The South African President, Nelson Mandela, and President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique have officially launched the construction of the Maputo Highway - a toll road between Johannesburg and the Mozambican port and capital of Maputo.
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One example of a shovel-ready project is the Gallows Road-Lee Highway intersection in the notoriously traffic-clogged suburbs of Northern Virginia outside Washington, D.
Now it takes a day-and-a-half, thanks to an upgrade of the Friendship Highway, as the China-Nepal road is called, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to the Federal Highway Administration, almost two-thirds of all highway fatalities are categorized as "road departures, " as opposed to intersection or pedestrian accidents, an indication of tired drivers veering out of their lanes or off the road altogether.
It was the two-lane U.S. Highway 70, technically a federal road that was so rough and so sway-backed, it resembled a horse destined for the glue factory.
It is like giving drivers on a six-lane highway access by a dirt road.
Highway I-40, known as Tobacco Road, connects the universities of North Carolina, Duke and North Carolina State.
The highway turns into a single-lane dirt road, and Dixon's uncle pulls the Rover into the final outpost this side of the mountain, the town of Chogoria Hospital, so named because it has the only healthcare facility for miles around.
Highway 2 is a ribbon of two-lane road that stretches across the entirety of Washington state.
It was only accessible by plane until 2000, when the final 62 miles of the 770-mile road finally linked the remote village to the rest of the highway (via an hour-long ferry ride to Puerto Yungay).
With the highway listed as a national historic landmark, road-widening was not an option.
Under the new agreement Quebec will complete 143 kilometers of the road as a two-lane highway, while Stornoway will be responsible for completing the final 97 kilometers.
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His effort to break up and privatise the road-building agency, the Japan Public Highway Corporation, had to be heavily watered down.
Worried by such behaviour on a two-lane road already known for accidents, the Montana Highway Patrol stopped them.
North Bimini is only seven miles long and less than a mile wide, so walking and biking along the main road -- "The King's Highway" -- is the best way to experience Bimini.
When you enter the state via the interstate highway, the signs that usually announce road conditions now flash thank-yous to the out-of-state power crews that came to the rescue of Maine and other New England states.
No, I'm not hurtling down the road in a 2-ton metal hulk on a highway where I'm separated from equally speedy oncoming vehicles by just a few feet.
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It simply sits there in undistinguished anonymity on a low rise beneath a few scraggly trees, several miles from the nearest highway, almost invisible from the sun-baked ruts of a nearby secondary road.
Many are desperate to re-stock their road salt but supply chain pressures from mine to highway depot looks like resulting in some areas running dry.
Soon these will stretch the whole way along the Marginal, the seafront road that is being turned into a grand six-lane highway sweeping around the horseshoe-shaped bay of Luanda, Angola's buzzing capital.
Even though it may be plugged into any common 110-volt electrical outlet for a slow charge, high-speed electric vehicle charging stations have only sprung up in major population centers or along busy highway corridors, meaning a lack of foresight before heading down a less-traveled road may initiate a tow truck encounter.
The best advice is in the Highway Code - drive with care even if roads have been salted, be prepared for road conditions changing over short distances and take care when overtaking gritters.
Despite never running out of charge, I now understand the car's real-world range (worst case: about 210 miles with three passengers plus camera gear, driving on and off the highway on a below-freezing day) and, rather than getting stranded by the road, I spent four productive days with the car getting a solid feel for it.
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As the convoy growled down Highway One, the national ring road that encircles the whole country, the turret machine-gunner rotated left and right, scanning the roadside.
Options to look for include adaptive cruise control that can automatically maintain a set speed and interval on the highway, and high-intensity Xenon headlamps with Active Curve Illumination that can help illuminate the road at night through curves.
Back then, the nation was in the grips of another Iran-related oil crisis, and to many, this highway through the Utah desert seemed like the road to energy security.
In 2008, Carlos Alberto Lopes, then a 23-year-old waiter, was riding in a one-star car traveling about 50 mph on a rainy highway in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais when the road curved smoothly left.
They were heading down a swath of highway raised out of the wetlands, past a schizophrenic landscape of saw-grass prairies and strip malls, where the road signs warned of panthers and the billboards advertised alligator zoos and other South Florida attractions.
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