Hints and tips:
...Opponents say Sicily’s dire internal road and railway network limits the potential utility of the expensive bridge, while the growth of short-sea shipping as an ecologically friendly alternative to road...
...The highway from the Belgian city of Namur to Brussels suffered a traffic jam like none other last week. Around 700 tractors and 1,500 farmers blocked the road, many staying for 36 hours....
...Down the highway from Tahivilla is a mountaintop wind farm, El Cabrito, which was built in 1995 and repowered by Acciona Energía in 2018....
...Mahajan says the proliferation of new roads and electricity connections in Bhopal has boosted the value of his family home....
...“More than 50 per cent of the population wears military uniforms,” she says. Russian military recruiters are pulling local Ukrainian men off the street and throwing them into battle....
...In school holidays, he would hitch a ride into Kampala and hawk shoes on the street....
...Netflix and Tesla open the run of quarterly tech results this week, while Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Morgan Stanley bring to a close the earnings reports from Wall Street banks....
...Particularly useful when visibility is low, eg in rain, fog or snow Optical cameras Useful for detecting and differentiating the colour of things such as traffic lights, construction zones and emergency...
...Hello and welcome to the working week. July is here, which means it is time for the US to celebrate independence on the fourth, when Wall Street will shut....
...The hardline CGT union briefly blocked morning traffic on Friday on the highway that circles Paris, while rubbish collectors shut down a local incineration site nearby....
...Start at Stackt Market (Front Street West and Bathurst Street), where Toronto has caught up with the trend of piling some shipping containers on top of each other to create a trendy food, drink and retail...
...The road sign indicating the turn-off from Highway 1 regularly gets stolen, and if you venture into the bar at Smiley’s (established 1851), the old-time saloon on Wharf Road, the intensity of the collective...
...Other jobs have followed, from truck drivers and mechanics to hotel cleaners and construction workers....
...In 2012, when construction was completed on the first motorable road built through this remote territory linking China to lowland Nepal, there were concerns the new connectivity would damage Upper Mustang...
...Ghana has separate ministries for transport, railways development, roads and highways, and aviation, for example. The ministries of information and communications are separate entities....
...a roadworks embargo on motorways and major roads to help alleviate congestion over the festive period....
...At one point, all of the officials at the poorly ventilated Gower Street station were “incapacitated for duty”. A local tavern keeper reportedly helped staff by bathing their temples in vinegar....
...I liked the feeling of being on a road trip as I watched the country moving past on the highway to Nasiriyah, Iraq’s fourth-largest city....
...Buffalo became the world’s biggest grain port. Within just over a century, though, roads and railways rendered the canal largely obsolete....
...Many of the latter were descendants of those who arrived during the Soviet Union’s industrialisation, between the late 1920s and 1940....
...My last day in Maine, I meet with Peter Drinkwater, proprietor of Winter Harbor’s general store and prominent local realtor, in his shop on Main Street....
...An outdoor gym squeezed between the road and the sea is at its most popular in the late afternoon as the sun goes down....
...And also, this prospect of joining the European Union, I don’t know how realistic you think it is....
...After leaving school at 16, he went into construction before being blacklisted for joining a breakaway union called the Electrical and Plumbing Industries’ Union....
...And that’s what I mean by matching global resilience efforts with local ones....
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