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Skanska Wins Highways Contract In The South-West Of England

2016-03-09 04:53:31| publicworks Home Page

The £16M highways services contract will see Skanska working in partnership with the council to look after 679 miles of roads across the district

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Norway Will Spend Almost $1 Billion on New Bike Highways

2016-03-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

City Lab: Norway has just announced a new tool in its fight against transit emissions: a new network of bike highways. As part of a plan announced last week, the country will spend a massive 8 billion Norwegian Kroner ($923 million) creating 10 broad, two-lane, cross-country bike tracks in and near Norway`s nine largest cities, allowing longer-distance cyclists to travel with a speed and safety hitherto impossible. A key component of plans to slash Norway`s transit emissions by half, the bike highway scheme...

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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

2016-03-01 11:56:14| Green Car Congress

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Rare winter flood threatens homes, closes highways

2015-12-30 06:40:47| Beverages - Topix.net

A rare winter flood shut down portions of two interstates on Tuesday, threatened hundreds of homes and caused sewage to flow unfiltered into waterways. Torrential rains over the past several days pushed already swollen rivers and streams to virtually unheard-of heights in parts of Missouri and Illinois.

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