurdles due to over-estimated predictions of traffic flows. Colombia is at present putting out to tender its fourth generation (4G) concessions, which involve some US$25 billion in investment, reports Business News America. This investment is impressive and is Latin America's biggest move to expand and improve road infrastructure. But while many companies have shown interest and were prequalified
The D1 motorway tunnel Korbelka in Slovakia is estimated to now cost €278 million, according to a report in Pravda Slovakia.
But the chosen 6km route is a safer option than another route alongside the Vah River that would have taken in a potential landslide area. Because of the slide risk, a further €202 million would be needed to shore up the hillside.
More work will have to be done to finalise the route, meaning work would not start until likely 2019, according to the report.
Slovakia's Transport
