In 2002, 42 people died on County Durham's roads - an increase of 56% on the previous year.
Archaeologists think they may have found evidence that Iron Age Britons were capable of building roads - before the Romans arrived.
Over the next six years, we will rebuild 150, 000 miles of our roads -- enough to circle the world six times.
Avoid using shortcuts on minor roads - they are less likely to be cleared or treated with salt, especially country lanes.
But it takes areas that are now roadless - that's a technical designation, but it also means they don't have roads - in our national forests.
Kent County Council (KCC) said 60 gritting trucks fitted with snow ploughs were in operation, gritting 5, 000 miles of the county's roads - half of Kent's network.
So much money had been spent on the exterior that there was little left for the inside, so the local council - more used to overseeing parks and roads - finished off the job.
Even in normal winter conditions, at anything below 7C, they are much better at gripping on cold roads - even dry and cleared, treated ones - because their rubber compound is softer and sticky in the cold.
So the reason I make that point is you can't ask local elected officials to raise teachers' salaries and cut taxes and balance the budget and increase roads -- at some point you've got to make some choices.
The only buildings that have been repaired are those that belong to the aid agencies, whose four-wheel-drive vehicles also account for most of the traffic on the roads - as well as a rare source of employment for Angolan drivers.
My bed, which had been the scene of horror, with Ali became a place of tranquil calm in the face of all the problems people were facing on the roads -and I had to go nowhere - luxury - and all of a sudden he made me feel very lucky.
And then in other measures that the President has talked about, including, for example, the bipartisan support for developing more infrastructure -- for building roads, airports -- repairing roads and airports and bridges, so that we can have that foundation, that infrastructure foundation that we need in the 21st century.
Among other things, I favor government-run roads, government-supported subways in large cities, educational subsidies for children whose parents cannot afford private tuition, safety regulation of dangerous chemical and nuclear facilities, regulation of natural monopolies, copyright protection, and so forth.
The European Commission's plans for an expanded fund to pay for infrastructure to link EU countries - roads, broadband and energy - was one easy target.
Tucked away on winding, oak tree-lined roads or in one-traffic-light towns, bastions of smoked brisket have lured the palates of many discerning carnivores.
This means job-creating investments in roads, high-speed speed trains, and broadband.
"The back roads, the lesser-known roads are taking you through places where you could really experience the culture of the particular state you were in or the particular region of the country, " she said.
The Royals had to wait until the fifth over before they began to make in-roads into Glamorgan's batting line-up when lively paceman Kabir bowled Grant for 16.
The job involves laying down the infrastructure for your city to flourish - power, water, roads and rail - and then watching as businesses and virtual people, called Sims, flock in.
Three 10-meter-long 1997 Terex TS14D motor scrapers -- machines that chew up roads for repaving -- roar past a crowd of 1, 200 in baseball caps and blue jeans at a recent Ritchie Bros. auction in Clinton, Wisconsin.
The battered infrastructure and pot-holed roads were a defiant counter-point to the blatant and often stifling affluence of western Germany.
The building blocks of a modern economy--bridges, roads, power lines--are at about the level of South Korea a quarter century ago, according to the Construction and Economic Research Institute of South Korea.
Cantering loosely down sand-covered roads sighting down a sine-wave of bonnet, lazy, dusty oppositelock applied at speeds rarely above a brisk trotting pace and the smell: scorched dirt, cooking tarmac, a whiff of hot oil, burning chrome and heat.
But also, there were no polling stations within Tiger-held territory, and would-be voters faced long journeys over bad roads to government-controlled areas.
Turkey is one of the most strategically important nations on the planet, situated at the cross-roads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, with important -- and generally very complex -- ties to each.
Are you aggravated by sky-high gas prices or costly repairs necessitated by poorly kept roads and pot-holded pavement?
Police in Gloucestershire received reports of heavy goods vehicles stuck on a number of roads and salt supplies in the county ran so low that only A-roads were gritted on Thursday.
Like the Segway, electric bicycles still leave riders vulnerable to the gas-powered masses of steel and glass that fly by on high-speed roads, and require wearing a helmet--a deal breaker for many style-conscious commuters.
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