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INFRASTRUCTURES
* USA - Heavier trucks taking toll on bridges, roads
Washington,DC,USA -AP/The Coshocton Tribune (Coshocton,OH) -12 Aug 2007: -- Just like Americans themselves, the nation's roads and bridges are carrying much more weight today... Added to an aging and deteriorating highway system, it means more safety problems, delays and repair costs for drivers, experts said... In just a decade, from 1995 to 2005, the weight load on urban highways increased by half. Since 1970, the weight carried on rural highways has gone up nearly 7 1/2 times, according to Federal Highway Administration statistics. And it's not just more traffic. It's the heavier trucks... The number of tractor-trailer truck miles driven on American roadways has well more than doubled to more than 145 billion miles a year since 1980, increasing faster than the rate of smaller trucks or cars, according to federal statistics...
* India - Eight-lane expressway on the cards
Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh,India -The Times of India -11 Aug 2007: -- An eight-lane express highway linking Noida to Varanasi is on the cards in Uttar Pradesh. The highway would be meant exclusively for cargo transportation... On completion, the project would give a boost to the trade and commerce in the state... Agriculture production commissioner (APC), UP, Anees Ansari said that it would be a protected and sheltered highway which could make travelling from Delhi to Varanasi possible in just 8-9 hours...
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