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12 giu 2024 · Country Roads in Disrepair. Recently, our infrastructure network has fallen in disrepair. In dire need of maintenance, the roads now hold many unpleasant surprises for travelling merchants and peasants, as they are full of holes and have been deemed dangerous.
- Dilapidation Everywhere
- Budget Cutbacks
- Future Funding
A report by the World Economic Forum published late last year found that, out of 137 countries, road quality was highest in the United Arab Emirates, with Singapore in second place. Switzerland came third. Among its European partners, the Netherlands followed in fifth place, France in seventh, Germany 15th, Italy 45th and Belgium 46th. In France, a...
In Spain, where motorways and fast roads are relatively new, the Spanish Road Association AEC expressed concern, particularly about the state of the regional roadnetworks, which has deteriorated as a result of successive budget cutbacks following the 2008 financial crisis. In the wake of the collapse of the decades-old Morandi bridge in Genoa, Ital...
In France, the government-commissioned audit recommends substantially boosting funds for the maintenance and modernisation of national roads, compared with the annual average of 666 million euros earmarked between 2007 and 2017. French Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne said in May she intended to spend one billion euros, compared with 800 million ...
- Jean Liou
Between the 1960s and the 1980s, developing countries have lost precious infrastructure worth billions of dollars through the deterioration of their roads.
10 feb 2015 · Take those “crumbling” roads and bridges we hear so much about. Right now, the federal government kicks about $50 billion a year to state transportation agencies — with roughly 80 percent ...
14 apr 2020 · Almost 231,000 American bridges — more than a third of the nation's bridges — need repair or should be completely replaced, according to analysis of federal data by an infrastructure ...
9 lug 2015 · Over the last six years, Congress has passed 33 short-term measures rather than funding transportation for the long term. And our transportation system --our roads and bridges, especially-- is in a dire state of disrepair because of it.
Lack of funding leaves world's roads in disrepair. August 17 2018, by Jean Liou. In an age of austerity and budget cutbacks, the deadly bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy, has put the spotlight...
