World Bank types, he complains, tend to favor (and fund) paved roads and train tracks.
Irbil has a glittering airport, European-styled traffic lights, well-paved roads and highly functional infrastructure.
But laborers hacked paths with machetes, and, eventually, Texaco paved roads and built an airport.
Make sure you have your navigator set for "paved roads" and "fastest route" rather than the shortest.
Its double-tiered library, marble-paved roads, theatre, baths and even public latrine offer the most-preserved look at ancient city life in Turkey.
Large housing resettlement projects were still uninhabited and lacked sanitation or paved roads and footpaths, four years after the event.
Keep an eye out for frozen patches, especially on bridges and overpasses which tend to freeze sooner than paved roads.
Due to a lack of paved roads and other infrastructure, getting around outside of the capital is difficult for independent travellers.
The land was virtually useless and lacked paved roads, plumbing and electricity.
The Bahamian government has promised to step up efforts to bring paved roads to the cay, where cars aren't allowed, only golf carts.
CAFTA's signatories, still has no paved roads reaching its Atlantic coast.
The paved roads in Brazzaville, the capital, crumble before leaving town.
There are no paved roads and no medical facilities.
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In remote villages that are sometimes a daylong trip on a four-wheel drive from paved roads, men hunt porcupines, giant cane rats, small antelope and monkeys, while women often do the butchering.
In remote villages that sometimes require a daylong trip on a four-wheel drive away from paved roads, men hunt porcupines, giant cane rats, small antelope and monkeys, while women often do the butchering.
For travellers seeking a local excursion, a 30-minute drive northward on paved roads leads to the Zagorohoria, a region of developed traditional mountain villages overlooking the awe-inspiring Vikos Gorge, said to be the world's deepest.
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"If you drive around town you will see some roads paved, some construction projects, " said Begich, a former Anchorage mayor.
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With China only having 75% of their roads paved, there will be years of more construction work and earth moving going on, according to the U.S. China Business Council in Washington.
Lawson is now fighting off a budgetary collapse of this high desert town of 2, 100, where the paved and gravel roads have no traffic signals, only stop signs -- and even those are so faded from the sun that the village would like to replace them if it had the money.
When Henry Ford built the Model T, few roads were paved, so the cars had to be tough.
Roads are being paved, telephone lines installed, and two small hotels constructed.
From somewhere in Belgium the convoy had bumped along pot-holed dirt roads and some paved ones also in bad shape, hour after hour with frequent delays.
That's why scientists are so interested in water at poles, and the fact Moon dust works well with microwaves and could theoretically be used to make a paved surface if you created roads.
The region makes for prime cycling country thanks to paved bike paths and numerous secondary roads free of city traffic, while the mountain surroundings and unique Cape-Dutch homesteads (marked by the prominent central dormer gable of the buildings) provide spectacular scenery.
Routes are well signposted and are typically a combination of lightly travelled back roads, forestry tracks and paved highways with dedicated bike lanes.
"We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved, " the media-shy politician said.
The roads all over the island are paved and well-maintained, even though you can stand on the roadside for half an hour and see only five or six cars go by.
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