News Vietnam to spend $1.4bn on mountain motorways Vietnam will spend $1.4bn on two ambitious motorways in its mountainous northwest. One will be a 121km link between the provinces of Cao Bang and Lang Son on the Chinese…
News Granite wins Highway 101 reconstruction contract in Los Angeles The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has awarded Californian contractor Granite a $48m contract for reconstruction work on Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County. Improvements include a lane for cars…
News Vietnam begins work on $1.9bn motorway across Mekong Delta Vietnam has held a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction work on a 188km expressway across the Mekong Delta in the south of the country, Vietnamnet reports. The motorway…
News West African states urged to make a start on ‘daunting’ $15bn highway The governments of five West African states held more talks last month about a long-discussed $15bn highway connecting Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire, taking in Benin, Togo, and Ghana along the…
News Work begins on Dhaka’s second transformative elevated expressway Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fired the starting pistol on a project to build a landscape-transforming, 24km elevated expressway in the congested capital Dhaka Saturday (12 November). Financed by China…
News Sweden’s Vattenfall to turn Dutch motorway into solar farm Swedish energy utility Vattenfall has revealed plans to install solar panels on public land along the A6 motorway near the Dutch city of Almere, just outside Amsterdam, PV Magazine reports.…